tag:ipmnation.com,2005:/blogs/christie-lavalley-s-blogChristie LaValley's Blog2018-07-07T06:47:14-04:00ipmNation.comfalsetag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417132013-02-24T10:49:00-05:002023-12-10T11:53:43-05:00Am I going through Menopause? I am only 40.by Christie LaValley <br> <span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"> I was only 40 when my period stopped coming. It was about a year after a sudden tramua in my life. My girls father had committed suicide and dealing with the stress of making sure my kids got the attention and love they needed. My body seemed out of whack. About 6 months in I went to the doctors to find out if I was going through the change. He asked me if I slept. Having been a heavy sleeper all my life. My answer was "yes." He brushed me off and told me I must be stressed. I was so upset with his answer. I just paid over a $100 to be brushed off. </span></span><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"> Frustrated I went to another doctor who did not brush off my question because I was only 40 and slept through the night. She ran some blood tests. And guess what? I was menopausal. </span>Often your doctor can make the diagnosis of perimenopause<span style="font-size: small;"> and menopause</span> based on your symptoms. Blood tests to check hormone levels may also be beneficial, but they may be difficult to evaluate due to erratic fluctuations of hormones during this period. It may be more helpful to have several tests done at different times for comparison.</span><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"> A premature menopause refers to a menopause that occurs prior to age 45.</span></span><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Additionally, menopause can be induced by chemotherapy, infection, trauma or autoimmune disease.<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span>Menopause occurs earlier in smokers and is a result of a smoking related reduction in estrogen levels. Not only had I gone through <span style="font-size: small;">trauma</span>, but I was di<span style="font-size: small;">ag<span style="font-size: small;">nose<span style="font-size: small;">d at the same time with fibromyalgia and I was a smoker. I was very ang<span style="font-size: small;">ry at my <span style="font-size: small;">regular doc<span style="font-size: small;">tor for not knowing this and mak<span style="font-size: small;">ing me thin<span style="font-size: small;">k I was cra<span style="font-size: small;">zy. Do not let you<span style="font-size: small;">r doctor make <span style="font-size: small;">think you are crazy. You deserve better from you<span style="font-size: small;">r health ca<span style="font-size: small;">re providers. </span></span> Se<span style="font-size: small;">ek another doctor like I did and read <span style="font-size: small;">as much as <span style="font-size: small;">you can about menopause. <span style="font-size: small;"> Here is what I learned<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">:</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><b>What is Menopause?</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><b> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> A "natural menopause" generally occurs between the ages of 48-52 and is recognized by cessation of the monthly menstrual cycle. When a woman is born, the ovaries contain </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span><span id="hotword"></span>relatively<span id="hotword"></span></span> one million follicles, or eggs. At the age of puberty she has about 600,000 or so st<span style="font-size: small;">ill </span>remaining. It is the follicles that are responsible for the <span style="font-size: small;">natural </span>production of estrogen, the hormone that will assist her physically and mentally into an adult female capable of reproduction. <span style="font-size: small;">A woman</span> uses up about 1000 of these eggs or follicles every month in this process. <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">T</span>he ave<span style="font-size: small;">rage </span></span> f reproductive ability</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"> is </span>400 months at the</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> average age of 48-52. It is at this time her ovaries exhaust their supply of available eggs. <span style="font-size: small;">With</span> the absence of these estrogen-producing follicles, <span style="font-size: small;">a wo<span style="font-size: small;">man's </span></span>estrogen levels fall below the levels necessary to trigger ovulation and cause month<span style="font-size: small;">ly<span style="font-size: small;"> perio<span style="font-size: small;">ds</span></span></span>. </span></span><br><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> Perimenopause, or menopause transition, is the stage of a woman's reproductive life that begins several years before menopause, when the ovaries gradually begin to produce less estrogen. It usually starts in a woman's 40s, but has been know<span style="font-size: small;">n to</span> start in a woman's 30s or even earlier.</span></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Perimenopause lasts up until menopause, the stage when the ovaries <span style="font-size: small;">actually </span>stop releasing eggs. It is in the last one to two years of perimenopause, this decline in estrogen accelerates. At this point, <span style="font-size: small;">is </span>many women will sta<span style="font-size: small;">rt </span>experiencing menopausal symptoms whic<span style="font-size: small;">h are <span style="font-size: small;">more abu<span style="font-size: small;">ndant the perimeno<span style="font-size: small;">p<span style="font-size: small;">aus<span style="font-size: small;">al s<span style="font-size: small;">y<span style="font-size: small;">mptoms </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>.<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>The average length of perimenopause is <span style="font-size: small;">about </span>four years, but for some women this period may last only a few months or continue for about 10 years. Perimenopause ends the first year after menopause<span style="font-size: small;">. <span style="font-size: small;">This </span></span>when a woman has gone 12 months without having her period.<span style="font-size: small;"> You are then consider postmenopau<span style="font-size: small;">sual.</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span></span><h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>What Are the Signs of Perimenopause?</span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>You may recognize perimenopause when you begin experiencing <b>some</b> or all of the following symptoms:</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span></span><ul>
<li> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Hot flashes</span></span> </li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Breast tenderness</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Worsening of premenstrual syndrome</span></span></li>
<li> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Decreased libido (sex drive)</span></span>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Fatigue</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Irregular periods</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Vaginal dryness; discomfort during sex</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> Urine leakage when coughing or sneezing</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> Urinary urgency (a pressing need to urinate more frequently)</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> Mood swings </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> Difficulty sleeping<span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span></span><h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'></span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Irregular periods are ver<span style="font-size: small;">y </span>common and normal during perimenopause. However, other conditions can cause <span style="font-size: small;">similar</span> abnormalities in menstrual bleeding. If any of the following situations apply to you, <span style="font-size: small;">you should </span>see a doctor to rule out other causes:</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span></span><ul>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Your periods are very heavy, and/or accompanied by blood clots</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Your periods last several days longer than usual</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>You spot between periods</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>You experience spotting after sex</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Your periods occur closer together</span></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">O<span style="font-size: small;">ther p</span></span>otential causes of abnormal bleeding include hormonal imbalances, birth control pills, pregnancy, fibroids, blood clotting problems or, rarely, cancer.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span></span><h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'></span></span></h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span></span><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Many women experience relief from hot flashes after taking low-dose birth control pills for a short period of time<span style="font-size: small;"> <span style="font-size: small;">or drinking less ca<span style="font-size: small;">ffeine. <span style="font-size: small;">Lowering my caffeine in<span style="font-size: small;">take help<span style="font-size: small;">ed me drastically.</span></span></span></span></span></span> Other options that may control hot flashes include the birth control skin patch, vaginal ring, and progesterone injections. Certain women should not use birth control hormones,especially if you s<span style="font-size: small;">moke,</span> so talk to your doctor to see if they are right for you.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'></span></span><h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>What are the other types of Menopause?</span></span></span></span></b></span></span></h1><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>A surgical menopause or hysterectomy refers to a menopause that is induced by a surgical removal of the uterus. If the ovaries are removed at the time of surgery the fall in hormone levels of both estrogen and testosterone is sudden and severe. Testosterone plays an important part in maintaining energy levels, sex drive and in a number of other important functions. If the ovaries are not removed, they may continue to function and produce adequate levels of estrogen and testosterone, until the time that a natural menopause would have occurred. However, as it turns out, in as many as 50% of these cases, the retained ovaries cease to function normally within three years after surgery. It's easy to see why a surgical menopause/hysterectomy has a greater potential to disrupt health and the quality of life.</span></span><br><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><br></span><div align="left">
<span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></span></span> </div><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Complete list M</span>enopause symptoms<span style="font-size: small;">:</span></b><br> hot flashes <br> depression<br> forgetfulness<br> headaches<br> inability to concentrate<br> irritability<br> mood swings<br> chest pain<br> palpitations<br> sore breasts<br> irregular/heavy bleeding<br> vaginal dryness<br> itchy vulva<br> loss of sex drive<br> slower sexual arousal<br> painful intercourse<br> constipation<br> abdominal bloating<br> irritable bladder<br> frequent bladder infection<br> frequent urination<br> increased facial hair<br> thinning hair<br> itchy skin<br> brittle nails<br> pins and needles<br> sore muscles<br> stiff/swollen joints<br> back pain</span></span><br><h2> <span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>The Most Important Part of Post-Menopause Life</strong></span> </span>
</h2><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> Along with the physical changes that occur after menopause, women <span style="font-size: small;">shou<span style="font-size: small;">ld</span></span> improve their health care routines. <span style="font-size: small;">Since <span style="font-size: small;">hormones<span style="font-size: small;"> do so much more for us then gives us periods, </span></span>p</span>ostmenopausal women are at greater risk for heart disease, so redirect your diet toward low-fat foods and lower your salt intake — this reduces the risk of heart attack and atherosclerosis, a condition in which plaque (cholesterol and other fats) builds up on the insides of the arteries. </span><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> As part of your routine regular check-ups, you should have a blood test at a minimum of every five years until age 50, and then at regular intervals. Your doctor should recommend at what intervals you should be tested based on how high your cholesterol is, if you are on cholesterol treatment, and on other cardiovascular risk factors that you may have, such as hypertension or obesity. This is serious so do not put it off.</span><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> It is suggested that women should have their bone density checked once every two years to detect early signs of osteoporosis, a weakening of the bones. It has been shown that postmenopausal women are particularly at risk for this condition. Research has shown that up to 20 percent of bone loss can occur in the first five years of menopause. </span><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'></span><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> Also, it is suggested that women ages 50 and up should consume at least 1,200 milligrams of calcium every day to maintain their bone health. This can be accomplished with supplements, and by consuming calcium-rich foods like milk.</span><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> Make sure you take care of yourself and share with other women early the signs of menopause. Let no woman be left in the dark. Hormones are hard enough to deal with!</span><br><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><br></span><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>http://menopausehysterectomy.com/Menopause.htm </span></span></span><br><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">http://www.webmd.com/menopause/guide/guide-perimenopause</span></span> </span></span></span>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417142013-02-19T17:37:00-05:002022-05-17T03:19:46-04:00A little on The Root Chakra. <img src="//www.freewebs.com/thesoulroom/root-chakra-300x300.jpg" class="size_orig justify_left border_" style="margin: 8px;" /><br><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>First - Base - Root- <br>The I Want Chakra * </b><b>Muladhara * First Seal</b></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">The first Chakra is known by the many names listed above and is the center of physical energy and vitality, the energy to succeed in business or material possessions, and the center of manifestations.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> The Base or Root chakra is located at the very bottom of the spine and governs issues around physical self-preservation. These issues include survival, security, and safety, as well as primal and erotic sexual urges.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> This chakra is the grounding force which allows is to connect to the earth energies and empower our being. Every other chakra is downstream from this one and only receives the energy that the root chakra can pass through them. The path to health and mystical power goes directly through the gender organs. To understand your Root chakra, you must come to a place of peace with your sexual energy. Throughout the ancient world in historical and mythological stories, the Root chakra has been associated with dragons and snakes. The dragons is a symbol for the kundalini fire energy.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>Quick Facts on the Root Chak<span style="font-size: small;">ra</span></b></span><br><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Names: </span></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>First - Base - Root- The I Want Chakra- * </b><b>Muladhara *- First Seal </b><b>Location: at the tailbone<br> Color: red/black, Day of week: Monday<br> Tone: E. Note: C<br> Element: Earth, Planet: Saturn- insufficient matter<br> Sense: smell, Demon/ emotion: Fear <br> Purposes:</b> <b>kinesthetic feelings, movement.<br> Spiritual Lesson: material world lessons. Conquering the flesh for the spirit<br> Information Stored Inside Root Chakra:</b> <b>The Root Chakra has stored Information <br> pertaining to familial beliefs, superstitions, loyalty, instincts, physical pleasure <br> or pain, touch. <br> Church: Ephesus, Beast: Like a calf – animal like<br> Word in Lord’s prayer: Bread- The food or energy we need</b></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">This is the home of the primary 8 cells that have all of the knowledge of creation and remain the only cells in your body that do not change in your lifetime. It grounds us in the physical world. This chakra is associated with the kidneys, ovaries the teste, the gonads and the adrenal glands. The associated element is earth. The emotion or “quality” associated with this chakra is the emotion of fear, our animalistic demon . </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">At this stage it is important to understand that the chakras are seats of consciousness through which we express ourselves. Perhaps we should say, ideally we express ourselves through them, but in most cases we consciously or unconsciously limit expression to but a couple of these centers.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">During the first seven years of development, ideally, we express ourselves through this seat of consciousness. We are mainly interested in being fed, nurtured, having our diapers changed and basically <i>surviving.</i> For this reason the base chakra is also often referred to as the survival chakra. The “I want chakra.” We have all heard children from the time they can cry to about age 7 scream they want something. </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">As adults, if we continue to healthily express ourselves through this seat of consciousness, we are well grounded people. We are highly motivated because the emotion of fear activates the “flight or fight” response when necessary and gives us our get-up-and-go. We have a good sense of our personal place in relation to the material world and feel somewhat secure within it. </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Limited expression through the base chakra is often shows in insecurity when relating to the material world. This may result in violent or extremely greedy behavior. The person will feel generally “ungrounded” and at odds with his/her environment. Others may feel simply detached from it. </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>When energy is not flowing freely</b></span>: from this chakra you might find yourself suffering froms intestinal and stomach gases, constipation, tumors, boils and pimples. The root chakra is responsible for your sense of safety, belonging, and security in the world. The root chakra’s main concern is survival of the self. The health of our blood, immune system, bones, joints and spine are very dependent on the emotions associated with this chakra. It demands the body's basic needs for safety, money, sexuality, groundedness and boundaries. People who have trouble with their first chakra may not have yet discovered their life purpose and developed a strong identity. If they carry with them too much yin they may be ungrounded. If they are too yang there might an attachment to material things, self-indulgence and a their own needs will become a preoccupation .</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">Excessive energy:</span> </b>This energy is egotistical, domineering, selfish and greedy. The root chakras sexual energy will be entirely genital. Judgment and biased opinions come from here.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">Deficient energy:</span> </b>This energy exhibits a lack of confidence, shows an inability to achieve goals, often brings suicidal feelings and a sense of feeling unlovable. Having deficient energy in the root lowers interest in sex. Fear and insecurity also flow from here, anxiety at it finest. Blockage in this energy center can result in a sense of unworthiness, self-doubt, or shame. Thought patterns such as “I don’t deserve love”, “I’m ashamed of who I am”, or “I’m always misunderstood” are common in people with a blocked Root chakra. These people try to compensate for these feelings by acquiring, keeping, and controlling material possessions, and by becoming addicted to material things. The ultimate Root chakra failure is suicide.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">Balanced energy:</span> </b>This energy is centered and grounded. You feel healthy, fully alive, have unlimited physical energy, and can manifest abundance with ease. This healthy energy takes good care of the body. People with open Root chakras love their lives and the physical incarnation of their present bodies.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Mental and Emotional Issues:</b></span> The Root’s energy is associated with survival, self esteem, social order, security, family. </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>Illness: </b>Illnesses that are associated with Root chakra failure include drug addiction, anemia, cancer, arthritis, heart disease, gynecological problems, herpes, candida, AIDS and other immune deficiency, lower back pain, and constipation. There can also be physical problems with the coccyx, anus, and/ or genitals.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Physical Dysfunctions:</b></span> This energy can cause lower back pain, sciatica, varicose veins, rectal tumors, depression, and immune related disorders.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>Area of Body Governed, Glands/Organs: </b> Spinal column, feet, rectum, immune system, adrenals, kidneys, colon, legs, bones</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Root Chakra Exercises:</b></span> This chakra is truly fed by getting involved in life. If you are not comfortable with the family you were born to, then adopt new families of friends, animals, organizations, support groups, etc. to balance this chakra and make it stronger. Look for evidence that your world is secure. You can chakracise your root chakra by stomping your feet upon the ground, marching, dancing, playing golf, and doing squats.</span><br> <img src="//www.freewebs.com/thesoulroom//jade.JPG" class="size_orig justify_right border_" style="margin: 8px;" /><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Musical instruments/tones feeding the root chakra:</b></span> Keynote C, Deep-low drums, Bassoon, Primitive drum rolls.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">Viewing or wearing the color</span>:</b> red strengthens this chakra.