Geeko friendly's List: human body

• Our level of hormones plays a key role while we choose a mate as high testosterone in women makes them more attracted to masculine actors such as Daniel Craig, with men favoring the femininity typified by Natalie Portman
• changes in testosterone levels affect the extent to which men and women are attracted to different types of faces.
• “Since masculine men and feminine women are thought to produce the healthiest children and sex drive is higher when testosterone levels are also high, these findings suggest that men and women in hormonal states where their interest in sex is highest, show stronger attraction to high quality - or healthy - mates.”

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• trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us.
• Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally trained musicians more effectively use a creative technique called divergent thinking, and also use both the left and the right sides of their frontal cortex more heavily than the average person.
• We were interested in how individuals who are naturally creative look at problems that are best solved by thinking 'out of the box',"
• One possible explanation the researchers offer for the musicians' elevated use of both brain hemispheres is that many musicians must be able to use both hands independently to play their instruments.

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• they have to be very good at simultaneously reading the musical symbols, which are like left-hemisphere-based language, and integrating the written music with their own interpretation, which has been linked to the right hemisphere."
• divergent thinking, which is the ability to come up with new solutions to open-ended, multifaceted problems. Highly creative individuals often display more divergent thinking than their less creative counterparts.
• To conduct the study, the researchers recruited 20 classical music students from the Vanderbilt Blair School of Music and 20 non-musicians from a Vanderbilt introductory psychology course. The musicians each had at least eight years of training. The instruments they played included the piano, woodwind, string and percussion instruments. The groups were matched based on age, gender, education, sex, high school grades and SAT scores.

  • how they conducted the experment
• trained musicians had greater activity in both sides of their frontal lobes. Because we equated musicians and non-musicians in terms of their performance, this finding was not simply due to the musicians inventing more uses; there seems to be a qualitative difference in how they think about this information
• The researchers also found that, overall, the musicians had higher IQ scores than the non-musicians, supporting recent studies that intensive musical training is associated with an elevated IQ score.

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• in Minnesota, real silence can be found in a room. In fact, the anechoic chamber found at Orfield Laboratories Inc. is the Quietest Place on Earth, as awarded by the Guinness Book of World Records.
• the anechoic chamber found at Orfield Laboratories Inc. is the Quietest Place on Earth, as awarded by the Guinness Book of World Records.
• How does one achieve The Quietest Place on Earth? Start with a room within a room, within a room: the Orfield Labs six sided anechoic chamber is a small room floating in a pit on I-beams that are on top of springs. A five sided chamber of identical construction surrounds it on the edge of the pit. Both chambers are made of double wall steel-insulation-steel. The anechoic chamber was manufactured by Eckel, the largest anechoic chamber builder in the country.
  
  Both steel chambers are held within a larger room that was built with solid one foot thick concrete walls and ceiling panels. The smaller room is filled with 3.3 feet thick fiberglass acoustic wedges. This approach led to the anechoic chamber found at Orfield Labs being measured by engineers on January 21st of 2004 at negative 9.4 dB (with A-weighting), thus earning it the title of Quietest Place on Earth. By comparison, the low threshold for human hearing is considered to be 0 dB.

  • how they achieved it
• After a few moments in the anechoic chamber, you'll begin to feel a touch jumpy. Hearing your heart beat, your blood pulse, the sound of your own ear buzzing and your body functioning like you've never heard before has a tendency to be a bit unnerving. And in complete silence, you lose all sense of space and surroundings. The absence of reflected sound and reverberation makes "feeling out" the room impossible.
• If someone can last 45 minutes in there by themselves with the lights off, then they get a case of beer. If I remember correctly no one has been able to make it past a half-hour yet.

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• But what happens if a child is particularly successful at expressing her needs using gestures? Does development of spoken language suffer? One approach to this problem is to look language development in cultures that tend to use more gestures. Many studies have confirmed the "stereotype" that Italians are more physically expressive than other groups. It stands to reason that even Italian infants probably learn more gestures at an earlier age than babies in other cultures.
• But what happens if a child is particularly successful at expressing her needs using gestures? Does development of spoken language suffer? One approach to this problem is to look language development in cultures that tend to use more gestures. Many studies have confirmed the "stereotype" that Italians are more physically expressive than other groups. It stands to reason that even Italian infants probably learn more gestures at an earlier age than babies in other cultures.
• An international group led by Jana Iverson carefully observed three Italian infants and three American infants during the critical early period of language learning, from 10 months to 24 months old. The babies were videotaped for 30 minutes each month doing three activities: playing with their own toys, playing with a standard set of toys provided by the experimenter, and at mealtime. Speech and gestures were carefully categorized.

