Eat a heart healthy diet. Basically low salt/sodium, limit trans fats and cut back on sugar. Stuff we all know how to do, but rarely practice. (Guilty!)
Manage your health conditions. If you have high cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetic problems. Get on the wagon and take care of them. These can lead to heart problems. Take your medications and follow your doctor’s advice.
Get the facts about aspirin. Taking a daily aspirin for preventing heart attacks and strokes is not right for everyone. So talk to your doctor. That way you can dial in the appropriate dosage, etc. And remember to remind them of any other medications you are taking. I know your doctor should know, but we cannot remember everything all the time.
Know the signs of a heart attack. Men and women can have different symptoms, so be sure you go over the links I posted above. Also, check out this video that Elizabeth Banks did a few years ago. She had a heart attack in real life. https://youtu.be/t7wmPWTnDbE
Fine. That’s under your chest. Now let’s go downstairs. (I am great at foreplay!)
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease: An estimated 2.5 million women have an often symptomless infection of the urinary tract that can lead to infertility and lasting abdominal pain. The infection can be cured however, if left untreated long enough, the physical damage may be permanent. PID is a complication of a previous sexually transmitted disease or STD. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6603a3.htm
Yes, we are talking about everybody’s friends chlamydia and gonorrhea. Around 1.5 million cases of chlamydia and 400,000 cases of gonorrhea were reported in 2015. That’s reported, and we know that not everyone reports their health situations. Here’s the thing: these diseases often do not show symptoms and can go undiagnosed and untreated. Now if that leads to PID:
“Pelvic inflammatory disease symptoms may include persistent abdominal pain, fever, abnormal vaginal discharge, or pain or bleeding during sexual intercourse. PID poses long-term hazards such as infertility, chronic pelvic pain and ectopic pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancies occur when an embryo implants in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus.
No single test can diagnose PID, so doctors often rely on symptom reporting. But PID often doesn’t cause symptoms. “That’s one of the scariest things because you may not know it’s even happening,” she said.” https://medlineplus.gov/news/fullstory_163399.html
Your background doesn’t matter. If you are sexually active, get tested every year or as often as your insurance will pay for it. (Adult actors test every month!) Because the more active you are with different partners, the bigger your risk. Make sure that use condoms or other barrier protections. It is a rough world out there.
So that was a very romantic and sexy return for Quantum Cogitation. But ladies, take care of yourselves. You cannot make a difference if you are not around. Plus, I still think I have a shot with you! Are you a beaver? Cuz, Dam!
I will be back more often so please keep sending those cards, letters, photos and videos coming.
Did you ever want to be a marathon sled dog in the sack? Of course you did. We all did. There is hope.
There was a presentation of a small study at the European Congress of Urology in Stockholm recently. Turns out that there may be something you can do in the privacy of your own home to increase your stamina in bed. Exercise. Yep, exercise.
In the study were 40 men, aged 19-46, with lifelong premature ejaculation. They followed a 12 week program of exercising their floor pelvic muscles. And guess what happened.
After the three months, the period of time to reach ejaculation increased from 32 seconds to 2.5 minutes! That is astounding. That gave them 4.6 times longer to enjoy lovemaking with their significant other.
Think about that for a second. These men went from your basic “in-out-done” to a much more intimate sexual relationship. One where there was time to gaze into eyes, call out names several times or re-weave their hair from behind. Can you imagine the psychological impact of this?
Think of the increase in self-confidence. That man can now enjoy his life better, improve his relationship, get a raise and be who he always thought he could be. And that is a d*mn sexy trait in men.
You see, if someone could ease one of their biggest disappointments in life, the world opens up to him. Now pelvic floor exercises have been used to improve incontinence in men for years. Especially after prostate surgery. But they had never really tried them for premature ejaculation, well, not for anyone that suffered from it for a long time. Great stuff.
I certainly hope when they publish and can run larger studies that this will hold true.
Now Doc Johnson, amazing company that it is, cannot help you exercise. You gotta do that on your own buddy. However, when you are not in the gym, we can help delay your premature ejaculation as well.
These are what the FDA calls “Male Genital Desensitizers.” Using benzocaine, it will decrease the amount of stimulation you feel through your penis. That should really help you out in the interim.
Just apply to the underside of the head of your penis, wait a second or two, then proceed with your business. I don’t care who you are sticking it to, but hopefully this will make the encounter more fun for both of you.