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b> Feeding Your Root Chakra:</b></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i>Grounding foods</i></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">· <b>Root vegetables:</b> carrots, potatoes, parsnips, radishes, beets, onions, garlic, etc. </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">· <b>Protein-rich foods:</b> eggs, meats, beans, tofu, soy products, peanut butter </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">· <b>Spices:</b> horseradish, hot paprika, chives, cayenne, pepper</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b>Helpful Gems/Minerals:</b></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Bloodstone, Boji Stones, Brass, Carnelian, Cerussite, Coral (Red), Diamonds (all chakras), Elestial, Epidote, Garnet (Green/Red), Hematite, Lodestone, Meteorite, Obsidian, Onyx (Black), Pyrite, Quartz (Clear, Smoky, Tourmalinated and Rutilated), Rhodochrosite, Rhodonite, Ruby, Sapphire, Spinel, Sunstone, Rubellite, Tourmaline (Black and Watermelon), Zoisite, Zircon (all chakras).</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">Helpful Scents</span>:</b> Patchouli, cedar wood, lavender, musk, hyacinth, cinnamon, sandalwood</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">How can you balance this chakra?</span><br></b></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Dancing is very good for grounding. In the summer, go barefoot. House </span><img src="//www.freewebs.com/thesoulroom/images.jpg" class="size_orig justify_left border_" height="225" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid #dddddd; height: 225px; margin: 8px; padding: 5px; width: 225px;" width="225" /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">cleaning and cooking is also grounding. Hug a tree and take care of your plants or your garden. </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Focusing on the color red can help bring your energetic body “down to earth” and in alignment with your physical body. </span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> Opening this chakra by using colors, scents, and crystals is very effective.</span><br><br><br><br><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> <b>Positive affirmations for this chakra:</b></span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">* I know who I am and make choices based on what I know is right for me.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">* I am supported in life through all my choices to do good and share the light <br> of love.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">* My body supports me in living a creative and happy life.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">* I am open to the spirit of life, which carries me beyond my original limits to <br> a higher, more creative space.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">* I am thankful for all the opportunities for growth and development that have <br> come my way.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">* I am grateful for the challenges that have taught me who I truly am.</span><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">* I love life.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><img src="//www.freewebs.com/thesoulroom/449899481_m.jpeg" class="size_orig justify_left border_" height="176" style="background-color: white; border: 1px solid #dddddd; height: 176px; margin: 8px; padding: 5px; width: 160px;" width="160" /><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">Tantra: </span></b>When the energies or vibrations from two people’s chakras are mixed, the following takes place: The light from the one chakra affects the light from the other, and these light waves are mixed in a way, so that they create different figures. The figures created by the light waves from the chakras become more beautiful, the more love there is between the parties.</span><br><br><br><br><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Kundalini Awakening:</b></span><b><i><span style="font-size: small;">According to Wikipedia “Kundalini is described as a sleeping, dormant potential force in the human organism.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini#cite_note-5"><sup>[6]</sup></a> It is one of the components of an esoteric description of man's 'subtle body', which consists of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadis" title="Nadis">nadis</a> (energy channels), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakras" title="Chakras">chakras</a> (psychic centres), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prana" title="Prana">prana</a> (subtle energy), and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindu" title="Bindu">bindu</a> (drops of essence).</span></i></b></span><br><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Kundalini is described<sup>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words">who?</a>]</sup> as being coiled up at the base of the spine, usually within <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muladhara" title="Muladhara">muladhara</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra" title="Chakra">chakra</a>. The image given<sup>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words">who?</a>]</sup> is that of a serpent coiled three and a half times around a smokey grey lingam. Each coil is said<sup>[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Avoid_weasel_words" title="Wikipedia:Avoid weasel words">who?</a>]</sup> to represent one of the three <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunas" title="Gunas">gunas</a>, with the half coil signifying transcendence.</span></i></b><br><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></i></b><h3><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Through meditation, and various esoteric practices, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini_yoga" title="Kundalini yoga">kundalini yoga</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laya_yoga" title="Laya yoga">laya-yoga</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini#cite_note-6"><sup>[7]</sup></a> and kriya yoga, Reiki, the kundalini is awakened, and can rise up through the central <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadis" title="Nadis">nadi</a>, called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sushumna" title="Sushumna">sushumna</a>, that rises up inside or alongside the spine. The progress of kundalini through the different <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra" title="Chakra">chakras</a> leads to different levels of awakening and mystical experience, until the kundalini finally reaches the top of the head, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahasrara" title="Sahasrara">Sahasrara</a> chakra, producing an extremely profound mystical experience” </span></i></b></h3><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></i></b><h3><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></i></b></h3><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Physical effects are believed to be a sign of kundalini awakening by some,<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini#cite_note-researchingmeditation.org-17">[18]</a></sup> but described as unwanted side effects pointing to a problem rather than progress by others.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini#cite_note-Ibera_Verlag_pages_47.2C_48-16"><sup>[17]</sup></a> The following are either common signs of an awakened kundalini or symptoms of a problem associated with an awakening kundalini:</span></i></b><br><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></i></b><ul>
<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Involuntary jerks, tremors, shaking, itching, tingling, and crawling sensations, especially in the arms and legs</span></i></b></li>
<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Energy rushes or feelings of electricity circulating the body</span></i></b></li>
<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Intense heat (sweating) or cold, especially as energy is experienced passing through the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra" title="Chakra">chakras</a></span></i></b></li>
<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Spontaneous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranayama" title="Pranayama">pranayama</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asana" title="Asana">asanas</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra" title="Mudra">mudras</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandha" title="Bandha">bandhas</a></span></i></b></li>
<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Visions or sounds at times associated with a particular chakra</span></i></b></li>
<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Diminished sexual desire or a state of constant orgasm</span></i></b></li>
<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Emotional purgings in which particular emotions become dominant for short periods of time.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini#cite_note-eastman_p41-18"><sup>[19]</sup></a></span></i></b></li>
<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Pressure inside the skull and headache</span></i></b></li>
<li><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Bliss, feelings of infinite love and universal connectedness, transcendent awareness</span></i></b></li>
</ul><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> </span></i></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><i>A personal experience was described by Brian Van de Horst: he felt an activity at the base of his spine starting to flow so he relaxed and allowed it to happen. A feeling of surging energy began traveling up his back, at each chakra he felt an orgasmic electric feeling like every nerve trunk on his spine beginning to fire. D. R. Butler describes a similar experience accompanied by a wave of euphoria and happiness softly permeating his being. He described the surging energy as being like electricity but hot, traveling from the base of his spine to the top of his head. He also reported that the more he analyzed the experience, the less it occurred.</i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini#cite_note-eastman_p40-19"><sup><i>[20]</i></sup></a></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini#cite_note-eastman_p40-19"><sup>" </sup></a></span></b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kundalini#cite_note-eastman_p40-19"><br></a>*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KundaliniipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417152013-02-17T13:57:00-05:002022-05-16T09:39:53-04:00Dr Oz on Yoga<br><span class="feedID_pagephotocredit"></span> <br><div class="georgia14 feedID_pageintro" style="font-style: italic;"> </div><br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hqURkSEXNQs/USEn8-EzW0I/AAAAAAAAAG4/bBcsbptH5AE/s1600/well_ozyoga_a_120x120.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-hqURkSEXNQs/USEn8-EzW0I/AAAAAAAAAG4/bBcsbptH5AE/s1600/well_ozyoga_a_120x120.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div><div class="arial14" style="line-height: 18px;">I learned yoga as a young doctor just entering the clinic. As we learned to stay up late into the evenings to care for critically ill patients, I began to use the practice as a tool for centering myself to cope with the reality of patients doing poorly and the fatigue of an academically rigorous program. At 3 a.m., when my patient was bleeding internally and the next transplant was in the holding area of the O.R., positions like down dog freed my mind to meditate on my body and rejuvenate me for the next case. It did not take long to figure out that a practice that benefits the healer might also work for the patient.<br><br> Most of us never take a deep breath all day long. The most fundamental practice in yoga is the deep, belly breath through the nose. The diaphragm is a large muscle located just below the lungs that ideally should pull down the lungs during inspiration. This is why young children push their stomach out when sleeping or exercising. Adults need to do the same. To properly exhale, suck your belly button toward your spine to push the diaphragm up and empty all the air from your lungs. This process also brings nitric oxide—not nitrous oxide—from the back of the nose into your lungs, which dilates arteries to bring more oxygen into your body.<br><br> Yoga helps clean blood of waste material (through lymphatic stimulation), and trains us to loosen muscles and joints that are ignored in our day-to-day lives. Routines like sun salutation get the blood flowing as we warm up and free our body to experience the new stresses we will face. The practice also gets us to handle the weight of our body more effectively, which builds bone and muscle strength so we are more resilient to the frailty that afflicts many. This is why power yoga practitioners have great bodies.<br><br> Finally, yoga gets us to focus our minds on remote parts of our body—like tight joints and muscles—as we gently but firmly deepen into our poses. For people like me, meditation proves difficult because our mind wonders. But if we can concentrate on the tension in our hips as we empty our mind, then we are well on the way.<br><br> So here is my routine. It takes me 7 to 10 minutes every morning.<br><br><a href="http://www.oprah.com/health/Dr-Ozs-Beginners-Yoga-Lesson/1">Start your mornings with rejuvenation!</a>
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</div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417162013-02-17T12:57:00-05:002024-01-20T02:31:44-05:00Frankincense and Cancer <a href="http://theresanoilforthat.blogspot.com/" style="display: block;"></a> <br><div id="crosscol-wrapper" style="text-align: center;"></div><div id="sidebar-wrapper"><div class="sidebar section" id="sidebar"><br></div></div><div class="main section" id="main"><div class="widget Blog" id="Blog1"><div class="blog-posts hfeed"><div class="date-outer"><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting">
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<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5187455450931548998" itemprop="description articleBody"> Many people in my family and friend circle have been fighting cancer. My sister who has been studying edible essential oils brought this wonderful information to me. This is my research and I do believe that dōTERRA oils are exceptional oils for consumption and their healing properties. I will soon be selling these myself</div>
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<div> Frankincense trees were once considered extremely valuable during ancient times. Their location was often a matter of national or state secret. Many Egyptians used the incense to fumigate their homes or for ritual incense. They even used thre oil for cosmetics. It was used as a holy anointing oil. It was considered a general cure-all for all diseases. It was also used to enhance meditation and elevate spiritual consciousness.</div>
<div> History shows it was used for embalming and as a perfume. It formed an important part of the Sabbath day offering. Frankincense or Olibanum is mentioned in the Scriptures over 50 times and is also found in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Chronicles, Nehemiah, Song of Solomon, Isaiah, Matthew, and Revelations.<br><br>In my research I learned that Frankincense is resin (a.k.a. dried sap) from the Boswellia tree. The highest quality flows creamy white and is called luban, meaning “milk,” although the color can vary from soft yellow, to rich amber or even luminous green. It just depends on the season.<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oLk6JHon4cY/USEgeyHH4AI/AAAAAAAAAGo/cxY6-akuB4I/s1600/Frankincense-boswellia-sacra-600x391.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-oLk6JHon4cY/USEgeyHH4AI/AAAAAAAAAGo/cxY6-akuB4I/s320/Frankincense-boswellia-sacra-600x391.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="208" width="320" /></a></div>The essential oil of frankincense is produced by steam distillation of the tree resin. The oil's chemical components are 75% monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, monoterpenoles, sesquiterpenols, and ketones. It has a good balsamic sweet fragrance, while the Indian frankincense oil has a very fresh smell. Contrary to recent claims, steam or hydro distilled frankincense oil does not contain any boswellic acid as these components (triterpenoids) are non-volatile and too large to come over in the steam distillation process. The chemistry of the essential oil is mainly monoterpenes and sesquiterpenes with small amounts of diterpenoid components being the upper limit in terms of molecular weight.</div>
<div> A powder might be better for consumption to benefit from the boswellic acids.</div>
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<div><b>Actions of Frankincense:</b></div>
<div>The many actions of frankincense include anti-inflammatory, anti-tumoral, immune-stimulant, antidepressant and muscle relaxing. It also stimulates the limbic system as well as the hypothalamus, pineal and pituitary glands. It is a strong anti-viral, antioxidant, antifungal, antibacterial, antiseptic and expectorant oil. Frankincense has the ability to relax and revitalize at the same time. </div>
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<div><b>Cancer Research Using Frankincense:</b></div>
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<div>There are a few researchers studying the effects of frankincense on various cancers with some degree of success. In vitro, a study done in a glass or test tube, shows inhibition or stimulation of cell proliferation depending on the concentration of frankincense oil in the growth media. </div>
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<li>A recent study conducted at the University of Oklahoma showed that frankincense can kill bladder cancer cells without harming the surrounding tissue.</li>
<li>Studies are showing frankincense to be a strong immune-stimulant with some claiming that frankincense has the ability to repair DNA. </li>
<li>A Chinese study conducted in 2000, indicated that Boswellia acids have “anti-carcinogenic and anti-tumor activities.” These boswellic acids from frankincense inhibit “a variety of malignant cells” in people suffering from leukemia and brain tumors. </li>
<li>The Cancer Research Institute of the University of Nevada has also treated cervical cancer with frankincense, in which “there was 72% inhibition and growth of non-cancerous cells.” </li>
<li>Other studies have shown thatthe boswellic acids from frankincense can exert anti-prolifertive activity toward a variety of malignant cells. </li>
<li>Another study showed that the boswellic acids are very potent apoptotic agents to cancer cells and even another one shows that the Boswellic acids from frankincense gum exhibit potent cytotoxic activity against CNS tumors.</li>
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<div>It sounds unbelievable but the anti-cancerous effects of frankincense has been known for thousands of years. Will it work for everyone? Unfortunately, No, but compared to the effects of chemotherapy, frankincense has shown great promise in the past, for us now and for the future. Frankincense will never be promoted for the breakthrough that it is because there is no money to be made in its promotion. Drug companies will not make money this way getting rid of Chemotherapy. Though Frankincense is expensive in comparison to other therapeutic grade oils but it is very cheap in comparison to drugs like chemotherapy. Unlike chemotherapy is is relaxing and uplifting instead of deadly, poisoning, and lethargic </div>
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<div> Many scientists have observed and can agree that there is some unknown agent within frankincense which seems to stop cancer spreading and induces cancerous cells to close themselves down. Immunologist Mahmoud Suhail has been quoted "Cancer starts when the DNA code within the cell's nucleus becomes corrupted. It seems frankincense has a re-set function. It can tell the cell what the right DNA code should be. Somehow, Frankincense separates the 'brain' of the cancerous cell - the nucleus - from the 'body' - the cytoplasm, and closes down the nucleus to stop it reproducing corrupted DNA codes."</div>
<div> Currently, with chemotherapy, doctors blast the area around a tumor to kill the cancer, but that also kills healthy cells, and weakens the patient bringing them close to death.. Treatment with frankincense could eradicate the cancerous cells alone and let the others live.The task now is to isolate the agent within frankincense which, apparently, works this miraculous function.</div>
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<div><b>History Medical Research (Bosellia serrata)</b></div>
<div>In Ayurvedic medicine, Indian frankincense known as Boswellia serrata and is commonly referred to as "dhoop," has been used for hundreds of years for treating ailment like arthritis, the healing of wounds, strengthening the female hormone system, and purifying the atmosphere from undesirable germs. The use of frankincense in Ayurveda is called "dhoopan". In Indian culture, it is suggested that burning frankincense everyday in your house brings good health and peace to the home.. </div>
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<div> The Standardized preparations of Indian frankincense from Boswellia serrata are currently being investigated in scientific studies as a treatment for many chronic inflammatory diseases such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and osteoarthritis. Initial clinical study results have indicated <span class="st">the power or capacity to produce a desired effect</span> when usingincense preparations for Crohn's disease. For therapy trials concering ulcerativecolitis, asthma, and rheumatoid arthritis there are only isolated reports and some pilot studies from which there is not yet conclusive sufficient evidence of safety and efficacy. Similarly, the long-term effects and side effects of taking frankincense has not yet been scientifically investigated. </div>
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<div>As of May 2008 FASEB Journal announced that Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have determined that frankincense smoke is a psychoactive drug that relieves depression and anxiety in mice. The researchers found that the chemical compound in Censole Acetate is responsible for the effects.</div>
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<div>In a completely different study, an enriched extract of "Indian Frankincense" was used in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of patients with osteoarthritis. The patients receiving the extract showed significant improvement in their arthritis in as little as seven days. The compound seemed to cause no major adverse effects and, according to the study authors, is safe for human consumption and long-term use. Please beware that the study was funded by a company which produces frankincense extract, and that the results have not yet been duplicated by another study.</div>
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<div> There is approximately 54,000 malignant melanoma cases are diagnosed annually, according to the American Cancer Society, and there are many similarities between malignant melanoma in horses and malignant melanoma in people. </div>
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<div>Recognizing this great opportunity for translational research, John Robertson, a professor in the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Tech, has been studying the disease and an experimental treatment involving frankincense oil.</div>