  • How they conducted the experiment
• Gestures can be broken down into two distinct categories: deictic and representational. Deictic gestures are those that refer to something around the child -- pointing, showing an object, or reaching for something. Representational gestures have meaning independent of the objects around the child: nodding yes, holding a fist to the ear to mean "telephone," and so on.

  • 2 types of gestures
• This graph compares deictic gestures in the five months leading up to the point where children could speak in two-word phrases:
• representational gestures
• So how does the use of gestures affect spoken language learning? This graph charts the number of different spoken words used by the children:
• the difference is perfectly accounted for by the greater number of representational gestures used by Italians.

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• some of the more entrenched elements of many athletes’ warm-up regimens are not only a waste of time but are actually bad for you.
• some of the more entrenched elements of many athletes’ warm-up regimens are not only a waste of time but actually bad for you. The old presumption that holding a stretch for 20 to 30 seconds — known as static stretching — primes muscles for a workout is dead wrong. It actually weakens them.
• stretching decreases muscle strength by as much as 30 percent. Also, stretching one leg’s muscles can reduce strength in the other leg as well, probably because the central nervous system rebels against the movements.
• The right warm-up should do two things: loosen muscles and tendons to increase the range of motion of various joints, and literally warm up the body. When you’re at rest, there’s less blood flow to muscles and tendons, and they stiffen. “You need to make tissues and tendons compliant before beginning exercise
• A well-designed warm-up starts by increasing body heat and blood flow. Warm muscles and dilated blood vessels pull oxygen from the bloodstream more efficiently and use stored muscle fuel more effectively. They also withstand loads better.
• To raise the body’s temperature, a warm-up must begin with aerobic activity, usually light jogging.
• The aerobic warm-up should take only 5 to 10 minutes, with a 5-minute recovery.
• While static stretching is still almost universally practiced among amateur athletes — watch your child’s soccer team next weekend — it doesn’t improve the muscles’ ability to perform with more power
• Stretching muscles while moving, on the other hand, a technique known as dynamic stretching or dynamic warm-ups, increases power, flexibility and range of motion.

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• there are at least two possible explanations for this strange anomaly.
• The second explanation has to do with black and white television and film. It's possible that the boom in black and white film and television during the first half of the last century either affected the form of people's dreams at that time, or affected their beliefs about the form dreams generally take.
• Several awkward questions are left unanswered by this study. It's not clear if the older participants really are experiencing more black and white dreams or if it's their memories or beliefs about dreams that is influencing their reports. Related to this, we don't know if early exposure to black and white media has really affected the form of the older participants' dreams or simply their beliefs about dreams.

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• • difficulty identifying feelings and distinguishing between feelings and the bodily sensations of emotional arousal
   