Here are a couple links about how you can start doing these exercises today:
How I love when science moves towards filling our expectations. I mean, sure it is 2014 and I don’t have a flying car yet, but this is almost as good.
Seems that scientists in the US have patented an implant that would give women an orgasm at the touch of a button. I know, right? There is a lot of orgasmic dysfunction out there in the world and many women have problems reaching climax. Any number of issues can cause this problem. One of them, apparently, is that with similar physical responses women can confuse arousal with fear which makes them want to avoid the situation. Therapy is available, but guess what, Valium can delay orgasm. Who knew? We could talk about the causes of orgasmic dysfunction until the cows come home and still not have scratched the surface.
So let’s move on to the discovery. A North Carolina surgeon, Stuart Meloy, got the idea when he was performing a spinal pain-relief operation on a woman. The patient stays alert during the operation so that the surgeon can plant the electrodes in the best position. Apparently he found her sweet spot as she orgasmed on the operating table. Clinical trails should begin later this year.
Dr. Meloy began working with Medtronic and developed the device. Right now, it is just smaller than a pack of cigarettes and would be implanted in the buttocks. Then you get a nifty remote to trigger it. This is just as invasive as getting a pacemaker, so they would like to limit it to extreme cases.
Like that’s going to happen. He also wants to program it to limit how much it can be used. Not gonna happen either. If it is successful, they will become as popular as breast implants. Everyone is going to want one. I imagine as time goes on, the device will get smaller and smaller and be much easier to obtain. Who wouldn’t want Orgasms on Tap? And can you imagine unending multiple orgasms? Some women will never get out of bed again!
They haven’t tested it on men yet, but expect similar results.
What do you think? Aid or the end of humanity? Everyone should have orgasms, but they are more fun together. Let’s keep hooking up people! And while you are doing that, I will be trying to figure out how to get Doc Johnson’s name on that thing. Or at least the universal remote…
For many people, “scientist” is a bad word. After all, don’t we as evil scientists try our best to destroy the planet in every movie, television show, novel, etc.?
Trust me. If we wanted the world destroyed, it would already be gone.
And I am an older scientist. One who remembers the “Good Old Days” before we were hampered with so many laws, rules and regulations. When I was a Baby Scientist, we could pretty much do whatever we wanted with impunity. Now we have governments telling us what and what cannot use when they have very little grasp of basic chemistry.
We didn’t always know what we were doing, but hey! We made penicillin, cured rabies, fought off many diseases while creating products to make life easier for you.
But that doesn’t mean everything that we can do, should be done.
Let me rephrase that. It doesn’t mean that everything we can do (and we did) should be told to the public.
CALM DOWN!
Let me give you two recent examples in the OTC/Cosmetic world.
1) It was discovered that using coral scientists created a new sunscreen. Should it have been tried? Yes. Absolutely. Should we have told the public? NO! After all, as scientists, we want to know everything about everything. That means trying stuff that would never occur to non-scientists. The world’s coral reefs are in danger. And they are a very important part of the aquatic ecosystem. I do not nor will I ever advocate the decimation of the coral reefs for the production of sunscreen. It is not necessary. That product would have to do something pretty darn impressive to make it worth risking life in the oceans.
So why did they tell us? It was an attempt to attract additional funding. Research needs money to happen. I used to work for a company on the East Coast. We had several divisions: liposomes, hyaluronic acid, biotechnology and cosmetics. I may have forgotten a few, but you get the idea. I was in charge of the OTC/Cosmetic R&D branch. The other department heads would give me grief about working in a “soft” science. They were trying to make medical breakthroughs to save humanity and I was making herbal shampoo.
My herbal shampoo was responsible for their funding. That’s right. They would never had been able to afford one fermentation tank, one HPLC or even a beaker without the sales from my products. “Soft” science indeed.
2) New anti-ageing benefits utilizing fluid from the umbilical cord! Why? Way back in the day, we used amniotic fluid in skin care. Everyone, except perhaps the French, have stopped. There is no need to exploit childbirth to obtain materials for reducing wrinkles. Plus today, any product using a chemical of human origin requires an HIV warning.
That’ll sell cosmetics!
OK, so we are all doing research and trying to advance the human condition. Is it all pretty? No. Is it all beer and skittles? Not even close. Do we still undertake personal risk? Yes. Every day. There is not one product that comes out of my lab that I would not use myself. And I test every single product we make in my lab. All of them.