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<div>During a recent presentation before a regional meeting of the American Cancer Society in Roanoke, Va., Robertson -- director of the college's Center for Comparative Oncology -- said he's found that Frankincence oil has fairly selective anti-tumor activity and doesn't appear to disrupt normal cells. Robertson said."I think this research on frankincense oil suggests that this ancient medicine may have significant modern uses for chemotherapy of non-resectable malignancies," </div>
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<div><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8505251.stm">Frankincense and Cancer</a></div>
<div><a href="http://www.fasebj.org/cgi/content/meeting_abstract/21/6/A757?sid=5f532a91-c696-45c5-9da8-2390acc43ece">Herbs and Cancer</a></div>
<div><a href="http://heritage-key.com/blogs/veigapaula/could-frankincense-revolutionise-cancer-treatment">Frankincense and Cancer treatment</a></div>
<div><a href="http://ecancer.org/news/465">Bladder cancer and Frankincense</a></div>
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<div>Recipes for frankincense:<br><div class="post-info"><span class="date published time" title="2012-08-09T07:00:29+00:00"> Frankincense Ice cream</span></div>
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<span class="date published time" title="2012-08-09T07:00:29+00:00">August 9, 2012</span> By <span class="author vcard"><span class="fn"><a class="fn n" href="http://globaltableadventure.com/author/globaltable/" rel="author" title="Sasha Martin">Sasha Martin</a></span></span> of http://globaltableadventure.com<span class="post-comments"><a href="http://globaltableadventure.com/2012/08/09/recipe-frankincense-ice-cream/#comments"></a></span> </div>
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<br>*<strong>Very Important</strong> 100% pure Frankincense oil should never be consumed “straight,” but should always be diluted. Please read the following article on the side effects (and benefits) of consuming <a href="http://www.livestrong.com/article/142829-frankincense-oil-side-effects/">Frankincense essential oils</a> prior to consuming frankincense oil. While their label may say “Not for consumption”, the company Aura Cacia (available at Whole Foods) has stated that (for their products) this has more to do with USDA regulations than the actual safety of the product (assuming that the essential oil is 100% pure boswellia sacra, with no additives). Read the <a href="http://www.auracacia.com/asktheexperts/?p=28" target="_blank">entire article</a> for more information. After reading all this material I felt comfortable serving this dish to my family (as they do in Oman without a second thought). None of us suffered any ill effects. Please make the decision that’s right for <em>your</em> family.<br><br><strong>Ingredients:</strong><br> 2 1/2 cups milk<br>1 1/2 cups heavy cream<br>10-15 drops 100% pure frankincense oil (boswellia sacra), available at health food stores*<br>or powder more info at http://herbs.lovetoknow.com/Frankincense_Raw_Powder <br>1 cup sugar, divided in half<br>3 egg yolks<br>First, whip three golden balls of sunshine (egg yolks) with a 1/2 cup of sugar <br>You want the mixture to become thick and soft yellow.<br>Meanwhile, heat up the milk, cream and remaining sugar in a medium pot. Slide off the stove right before it reaches a bubble and whisk the hot liquid a little at a time into your egg mixture.<br>Return to medium-low heat and cook until thickened and the velvety mixture coats the back of a spoon.<br> Whisk in the frankincense drops to taste and strain. Tip: the oil will want to separate so move quickly to incorporate it (as though you’re making salad dressing). Chill the mixture in an ice bath or overnight in the refrigerator. Churn in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer’s instructions. or freeze if you do not have one.<br>.</div>
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</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417172013-02-17T12:06:00-05:002022-03-02T08:14:00-05:00Peppermint Essential Oil<h1 class="wp-caption-dd" style="border: 0px; color: #a41600; font-family: Impact, sans-serif; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;">Peppermint Essential Oil</h1><h1 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #a41600; font-family: Impact, sans-serif; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 36px; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;">Say “No” to <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hot Flashes</strong></em></span> is simple as 1, 2, 3 and Spray.</h1><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 9px; padding: 0px;">It amazing the amount of people, men and women who suffer with <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes</strong></em></span>. So often we think that only menopausal women suffer from drowning in their sweat behind a beet red face.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 9px; padding: 0px;">The truth is<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> hot flashes</strong></em></span> are not limited to menopausal women. Some pregnant women have also experience <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes</strong></em></span> because the hormone changes in the body. Today there is another large sector of people suffering from <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes</strong></em></span> their <strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">hot flashes</span></em></strong> are induced by prescriptions drug, chemo or radiation. Regardless, hot flashes are frustrating and uncomfortable.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 9px; padding: 0px;">My family and I have discovered a quick, simple and affordable remedy for <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes</strong></em></span>. We feel to compelled to share it with world. The solution is doTerra Peppermint Essential Oil and water added to spray bottle relieves <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes</strong></em></span> within seconds.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 9px; padding: 0px;">My husband, George was diagnosed with cancer and his treatment includes chemo pills and chemo shots administered into his body. What is one of the side effects of chemo? Yes,<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes</strong></em></span>! Several times a day he experiences <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes</strong></em></span> without warning.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 9px; padding: 0px;">George finds the inconveniences of <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes</strong></em></span> are continuously frustrating and uncomfortable; sometimes even embarrassing. He’s number one complaint with <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes</strong></em></span> are after he showers. He’s showered, all dressed and ready to go out. BAM!!!! <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">HOT FLASH</strong></em></span>! Within seconds George’s fresh clothes and body are soaking in sweat and frustration hits him hard. He turns to me and says, “why do I even bother showering?”.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 9px; padding: 0px;">
<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">When I discovered peppermint oil can relief </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes</strong></em></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> I immediately prepared a bottle of doTerra Peppermint Essential Oil for my husband. When George feels a hot flash coming on he kicks it in the bud with 1-3 sprays on his head and body and within seconds his combats his </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes</strong></em></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">. The spray bottle of doTerra Peppermint Essential Oil has given George peace of mind to shower and go outside our home without being embarrassed, frustrated and uncomfortable by hot flashes. </span>
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<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Hot Flash</strong></em></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"> Mixture Solution:</span></span>1 -1.5 cups distilled or purified water<br>6-8 drops doterra peppermint essential oil<br>add into spray bottle<br><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You can re-adjust the amount of water to oil per your specific needs. Everyone’s body has a different level of sensitivity and reaction. The mixture I have suggested is a good start. If you find the combination is not working add one more drop and test. If does not work add another drop and test. Continue to do this until you have the perfect blend to combat your </em><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes. </strong></span></em>
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<a href="http://mydoterra.com/optimalhealthyme" style="border: 0px; color: #a41600; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Pure Certified Therapeutic Essential Oils "> </a>Peppermint Essential Oil Useful Tips:</h2><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 9px; padding: 0px;">Burn yourself …peppermint oil immediately cools the skin<br>Poison Ivy or oak relief apply to area for quick relief<br>Relief heart burn or upset stomach<br>Rub onto temples and back of neck to relief headaches<br>Aching joints and muscles apply to alleviate pain<br>Add a sprinkle around doors and window seals or place cotton ball with a drop of peppermint oil throughout your home to deter ants, spiders and cockroaches<br>Kill Aphids in garden or household plants, spray plants with peppermint and distilled water.<br>Spray bottle of peppermint oil eliminates moths<br>Peppermint is antibacterial use spray bottle to abate bacteria whip countertops, floors wash hands and body, or diffuse<br>Add drop of peppermint oil to water to improve athletic performance<br>Air freshener for home by diffusing or spray in car and home<br>Inhale vapors to invigorate and energize yourself<br>Rub on to bottom of feet, on chest or back when congested from cold, flu or sinus illnesses.<br>Add to hot chocolate, chocolate cake, brownies or ice cream, etc (most essential oils can not be taken internally. dõTerra can be taken internally)<br>Stay cool and combat <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">hot flashes</strong></em></span> add to water or beverage cool yourself off on a warm/hot day<br>Mouth freshener add drop to 4 oz water and gargle<br>One drop on to tongue will freshen breathe<br>Apply to feet to to calm anxiety and nervous tension<br>Motion Sickness apply to wrist and naval<br>Improve memory recall by diffusing or inhaling<br>Apply to cold sores for quick relief<br>Embedded Tick removal- put peppermint on Q-tip, touch it to the tick’s rear<br>Breath peppermint after a meal to tell your brain you are finished eating </div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 9px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #a41600; font-size: 18px; line-height: 36px; text-align: left;">There is more healing and helpful benefits dõTerra Peppermint Essential Oils has to offer. I do hope you will continue to discover more benefits about this amazing herb with me and others.</span></div><blockquote style="background-color: #f6f6f6; background-image: url(http://www.empowernetwork.com/blogtemlate2/wp-content/themes/empower_2011/images/quote.png); background-position: 20px 10px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 20px -18px; padding: 20px 30px 10px 100px;">
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</blockquote>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417182012-04-05T22:51:00-04:002022-03-23T13:54:55-04:00Anxiety Disorder Symptoms - Symptoms you may have when having an "Anxiety Attack or Panic Attack".I found this on http://www.curemyanxiety.com/Symptoms-of-Anxieties.htm . It is a great article.<br><br><h2 align="center">Anxiety Disorder Symptoms</h2><h3 align="center">
<br> Symptoms you may have when having an <br>"Anxiety Attack or Panic Attack"</h3>It is important when trying to self diagnose to look at all the Anxiety disorder symptoms. Make sure you take into consideration that a Doctor or physician maybe better able to diagnose your condition. However it is extremely important that you gain knowledge about your anxiety attack disorder to enable you to be aware of your condition and all the symptoms an anxiety can cause. If the disorder is in your teen or child it is extremely important to learn as much as possible about teen stress and other teen related disorders. Awareness and diagnosing is one of the first things needed before a cure can be sought after and found.<br><h4>
<u>Sign and Symptom of an Anxiety Disorder</u>- Look at some of the symptoms below and if you have to create a list of some of the most common symptoms you or your loved ones face on a daily basis then do so. Keeping a written record will help aid you to best combat any anxiety that may come about. </h4>If It is your Teen or Child having an Anxiety you may want to check out the article that is written more about a Teen or young Child. If you are trying to get to the root cause of your child's stress or anxiety then take a look at <a href="http://www.curemyanxiety.com/Teen-Stress-and-Anxiety.htm">Anxiety Teen Cause</a>. If your just trying to find out what other symptoms they may have then look at <a href="http://www.curemyanxiety.com/Teen-Stress-Management.htm">Teen and Child Symptoms</a>.<br><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br></b></span><br><h3>01)Heavy and out of control Breathing</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">It's hard to breathe as you feel your gasping for air with your lungs not satisfied by the amount of air your taking in. Your quickly trying to almost in a panic to breathe quicker. Many people face this symptom with their anxiety and disorders.</span></span><br><h3>02)Smothering or shortness of breath</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Quick short breathes usually very rapid as panic and feeling of being out of control sets in. </span></span><br><h3>03)Feeling of not being able to breathe in enough air</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Satisfaction for proper breathing is not achieved as your feeling unable to breathe correctly. Often this causes the quick short breathes.</span></span><br><h3>04)Rapid heart beat, pounding in chest, possible chest pains</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">You feel your heartbeat throughout your chest as if it is trying to jump out. Some people think their having a heart attack as the pain feels real and can be very frightening. You may also feel in your neck and other vessels the quick fast pumping of blood.</span></span><br><h3>05)palpitations or heart feeling as if it is not beating correctly</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes skipping a beat or off rhythm the heart seems to jump or even skip a beat. Some people may feel a short pause in beating and it is very frightening. Anytime this happens it is a good idea to get checked out by your doctor or ER room. In most cases there is no major problem or ill lasting effect.Try to relax and slow your breathing as you breathe very deep and long.</span></span><br><h3>06)Sweating and feeling clammy</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Skin will feel cold and clammy and cool to a breeze. Usually you will look a little pale and may feel a bit green. Hands and palms maybe sticky and heavy sweating usually follows almost as with fever.</span></span><br><h3>07)Indigestion and stomach gas with possible reflux</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some people get sick to their stomachs and the acid build up can cause gas, reflux, and a burning sensation in throat. Often harsh pains can be felt from this in upper chest area which is caused by gas.</span></span><br><h3>08)Shaking out of control</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">The body loses control as the mind shuts down certain controls to face the fear or hide from it. This is the way it decided to cope with the assumed threat leaving the body to shake and tremble without control.</span></span><br><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is very frightening to go through and for others who witness this when it occurs.</span></span><br><h3>09)Nausea, turning green in feeling with skin pale like</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">This goes along with that clammy feeling and usually it doesn't last but several minutes before it ceases. No long term affects to worry about and is not that frightening.</span></span><br><h3>10)abdominal pains and queasiness</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ah the magic of stomach gas and the pains it can cause. Makes you feel sick and can almost feel as if your having a heart attack.</span></span><br><h3>11)Dizzy feeling like ready to pass out</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Light headed and feeling of losing your balance. You feel as if your going to pass out and some people do. Again the mind deals with situations different ways as it shuts down and almost like reboots it again shortly after. This can last seconds to even several minutes.</span></span><br><h3>12)Light headed and the Feeling your not yourself(unreal)</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Weird feeling almost as if your leaving your body with no control in some cases. You may feel like you are about to pass out.</span></span><br><h3>13)Immediate need for urination or defecation</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not as common but common enough to mention. Some people lose control of these functions and may have to urinate right away.</span></span><br><h3>14)Having the feeling and fear of losing it (losing Control)</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">For people who have been through a panic attack before they maybe feeling as if ones coming on. Just the thought and fear of it may actually make the attack occur.</span></span><br><h3>15)Possible emotional out bursts and frustrations</h3><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Screaming, yelling and outbursts as the anxiety attack or panic attack happens. There maybe bad words yelled out or even things that don't make any sense at all.</span></span><br><table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tbody><tr>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Anxiety Books that Help</span><br><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">This book was designed from the patients view and offers insight to whats working for them. It helps as the objective opinion is that of someone suffering from the same or similar condition that you have. The patients in this book go over some of the most medical problems that they have including terminology. </span><br><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Hundreds of questions and answers, opinions come directly from those who suffer from anxiety. See how people just like you have approached their condition and learned better methods for controlling and curing their anxieties. For many of us the Technical words themselves from Doctors can leave us confused. This book sheds some light and speaks on a level that is understandable. It is a 154 page book that will open your eyes to your condition, understanding, and give you direction to tackling your anxieties.</span><br></span></span>
</td> </tr></tbody></table><h3>Anxiety Attack Symptoms</h3><a href="http://www.curemyanxiety.com/Books-Anxiety-Programs-help.htm">Books on Anxiety</a> can help you so please take up a good reading habit to help yourself or to help the ones you love. Knowledge is power, so as soon as you know all you can then and only then will you be able to understand anxieties, stress and depression, and how to manage and cure the Mental Health Concern.<br>Not everyone who has anxiety conditions suffer from attacks but those who do can face attacks that can affect their abilities and leave them in a very emotional state and helpless as if paralyzed. Anxiety Attacks come about by triggers and usually when the trigger is discovered most attacks can be avoided and possibly even cured.<br>If your suffering from <b>Anxiety Attacks or conditions </b>you may want to start taking notes that are very detailed about how you feel, what happened to cause the attack, and be sure to put it all down into a personal journal, When you start following and tracking your anxiety symptoms and discovering the triggers that cause your attacks you will empower yourself to make a difference and cure those fears, phobias, and conditions that have left you powerless.<br>You may have <b>Mild Anxiety Attack Symptoms </b>such as shortness of breathe, feelings of being overwhelmed, or just weak and need to sit down and relax. Many people suffer from these more mild conditions but if not watched closely they can turn into a major anxiety attack. Don't treat your condition lightly as going untreated can cause you major problems in your future. Just like when you have a cut on your hand you know the chance of infection is possible so you clean the wound, put on some antibiotic cream, and then place a clean bandage on it. The same is true with your anxieties as you should treat them with care and keep an eye on them.<br><h3>Know your Symptoms</h3>Your anxiety which is often caused by stressful situations will exert symptoms of differing kinds. What you need to learn is what all your symptoms are big and small and the triggers that initiate each one of them. Often one symptom is triggered by something specific, while others are triggered by something totally different. Keep a log any time you have an attack, or an anxiety and be prepared to write the symptom down shortly after it occurs along with the trigger that set it off.<br>By knowing your <i><a href="http://www.curemyanxiety.com/Symptoms-of-Anxieties.htm">symptoms</a></i> along with the <i>associated triggers </i>you can be taking the first steps in finding a natural cure for your condition. Some of the symptoms we overlook are "Fatigue". <b>Fatigue</b> tends to drag us down and sucks the energy right out of us. <a href="http://www.curemyanxiety.com/Anxiety-Fatigue.htm">Learn more about Fatigue</a>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417192011-09-14T07:58:00-04:002022-05-17T03:15:23-04:00Symptoms of a Spiritual Awakening<b> </b><br><b>As promised I found the Symptoms of Spiritual Awakening. Give yourself a break. All of this will pass. Healing sometimes takes time. </b><br><br><b>Great youtube video: http://youtu.be/txTsbeuY5gM </b><br><b> </b><br><b>Symptoms of Spiritual Awakening</b><br><b> by Annarita </b><br><ol>
<b> </b><li>Changing sleep patterns: restlessness, hot feet, waking up two or three times a night. Feeling tired after you wake up and sleepy off and on during the day. There is something called the Triad Sleep Pattern that occurs for many: you sleep for about 2-3 hours, wake up, go back to sleep for another couple of hours, wake again, and go back to sleep again. For others, the sleep requirements have changed. You can get by on less sleep. Lately I have been experiencing huge waves of energy running into my body from the crown. It feels good, but it keeps me awake for a long time, then subsides. Advice: Get used to it. Make peace with it and don't worry about getting enough sleep (which often causes more insomnia). You will be able to make it through the day if you hold thoughts of getting just what you need. You can also request your Higher Power to give you a break now and then and give you a good, deep night's sleep. If you can't go back to sleep right away, use the waking moments to meditate, read poetry, write in your journal or look at the moon. Your body will adjust to the new pattern.</li>