  • difficulty describing feelings to other people
   
  • constricted imaginal processes, as evidenced by a paucity of fantasies
   
  • a stimulus-bound, externally oriented cognitive style.
• few dreams or fantasies due to restricted imagination; and concrete, realistic, logical thinking, often to the exclusion of emotional responses to problems. Those who have alexithymia also report very logical and realistic dreams, such as going to the store or eating a meal.^[14] Clinical experience suggests it is the structural features of dreams more than the ability to recall them that best characterizes alexithymia.^[1]
• a cognitive disturbance becomes apparent as the patients tends to recount trivial, chronologically ordered actions, reactions, and events of daily life with monotonous detail.^[18][19] In general, these individuals lack imagination, intuition, empathy, and drive-fulfillment fantasy, especially in relation to objects. Instead, they seem oriented toward things and even treat themselves as robots.
• these individuals avoid emotionally close relationships, or that if they do form relationships with others they tend to position themselves as either dependent, dominant, or impersonal, "such that the relationship remains superficial.
• two interpersonal problems are significantly and stably related to alexithymia: cold/distant and non-assertive social functioning
• Due to the inherent difficulties identifying and describing emotional states in self and others, alexithymia also negatively affects relationship satisfaction between couples.
• Research indicates that alexithymia overlaps with Asperger syndrome
• They also pointed to studies that revealed impaired Theory of Mind skill in alexithymia, neuroanatomical evidence pointing to a shared aetiology and similar social skills deficits.^[35] The exact nature of the overlap is uncertain.
• Alexithymia is correlated with certain personality disorders,^[37] substance use disorders,^[38][39] some anxiety disorders.^[40], and sexual disorders,^[41] as well as certain physical illnesses, such as hypertension,^[42] inflammatory bowel disease,^[43] and functional dyspepsia.^[44]
• An inability to modulate emotions is a possibility in explaining why some alexithymics are prone to discharge tension arising from unpleasant emotional states through impulsive acts or compulsive behaviors such as binge eating,^[46] substance abuse,^[47] perverse sexual behavior, or the self-starvation of anorexia nervosa.
• Alexithymics also show a limited ability to experience positive emotions leading Krystal (1988) and Sifneos (1987) to describe many of these individuals as anhedonic.^[2]
• According to French psychoanalyst Joyce McDougall all infants are born unable to identify, organize, and speak about their emotional experiences (the word infans is from the Latin "not speaking"), and are "by reason of their immaturity inevitably alexithymic".^[48] Based on this fact McDougall writes, "Might it not be supposed that the alexithymic part of an adult personality is an extremely arrested and infantile psychic structure?"^[48]
• It is unclear what causes alexithymia.
• Joyce McDougall objected to the strong focus by clinicians on neurophysiological at the expense of psychological explanations for the genesis and operation of alexithymia, and introduced the alternative term 'disaffectation' to stand for psychogenic alexithymia.^[53] For McDougall, the disaffected individual had at some point "experienced overwhelming emotion that threatened to attack their sense of integrity and identity," to which they applied psychological defenses to pulverize and eject all emotional representations from consciousness.
• The parent's ability to reflect self-awareness to the child is another important factor. If the adult is incapable of recognizing and distinguishing emotional expressions in the child, it can influence the child's capacity to understand emotional expressions.

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• Criers do show calming effects such as slower breathing, but they also experience a lot of unpleasant stress and arousal, including increased heart rate and sweating. What is interesting is that bodily calming usually lasts longer than the unpleasant arousal. The calming effects may occur later and overcome the stress reaction, which would account for why people tend to remember mostly the pleasant side of crying.
  
• Research has shown that the effects of crying also depend on who is shedding the tears. For example, individuals with anxiety or mood disorders are least likely to experience the positive effects of crying. In addition, the researchers report that people who lack insight into their emotional lives (a condition known as alexithymia) actually feel worse after crying. The authors suggest that for these individuals, their lack of emotional insight may prevent the kind of cognitive change required for a sad experience to be transformed into something positive.

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• Hair contains all the organic nutrients that plants need to grow, Zeliazkov said. But it takes about a month for those nutrients to break down into an inorganic form that plants can use. [...]  

  Those results suggest that hair could be a good fertilizer for slow-growing crops, such as basil, sage, and ornamental shrubs, Zeliazkov said. For quicker-growing vegetables, gardeners might need to mix hair with chemicals to get through the first few weeks. Hair is on the list of certified organic growing methods.

• Maslow used Einstein's writings and accomplishments to exemplify the characteristics of the self actualized person. He realized that all the individuals he studied had similar personality traits. All were “reality centered,” able to differentiate what was fraudulent from what was genuine. They were also “problem centered,” meaning that they treated life’s difficulties as problems that demanded solutions. These individuals also were comfortable being alone and had healthy personal relationships. They had only a few close friends and family rather than a large number of shallow relationships.
• Consequently, Maslow argued, the way in which essential needs are fulfilled is just as important as the needs themselves. Together, these define the human experience.
• Consequently, Maslow argued, the way in which essential needs are fulfilled is just as important as the needs themselves. Together, these define the human experience.