You do not want to hear about the products that failed. Not every experiment is a winner. Nor should you even know about them. You want the winners. Not the runner-ups.
So things happen in labs all around the world that can be a bit hinky. We want to hear how you cured cancer and do not want to hear everything you had to go through to do it. All these experiments lead to greater knowledge.
Let’s see a show of hands, who understands how a woman’s mind works?
Nope, nobody. Knew that going in but I had to ask.
However, we do know what is going on in a woman’s mind as she climaxes!
Well, not to the specific thoughts she is having of Antonio Banderas, George Clooney or Dr Tim (people get us confused sometimes) but we do know what parts of her brain are stimulated during orgasm. (Hope she used Sasha’s Love Spit Lube by Doc Johnson! It is AWESOME!)
Barry Komisaruk and his team at Rutgers University, New Jersey did a brain scan on a woman stimulating herself to orgasm in an MRI machine.
“Well Darling, there isn’t a game on so I am thinking about boobs.’ (Famous Last Words)
And I am, unless I am thinking about pussy or ass. Maybe about how good a blowjob would feel right now.
You are correct, Dear Readers, these are not appropriate answers when you get hit by “The Question” by your Significant Other.
In fact, this question is almost worse than the “We Need to Talk” statement. Not quite, but almost.
Now I know that all of you have well-rounded lives with great jobs, community work, charity work and being a pillar of your House of Worship whichever that may be. But guess what? We all think about boobs. Even women think about boobs! I am very pro-boob and I am not afraid to say it.
So where am I going with all of this? Everyone thinks about sex. It is in just about everyone’s top five list of obsessions. Or in my case the top two, I do love cheeseburgers.
Consider this, we all think about sex. A lot really. And that leads to uncomfortable situations. Who hasn’t been caught checking someone out? Male, female, straight, gay, lesbian, bi, trans, everyone has been busted. It could be boobs, a bulging package or the way that ass moves under that sheer sun dress. It could be a piece of jewelry or a particular shade of lipstick. Even a fragrance can take you there.
And it could take your thoughts to uninhibited states of fantasy activities. Strap-ons, anal sex, oral sex, threesome, moresome, orgies or your handy Official Doc Johnson devices and lubes. Oh, do buy lots of Official Doc Johnson toys and lubes. If it is better than Cock, it came from the Doc!
The brain is an amazing organ where your mind constructs new realities and worlds where the impossible can happen. I have this little dream where Eva Mendez comes over to bake chocolate chip cookies with me and…
That is when you get busted. Men are caught with a small smile and a growing chubby. Women stand up and everyone looks for the velcro they just heard. (Are you sitting in a puddle or are you just happy to see me?)
And most of the time, it is a fair cop. Now I just happen to have a great job where I not only to have to think about sex constantly, but I have to think about making it better or longer-lasting, or tastier. Yep. To use business-speak, I need to maximize your sensory experience during erotic interludes. In other words, Me make bouncy-bouncy more bouncy!
Other times it is an unfortunate frustration. I was caught checking out a young college lady and was scolded for being a dirty old pervert. One, I am not dirty. I shower every day. Two, I am not that old. If it were true, I would have smiled and been about my business. When I am busted for silently perving, I admit it and ask how they busted me. Were they thinking the same things?
However that one time was different. The young lady in question was the daughter of an old girlfriend from college. She looked so much like her Mom did in college that it made me smile, remembering those happy days.
It isn’t always about sex. It just usually is…
So what’s on your naughty mind? Drop me a line and let me know! My email and twiiter are over there to the right somewhere.
However, it has been brought to my attention that one or two of you were pulled away from your computer against your will Saturday night.
Well, you missed it. Dr Tim was on the air. A nice 30 minute interview with DerekD and Peter Dickem on “The DerekD SHow.” They are on this nifty website www.pleasureradio.fm.
So go ahead, visit the site, check out the program archives and hear what I had to say. I didn’t do much for world peace, but maybe you can get a piece from our conversation.
Big shout-out to: @pleasurefm @peterdickem @dirtyderekd @drsuzy @TsWendyWilliams
Follow them on Twitter, or if boredom is more your style, follow me on Twitter! The link is over there to the right somewhere.
“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself–and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.” – R. Feynman
Sometimes you get too wrapped up in an experiment, losing objectivity. You never even notice that you have changed your methods, parameters and objective.