<li>Activity at the crown of the head: Tingling, itching, prickly, crawling sensations along the scalp and/or down the spine. A sense of energy vibrating on top of the head, as if energy is erupting from the head in a shower. Also the sensation of energy pouring in through the crown, described as "sprinkles". This may also be experienced as pressure on the crown, as if someone is pushing his/her finger into the center of your head. As I mentioned in #1, I have been experiencing huge downloads of energy through the crown. In the past, I have felt more generalized pressure, as if my head is in a gentle vise. One man related that his hair stood on end and his body was covered with goosebumps. Advice: This is nothing to be alarmed about. What you are experiencing is an opening of the crown chakra. The sensations mean that you are opening up to receive divine energy. </li>
<li>Sudden waves of emotion. Crying at the drop of a hat. Feeling suddenly angry or sad with little provocation. Or inexplicably depressed. Then very happy. Emotional roller coaster. There is often a pressure or sense of emotions congested in the heart chakra (the middle of the chest). This is not to be confused with the heart, which is located to the left of the heart chakra. Advice: Accept your feelings as they come up and let them go. Go directly to your heart chakra and feel the emotion. Expand it outward to your all your fields and breathe deeply from the belly all the way up to your upper chest. Just feel the feeling and let it evaporate on its own. Don't direct the emotions at anyone. You are cleaning out your past. If you want some help with this, say out loud that you intend to release all these old issues and ask your Higher Power to help you. You can also ask Grace Elohim to help you release with ease and gentleness. Be grateful that your body is releasing these emotions and not holding onto them inside where they can do harm. One source suggests that depression is linked to letting go of relationships to people, work, etc. that no longer match us and our frequencies. When we feel guilty about letting go of these relationships, depression helps us medicate that pain.</li>
<li>Old "stuff" seems to be coming up, as described above, and the people with whom you need to work it out (or their clones) appear in your life. Completion issues. Or perhaps you need to work through issues of self-worth, abundance, creativity, addictions, etc. The resources or people you need to help you move through these issues start to appear. Advice: Same as #3. Additionally, don't get too involved in analyzing these issues. Examining them too much will simply cycle you back through them over and over again at deeper and deeper levels. Get professional help if you need to and walk through it. Do not try to avoid them or disassociate yourself from them. Embrace whatever comes up and thank it for helping you move ahead. Thank your Higher Power for giving you the opportunity to release these issues. Remember, you don't want these issues to stay stuck in your body.</li>
<li>Changes in weight. The weight gain in the US population is phenomenal. Other people may be losing weight. We often gain weight because many fears we have suppressed are now coming up to the surface to be healed. We react by building up a defense. We also attempt to ground ourselves or provide bulk against increasing frequencies in our bodies. Advice: Don't freak out, but just accept it as a symptom of where you are right now. You will release/gain the weight when all your fears have been integrated. Release your anxiety about this. Then you might find it easier to lose/gain the weight eventually. Exercise. Before eating, try this: Sit at the table with an attractive place setting. Light a candle. Enjoy how the food looks. Place your dominant hand over your heart and bless the food. Tell your body that you are going to use the food to richly nourish it, but that you are not going to use the food to fulfill your emotional hungers. Then pass your hand from left to right over the food and bless it. You may notice that the food feels warm to your hand even if the food is cold-- I like to think that the food is good for me when it feels warm and nourishing to my hand. I have also noticed that when I practice blessing the food, I don't eat as much. It is important not to let yourself off the hook when you forget to bless the food before you eat. If I've forgotten and I've nearly finished eating, I bless the food anyway. That way I don't slip out of the habit. Another thing you can do is to stay present while eating -- don't watch TV or read. Heartily enjoy what blessings are before you.</li>
<li>Changes in eating habits: Strange cravings and odd food choices. Some find they are not as hungry as they used to be. Or hungrier. Advice: Don't deny what your body tells you it needs. If you are not sure, you might try muscle-testing before you chose a food to see if it's what your body wants. Also try blessing the food as described in #5.</li>
<li>Food intolerances, allergies you never had before: As you grow more spiritual, you are more sensitive to everything around you. Your body will tell you what it can no longer tolerate, as if it, too, is sloughing off what doesn't serve it anymore. You might be cleansing yourself of toxins. Some people find they often have a white residue in their mouth, much like that of runners at the end of a race. Advice: An acupuncturist told me that this film can be removed by sloshing 2 tablespoons of cold-pressed olive oil in your mouth for 10-15 minutes (don't swallow, whatever you do), then spitting it out into the toilet -- not the sink, for you just removed toxins from your body and don't want them in the sink. Brush your teeth and do the same. Then clean your brush. (Sorry this is yukky, but it works.) </li>
<li>Amplification of the senses. Increased sensitivity. 8a. Sight: Blurry vision, shimmering objects, seeing glittery particles, auras around people, plants, animals, and objects. Some report seeing formerly opaque objects as transparent. When you close your eyes, you no longer see darkness, but redness. You may also see geometric shapes or brilliant colors and pictures when eyes are closed. Colors appear more vivid -- the sky might look teal or the grass an amazing green. Often I see grids running across the ground. As you become more sensitive, you may see shapes or outlines in the air, especially when the room is almost dark. When your eyes are open or closed, you may see white shapes in your peripheral vision (these are your guides). Advice: Your vision is changing in many ways -- you are experiencing new ways of seeing. Be patient. Whatever you do, do not be afraid. Hazy vision maybe relieved by yawning. 8b. Hearing: Increased or decreased hearing. I once thought I would have to pull off the road because of the painfully amplified sound of my tires on the freeway. Other symptoms are hearing white noise in the head, beeps, tones, music or electronic patterns. Some hear water rushing, bees buzzing, whooshing, roaring or ringing. Others have what is called audio dyslexia-- you can't always make out what people are saying, as if you can no longer translate your own language. Some hear strange voices in their dreams, as if someone is hovering near them. You can either ask the presence(s) to leave or ask Archangel Michael to take care of the situation. Again, there is nothing to fear. Advice: Surrender to it. Let it come through. Listen. Your ears are adjusting to new frequencies. 8c. Enhanced senses of smell, touch, and/or taste. I notice I can now smell and taste chemical additives in some foods in a rather unpleasant manner. Other food may taste absolutely wonderful. For some people, these enhancements are both delightful and distracting. You might even smell the fragrance of flowers now and then. Many of the mystics did. Enjoy it. </li>
<li>Skin eruptions: Rashes, bumps, acne, hives, and shingles. Anger produces outbreaks around the mouth and chin. I had a dermatitis on my extremities for several months that accompanied healing an episode from my past. When I had worked through most of the issue, the condition was released. Advice: You may be sloughing off toxins and bringing emotions to the surface. When there is an issue to be released and you are trying to repress it, your skin will express the issue for you until you process the emotions. Work through your "stuff".</li>
<li>Episodes of intense energy which make you want to leap out of bed and into action. Followed by periods of lethargy and fatigue. The fatigue usually follows great shifts. This is a time of integration, so give into it. Advice: Roll with the nature of the energy. Don't fight it. Be gentle with yourself. Take naps if you are tired. Write your novel if you are too energized to sleep. Take advantage of the type of energy. </li>
<li>Changes in prayer or meditation. Not feeling the same sensations as before. Not having the same experience of being in contact with Spirit. Difficulty in focusing. Advice: You may be in more instant and constant communion with Spirit now and the sensation may therefore be altered. You will adapt to this new feeling. You are actually thinking and acting in partnership with Spirit most of the time now. You may find your meditation periods shorter. </li>
<li>Power surges: All of a sudden you are heated from head to toe. It is a momentary sensation, but uncomfortable. In contrast, some people have felt inexplicably cold. I have experienced both. More recently I experience waves or currents of energy rolling through me. Sometimes the energy seems so intense when it first comes into my body that I feel a little nauseated. But if I think of the energy as divine and let go of fear, I feel wonderful and enjoy the sensation. If you are an energy worker, you may have noticed that the heat running through your hands has increased tremendously. This is good. Advice: If you are uncomfortable, ask your Higher Power, that if it be for your best and highest good, to turn down/up the temperature a bit.</li>
<li>A range of physical manifestations: Headaches, backaches, neck pains, flu-like symptoms (this is called vibrational flu), digestive problems, muscular spasms or cramps, racing heartbeat, chest pains, changes in sexual desire, numbness or pain in the limbs, and involuntary vocalizations or bodily movements. Some of us have even had old conditions from childhood reappear briefly for healing. Advice: Remember what I said about seeking medical help if you need it! If you have determined that this is not a medical condition, relax in the realization that it is only temporary.</li>
<li>Looking younger. Yippee! As you clear emotional issues and release limiting beliefs and heavy baggage from the past, you are actually lighter. Your frequency is higher. You love yourself and life more. You begin to resemble the perfect you that you really are.</li>
<li>Vivid dreams. Sometimes the dreams are so real that you wake up confused. You may even have lucid dreams in which you are in control. Many dreams may be mystical or carry messages for you. And in some dreams, you just know that you are not "dreaming" -- that what is happening is somehow real. Advice: You will remember what is important for you to remember. Don't force anything. Above all, stay out of fear. </li>
<li>Events that completely alter your life: death, divorce, change in job status, loss of home, illness, and/or other catastrophes -- sometimes several at once! Forces that cause you to slow down, simplify, change, re-examine who you are and what your life means to you. Forces that you cannot ignore. Forces that cause you release your attachments. Forces that awaken your sense of love and compassion for all. </li>
<li>A desire to break free from restrictive patterns, life-draining jobs consumptive lifestyles, and toxic people or situations. You feel a compelling need to "find yourself" and your life purpose -- now! You want to be creative and free to be who you really are. You might find yourself drawn to the arts and nature. You want to unclutter yourself from things and people that no longer serve you. Advice: Do it!</li>
<li>Emotional and mental confusion: A feeling that you need to get your life straightened out--it feels like a mess. But at the same time you feel chaotic and unable to focus. See #45. Advice: Put your ear to your heart and your own discernment will follow. </li>
<li>Introspection, solitude and loss of interest in more extroverted activities: This stage has come as a surprise to many extraverts who formerly saw themselves as outgoing and involved. They say, "I don't know why, but I don't like to go out as much as before." </li>
<li>Creativity bursts: Receiving images, ideas, music, and other creative inspirations at an often overwhelming rate. Advice: At least record these inspirations, for Spirit is speaking to you about how you might fulfill your purpose and contribute to the healing of the planet.</li>
<li>A perception that time is accelerating. It seems that way because you have had so many changes introduced into your life at an unprecedented rate. The number of changes seems to be growing. Advice: Breaking your day up into appointments and time segments increases the sense of acceleration .You can slow time down by relaxing into the present moment and paying attention to what's at hand, not anticipating what's ahead. Slow down and tell yourself that you have plenty of time. Ask your Higher Power to help you. Keep your focus on the present. Try to flow from one activity to the next. Stay tuned to your inner guidance. You can also warp time by asking for it. Next time you feel rushed, say, "Time warp, please. I need some more time to -----." Then relax. </li>
<li>A sense of impendingness. There is a feeling that something is about to happen. This can create anxiety. Advice: There is nothing to worry about. Things are definitely happening, but anxiety only creates more problems for you. All your thoughts -- positive or negative-- are prayers. There is nothing to fear. </li>
<li>Impatience. You know better, but sometimes you can't help it. You want to get on with what seems to be coming your way. Uncertainty is not comfortable. Advice: Learn to live with the uncertainty, knowing that nothing comes to you until you are ready. Impatience is really a lack of trust, especially trust in your Higher Power. When you focus on the present, you will experience miracles -- yes, even in traffic.</li>
<li>A deep yearning for meaning, purpose, spiritual connection, and revelation. Perhaps an interest in the spiritual for the first time in your life. "Constant craving", as k.d. lang says. The material world cannot fulfill this longing. Advice: Follow your heart and the way will open up for you. </li>
<li>A feeling that you are somehow different. A disquieting sense that everything in your life feels new and altered, that you have left your old self behind. You have. You are much greater than you can possibly imagine. There is more to come. </li>
<li>"Teachers" appear everywhere with perfect timing to help you on your spiritual journey: people, books, movies, events, Mother Nature, etc. Teachers may appear to be negative or positive when you are trapped in polarity thinking, but, from a transcendent perspective, they are always perfect. Just what you need to learn from and move on. By the way, we never get more than we are ready to master. Each challenge presents us with an opportunity to show our mastery in passing through it.</li>
<li>You find a spiritual track that makes sense to you and "speaks to you" at the most profound levels. Suddenly you are gaining a perspective that you would never have considered before. You hunger to know more. You read, share with others, ask questions, and go inside to discover more about who you are and why you are here </li>
<li>You are moving through learning and personal issues at a rapid pace. You sense that you are "getting it" quite readily. Advice: Keep remembering that things will come to you when they are ready to be healed. Not sooner. Deal with whatever comes up with courage and you will move through the issues rapidly. </li>
<li>Invisible presences. Here is the woo-woo stuff. Some people report feeling surrounded by beings at night or having the sensation of being touched or talked to. Often they will wake with a start. Some also feel their body orbed vibrate. The vibrations are caused by energetic changes after emotional clearing has taken place. Advice: This is a sensitive topic, but you may feel better blessing your bed and space around it before you sleep. I rest assured that I am surrounded only by the most magnificent spiritual entities and am always safe in God's care. Sometimes, however, the fear gets to me, and I call in Archangel Michael and/or Archangel Uriel. I don't beat myself up for being afraid sometimes. I forgive myself for not always sovereign at 3:00 a.m. </li>
<li>Portents, visions, "illusions", numbers, and symbols: Seeing things that have spiritual importance for you. Noticing how numbers appear synchronistically in your awareness. Everything has a message if you take the time to look. I enjoy the experience of "getting the messages." What fun!</li>
<li>Increased integrity: You realize that it is time for you to seek and speak your truth. It suddenly seems important for you to become more authentic, more yourself. You may have to say "no" to people whom you have tried to please in the past. You may find it intolerable to stay in a marriage or job or place that doesn't support who you are. You may also find there is nowhere to hide, no secrets to keep anymore. Honesty becomes important in all your relationships. Advice: Listen to your heart. If your guidance tells you not to do something, speak up and take action. Say "no". Likewise, you must also say "yes" to that which compels you. You must risk displeasing others without guilt in order to attain spiritual sovereignty. </li>
<li>Harmony with seasons and cycles: You are becoming more tuned to the seasons, the phases of the moon and natural cycles. More awareness of your place in the natural world. A stronger connection to the earth.</li>
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<li>Electrical and mechanical malfunctions: When you are around, lightbulbs flicker, the computer locks up, or the radio goes haywire. Advice: Call on your angels, guides, or Grace Elohim to fix it or put up a field of protection of light around the machine. Surround your car with bluelight. Laugh. </li>
<li>Increased synchronicity and many small miracles. Look for more of these. Advice: Synchronistic events tell you if you are heading in the right direction or making the correct choices. Honor these clues and you cannot go astray. Spirit uses synchronicity to communicate to you. That's when you begin to experience daily miracles. See #30.</li>
<li>Increased intuitive abilities and altered states of consciousness: Thinking of someone and immediately hearing from them. More synchronicities. Having sudden insights about patterns or events from the past. Clairvoyance, out-of-body experiences, and other psychic phenomena. Intensified sensitivity and knowing. Awareness of one's essence and that of others. Channeling angelic and Christ-consciousness energies. </li>
<li>Communication with Spirit. Contact with angels, spirit guides, and other divine entities. Channeling. More and more people seem to be given this opportunity. Feeling inspiration and downloading information that takes form as writing, painting, ideas, communications, dance, etc.</li>
<li>A sense of Oneness with all. A direct experience of this Wholeness. Transcendent awareness. Being flooded with compassion and love for all life. Compassionate detachment or unconditional love for all is what lifts us up to higher levels of consciousness and joy. </li>
<li>Moments of joy and bliss. A deep abiding sense of peace and knowing that you are never alone. </li>
<li>Integration: You become emotionally, psychologically, physically, and spiritually stronger and clearer. You feel as if you are in alignment with your Higher Self. </li>
<li>Living your purpose: You know you are finally doing what you came to earth for. New skills and gifts are emerging, especially healing ones. Your life/work experiences are now converging and starting to make sense. You are finally going to use them all. Advice: Listen to your heart. Your passion leads you to where you must go. Go within and ask your Higher Power, "What is it you would have me do?" Watch for synchronicities. Listen.</li>
<li>Feeling closer to animals and plants. To some people, animals now seem to be more "human" in their behavior. Wild animals are less afraid. Plants respond to your love and attention more than ever. Some may even have messages for you. </li>
<li>Seeing beings of other dimensions. The veil between dimensions is thinner, so it is not surprising. Just stay in your sovereignty. You are more powerful than you can ever imagine, so do not entertain fear. Ask your guides for help if you slip into fear. </li>
<li>Seeing a person's true form or seeing loved ones with a different face -- past life or parallel life. </li>
<li>Physically manifesting thoughts and desires more quickly and efficiently. Advice: Monitor your thoughts. All thoughts are prayers. Be careful what you ask for. </li>
<li>Left -brain fogginess. Your psychic abilities, your intuitive knowing, your feeling and compassion, your ability to experience your body, your visioning, your expressiveness all emanate from the right brain. In order for this side of the brain to develop more fully, the left brain must shut down a little bit. Normally the left-hemisphere's capacity for order, organization, structure, linear sequencing, analysis, evaluation, precision, focus, problem-solving, and mathematics dominate our often less-valued right brain. What results are memory lapses, placing words in the wrong sequence, inability or no desire to read for very long, inability to focus; forgetting what you are just about to say; impatience with linear forms of communication (audio or written formats); a feeling of spaciness, being scattered; losing interesting research or complex information; feeling bombarded with words and talk and information; and a reluctance to write. Sometimes you feel dull and have no interest in analysis, lively intellectual discussion, or investigation. On the other hand, you might find yourself drawn to the sensate: videos, magazines with photos, beautiful artwork, movies, music, sculpting, painting, being with people, dancing, gardening, walking, and other kinesthetic forms of expression. You may search for spiritual content, even science fiction. Advice: You may discover that if you allow your heart and your right brain to lead you, the left will then be activated appropriately to support you. And someday we will be well-balanced, using both hemispheres with mastery. </li>
<li>Dizziness. This occurs when you are ungrounded. Perhaps you have just cleared a big emotional issue and your body is adjusting to your "lighter" state. Advice: Ground yourself by eating protein. Sometimes "comfort food" feels right. Don't make any food right or wrong for you. Use your guidance to know what you need at any given moment. Take your shoes off and put your feet in the grass for a couple of minutes.</li>
