For those of you who remember Ai Aoyama and her Japanese S&M Hypnosis Therapy (see here), she’s gone on to bigger and better things and has worked with the Japanese government as a diplomat to North Korea (see here). Evidently, she specializes in "grip diplomacy" in which she uses her skills at putting men off balance by greeting them with a friendly grip on the manparts. Hey, I don’t make this stuff up so don’t blame me. Talk about an immediate bypass of the critical factor of the conscious mind. Reminds me of when I was a high school debater. At the beginning of each debate, we shook our opponents’ hands. I developed a special grip for my handshake in which I would grasp my opponent’s hand and wiggle my middle finger so that the tip of the finger would move up and down the person’s palm. This never failed to make people uncomfortable, throwing them off guard for the beginning of the debate. My daughter, ten years old, now knows the trick and will occassionally use it on her dear old dad.