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• Consequently, Maslow argued, the way in which essential needs are fulfilled is just as important as the needs themselves. Together, these define the human experience.
• To the extent a person finds cooperative social fulfillment, he establishes meaningful relationships with other people and the larger world. In other words, he establishes meaningful connections to an external reality—an essential component of self-actualization.
• To the extent a person finds cooperative social fulfillment, he establishes meaningful relationships with other people and the larger world. In other words, he establishes meaningful connections to an external reality—an essential component of self-actualization.
• In contrast, to the extent that vital needs find selfish and competitive fulfillment, a person acquires hostile emotions and limited external relationships—his awareness remains internal and limited.
• From them he generalized that, among other characteristics, self-actualizing people tend to focus on problems outside themselves; have a clear sense of what is true and what is phony; are spontaneous and creative; and are not bound too strictly by social conventions.
• Beyond the routine of needs fulfillment, Maslow envisioned moments of extraordinary experience, known as Peak experiences, which are profound moments of love, understanding, happiness, or rapture, during which a person feels more whole, alive, self-sufficient and yet a part of the world, more aware of truth, justice, harmony, goodness, and so on. Self-actualizing people have many such peak experiences.

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• Dr Michael Nicholls, a neuroscientist and co-author of the study, said: “Clearly, the eyes not only allow us to see the world around us but they also present a window to the working of our mind.”

   

  The findings, published in the journal Current Biology, were based on the testing of 12 right-handed men who were placed in a darkened room.

   

  Each individual were asked to list every number between one and 40 in as random a fashion as possible.

   

  Each eye was mapped in detail and each tiny movement recorded and measured.
• If the eye moved a fraction to the left and slightly down, the next number they picked was likely to be smaller, whereas if it moved to the right and up, the number would be higher.
• The scientists were able to make their predictions correctly 60 per cent of the time , according to the research.

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• i feel like i have to concentrate on a porn scene or porn picture in my head in order to start gaining an erection.. i cant seem to just go with the flow of actual touching and sensations from a girl. Of course this has played a HUGE roll on my inseurities and sure as hell makes me feel like less of a man. I wish I could stop masturbating and be able to be intimate with my gf again.
• First, get therapy from a counseling who deals with this specifically. Don't be afraid or ashamed, because over 70% of men view porn on a regular basis. Second, be honest and open with your spouse. Yes, it will be very difficult and she is going to be very upset, but you have to be understanding. She will come around when she sees you actually doing something about it. Third, subscribe to an internet provider that filters porn. It is not 100% effective, but it will be essential to you removing the temptation.

• The bottom line is, porn is screwing us up. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out that- easy access to porn today+most men view it on a regular basis+skyrocketing sales of ED remedies= porn is a major cause of ED
• #1: REMEMBER THE CONSEQUENCE: There is a consequence to masturbating to porn: work performance suffers (missing out on $$ or a raise), your wife/girlfriend is left out of your life (divorce/breakup), and you feel like your life is going nowhere (I wish I was better than I am), AND you will have a tough time getting pregnant (I will never be a father).
  
  #2: FIND A REPLACEMENT ACTIVITY: This is borrowed from the idea of nicotene replacement therapy. You need to find an activity that gives you the same "high" without the negative side effects that masturbation and porn offers. My suggestion: Exercise -- because 1) it will give you an endorphin release 2) it is suggested to counter the effects of ED 3) it is just plain good for you. Now I'm not suggesting a full hour work out at the beginning -- when you feel the urge, go to the gym for 15 minutes, or run around the block. Tell yourself that you are better for it, because you are going to get ripped abs, and you will be healthier sexually -- you are going to be that stud that you fantisize about in porn.
• #3: GET A THERAPIST: I know this could be difficult to do for the first time, but in reality, your porn/masturbation is due to an underlying psychological issue. For example, my problem is due to a fear of commitment. I find sometimes that life is too difficult at times, and I want to avoid that project, deadline, etc., so I don't commit to getting it done, and instead escape -- where do I escape: Porn. You need to get smart with yourself, and be a man, and talk about why you escape -- trust me, there is a reason. And if you don't like the therapist, then find a new one. YOU NEED A THERAPIST.
• #4: INSTALL THE DAMN FILTER. Do it. I know you will probably uninstall it or hack the password, but install it. Go to OpenDNS ( http://www.opendns.com ). They have a free filter, and you can even set it up on your router or you own computer. Everytime you go to a website, and the filter reminds you it is blocked, go back to #1: remember the consequences, or go to #2: your replacement activity.
  