<li>Falling, having accidents, breaking bones. Your body is not grounded or perhaps your life is out of balance. Or your body may be telling you to slow down, examine certain aspects of your life, or heal certain issues. There is always a message. When I recently broke my ankle, I understand that my ankle was taking on what I myself refused to deal with. And that was all of the above. Advice: Stay grounded by taking your shoes off and putting your feet in the grass; even better, lie down on the grass without a blanket under you. Feel the earth beneath you. Get out in nature. Slow down and pay attention. Be mindful about what you are doing. Feel your feelings when they come up. Stay in the present. Surround yourself with blue light when you are feeling shaky. </li>
<li>Heart palpitations. A racing heart usually accompanies a heart opening. It only lasts for a few moments and means that the heart is re-balancing itself after an emotional release. I had one episode that terrified me: I woke up in the middle of the night, my heart pounding. I thought it was going to come right out of my chest. It only happened once and was, I understand, a huge heart-chakra opening. But I did check it out. There is nothing wrong with my heart. Advice: Remember what I said about getting medical attention when needed. Consult your doctor about any conditions you are not comfortable with. </li>
<li>Faster hair and nail growth. More protein is being used in the body. Too bad we can't tell the body where to grow the hair and where not to grow it. (Or can we? Hmmm.) </li>
<li>A desire to find your soulmate or twin flame. More than ever before, the idea that we can have a relationship that matches who we are seems more desirable. Advice: The truth is, we have to be the kind of person we want to attract. We have to love ourselves and where we are right now before we can attract a more "perfect" mate. The work begins at home. Here is how I think it works: Hold the desire for this person in your heart, but without attachment. Expect that someday you will meet someone who is more suited to you, but let go of any expectations as to who this will be and how it will happen. Focus instead on cleaning up your own life and being the kind of person you want to be. Be happy now. Enjoy your life. Then you may see..... </li>
<li>Memories surface. Body memories, suppressed memories, images of past lives and/or parallel lives. We are healing and integrating all our "selves", so expect to have some of these experiences. Advice. Keep in mind that it is best to recall what only what comes to mind, leave the rest alone, don't analyze everything to death (because you will be stuck in the tape loop of infinite issues to process), and feel your feelings as they come up. Ask for help from your guides. </li>
</ol>Note: This document may be shared, but please send it in its entirety. Thanks. Love and hugs, AnnaritaipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417352011-08-30T21:44:00-04:002022-04-01T01:50:13-04:00Episode 13, Sex Etiquette 101<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b><u><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;'></span></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hZC1mZvkV7g/Tl2RyCivNOI/AAAAAAAAABc/8Wa2gKIx7rY/s1600/sexual+etiquette.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-hZC1mZvkV7g/Tl2RyCivNOI/AAAAAAAAABc/8Wa2gKIx7rY/s200/sexual+etiquette.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="200" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;">
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<span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> One of the most important things that we could possibly discuss is Sexual Etiquette. Following the Golden Rule (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you) is a good start, but considering that Sex is very personal and quite diverse amongst individuals, the Golden Rule is just not enough. I think this is a great topic to discuss. Due to its great diversity the show will be done in two parts. Enjoy.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Below you will find many blurbs taken from around the internet with their links. I did not feel edited them would show the diversity of thought. I would like you to explore sexual etiquette for yourself and make your own opinion of what is right.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>This was adapted by a college as a guideline for its students.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>1. <b>Never, never use force. </b>It is never the thing to do. Not if you are married; not if you have previously agreed to have sex; not if all clothes are off. It’s OK to say “NO WAY.” At any point in a sexual relationship, either individual has the right to say, “I think we should stop.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-align: justify; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>2. Respect the right of another person to say “no.” </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>When a person says “no” he/she is not saying, “Try harder so I can feel swept away.” When a person feels he/she has gone far enough, it is not an invitation to be seduced. </span>
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<b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>3. Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you. </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>Always ask the question: “Would I want someone to do this to me, to my sister, to my brother or to a friend?” </span>
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<b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>4. A couple should recognize that public expression of sexual intimacy might embarrass or offend others. [Get a room!] </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>When expressing oneself sexually, one must respect the sensitivities of others. Your sexual orientation has no bearing on this. </span>
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<b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>5. It is usually not appropriate to talk about an intimate sexual relationship with a third party. </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>Bragging about sexual conquests can cause a great deal of pain and hurt feelings. </span>
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<b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>6. Parents should respect the needs of their children for privacy with regard to what they are doing sexually. </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>Similarly, children should respect their parents’ needs for privacy in this area. Parents and their children may choose to bring into a conversation a given sexual experience but this should not be an expectation. Generally, no pressure should be placed on a parent or child to reveal information about intimate sexual relationships. </span>
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<b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>7. Both partners in a dating relationship should be prepared to accept responsibility for their actions. </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>Before intercourse both partners should ask themselves, “How would I feel and what would I expect if …..?” The consequences of a sexual relationship (sexually transmitted diseases [STD], pregnancy, and/or long-term issues like pelvic pain and infertility) often fall more heavily on the woman involved. But again, sexual orientation has no <i>exclusive </i>bearing on this. </span>
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<b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>8. Never Negotiate Naked </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'></span>
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<b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>9. Given the serious potential consequences of sexual intercourse, it is appropriate to inquire about infections a potential partner might have at the present time or might have had in the past. </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'></span>
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<b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>10. It is also appropriate to speak openly about contraception prior to intercourse. </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'></span>
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<b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>11. It is appropriate for one partner to contribute money toward contraceptive supplies, STD treatment and exams or clinical visits. </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'></span>
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<b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>12. It is often important for an individual to communicate to his or her partner just what one prefers to do or to have done – just what causes pleasure and what causes discomfort. </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>Communication is the key to a healthy sexual relationship. </span>
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<b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>13. Sexual harassment is not a joke. </span></b><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;'>Women especially view harassment as intrusive, thoughtless, insensitive and a violation of their personhood. However, it doesn’t matter if you are male or female, gay or straight, it is still inappropriate. </span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;'>Adapted from Sexual Etiquette 101 by Dr. Robert A. Hatcher and with material from San Diego State University</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.csun.edu/shc/pdfs/education/sexual_etiquette_101.pdf">http://www.csun.edu/shc/pdfs/education/sexual_etiquette_101.pdf</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>These were a few interesting points from Lifescript.com</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>3. You need to disclose that you have an STD</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Many people with STDs fear that they’ll be rejected if they share their status with a partner. That anxiety can lead men and women to keep mum about their STD, figuring that they don’t have to volunteer the information if their partners don’t inquire. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gIGdIu0oELE/Tl2ODXK-5uI/AAAAAAAAABY/1_A1pLvXOGA/s1600/limp+dick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-gIGdIu0oELE/Tl2ODXK-5uI/AAAAAAAAABY/1_A1pLvXOGA/s1600/limp+dick.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>4. He goes limp</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>This happens to every guy, but it’s still an awkward moment. Unless deflated sails are an ongoing problem, don’t make a big thing about it – he’s acutely aware of what just happened. And delving into the psychology of why he’s suddenly gone flat and what it means is only going to make the situation worse. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="http://www.lifescript.com/Life/Sex/Nookie/5_More_Sex_Etiquette_Dos.aspx">http://www.lifescript.com/Life/Sex/Nookie/5_More_Sex_Etiquette_Dos.aspx</a> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Due to the fact that Wiccan’s often participate in sexual activity as part of their ceremonies this was written for Pagan events, but applies to everyday life</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;">·</span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> There's nothing wrong with flirting, but be sure to respect boundaries. If the person you're flirting with makes it clear they are with someone else, watch your step. No one wants to get a reputation as a creeper who's putting the moves on everything with a pulse.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;">·</span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Much like nudity, touching isn't necessarily a sexual invitation. Many Pagans are comfortable with hugging, massage, holding hands, and lap-sitting. That doesn't mean they want to have sex with you, or with anyone else, it just means they're comfortable with these things. If you're not sure what someone's boundaries are, ask them.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt;">·</span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> There's nothing wrong with recreational sex, as long as all parties involved understand that it's recreational. Also, make sure any sex you have at all is safe sex. Use condoms. If you don't have one, ask around - someone will have a spare.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">·</span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> Be considerate of the people you're <i>not</i> having sex with. No one wants to walk past your tent and hear you howling <i>Yeah baby yeah baby yeah!</i> in the throes of passion. Keep it discreet.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/familyandparenting/qt/PaganSexuality.htm">http://paganwiccan.about.com/od/familyandparenting/qt/PaganSexuality.htm</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Ever have a man explode all over you leaving you there while he goes takes a shower. He should read:</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;'>Ejaculation Etiquette</span></b></div><ul type="disc">
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>What You Need To Know</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>You must get her permission before climaxing anywhere besides in a condom.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Since it comes from you, it's your responsibility to clean it up.</span></li>
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</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="http://www.askmen.com/dating/love_tip_400/444_ejaculation-etiquette.html"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>http://www.askmen.com/dating/love_tip_400/444_ejaculation-etiquette.html</span></a></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I found this man’s point of view interesting, but I would have to disagree with some of what he states to be good guidelines</b>.<br>It's probably not healthy to get into bed with someone with <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/what-men-think-during-sex" title="Dating Diaries: 14 Things Men Think About In Bed">a list of dos and don'ts in your head</a>. Most of these situations depend on the chemistry between two different people, and there are many other variables. But we all know that I'm not particularly "healthy" in the realm of dating, so I developed a list of <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/never-enjoyed-sex-1-080411" title="Dating Diaries: Are Chic Fil A And Disney World Better Than Sex?">dos and dont's in bed</a>:<br><b>Don't Try to Give Me a Hand Job</b><br>There are few things that I'm an expert in, <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/masturbation-and-me-080727" title="Dating Diaries: Masturbation And Me">but pleasing myself with <i><span style="color: blue;">my</span></i> hand is one of them</a>. Any girl who attempts to manipulate my apparatus is at a disadvantage. Hand jobs were awesome in 9th grade, when getting it touched was new, and I was a mere novice in the realm of autoerotica. If you are brazen enough to try it, please take your rings off! A gentle touch is fun, but not a hand job. <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/going-soft-flaccidity" title="Dating Diaries: 5 Things To Remember About Flaccidity">In the case of hand jobs, I like to drive</a>.<br><b>Do Have a Sense of Humor</b><br>It keeps things lighthearted and relaxed.<br><b>Don't Tell Me to Make You Feel a Certain Way</b><br>I wish I could just <i>do</i> without thinking. My overactive brain prevents me from giving in to my animal instincts. Now when a girl is like: <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/dirty-talk-in-bed" title="Dating Diaries: Do You Talk Dirty In Bed?">"Make me feel this way, NOW..." during pillow talk</a>, I'm just like: "Wow, I don't think I can do that." I'm definitely not a pro, and I don't like being put on the spot. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olP2KvITKSQ" target="_blank" title="Listen to ">So, I'm reminded of The Smiths' "Pretty Girls Make Graves" when I'm with a girl who is ready to go</a>:<br>"You tug my arm and say give up to lust, give up to lust,<br>Oh Heaven knows we'll soon be dust...<br>...I could have been wild and I could have been free,<br>But Nature played this trick on me.<br>She wants it now and she will not wait.<br><a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/girly-side-feminine-men" title="Dating Diaries: The Tragedy of Showing My Feminine Side">But she's too rough and I'm too delicate."</a><br><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/emotional-baggage-relationship-dating" title="Dating Diaries: Do You Have Baggage?">Wow I have a lot of issues</a>.<br><b>Do Make It Obvious When I'm Doing Something Good</b><br>I'm like a smoke detector in bed, literally sensing every signal she's putting out. If something seems negative, I stop doing that move immediately. <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/female-orgasm-080403" title="Dating Diaries: A Map To The Female Orgasm">If she's acting like she likes it, then I keep doing it and I remember it</a>. And talking about it helps too. If you tell a guy he did something good in bed, like any kind gesture, he will definitely remember it forever.<br><b>Don't Do Anything Too Long</b><br>Believe it or not, I've had BJs that last too long. After a while, my mind wanders...regardless of what we are doing. So, if you keep doing something for a while, it gets awkward and monotonous. <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/reveling-in-rejection" title="Dating Diaries: I Love Getting Rejected">It's not fun to have to tell a girl, "You have to stop this"</a> so be vigilant (because I feel rude saying I don't like something, so I just suffer through it).<br><b>Do Be Fair with "Lazy" Positions</b><br><a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/wasting-time-nothingness" title="Dating Diaries: I'm Too Lazy To Thrust My Hips During Sex">Sex is tiring, especially when you're in extended periods of strenuous positions. We all need a break</a>. For me this break comes when I get to lie flat on the bottom. When I'm in the energetic "giving" positions, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I tell myself I can't slow down or stop or she'll be disappointed so I just (again) suffer through it. <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/necessary-evils-dating-world" title="Dating Diaries: Necessary Evils For Dating">And trust me, I'm not in the best shape</a>. Switch it up if someone seems tired.<br><b>Don't Get Too Kinky Too Fast</b><br>You have to pace yourself: <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/turn-ons-relationships" title="Dating Diaries: What Turns You On?">Don't break out the bunny mascot and handcuffs</a> two days after your first encounter, which happened to be missionary with the lights out.<br><b>Do Have Respect for Yourself, Your Partner, and Those Around You</b><br>You know when you're staying in a house on vacation with friends, there's always that couple that can't go a few days without sex, so it's totally awkward in the close quarters? People disrespect themselves through sex too: A video recently circled the Internet featuring two college students <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/sex-in-crazy-places" title="Dating Diaries: Where's The Craziest Place You've Had Sex?">having sex on the floor of a pub bathroom in a deep puddle of beer-muck</a>. You should have the foresight to care about how you both feel during and <i>after</i> the act. And don't make other people part of it nearby (although some people are into that).<br><b>Don't Give Me Any Idea How Great Your Ex Was in Bed</b><br>Please don't let me know that your ex was an "animal in bed," <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/new-sex-acts-things-to-do-in-bed" title="Dating Diaries: Things I've Never Tried In Bed">doing things I could never dream of trying</a>. This is one of the cases where "what I don't know won't kill me" truly makes sense.<br>What do you think of my dos and dont's, and what are examples of dos and dont's in bed for you? Are they similar to mine?<br><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;"><br>Read more: </span><a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/men/sex-dos-and-donts#ixzz1WQoVqWns"><span style="color: #003399;">Sex Dos and Don'ts - Sex Etiquette - Marie Claire</span></a><span style="color: black;"> </span>
</div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">So here’s a list of common sex etiquette mistakes that men make in the bedroom – they may be slight and unintentional, but most men are better off without these — ask your women!</b><br><h3> <span style="color: windowtext;">Poor Hygiene</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">- You know she totally won’t be begging for more if you show up unshaved, haggardly and with a bad breath straight from hell. You really should take some time to groom yourself and clean yourself appropriately. If it’s a case of random, spontaneous sex thought, never hurts to excuse yourself for a minute or two and visit the bathroom to clean up!</span>
</h3><h3> <span style="color: windowtext;">Ripping Her Clothes-</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">Oh we know – the way the movie stars do it, you may as well dream for it to be the stuff fantasies are made of. But it’s not. Not sexy at all. Or even practical. This ain’t no movies and someone’s got to sew those buttons back on. Some come however strong the passion, or the urge to rip – restrain.</span><span style="color: windowtext;"></span>
</h3><h3> <span style="color: windowtext;">Allowing Interruptions-</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">Unless something or someone’s on fire, you’re better off not letting a telephone call interrupt you in the act. It’s just not good etiquettes, and not very flattering to the lady as well. There may be other unavoidable distractions like someone knocking on the door – in that case its best to wrap things up quickly before the mood is ruined.</span>
</h3><h3> <span style="color: windowtext;">Not Cuddling-</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">Most women dread the post-coitus-no-cuddle-get-up-and-get-dressed-routine that most men seem to be hardwired into. It just leaves a woman feeling unwanted. So remember delivering the obligatory cuddle. Believe us; most ladies would love you for that.</span><span style="color: windowtext;"></span>
</h3><h3> <span style="color: windowtext;">Being Selfish-</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">If you want to be known as a good lover, being selfish sexually is a big no. Granted it’s not always possible to be not selfish all the time, but ideally sex should be equally pleasurable for both the parties involved in the act.</span>
</h3><h3> <span style="color: windowtext;">Springing Fetishes On Her-</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">If it’s a sexual preference out of the common order, it is best to ask before springing it onto your partner. Whether it is a foot fetish or S&M or any other sexual leaning, discussing it before her is best rather than whipping out the handcuffs out of the blue and freaking her out!</span>
</h3><h3> <span style="color: windowtext;">No Foreplay</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-weight: normal;">-Foreplay is as important to most women as sex is to most men. There, we have put it as pointedly as possible. And here’s another tip: foreplay doesn’t have to begin only once you have entered the bedroom; a good way to start the ‘act’ would be to point out to her how sexy she looks. Point we’re trying to make is: stimulating her in all possible ways you can before hitting the sack, best bedroom etiquette ever!</span>