Which, could be a good thing. An old expression stated that, “The most important discoveries were not followed by yelling “Eureka!” They were noted by someone saying, That’s funny…””
But do not lie to yourself! No matter how cool it is, no one wants a sex lube that you can form into a ball and bounce over your house!
Believe it or not, I took a vacation last week. No, really! I was not in my laboratory for nine days. Nine long, empty, meaningless days…
Actually I had a grand time. It was my first vacation in four years and my third in the last twelve years. It seems like I take a week off every four years or so.
So what did I do? Things that would make the Marquis de Sade jump up on a chair and go “Eeek!”
Well, I’m sure that someone would. I spent two days travelling. It was nice to see the green fields and blue skies of the Midwest again. You know, they have air that can be seen through almost all of the time. Then I came home to study.
Yes you read that correctly, I came home to study. I was buried in quantum theory, chemistry, mathematics and porn.
A person needs to stay sharp and up-to-date with the latest and greatest theories and inventions. Who wouldn’t want to unravel the theories of time and the universe while experiencing mind-blowing orgasms? Somehow I find that climaxing while learning brings me to an amazing brain-gasm. Nothing like a good cum to fix things in your brain. The universe seems to open itself up to me during sex. (Now you understand why I call my Lady Friends, “My World, My Universe.”)
Here you thought I ignored my studies to do a lot of screwing around! Nonsense. As serious students, we always recited our class notes during sex. In fact, that is the main reason people like the dirty talk in the bedroom. Have you ever said anything naughty that your partner forgot? Nope, they remember every last thing you said in bed and try to hold you to it. A lot of jewelry gets sold that way.
Did you know that two people can squeeze into an orgone box? They can! If you can have sex in an airplane bathroom, you can make it in an orgone box! Although that isn’t the point. One of these days I promise that I will write a blog about Wilhelm Reich. His work is fascinating.
Back to my vacation! Out of nine, I had seven days of Science, Sex and Ice Cream. Hmm, Seven of Nine does make me think about Science, Sex and Ice Cream, although not in that exact order.
However, serious study needs a serious study group. How fortunate that I know such a group who could really help me concentrate on my studies. Anything that could happen, did happen! There were tons of official Doc Johnson toys and lubes which everyone shared to their hearts’ content. There were strap-ons, oral sex, anal, sex, vaginal sex, armpit sex, straight, gay, trans, couples, singles and more! Best smorgasm-borg ever! We really got into some interesting experiments of spacial geometry and I do believe we defied the laws of physics and anatomy more than once. How many dimensions do we occupy during orgasm?
You would have to see the film to believe it! But until I star on a reality show, you will probably never have a chance to see it, unless someone posts clips on the internet. Don’t be a pirate! Buy your porn! Somehow the idea of sex tapes going viral seems wrong to me.
So what or who did you do on your summer vacation? Feel free to send me cards, letters, pictures or video! Even a postcard would be nice…
I read an interesting paper (Gueguen, N. Jacob, C., Enhanced female attractiveness with use of cosmetics and male tipping behavior in restaurants, J. Cosmet. Sci., 62, 283-290) today that talks about how the use of makeup seems to increase the tips a waitress can collect.
Apparently they did a study that concludes that female waitresses that wear makeup vs. those that do not wear makeup tend to collect larger tips from male customers.
Can you say, “DUH!” I knew that you could.
But let’s take a quick look at the ramifications of the study. According to the study, this was conducted in a laboratory setting. That will upset some people since they believe that if it isn’t happening in the “real” world, that it doesn’t count. Well folks, guess what? Conducting a laboratory trail is the very first step in a field of study. Scientists that tend to rush right out into the public with an idea are usually labeled extremist or insane and often get a punch in the nose.
Next, the waitresses were instructed to act the same way whether wearing makeup or not. Again, any study that uses real people has a wild variable in it. Think of yourself or any woman you know. Do they act the same with or without makeup? Not too many that I know. So there is going to be some give and take on this facet.
During the series of experiments, the same waitress made more money when she wore makeup as opposed to the less she made when she didn’t. The only difference was the use of makeup. The service, food and actions were the same. What does that tell you?
Bottom line: Men tend to give more money to women that they find more desirable. Or attractive.
It may be sexist or it may be in our genes to provide for the most desirable mate. I can’t wait for further studies to be published.
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