  #5: DON'T TOUCH YOUR PENIS unless you are having sex with your wife or your girlfriend, or you are showering or using the toilet. Seriously, I subconsciouslly massage myself, even when I am not in front of the screen... and if you look out for it, you might be doing it too.
  
  #5: TAKE IT ONE DAY AT A TIME. This is not an overnight exercise. If you ever want to reach your dreams or goals in life, you need to live each day doing something to get to that dream and staying away from porn. I am planning to set up a blog for this, and wanted to know if people would like to hear share in my experience. Let me know.
  
  This is really day 5 of my effort. It's been a rocky start, but I am working to undo 20 years of a habit. If anyone wants to talk, email me at stoppornaddiction@gmail.com.
• I am convinced of your hypothesis, its the only thing that makes sense to my situation, so the question is...
  Is thier anyway to recondition ones mind? I am in my late twenties, and have had numerous oppurtunities with beautiful women, all of which I was very attracted to. Heres the kicker, I havent had sex for 7 years!! When the time comes to get it up, theres little to nothing most recently ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING. I have went through stages of fluctuating self-esteem that initiated my dependency on net porn, when I re-realized women find me attractive I had conditioned myself by then to only be able to get hard to that surreal sex you find on the net. 7 years ago I was a sexual tyrannosaurus, now I am married to my right hand.
  I love to cuddle them and kiss them, and everything, but nothing happens, its very depressing and I feel like I am going fkn insane because its going to ruin another relationship!!!
  I have already committed to quitting porn, but I think I need to do something else, because I have been off porn before and still had the problem (but could get it up to porn). I am trying everything exercise, nutritional supplements, not masterbating for a while, nothing has worked as of yet.
  Pleeeeeeease any suggestions on how I can rewire my brain would be exceptional.
• I forgot to add that I was a big pot-smoker for sometime, and that always put me out of the mood, I have kicked that now too (honestly I have!!!). And this is the reason!

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• So here's my proposal of a cure:
  1. Get rid of porn and install filter so you can't sabotage yourself. Then up to the mental thing.
  2. Getting your sex life back to normal is all about realising that normal sex situations are FINE, not pale and boring in comparison to what you can find on the internet. So, do this exercise: try to masturbate while mentally placing yourself back in one of the situations you tried to have sex with a real girl that you liked a lot and felt really attracted to. Think back at a scene where you had something going, like foreplay, kissing, maybe even recieving oral.... and starting from those REAL sex conditions, try to imagine that with a good turnout, both of you reaching climax.
  If you manage to turn a real sex scene that happened in your life in a good "fantasy" then I think you are on your way of recovering.
  3 If you manage to do that, each time you feel the need to masturbate, don't imagine extreme, pervert sex scenarios but instead try to place yourself in a closer-to-real situations and try to get turned on by that. The purpose is to teach your brain in time that real sex is GOOD and SATISFACTORY and you don't need any exaggerated fetish porn or whatever kinky stuff you are used with watching.
• And now to give you my background: i am a girl and hell knows why I enjoy watching porn quite a lot and it ruined my imagination... meaning I find normal sex dull and I can't get myself to an orgasm from sex with my BF... we have been together for only 2 weeks and before that I had a 6 months period of loneliness when my bad habit begun to develop. So it's not about the ED, you guys, it's about screwing up your mind and wanting very abnormal stuff from sex. Hope I did not shock you too much and maybe this will help.

