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Sex: a “sensitive” topic

Posted in Fun, Health, science on April 7, 2009| 5 Comments »

I’m going to limp into this post, because although I should soft pedal my reaction, it’s hard to penetrate the sheath that protects my annoyance, even with a shaft of acknowledgment … a nod of the head, so to speak … toward a need to sit up and take notice of what, for some, is a thorny issue.

It’s this piece from the BBC that has me juiced up today about …

A spray [that] can help men with premature ejaculation problems prolong the length of time they have sex by six times …

… The spray, developed at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, contains local anaesthetics that numb the penis.

Okay, okay … premature ejaculation is a problem for some men. I’m sure it has all sorts of negative impacts, and I don’t mean to belittle those, but I can’t help but hear strains of “SIX TIMES AS LONG … BWAH!!!!!” coming from guys who would be just as thrilled if it was size, not time, on offer, or, even better, both.

Sorry, but this seems to be more a guy thing than a couples thing.

It’s been reported that a “premature ejaculation gene” has been found, so apparently the apparatus delivers the goods regardless the duration. (And I won’t even venture toward the part of the story that has this research conducted in Ireland … a country where women have for centuries been popping out babies every 10 months or so … )

Quite frankly … and, girls, please tell me if I’m wrong on this … there are SO many ways to compensate for for limited thrusting time, and none that I know of get complaints.

Get with the program, doods. In this age of Viagra, more sensitization, rather than less, would be more climactic.

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Just hearing the jokes … ’bout time … thinking that it’s not SO bad

Posted in Elections USA, Island life, The USA from the outside in, World politics on April 6, 2009| 1 Comment »

Pardon me for being way behind the curve here, but I do live on an island in the middle of nowhere with only an hour and a half of CNN per day …

Thankfully, however, I read blogs so came across this link to the transcript of the Bush Roast at the 2006 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, given by a guy I’ve never heard of … as if that matters to anyone, especially Stephen Colbert.

Okay. Okay. This is going back about a thousand days, but … shit … it’s really funny, and worth recalling, if for no other reason than to make one feel better about today.

Yeah … the world is a mess and people are suffering and life sucks, but BUSH IS GONE!!!!!

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Brave New Pants?

Posted in science on April 2, 2009| Leave a Comment »

I’ve been thinking about the new invention I wrote about yesterday, the wearable version of emoticons that will allow moviegoers to experience the physical manifestations of what’s happening on screen, and although the idea of sitting through a steamy flick while Brad Pitt stokes a fire that kindles in a special pair of emotipants does sound like a kick in the knickers, I have thoughts.

Spending as much time online as I do, I am often put in mind of Aldous Huxley’s fears of the future world … that at some point there would so much information that humanity would drown in a sea of irrelevance.

Social networks like facebook could easily be renamed “Sea of Irrelevance”, and although the value of ease of access between loved ones, international communication and “friend” morphing from noun to verb … and I do like the active application of the word … the shift from the search for intelligent life to seeking a personality to call one’s own feels like a scaling back of grand goals and the sinking of a noble vessel.

“Brave New World” was Huxley’s 1931 version of the time we now approach rapidly, and contemplating his foresight in an interesting use of time.

I would love to see some recent stats on time spent in the company of a good book these days, and how far, after all, is cyber sex, the pastime of more people than I choose to contemplate often, from the soma vacation orgies of The World State?

With “company” available instantly, are we, like the citizens of Huxley’s version, being conditioned to eschew alone time?

There’s no doubt that his emphasis on consuming consumerism is a fait accompli … a reality that is doing some butt-biting these days.

Don’t get me wrong … I’m not saying that I wouldn’t give the Hot Pants a spin from time to time, but I would think twice before wearing them to bed every night, no matter the collection of movies on the receiving end of my remote.

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Hot Pants?

Posted in Angelina Jolie, Fun on April 1, 2009| 2 Comments »

Thanks again to treasures presented on The Guild of Scientific Troubadours, I have blog fodder.

Seems the boundaries of entertainment are on the verge of being pushed … and I’m liking it.

Check this out … a jacket that you’d don while movie watching that will let viewers “feel” the film.

The jacket, responding to signals encoded in the DVD or to a program designed to control the jacket on the fly, can do a host of things, such as “causing a shiver to go up the viewer’s spine and creating the feeling of tension in the limbs.” During the fight scene, says Lemmens, the jacket will even create a pulsing on the wearer’s chest to simulate the kung fu master’s elevated heartbeat.

Cool, heh?

But …

They’re falling a bit short by my measure. Why stop with a jacket? I’m thinking matching pants would be a very good idea.

Anyone want to sit through “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” with me … ?

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