Archive for 'Men’s Health-Erectile Dysfunction'
PSA TEST: PROSTATE-SPECIFIC, NOT CANCER-SPECIFIC
Posted on March 27, 2009, under Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction.
PSA is an enzyme whose purpose seems to be to break down coagulated semen (this is especially useful in some animals. PSA is made almost exclusively by the prostate; and it is prostate-specific, not cancer-specific. In other words, you can have prostate cancer and still have a low PSA level. This is why a blood test alone isn’t enough, why a digital rectal exam is also a must. And, just because you have a high PSA does not necessarily mean you have prostate cancer—many men with high PSA levels don’t.
However, when PSA is elevated, over a level of four nanograms per milliliter, this means you have some sort of prostate trouble—maybe BPH, maybe cancer, maybe an infection. Maybe the prostate has undergone some trauma, like a needle biopsy, or you’ve had a TUR procedure for BPH, or even a vigorous rectal exam—all of these can elevate PSA. (Conversely, taking the drug finasteride to treat BPH can artificially lower the PSA reading.
Gram for gram, PSA levels in the blood are about ten times higher in cancerous tissue than benign tissue. PSA is normally secreted and disposed of through tiny ducts in the prostate. But in prostate cancer, the ductal system doesn’t drain into the urethra. The PSA builds up, leaks out of the prostate and shows up in the bloodstream. That’s why it has proven to be such a good marker for cancer.
But the PSA test is far from perfect. Just as high readings can signify a problem other than cancer, low readings can also be misleading. The bottom line is that even if your PSA is low, you could still have cancer. About a quarter of men who turn out to have prostate cancer have a low PSA level, less than 4 nanograms per milliliter. About 25 percent of men with a PSA between 4 and 10 turn out to have cancer. In men with a PSA over 10, about 65 percent are found to have cancer.
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SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
Posted on March 12, 2009, under Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction.
In order to make a baby, a man and a woman must have sexual intercourse. When we tell the pupils in our classes about this, they usually have two questions. They want to know how a man’s penis could get into a woman’s vagina. We explain that sometimes the penis gets stiff and hard and stands out from the body. This is called an erection, and it can happen when a male is feeling sexual or is having sex with someone, and at other times too. The inside of the penis is made of spongy tissue. When a male is having an erection, special blood passageways in this spongy tissue fill with blood, which makes the penis get bigger and harder and stand out from the body. Some people call an erection a ‘hard-on’ because the penis feels so stiff and hard.
While it is erect, the penis can slide right into the vaginal opening. The vaginal opening isn’t very large, but it’s very elastic and stretchy, so the erect penis can easily fit in there.
A man and a woman have sexual intercourse for all sorts of reasons. It is a special way of being close with another person. It also feels good, which some of the pupils find hard to believe. But the sex organs have many nerve endings. If these parts of our bodies are stroked or rubbed in the right ways, the nerve endings send messages to pleasure centres in our brains, and we get pleasurable feelings all over our bodies. People also have sexual intercourse because they want to have a baby, but babies don’t start to grow every time a man and a woman have intercourse, just sometimes.
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APHRODISIACS: RECIPES FOR WINES AND SYRUPS
Posted on March 12, 2009, under Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction.
Syrup of gentian
Pour 1 litre of boiling distilled water onto 100 g of chopped or grated gentian. Leave to macerate 6 hours in a closed container. Strain through a cloth. Leave to settle for 24 hours. Heat on a low flame with 1.8 kg dark brown sugar until reduced by half. Once cooled, the syrup is ready to use.
Syrup of saffron
Macerate 25 g of ready incised saffron in 1 litre of sweet wine such as Malaga for 8 days. Filter. Remove the saffron. Add 1 kg brown sugar. After 24 hours, reduce to half volume on a low flame.
Loving cup
Macerate 30 g cinnamon, 30 g ginseng, and 30 g vanilla in 1 litre of Malaga wine for 15 days. Filter.
Drink one liqueur glass four hours before, and another a few moments before making love.
Variant: after filtering, add 15 drops of tincture of ambergris.
Liqueur for a perfect love
In one litre of spirits macerate the following ingredients for 15 days:
10 g cinnamon, 20 g lemon peel, 15 g thyme, 5 g coriander, 5 g mace, 5 g vanilla. Stir daily.
Prepare a syrup with 1 kg brown sugar in half a litre of water.