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<span style="color: black;">If you have any guidelines that you think are important, please feel free to email mail me at <a href="mailto:underthecovers.Christie@gmail.com">underthecovers.Christie@gmail.com</a>. I would love to hear them and share them with the world.</span><br><br><span style="color: black;">***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits. </span>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> <span style="font-size: large;">Sex Questions and Answers</span></span></b><br><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> </span></b><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> 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table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--> <br><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">By Christie LaValley for Under the Covers on ipmnation.com<span style="color: black;"> <br>***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits.</span></i></div>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>Q:</span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> Is there anything you can do to change or increase your sex drive?</span></b>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>A: </span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Experts say the answer lies not so much in what your sex drive is, but whether or not it has reached its potential. The level of desire is individual, but can also differ with each partner, and vary within a relationship, increasing or decreasing over periods of time. </span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Age is also a factor in sex drive, amongst men and women, and is usually due to a decline in sex hormones. Furthermore, there are a number of emotional and physical conditions, as well as medications like some anti-depressants, that can affect desire. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Physical problem can cause sex drive to decrease such as erection difficulties in men, or painful intercourse in women. However, after treatment is received normal levels desire usually increase. If emotions or chakra blockages are getting in the way, talking to a counselor or sex therapist or Reiki practitioner can help. And sometimes, sex drive will recharge on its own, as your life changes.Maybe you just have not met the right partner yet.</span><br><br><br><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>Q:</span></b><u><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> </span></b></u><b><span style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>Are you ever “too old” to make love?</span></b>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>A: </span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>As long as both you and your partner are in good physical health, experts say both men and women can continue to have sex to any age. However, sex can become difficult due to the affects of aging and medical conditions that become more prevalent as we age. </span>
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<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Even if intercourse is not possible, remember that physical intimacy can take many forms, and that sometimes getting older really does mean getting wiser about the many ways in which partners can bring each other pleasure. </span><br><br><br>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>A: </span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>As long as masturbation isn’t your whole sex life, and does not take precedence over intimate relationships with a partner, masturbate all you want. You do need to take into consideration how your partner feels about you masturbation habits and consider does this upset your partner? Also important to consider: How much of your time do masturbation activities occupy and does it keep you from other things in your life, including having sex with a partner? If so, it can be problematic in many respects. Masturbation should be pleasurable PART of your sex life. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>Q:</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> <b>What is the definition of “sex addiction” -- and what does it entail? </b></span>
</div><b>A: </b>According to Psychcentral.com “Sexual addiction is best described as a progressive intimacy disorder characterized by compulsive sexual thoughts and acts. Like all addictions, its negative impact on the addict and on family members increases as the disorder progresses. Over time, the addict usually has to intensify the addictive behavior to achieve the same results. <br>For some sex addicts, behavior does not progress beyond compulsive masturbation or the extensive use of pornography or phone or computer sex services. For others, addiction can involve illegal activities such as exhibitionism, voyeurism, obscene phone calls, child molestation or rape. <br>Sex addicts do not necessarily become sex offenders. Moreover, not all sex offenders are sex addicts. Roughly 55 percent of convicted sex offenders can be considered sex addicts.” <br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Behaviors associated with sex addiction include: Compulsive masturbation; multiple extramarital affairs; anonymous sex partners or strings of one night stands; consistent use of pornography; consistent need for phone or computer sex; continuous use of prostitutes; sexual exhibitionism (such as “flashing”); voyeurism (watching others have sex); stalking a sex partner. </span><br><br>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>Q:</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> <b>Do aphrodisiacs really work? If so, which ones have the best track record?</b></span><b> </b><br><b>A:</b> <span style="font-weight: normal;">Since early ancient time, various foods, plants, scents, drugs, and devices have been thought to have mystical powers of stimulating sexual desired.. Among the most legendary are oysters (they do contain lots of sperm-friendly zinc) and green M&M's, which has no basis in reality! The use of Spanish fly or cantharides which is made from dried beetle remains. It is works because It irritates the urogenital tract, causing the sex organs to become engorged with blood. Spanish fly is a poison that is also known to burn the mouth and throat, cause urinary infections and scarring, and sometimes death.</span>
</div> According to Cosmopolitan, studies at Chicago's Smell and Taste Research Foundation found the smell of black licorice and doughnuts increased penile blood flow by 32%, while lavender and pumpkin pie boosted response to 40%. In women, vaginal blood flow was increased by smelling a combination of cucumbers and candy, while the smell of cherries, barbecue meat, and men’s colognes caused a decrease. Some researchers however, debate the integrity of these findings.<br>In animal studies a substance known as yohimbine, obtained from the bark of an African tree, had results that the FDA has called "promising." But the FDA maintains there is no conclusive evidence that this, or any aphrodisiac, works on people.<br><br><div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>Q: What causes erectile dysfunction? </span></b><br><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> A:</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> According to Viagra.com there are many causes of erectile dysfunction. </span>
</div>“Sometimes it's caused by a health condition. Other times, lifestyle plays a role. But blood flow is always important. If blood is prevented from properly flowing to the penis, it can lead to erectile dysfunction.<br>Sometimes, ED can be caused by a medical condition. Many conditions including diabetes, high cholesterol, and hardening of the arteries can affect blood flow in the body. And this can lead to ED. Also, depression can lead to ED.<br>Other times, it's caused by medications. Some medicines that men take for conditions like high blood pressure and depression can lead to ED.<br>Lifestyle factors can also play a part. For example, smoking can damage blood vessels. And it can lead to hardening of the arteries. This may prevent blood flow to the penis and can cause ED.”<br>Vaigra seems to have addressed these issues and one little blue pill could help. In the east and in tantric beliefs it is thought that erectile dysfunction can be improved by having sex with the same woman for 10 days with her on top. You should not worry about any outcome but to enjoy the woman trying to please you. You are to just lay there and enjoy with no worries about your penis’ behavior.<br><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">
<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>Q: What is the average penis size?</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> <br><b>A:</b> A study conducted by Lifestyles Condom Co. shows that the average length of a male sex organ is 5.877 inches. Other reports, however, indicate that the average length of a penis is between 5.9 to 6.2 inches. Most of these reports don't have a large enough sample size to be statistically significant. Therefore, you can expect that the average penis size is between 5.8 and 6.2 inches. <br><br></span><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;'> </span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>Rest assured that you really only need an average size penis to please the vagina. According to http://www.atihealthnet.com/pages/vagina.html “The internal walls of the vagina itself do not have a great supply of nerve endings, thus are not very sensitive to touch. The outer one-third of the vagina, especially near the opening, contains nearly 90 percent of the vaginal nerve endings and therefore is much more sensitive to touch than the inner two-thirds of the vaginal barrel.” </span>
</div><h3> <span style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="goog_935168866"></span><span id="goog_935168867"></span>Q:</span> What is the most common cause of sex issue between couples</span><b><br>A:</b><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">While they can take many forms, sex problems are defined as any physical or emotional issue that prevents a couple from achieving a mutually satisfying intimate relationship. </span>
</h3>The most common for men include prostate problems, a decrease in the blood supply to the penis, nerve damage to the spinal cord, or a decrease in the hormone testosterone. In women common problems include a lack of desire caused by a decrease in the hormone estrogen, thyroid disorders and pain during intercourse caused by any number of vaginal problems, including a lack of lubrication.<br>Some couples also find that the use of certain drugs can also cause sexual problems. These include alcohol, nicotine, narcotics, stimulants, some blood pressure drugs, antihistamines, and certain antidepressant medications.<br><h3> <span style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>Q: </span><b><span style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;'>What is the most common sexual condition affecting men?</span></b>
</h3><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A:</b> Studies show it is premature ejaculation, which can affect up to 75% of men. Clinically it is defined as the release of the ejaculate from the penis either before intercourse can take place, or quickly after it starts, usually within less than 15 "thrusts." Almost every man will experience premature ejaculation at least once in their life, however ,for some the problem will become chronic. A highly sensitive and easily stimulated nervous system, obsessive compulsive disorder, or sometimes a lack of control over the body's response to excitement are usually the roots of the problem. The use of certain medications including some cold pills and stress can cause temporary problems.<br>Treatments for chronic premature ejaculation include the antidepressant medication clomipramine (Anafranil) taken 12 hours before sex, and use of a condom to help reduce sensation. Sometimes a prescription lidocaine cream can also help by reducing sensation, but that can also impact the partner. <br><h3> <span style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>Q:</span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> </span><span style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%;'>What causes sexual dysfunction in women</span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>?</span>
</h3><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A:</b> Unlike their male counterparts who require certain physiological events to have intercourse, women have no such restrictions. The most common reasons for sexual dysfunction with women are often based in matters of desire, sexual arousal, or sometimes painful intercourse. Some women also report an inability to have an orgasm or experience pain when achieving one. <br>While a decrease in desire can be caused by many things, including a negative relationship with a partner, or other life stresses, physical causes are often traced to a decrease in the hormones estrogen and testosterone that occur during menopause. Not only can this decrease desire, it can also cause a decrease in vaginal lubrication making it more difficult for the sex organs to become stimulated and most likely causing intercourse to be painful. Also, certain illnesses, such as a thyroid disorder or depression, can greatly impact a woman's desire. Theunfortunate inability to achieve orgasm is seldom caused by a physical problem, but more often the result of inadequate stimulation by a woman's partner. Women often need lots of foreplay and enticing behavior prior to sexual intercourse.<br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Q: </span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>I'm horny when I have my period. Is it cool to have sex, or will I totally gross my guy out?</span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> <br><br><b>A:</b> There is only one way to be sure how your man feels, ask him. If he's is willing, it is best to stick to man-on-top mode. Bleeding is often e lighter if you're lying down," <br>While there are benefits to doing the deed during your time of the month like a heightened libido and reduced cramping, it is still very possible to get pregnant. Use of a condom is suggested since both partners are more apt to contract HIV at this time. </span>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Q: </span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>My boyfriend ignores my nipples, I hate it. I think turns me on just as much as playing with my clitoris. Does it?</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A:</b> According to an article on Mid-day.com,” psychologists at Rutgers University in the U.S. found that when women's nipples are stimulated the sensation travels to the same part of the brain as when their genitals are aroused. Brain scans of women who made themselves aroused showed that the nipples hit the same spot as the vagina and clitoris.<br><br>The research confirms for the first time what many women have experienced themselves - that their nipples can be an erogenous zone too. The researchers asked 11 non-pregnant women between 23 and 56 to stimulate themselves while they lay inside a brain scanner.<br><br>The resulting images show the areas of the brain which were affected were like a 'cluster of grapes' in the medial paracentral lobule, which is in the middle and at the top of the brain.” Which by the way is directly correlated to the crown chakra.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><br>Read more: </span><a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/tips-moves/private-sex-questions-5#ixzz1V6hxrECC"><span style='color: #003399; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Your Most Private Sex Questions -- Answered - Cosmopolitan</span></a><span style='color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span>
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<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> </span><a href="http://www.mid-day.com/"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>www.Mid-day.com</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> </span>
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<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> </span><a href="http://psychcentral.com/lib/2006/what-is-sexual-addiction/"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>http://psychcentral.com/lib/2006/what-is-sexual-addiction/</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> </span>
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<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> </span><a href="http://www.atihealthnet.com/pages/vagina.html"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>http://www.atihealthnet.com/pages/vagina.html</span></a><br><br><span style="color: black;">***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits. </span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> </span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'> </span>
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mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--> <br><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>By Christie LaValley for Under the Covers on ipmnation.com<span style="color: black;"> <br>***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits.</span></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> Since many of my clients who like Reiki and how their energies feel when brought into balance, ask me about Tantra and its benefits, I decide compile the best of the information I could find. Tantra is a lot like Reiki works with the energy of our Chakras for to enlighten , liberate and to expand our lives through the balance of universal life or love energy. However, with Tantra differs for there are two practitioners, instead of one practitioner and one client, the two are engaged in intimate or intimate sexual relations. Like Reiki, to practice Tantra successfully, it is best to have a basic knowledge of your <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/thesoulroom/chakras.htm">Chakra</a> system and how it works. The practice of Tantra shows you how to reclaim the sexual intimacy that is your birthright and through this most ancient of arts, you have the great opportunity to discover new joys of the erotic. You will learn expand moments of sexual ecstasy and turn them into a lifetime of sexual bliss. At a time when the stresses, fears and distractions of daily life threaten so many relationships, the age-old practice of Tantra might show you how to open your heart, your emotions , your sexuality, to improve your current relationship or to land the perfect relationship.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Tantra, born in India more than 6,000 years ago, emerged as a rebellion against organized religion, which held that sexuality should be rejected in order to reach enlightenment. Sound familiar with Christianity over the last 2000 years. At the time, Tantra challenged the acetic beliefs of that time, claiming that sexuality was a doorway to the divine, and that even earthly pleasures such as eating, dancing and creative expression were sacred acts.</span></div>The word Tantra, itself, means "to manifest, to expand, to show and to weave."Tantras are a group of scriptures defining how to liberate yourself and to expand your consciousness. According to Wikipedia, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_Buddhist" title="Tibetan Buddhist">Tibetan Buddhist</a> Tantric master <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lama" title="Lama">Lama</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thubten_Yeshe" title="Thubten Yeshe">Thubten Yeshe</a> stated:<br><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> “...each one of us is a union of all universal energy. Everything that we need in order to be complete is within us right at this very moment. It is simply a matter of being able to recognize it. This is the tantric approach.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra#cite_note-21">[22</a> </sup> Yoga, belly dancing, singing, feasting and bathing are all seen as ways to enlighten yourself.”</i><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A92X1yx5pz4/TlZDQF1COnI/AAAAAAAAABQ/LQd3rdaRa3c/s1600/Tantrareiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/-A92X1yx5pz4/TlZDQF1COnI/AAAAAAAAABQ/LQd3rdaRa3c/s320/Tantrareiki.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="320" width="188" /></a></div> In this article we will discuss how with Tantra, Tantric Sex philosophies can be used to improve your sex life. In this particular context of the scriptures, sex is thought to expand the consciousness and to weave together the polarities of male (represented by the Hindu god, Shiva), and female (embodied by the Hindu goddess, Shakti), into a harmonious whole. Becoming whole with your partner is a unique opportunity to become one for that moment in time. Do remember it is best to live in your own energy, so being one is just glorious chance to show your love to your partner.<br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>It is important to know that it is not necessary for couples to adopt the Tantric Gods or ways of the Hindu in order to benefit from the sexual wisdom of this ancient art. Just the Tantric sexual practices are enough to teach us how to prolong the act of love making and help us to utilize potent orgasmic energies to achieve a more enlightened life in general , but also give you a astounding sex life.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Like Reiki, which is the clearing of unneeded energies of our chakras with the replacement of good energy either by oneself, from a friend or stranger and is not a sexual act, but an act of love, Tantra is done with a lover in an intimate sexual act of love. Both are known to have health enhancing benefits. One of our most powerful energies for creating health is Sexual energy and by using sexual energy consciously...we can tap into a true source of youth and vitality. We may also fix problems that we thought would never be obtainable and worry us daily creating low self worth. </span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>All sexual problems such as impotence, premature ejaculation, lack of libido, frigidity, self esteem and self worth problems and problems with self expression are related to the emotional issues associated with our sexuality.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span>
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<span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>It has been stated in both Reiki teachings and in Tantric teachings that nearly all emotional and mental issues or disorders that exist are at least partly connected with our sexuality and or its repression. In trying rid our self of these energies or as you might call them stresses, we seek many temporary fixes like drugs, herbs or tonics but none of these are cures. The only possible cure is a clearing of the emotional and energetic blockages that are the primary cause for sexual problems as well as other emotional issues. To do this we must begin to cultivate sexual energy, be determined to stop its loss and learn to circulate it throughout the body.</span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span>