• One thing I know of sure which works is the practice of daily Yoga, breathing exercises and most important of all is meditation.......
  We know the reason being too much porn stuck in our heads and now the cure will be to go away from it as far as we can and stop worrying about it, because u'll realize that it'll just happen, especially when ur mind is in neutral stage and not focused on any kind of tension, With the practice of meditation, brain starts to realize and feel its very own intrinsic power, which in normal sense called power of mind, and things start to work normally,
  Its all in you, just need to dig a bit more inside

• nitric oxide is the compound that the body releases when initiating an erection (relaxing the blood vessels). for several different reasons, some men don't release the level of NO needed for a good one...
  l-arginine is the amino acid that makes the nitric oxide in your body. and one can just simply go to a gnc store and get this supplement. When taken together with pycnogenol, l-arginine is a good solution to have solid erections. there has been studies proving this.
  
  http://www.nutritionexpress.com/health+condit...
  
  and there are almost 0 side effects to these two supplements. and the good part of the whole thing is that you don't take any nitric oxide supplements but supplements that boost the production of NO...
  good luck
• been off of porn for 6-7 months now. i stopped because i noticed normal women did not arouse me any more. even if i fantasized about a gorgeous woman, my dick would stay limp.
  
  over the past few months, i've been thinking about and visualising sexual intercourse with a woman that i like. imagining her naked body and curves gives me a very nice erection. being around her and touching and playing with her has the same effect. this was totally different 7 months ago, when i had nil reaction to such things - i was interested in porn only.
  
  overall, my libido is not what it was when i was 13-14, but at least i have my erections back.
  
  for me, half a year off porn did it. it was a long time, but i succeeded.
  
  i do not take any supplements - i just let my body rebuild its balance and try to think about normal, actual real life women.

• 1. Stop any sex activities
  2. Start taking multivitamins with male function combo to help your body recuperate the lost of energy.
  3. Don't use other pills like viagra, cialis, etc during this time because i believe those pills will force your body to provide an energy that is not available and that might cause harm to your body.
• Ok dudes, I'm in my early 30s and sad to say I'm in the same boat as a lot of you. Had I known six months ago what i know now I wouldn't be in this boat with you but that's life. I broke up with my girl about 7 months ago and during the time we were together I was a 100% champ and never had any issues in bed. In fact my girlfriend used to complain about my prowress.
  
  I looked at porn while we were together but not that often because she hated it so I always had to hide. So I might have looked at porn 3-4 times per week at the most. However shortly after we broke up I turned to good old reliable porn because I thought if I didn't keep wanking I would lose my potency. I actually thought I was doing myself a favor. After doing this frequently several times per day for months I noticed changes in my sperm, it became more watery and my nuts actually felt tired and drained. I had to resort to more and more extreme/nasty porn to get excited. Bad bad bad!
  
  Fast forward 6 months and I finally get a hot babe in bed who is ready to hop aboard and do her business. Suddenly I notice my brain and penis weren't on the same team. My brain refused to recognize a hot naked female chick as something that should turn me on. Only porn women doing insane sexual acts that I'll never have the luxury of doing did the job. I could get an errection but it was weak and didn't last. Wow that was embarassing. I found this forum and am glad to hear it's because of porn and I have developed a plan to fix this problem for good.
  
  Here is my plan:
  1. Cancel porn account and never watch it again. NOT worth it.
  2. Eat foods daily that aid in boosting male sex drive. Bananas, almonds, pumpkin seads, fig newtons, rare meats, ect.
  3. Excersize: I will run 3 miles a day roughly 3 days a week and play sports.(I'm already athletic)
  4. Only beat off using imagination and no more than one time per day to real
• (your mom)
• I'm a very diciplined guy and will have no trouble doing this. I will not stray from the path. I'll let you know how it goes. Right now I'm on day 2 and already feeling a little better.
• I've added Garlic pills and asparagus to my diet. I think it's working. I'm starting to feel normal again already in less than 1 week. I've stuck to my plan. I haven't had sex yet but I'll let you know how it goes when I do.
• Thanks for your concern. I did a really good job sticking to my plan and I'd actually I'm 110 percent back to normal now. The extra 10% comes from the fact that for some reason I have a lot more stamina in bed now. The hardest part about recovery was being caught in "no mans land" for about 3-4 weeks where nothing excited me. Then all of a sudden my brain reset itself and I'm getting arroused by simple things again like a woman with a short skirt or partially exposed cleavage. There was some anxiety/neverousness to deal with afterwards that took a few weeks to get over. That is like part II of the problem. I was just patient with that and have an understanding girlfriend so it worked itself out in the end. Thank god the nightmare is now over.

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