Mix the two liquids. Drink a liqueur glass just before making love.
“Hen’s milk”
Beat a very fresh egg yolk into a glass of milk. Add a liqueur glass of white or dark rum, two teaspoons of brown sugar and 10 drops of vanilla essence.
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SYMBOLIC DEVIATIONST: TRANSVESTISM
Posted on March 12, 2009, under Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction.
One should never confuse a transvestite with a transsexual. While many transsexuals do wear the clothing of the opposite sex, this is because they identify completely with the opposite sex and have renounced their own.
Nor’can one generalize by saying all transvestites are effeminate homosexuals. Most transvestites lead a perfectly normal heterosexual sex life apart from this one kink.
It is an odd fact that the concept of transvestism is only applied to men. Nobody looks askance at a woman who dresses as a man – indeed it is current practice. Nonetheless, if one looks more closely one will find that there are women, some lesbians particularly, whose taste for male dress is consciously or unconsciously motivated by transvestite tendencies.
Transvestites dress up in women’s clothing only from time to time. They may even keep their male outer clothing but wear, underneath, the item (or items) of women’s underwear that have a fetishist value for them.
A transvestite is perfectly aware that his habit is a deviant one. A single man may make no effort to rid himself of the habit; he is easily aroused on seeing himself in the mirror in his women’s clothes, and he can get his orgasm by masturbating.
If he is married he will often hide this tendency for fear of what his wife will think and say. At most, just now and then and in jest, he will put on the item that is his fetish. Provided his wife has the minimum of understanding, this will cause no problems.
A transvestite is not necessarily lacking in virility. His sex drive is not affected; he will simply get an erection quicker that way. Even so, many transvestites live in fear of become impotent or turning gay. They need have no fear, however: only if their feelings of fear and shame become obsessive will their “deviation” affect their virility.
To avoid that happening, they should begin by breaking out of their isolation and looking for men and women who are broad-minded enough to be willing to tackle these problems of minor deviancy.
A few sessions with a psychotherapist will often be enough either to cure or at least to minimize the transvestite tendency and free it from guilt.
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ORAL SEX: DEEP THROAT
Posted on March 12, 2009, under Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction.
This is the title of one of the most famous of all American X films, starring Linda Lovelace. The film and its star popularized a little-known technique, rarely practised because it demands acrobatic skills.
It is based on the same principle as sword swallowing. It involves introducing the penis right into the mouth, to the back of the throat, then pushing just a bit further until the glans is past the entrance to the oesophagus. To do this two hurdles have to be surmounted:
The mouth and throat have to lie along the same axis. To achieve this, the woman must lie on her back with her head slightly hanging over the edge.
The woman must overcome the natural reflex of rejection when the penis touches the uvula. This is no easy task; it takes training!
The technique is spectacular because the penis is completely swallowed, the woman’s mouth meeting the man’s pelvis. The woman has the incidental advantage that the man ejaculates straight into her oesophagus.
But in fact “deep throat” fellatio does not give the man any special pleasure. It merely shows him he is dealing with an exceptionally experienced partner!
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THE RESOLUTION PHASE: IS THERE A DISTINCTION TO BE DRAWN BETWEEN “VAGINAL” WOMEN AND “CLITORAL” WOMEN?
Posted on March 12, 2009, under Men's Health-Erectile Dysfunction.
Even the specialists are still asking this question. It is certainly true that when a little girl first becomes aware of her sexuality she instinctively takes an interest in her clitoris. And as long as her hymen is intact, she cannot explore the pleasure potential of her vagina. She takes to masturbating and this reinforces the idea that orgasm is essentially a clitoral affair. With a few very rare pathological exceptions, all women can reach a clitoral orgasm through stimulation by their partners or themselves.
All women, then, are “clitoral”.
Doubt remains as to whether some women are unable to experience vaginal orgasm as well. Scientific surveys show that a very high proportion of women say they have never had a vaginal orgasm. But survey answers are equivocal. One can never tell whether the woman might have reached vaginal orgasm with another partner.
Now that the G spot has been identified, it may fairly be thought that vaginal orgasm is in fact the same as the orgasm obtained by stimulation of the G spot.
We said above that all women are “clitoral”. But what potential for orgasm do women have after ritual removal of the clitoris? It would seem that a certain proportion experience a purely vaginal orgasm. Many can even obtain a pseudo-clitoral orgasm by prolonged stimulation of the scar where the clitoris once was.
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