Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Oh, certainly. It has been scientifically proven that athletes, when pushed close to their limits of effort, both physical and mental, receive a 10% boost in energy from massed despairing groans. One might imagine that encouragement might have a better physical and psychological effect, but you would be wrong.
It's not as if you can use the bloody lash anymore is it? Rum and sodomy both seem rife though