Archive for May 18, 2009
SUPER MARITAL SEX: SEX AND THE HEART: SOME RECOMMENDATIONS OF THUMB TO APPLY TO THE ISSUE OF HEART DISEASE AND SEXUALITY
Monday, May 18, 2009 | 7:03 amDon’t watch or feel for symptoms. They will get your attention if they occur. If they do (tightness in the chest, chest pain, shortness of breath), don’t panic. Just slow down, hug, rest, and talk. Report these symptoms to your doctor, but remember, many such symptoms are insignificant or not as pronounced as you may think. Always call the doctor, but do not jump to conclusions. Don’t lie there alone and worry. Share with your partner. Your doctor will probably reassure you anyway. If you coming to worry, both of you should watch as the partner with the heart ðãîblems exercises vigorously under carefully monitored medical conditions. Have the doctor explain to you what all the tracings mean. Healing can be takin8 place in the heart even when there are some abnormal findings, even when symptoms persist. Symptoms do not necessarily mean a setback in healing. If you still worry, suggest that the doctor send the spouse with the heart problem home with an ambulatory heart monitor attached. Have sex record when you had sex and any symptoms you might have had, and go together to discuss the results. You will probably be very relieved.
Your doctor will prescribe an exercise program. The days of staying in bed after a heart attack are over. Activity heals, but only at a medically monitored and prescribed rate, and that includes sexual activity.
If you have pain, ask about using nitroglycerin, long-acting nitrate preparations, or other medications. Be sure to ask when and how these medications should be used. Some should be taken at regular intervals, while others should be taken several minutes before sexual activity.
Remember, there is much more to sex than intercourse. Talk with your doctor about all of sex or he or she might assume that sex equals coitus. No single sexual activity is more dangerous than any other.
The spouse with the heart problem does not need a spousal nurse. He or she needs a loving sexual partner who expresses his or her own sexual needs vigorously and honestly. If the patient sees your comfort and freedom, he or she will learn the same approach. The patient must learn to protect himself or herself, and attempts by a spouse to protect the heart patient typically backfire into more fear, loss ot self-esteem, and even resentment. Don’t let any disease take the heart out of your sex life.
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YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/SEXUALITY FROM ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE: ELLISONIAN SEX
Monday, May 18, 2009 | 5:18 am Ellisonian sex, then, is a male-driven, female-responsive sex of intense and rapid sexual energy buildup in the male and slower, more generalized, somewhat less urgent response in the female. Orgasm was the ultimate goal, but touching, particularly for women, was enjoyable if not necessary. The penis and its spontaneous erection was the center of male sexual response, and the clitoris with its connections to the vagina and the uterus was the center of female response. Marriage was a natural manifestation of the desire for prolonged companionship, but might have to be augmented by some type of sexual variety to keep it alive. Men acted and entered, women reacted and received. In spite of this mechanical-sounding emphasis, Ellis was a new romantic who valued closeness and tolerated deviation from “the normal.” Paul Robinson states, “Havelock Ellis is the most unambiguously Romantic of the great modernists … at the heart of his sexual writings stands the same union of physical and emotional energies that one finds in Keats and Schlegel.”
Ellis’s work confronted a guilt and fear about sex that permeated daily living. To save ourselves from what he saw as our innate sexual sickness, the Reverend Doctor Sylvester Graham suggested that we rid our diets of meat, animal products, and all spicy foods. Graham suggested that these caloric corrupters be replaced with, of course, nutritious Graham bread and Graham crackers. He was joined in his concern for the digestive sexual degeneration of American by Dr. John Kellogg, who invented corn flakes to save us from too much snap, crackle, or pop in our sex drive. The first modern perspective on human sexuality and its relationship to intimacy offered a freedom from this type of restrictive, fear-inducing approach to sex. At the same time, however, Ellis’s views about sexual energy, male and female differences in sexual response, and the power of sexual variety are still present today, and they strongly influenced the work of Alfred Kinsey, the pioneer of a second perspective on sexuality.
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GENITAL WARTS AND LYMPHOGRANULOMA VENEREUM
Monday, May 18, 2009 | 12:03 amWarts on the genital area are like warts elsewhere. They are due to a virus infection, but when on the genitals are usually spread by sexual contact. Podophyllin applied locally clears them quickly but can irritate normal skin. It should not be self applied but left to the doctor to treat.
Cauterisation by the application of intense cold from applying liquid nitrogen or by heat from an electric diathermy is also effective.
The warts may occur on the penis, the vulva, in the vagina, around or in the anus.
This virus may be one of the causes of cancer of the cervix.
This condition is also rare in Australia and seen mostly in the tropics. It develops some one to three weeks following exposure. Initially there is a painful blister which ulcerates and then the lymph glands in the groin become involved, swell, develop abscesses and may discharge pus. The tetracycline drugs are also effective for this condition.
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