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<b>How Is Tantric Sex Unique?</b><br>To understand where you sit in relations to tantric practice? Ask yourself a few questions? </div><div style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 25.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 5.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1.<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></b><b>Sex is: a) a way of transforming yourself b) recreational</b>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">2.<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></b><b>Sex is : a) liberating b) a de-stressor </b>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">3.<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sex is : a) ecstasy b) how you achieve orgasm</b>
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 5.0pt;"> Since this article is to educate those with western belief of what Tantric sex is, you have most likely answered all questions with a b answer. If you answered them with an A answer you already are practicing some form of tantric practice in your love making rituals. Here in the West, we sometimes view sex as a source of recreation rather than a means of transformation. The goal may be to reach orgasm rather than to pleasure our lover or to connect with him or her more fully.<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b>The true essence of Tantric Sex is in transforming our energy body which in turn raises the vibration of the physical body making us more aware of our true being. This is a beautiful thing is you can do with your partner and by doing it together you are sharing cosmic consciousness with your partner physical body’s energies, but also with their <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=+defintion+subtle+bodies%E2%80%99+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=8v4&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=subtle+bodies&tbs=dfn:1&tbo=u&sa=X&ei=O21UTqDFJ-H30gHY9O">subtle bodies’</a> energies.<b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b>
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 5.0pt;"> With a raise in vibration of the physical body, it becomes extremely healthy and thoroughly cleanses all of the organs, glands and the central nervous system. It is also believed with the gradual clearing and raising of vibration the practitioner is cleared of negative conditioning from the past. It is also believed that growing up in the confusing societies here on earth has divorced people from their sexuality, ultimately, leaving them with many emotional traumas. Due to this trauma, we are cut off from an infinite source of power, creativity and expression. </div><div align="center" style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 5.0pt; text-align: center;"><b>Due to our Sexual and emotional blockages we cannot cultivate sexual energy!</b></div><div style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 5.0pt;"> It is well known that the ordinary male must ejaculate somewhat often or he will become frustrated, emotionally irritable and may have little control over his mind. He may become totally preoccupied with sex. It is different for the female. Since the female gradually builds sexual energy through the monthly cycle, towards the end of the month, just before menstruation a female will become irritable, very emotional and even endure painful physical symptoms. So the unfortunate consequences of built up sexual energy are basically the same for males and females. We become frustrated and irritable. We must note that the way in which we dispell the energy is quite different. The female will evacuate her built up energy through menstruation and the male will evacuate his through ejaculation.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 5.0pt;"> Now, the basic idea of Tantra is the exchanging sexual energy with your partner. Circulating and blending it throughout each other’s bodies simply cannot be compared with ordinary orgasm. It is extremely mystical and very powerful. During typical orgasm, a small amount of sexual energy is built up and then released from the testicles in men and with the ovaries in women, into the genitals. This release of built up energy is where the orgasmic feelings come from. The small amount of sexual energy that causes these feelings are not be enough to create a full body orgasm<b> </b>
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<b>The feeling of orgasm is in fact the feeling of sexual energy being released into areas of the body where there are many nerve endings</b>.<br><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8ViI21k5HEg/TlZDpt6_TqI/AAAAAAAAABU/ptCulG0G5Lo/s1600/tantric_sex_2through_tantra_10k.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-8ViI21k5HEg/TlZDpt6_TqI/AAAAAAAAABU/ptCulG0G5Lo/s1600/tantric_sex_2through_tantra_10k.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div>
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 5.0pt;"> To obtain a full body orgasm, the entire meridian system must be cleared and the vibration of the energy body must be raised. In Tantra, this is done through the practice of cultivation and circulation of sexual energy. Learning this will take time and blockages around the genital region will slowly be cleared as you continue to practice. Eventually, you will be able to build and store much more sexual energy. Later, the stores of sexual energy can then be released into the meridian system during sex and cause some very intense full body orgasms that can last a very long time<span style="color: black;">, and believe it or not with no ejaculation.</span>
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 5.0pt;"> Normal orgasm for females does not ever result in a large scale loss of sexual energy. This is why women are capable of having longer lasting orgasms than men, multiple orgasms or even body orgasms. The female’s orgasm is simply sexual energy being released from the ovaries, usually into the genital area, but not leaving the body. Some women who are mor liberated about their sex life already know how to pull their sexual energy up to achieve full body orgasm.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 5.0pt; margin-left: 7.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 5.0pt;"> However, for the male sperm is made up of sexual energy, so as they are released the sexual energy is released with them. Sexual energy is a person’s essence and is known as Jing. Men lose Jing every time they ejaculate. Losing one’s essence is ultimately loss of life energy.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;'>Beginning Tantric Sex Techniques</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> With standard American sex there is a distinct beginning and ending, with a climax somewhere in between. The average duration of an act of sex is about 10 to 15 minutes. Unfortunately, a women can take about 20 minutes just to reach full arousal. So a short stint of a sexual experience can be deeply unsatisfying to many women.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> In the Tantric model, the sexual experience is seen as a beautiful dance that has no beginning or end. There is no goal like ejaculation or ordinary orgasm. It is only about the present moment of being a blessed union of sexual energy with love as its guide . It is for this reason, lovemaking is meditative, expressive and intimate experience in Tantric practices. Tantra teaches lovers how to extend the peak of their sexual ecstasy so that both women <i>and</i> men can experience several orgasms in one single sexual encounter. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Some leading teachers of Tantra suggest that even men who experience premature ejaculation can learn how to extend orgasm, and, with practice, they will even enjoy multiple orgasms. Just to throw facts out, 75% of men suffer from premature ejaculation. To learn more about premature ejaculation and fixes for it check our blog <a href="http://underthecoversonipmnationcom.blogspot.com/?zx=73bed0aec94f28e3">Sex Questions</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> The following exercises are example of ways that will help you reconnect with your body and with your partner in a remarkably profound way. As you move through these steps, do not focus on intercourse as the ultimate goal, try instead to simply enjoy. Take turns at giving and receiving pleasure using gentle touch and loving words.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Communication with your lover is the key to discovering what he or she finds most arousing. Try to spend several weeks practicing the Tantric Intimacy Exercises without necessarily engaging in intercourse. I know this will be hard for some, but this is a great practice for those trying to shed or release sexual guilt, for this exercise builds trust and reawakens sexual desire with no pressure to "go all the way!</span></div><h1> <span style="font-size: large;">Welcoming Love - Opening the Heart Chakra</span>
</h1><b> First and foremost, you must decide to make time love and sex. </b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Many of us, due to fears of being hurt again, build up walls or establish routines that limit our time spent thinking about sex. One must drop the walls and open the Heart Chakra to accept intimacy. Make time for each other every week, by p</span></b>lanning a sexual rendezvous with your lover. Plan at least an hour or more of uninterrupted time to be together. In order to reap the benefits of Tantra, your relationship should be top priority.<br><b>Create a sacred place.</b> It does not matter where you decide to spend your hour together as long as you make that space inviting and relaxing. Take the time to think about what you and your lover need or might desire and make sure it is present. That way you will not need to stop to find what you need. Set the stage for love by filling the space with things that will invoke the senses like plush blankets and pillows, candles, fresh flowers, erotic art, finger foods, erotic music and tantalizing aromas. A well set stage call for a fantastic performance.<br><b> Become a God or Goddess by dressing provocatively. </b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Take the time to look your best. Not only will you feel better about yourself, but your confidence will glow and</span> </b>excite your partner.<br><h1> <span style="font-size: small;">Tantric Rituals</span>
</h1><b>Use rituals to help develop intimacy.</b> Begin your sexual encounter with a ritual. Tantric beliefs say eating or singing or dancing are other forms of enlightenment. Get a head start and try adding this to your journey. It could something as simple as feeding each other delicious foods or sharing a glass of wine while laying naked surrounded by plush pillows. You could try bathing together. Try anything that helps you to attune to each other.<br><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bathing is great ritual, take time to wash each other with loving care. Not only does water relaxes the body and is a symbol of sexuality, but in eastern beliefs it helps bring the Sacral- the sexual chakra into alignment.</b> </div> Remember that touch is very important factor to opening the heart chakra of your lover. Though, they might have tried to open the Heart Chakra on their own by planning the sexual rendezvous, gently massaging each other is an excellent way to finish opening the heart and to fuse your energies. Remember these are just recommendation, everyone is different, but the key here is to work on developing new intimacy skills. The most important part of the ritual is to learn to <i><span style="font-style: normal;">communicate by</span> </i>sharing and helping your partner feel loved and cherished.<br> It has been suggested that in order to fully focus on each other (rather than on the goal of sex), some lovers experiment with various intimate rituals for several weeks before moving on to the next steps or engaging in intercourse. Though this might be difficult, this is a wonderful way to strengthen the bonds of love and ignite passion. <br> <span style="font-size: 18pt;">The Benefit of Breath</span><br> "The only time we ever think about breathing is when we have trouble doing it, yet conscious breathing can be a powerful aid in sexual growth," according to sex therapist Marty Klein, Ph.D. of Palo Alto, California. Breathing exercises also quiet the mind and help you focus on each other.<br> Though it might feel awkward at first try this exercise: Sit quietly in your sacred place, cross-legged, facing each other. Rest your hands on your knees with your palms facing up (this helps you to not feel your knees with your hands, but allows you to take in energy. Gaze into your lover's eyes and take soft, but deep breaths. Keep your eyes open, gazing beyond the eyes, into your partner’s soul. Sustained eye contact is essential for building intimacy.<br> Once you become comfortable with the first part and can keep eye contact, move your focus to paying attention to your breathing. Begin to breathe at the same pace, bringing air slowly in through your nose and exhaling through your mouth. Remember to maintain eye contact while you breathe together. Practice this exercise until you can sustain eye contact and harmonized breathing for about 10 minutes. You will feel high from the extra oxygen, and you will be in tune with your lover’s energy. Most common sexual encounters only last 15 and it takes a woman 20 minutes to relax enough to orgasm. Spending this time helps bring the oxygen to the brain which is needed for female ecstasy. <br> Now you are ready to move to erotic touch<br><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">The Art of Erotic Touch </span></b><br><b>Fully appreciate your partner with erotic touch.</b> Continue to maintain eye contact, don't worry about keeping your breath synchronized, just remember to keep breathing deeply. Guide your partner as you take turns stimulating each other. Describe to each other exactly how you would like to be touched. This most pleasurable practice will help you become better lovers. Make requests in a clear and loving manner. Make sure to thank your lover and let him or her know with words or sounds that you are enjoying this sensual touch.<br> Once you become comfortable with each others touch, you may wish to try other objects that excite you and your partner—a feather, vibrator, massage oil, blindfold, soft fabric, erotica and loving notes to each other are just a few ideas. As you learn to deeply pleasure each other, don't be shy about asking for something different. This is your time for appreciation, experimentation <i><span style="font-style: normal;">and</span></i> for taking responsibility for your own fulfillment by asking for what you want.<br> From here, you may wish to embark on your joined erotic journey. Create amorous adventures together, exploring new and creative ways to awaken each other's bodies and minds. Then, you will be ready for Tantric lovemaking<br><h1> <span style="font-size: 18pt;">Basic Tantric Sex Techniques</span>
</h1> The Tantric tradition emphasizes on getting prepared for lovemaking. Sharing erotic rituals such as those described above focus on exchanging pleasures, awakening the senses and allowing couples to communicate on the deepest physical and emotional levels. Through communication you are creating the optimal conditions for Tantric lovemaking.<br> As you experiment with Tantric techniques, don't worry whether you are doing something right or wrong. This is a stage for learning and experiencing. Ultimately, it is about being in the moment with your lover and your pleasure is what matters most. As you transition into sexual part, the main idea is to maintain a state of sexual ecstasy for as long as possible. Do not shoot for the orgasm or worry about ejaculation. Tantric lovemaking is not result-oriented, but rather, timeless and unstructured. <br><b>Maintain a deep level of intimacy and keep it slow.</b> A long, slow build helps men control orgasm and piques women's arousal. According to Tantric teacher, Robert Frey, the longer you linger in this process of building energy, the longer men can resist ejaculation. During this time, focus on each other and if your thoughts should wander, gently bring your attention back to the present, concentrating on your lover and the magic of the moment at hand<b>.</b> Continue to gaze into each other's eyes as much as possible. This is a good time for light kisses and whispering words of love and encouragement. <br><b>Bring your attention back to your breath.</b> Resist the urge to breathe quickly. Quick breathing creates arousal, speeding you toward orgasm. Instead, take long, slow, deep breaths from the belly, exhaling slowly. You may match your breath to that of your partner, or try breathing alternately—as you inhale, your partner exhales. This moves energy back and forth and connects you to your lover. <br><b>Vary your positions </b>Different sex positions add to sexual pleasure and help balance male and female energies. Releasing each other from gender roles, lovers are free to engage in deeper, more intimate sex. Allowing both lovers to be passive and aggressive, men realize their sexual potential through surrender, by being soft and open, gentle and vulnerable. The Women, learns that she too, can direct and initiate. As you experiment with different positions, some male-dominant, some female-dominant. Take time to explore your capacity to be strong and gentle, generous and receptive.<br><h1> <span style="font-size: 18pt;">Freeing Multiple Orgasms for Men and Women</span>
</h1> Yes, it is true. A man can have multiple orgasms. In Tantric sex, there is a focus on the difference between the experiences of orgasm and ejaculation. Although they often happen at the same time, men are quite capable of having orgasms without ejaculating. Learning ejaculatory control is what makes it possible for Tantric lovers to capture and extend the energy of orgasm. You can learn more about this on your own or with a lover, buy reading my <a href="http://soulsstylingsouls.webs.com/apps/blog/show/4900899-how-to-achieve-male-multiple-orgasms">blog</a> about multiple male orgasm. <br><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This does not mean that you are never to ejaculate, but that you can control your climax. The essence, say Tantric experts, is to catch a wave of energy and to surf the edge without going over.</b></div><b>Relax and put it all together.</b> Although it sounds impossible, it's important for men to stay relaxed during high states of arousal. If you feel the undulations of ejaculation, take a slow, deep breath and stop making love long enough for your arousal to subside. Relax and try to direct energy from your penis up through your body. It is with this action that the rest of the chakra can be cleansed and healed.<br> By experimenting, you will discover how much "time out" you individually require before catching the next wave. The idea is to allow yourself enough time for the intensity to subside, but not so much that you lose your erection. Since these techniques take practice, expect a few "wipe outs" or failures before you achieve mastery.<br> It is often said that a woman's most powerful sex organ lies between her ears. I can attest to that. Since desire can be easily short-circuited by fear, guilt, stress and a host of other distracting thoughts, women often need to concentrate on the <i>feelings of sex, </i>rather than thinking when making love. Taking breaks to pleasure each other, manually and orally, is a great way to ward off any lingering thoughts or diversions and to coax one or more orgasms. <br>Most women require stimulation of the clitoris and labia (the inner lips surrounding the clitoris) during sex to reach orgasm. Prolonged clitoral touch is often the key to sexual ecstasy for women. Communication is the only way to guide your lover, showing your partner how to stroke you just right.<br>The Grafenberg Spot (G-spot) is referred to in Tantra as the "sacred spot." For Most women it is located about two to three inches up on the front side of the vaginal channel. When your lover is aroused, slip a finger into her vagina allowing your fingertip to brush against the inner wall. The G-spot is about the size of a pea or a quarter depending on the female with a slightly rippled texture. For some women, gentle stimulation cannot only induce powerful orgasms, but can even cause female ejaculation. However, take care not to over-stimulate this sensitive spot. Women are not used to expelling sexual energy.<br><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Relax and bring it together. </b>Remembering to breathe deeply and to go slow while bringing the energy up through the rest of your body, not only does it store the sacred energy but will help you use it to heal the other chakras, your relationships and how you feel about life.. <br> I hope you have found this information useful to helping you continue to keep your Chakras in balance and to find new ways to heal yourself with the help of your loved one. If you do not have a loved one yet, knowing this information might bring that loved one to you faster. <br>I am here to help you stay in check till then, just remember Reiki is healing as an act of love, not sexual act of love.<br><br>Information for this article was taken from the following links. For more on this subject, visit the links <br>http://www.tantricsecrets.com/ <br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra<br><br><span style="color: black;">***This is in no way is an ad for sex. 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Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--> <br><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>By Christie LaValley for Under the Covers on ipmnation.com<span style="color: black;"> <br>***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits.</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div>Wikipedia states “The <b><i>Kama Sutra</i></b> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_language" title="Sanskrit language">Sanskrit</a>: <span lang="SA" style='font-family: "Mangal","serif";'>कामसूत्र</span><span lang="SA"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kamasutra.ogg" title='"About this sound" '><span style="text-decoration: none;"><img src="file:/C:/Users/Christie/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image002.gif" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="About this sound" height="11" width="11" /></span></a><span class="unicode"> <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/aa/Kamasutra.ogg" title="Kamasutra.ogg">pronounciation</a> </span><span class="unicode"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Media_help" title="Wikipedia:Media help">help</a>·</span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kamasutra.ogg" title="File:Kamasutra.ogg"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">info</span></a><span class="unicode"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">)</span></span>, <span class="unicode">Kāmasūtra</span>) is an ancient <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" title="India">Indian</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu" title="Hindu">Hindu</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra#cite_note-0"><sup>[1]</sup></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra#cite_note-1"><sup>[2]</sup></a> text widely considered to be the standard work on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sexual_behavior" title="Human sexual behavior">human sexual behavior</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_literature" title="Sanskrit literature">Sanskrit literature</a> written by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C4%81tsy%C4%81yana" title="Vātsyāyana">Vātsyāyana</a>. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse" title="Sexual intercourse">sexual intercourse</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra#cite_note-2"><sup>[3]</sup></a> It is largely in prose, with many inserted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anustubh" title="Anustubh">anustubh</a> poetry verses. "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%81ma" title="Kāma">Kāma</a>" which is one of the three <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism#Objectives_of_human_life" title="Hinduism">goals of Hindu life</a>, means <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensual" title="Sensual">sensual</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sexuality" title="Human sexuality">sexual</a> pleasure, and "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C5%ABtra" title="Sūtra">sūtra</a>" literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual. Contrary to popular perception, especially in the western world, Kama sutra is not an exclusive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_manual" title="Sex manual">sex manual</a>; it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life and other aspects pertaining to pleasure oriented faculties of human life.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra#cite_note-3"><sup>[4]</sup></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra#cite_note-4"><sup>[5]</sup></a><br>The <i>Kama Sutra</i> is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Shastra" title="Kama Shastra"><i>Kama Shastra</i></a> (Sanskrit: <span class="unicode">Kāma Śāstra</span>).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra#cite_note-5"><sup>[6]</sup></a> Traditionally, the first transmission of <i>Kama Shastra</i> or "Discipline of Kama" is attributed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandi_%28bull%29" title="Nandi (bull)">Nandi</a> the sacred bull, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva" title="Shiva">Shiva</a>'s doorkeeper, who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the god and his wife <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parvati" title="Parvati">Parvati</a> and later recorded his utterances for the benefit of mankind.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra#cite_note-6"><sup>[7]</sup></a><br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;'>Content</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Vatsyayana's <i>Kama Sutra</i> has 1250 verses, distributed in 36 chapters, which are further organized into 7 parts.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra#cite_note-8"><sup><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>[9]</span></sup></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> According to both the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton" title="Richard Francis Burton"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Burton</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Doniger" title="Wendy Doniger"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Doniger</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra#cite_note-9"><sup><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>[10]</span></sup></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> translations, the contents of the book are structured into 7 parts like the following:</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>1. General remarks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Chapters on contents of the book, three aims and priorities of life, the acquisition of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge" title="Knowledge"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>knowledge</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>, conduct of the well-bred townsman, reflections on intermediaries who assist the lover in his enterprises (5 chapters).</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>2. Amorous advances/Sexual union</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Chapters on stimulation of desire, types of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace" title="Embrace"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>embraces</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caressing" title="Caressing"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>caressing</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss" title="Kiss"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>kisses</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>, marking with nails, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biting" title="Biting"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>biting</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> and marking with teeth, on </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copulation" title="Copulation"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>copulation</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> (positions), slapping by hand and corresponding </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moaning" title="Moaning"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>moaning</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virile" title="Virile"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>virile</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> behavior in women, superior </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coition" title="Coition"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>coition</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_sex" title="Oral sex"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>oral sex</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>,</span>
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<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Artistic depiction of a </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_position" title="Sex position"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>sex position</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>. Although <i>Kama Sutra</i> did not originally have illustrative images, part 2 of the work describes different sex positions.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>3. Acquiring a wife</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Chapters on forms of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>marriage</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>, relaxing the girl, obtaining the girl, managing alone, union by marriage (5 chapters).</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>4. Duties and privileges of the wife</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Chapters on conduct of the only </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife" title="Wife"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>wife</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> and conduct of the chief wife and other wives (2 chapters).</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>5. Other men's wives</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Chapters on behavior of woman and man, how to get acquainted, examination of sentiments, the task of go-between, the king's pleasures, behavior in the women's quarters (6 chapters).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>6. About </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtesans" title="Courtesans"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>courtesans</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Chapters on advice of the assistants on the choice of lovers, looking for a steady lover, ways of making money, renewing friendship with a former lover, occasional profits, profits and losses (6 chapters).</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>7. Occult practices</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Chapters on improving </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_attraction" title="Physical attraction"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>physical attractions</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>, arousing a weakened sexual power (2 chapters)”</span>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8PA2sjPTF5E/Tl2dui0tkaI/AAAAAAAAAB0/BwQAwAdYe5g/s1600/kamasutrapose.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-8PA2sjPTF5E/Tl2dui0tkaI/AAAAAAAAAB0/BwQAwAdYe5g/s320/kamasutrapose.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="277" width="320" /></a></div>Many in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world">Western world</a> wrongly consider the <i>Kama Sutra</i> to be a manual for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotantra#Tantric_sexuality" title="Neotantra"><i>tantric sex</i></a><i>.</i><sup>[</sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><i><sup>citation needed</sup></i></a><sup>]</sup> While sexual practices do exist within the very wide tradition of Hindu <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantra" title="Tantra">Tantra</a>, the <i>Kama Sutra</i> is not a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantras" title="Tantras">Tantric text</a>, and does not touch upon any of the sexual rites associated with some forms of Tantric practice. However reading the translation of this book on <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/kama/kama304.htm">http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/kama/kama304.htm</a> one will find that the book talk a lot about love behavior, attitude about relationships and life than about sex.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Chapter three of part 1 talk about becoming attractive and useful.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>A female, therefore, should learn the Kama Shastra, or at least a part of it, by studying its practice from some confidential friend. She should study alone in private the sixty-four practices that form a part of the Kama Shastra. Her teacher should be one of the following persons: the daughter of a nurse brought up with her and already married, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6226418854158660871&postID=8044169948849332890" name="fr_8"></a><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/kama/kama101.htm#fn_1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;">2</span></a> or a female friend who can be trusted in everything, or the sister of her mother (i.e. her aunt), or an old female servant, or a female beggar who may have formerly lived in the family, or her own sister who can always be trusted.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The following are the arts to be studied, together with the Kama Sutra:</span></div><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Singing </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Playing on musical instruments </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Dancing </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Union of dancing, singing, and playing instrumental music </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Writing and drawing </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Tattooing </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Arraying and adorning an idol with rice and flowers </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Spreading and arranging beds or couches of flowers, or flowers upon the ground </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Colouring the teeth, garments, hair, nails and bodies, i.e. staining, dyeing, colouring and painting the same </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Fixing stained glass into a floor </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The art of making beds, and spreading out carpets and cushions for reclining </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Playing on musical glasses filled with water </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Storing and accumulating water in aqueducts, cisterns and reservoirs </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Picture making, trimming and decorating </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Stringing of rosaries, necklaces, garlands and wreaths </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Binding of turbans and chaplets, and making crests and top-knots of flowers </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Scenic representations, stage playing Art of making ear ornaments Art of preparing perfumes and odours </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Proper disposition of jewels and decorations, and adornment in dress </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Magic or sorcery </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Quickness of hand or manual skill </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Culinary art, i.e. cooking and cookery </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Making lemonades, sherbets, acidulated drinks, and spirituous extracts with proper flavour and colour </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Tailor's work and sewing </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Making parrots, flowers, tufts, tassels, bunches, bosses, knobs, etc., out of yarn or thread </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Solution of riddles, enigmas, covert speeches, verbal puzzles and enigmatical questions </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>A game, which consisted in repeating verses, and as one person finished, another person had to commence at once, repeating another verse, beginning with the same letter with which the last speaker's verse ended, whoever failed to repeat was considered to have lost, and to be subject to pay a forfeit or stake of some kind </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The art of mimicry or imitation </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Reading, including chanting and intoning </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Study of sentences difficult to pronounce. It is played as a game chiefly by women, and children and consists of a difficult sentence being given, and when repeated quickly, the words are often transposed or badly pronounced </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Practice with sword, single stick, quarter staff and bow and arrow </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Drawing inferences, reasoning or inferring </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Carpentry, or the work of a carpenter </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Architecture, or the art of building </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Knowledge about gold and silver coins, and jewels and gems </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Chemistry and mineralogy </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Colouring jewels, gems and beads </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Knowledge of mines and quarries </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Gardening; knowledge of treating the diseases of trees and plants, of nourishing them, and determining their ages </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Art of cock fighting, quail fighting and ram fighting </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Art of teaching parrots and starlings to speak </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Art of applying perfumed ointments to the body, and of dressing the hair with unguents and perfumes and braiding it </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The art of understanding writing in cypher, and the writing of words in a peculiar way </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The art of speaking by changing the forms of words. It is of various kinds. Some speak by changing the beginning and end of words, others by adding unnecessary letters between every syllable of a word, and so on </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Knowledge of language and of the vernacular dialects </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Art of making flower carriages </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Art of framing mystical diagrams, of addressing spells and charms, and binding armlets </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Mental exercises, such as completing stanzas or verses on receiving a part of them; or supplying one, two or three lines when the remaining lines are given indiscriminately from different verses, so as to make the whole an entire verse with regard to its meaning; or arranging the words of a verse written irregularly by separating the vowels from the consonants, or leaving them out altogether; or putting into verse or prose sentences represented by signs or symbols. There are many other such exercises. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Composing poems </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Knowledge of dictionaries and vocabularies </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Knowledge of ways of changing and disguising the appearance of persons </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Knowledge of the art of changing the appearance of things, such as making cotton to appear as silk, coarse and common things to appear as fine and good </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Various ways of gambling </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Art of obtaining possession of the property of others by means of muntras or incantations </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Skill in youthful sports </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Knowledge of the rules of society, and of how to pay respect and compliments to others </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Knowledge of the art of war, of arms, of armies, etc. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Knowledge of gymnastics </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Art of knowing the character of a man from his features </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Knowledge of scanning or constructing verses </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Arithmetical recreations </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Making artificial flowers </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Making figures and images in clay</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>A public woman, endowed with a good disposition, beauty and other winning qualities, and also versed in the above arts, obtains the name of a Ganika, or public woman of high quality, and receives a seat of honour in an assemblage of men. She is, moreover, always respected by the king, and praised by learned men, and her favour being sought for by all, she becomes an object of universal regard. The daughter of a king too as well as the daughter of a minister, being learned in the above arts, can make their husbands favourable to them, even though these may have thousands of other wives besides themselves. And in the same manner, if a wife becomes separated from her husband, and falls into distress, she can support herself easily, even in a foreign country, by means of her knowledge of these arts. Even the bare knowledge of them gives attractiveness to a woman, though the practice of them may be only possible or otherwise according to the circumstances of each case. A man who is versed in these arts, who is loquacious and acquainted with the arts of gallantry, gains very soon the hearts of women, even though he is only acquainted with them for a short time.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Only in part 2 does the book talk of sexual union. For example in </span>CHAPTER VI it states:</div><h3 align="center" style="text-align: center;"> “OF THE DIFFERENT WAYS OF LYING DOWN, AND VARIOUS KINDS OF CONGRESS</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-46O3h52H3jA/Tl2eH_DBs5I/AAAAAAAAAB4/7g5ZDybQFGA/s1600/kamasutraposes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="//3.bp.blogspot.com/-46O3h52H3jA/Tl2eH_DBs5I/AAAAAAAAAB4/7g5ZDybQFGA/s400/kamasutraposes.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="342" width="400" /></a></div><h3 align="center" style="text-align: center;"> </h3>On the occasion of a 'high congress' the Mrigi (Deer) woman should lie down in such a way as to widen her yoni, while in a 'low congress' the Hastini (Elephant) woman should lie down so as to contract hers. But in an 'equal congress' they should lie down in the natural position. What is said above concerning the Mrigi and the Hastini applies also to the Vadawa (Mare) woman. In a 'low congress the woman should particularly make use of medicine, to cause her desires to be satisfied quickly.<br>The Deer-woman has the following three ways of lying down:<br><br><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">The widely opened position<br>The yawning position<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xlckIQD6o3Y/Tl2fzL0nT-I/AAAAAAAAAB8/c_9tEdEk27A/s1600/the+yawning.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-xlckIQD6o3Y/Tl2fzL0nT-I/AAAAAAAAAB8/c_9tEdEk27A/s1600/the+yawning.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div>
<br>The position of the wife of Indra</div>When she lowers her head and raises her middle parts, it is called the 'widely opened position'. At such a time the man should apply some unguent, so as to make the entrance easy.<br>When she raises her thighs and keeps them wide apart and engages in congress, it is called the 'yawning position'.<br>When she places her thighs with her legs doubled on them upon her sides, and thus engages in congress, it is called the position of Indrani and this is learnt only by practice. The position is also useful in the case of the 'highest congress'.”<br><div class="MsoNormal"> In part three Chapter iv it talks of how to pick love and a husband</div><div class="MsoNormal">“A girl who is much sought after should marry the man that she likes, and whom she thinks would be obedient to her, and capable of giving her pleasure. But when from the desire of wealth a girl is married by her parents to a rich man without taking into consideration the character or looks of the bridegroom, or when given to a man who has several wives, she never becomes attached to the man, even though he be endowed with good qualities, obedient to her will, active, strong, and healthy, and anxious to please her in every way. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6226418854158660871&postID=8044169948849332890" name="fr_45"></a><a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/sex/kama/kama101.htm#fn_0"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;">1</span></a> A husband who is obedient but yet master of himself, though he be poor and not good looking, is better than one who is common to many women, even though he be handsome and attractive. The wives of rich men, where there are many wives, are not generally attached to their husbands, and are not confidential with them, and even though they possess all the external enjoyments of life, still have recourse to other men. A man who is of a low mind, who has fallen from his social position, and who is much given to travelling, does not deserve to be married; neither does one who has many wives and children, or one who is devoted to sport and gambling, and who comes to his wife only when he likes. Of all the lovers of a girl he only is her true husband who possesses the qualities that are liked by her, and such a husband only enjoys real superiority over her, because he is the husband of love.” </div><div class="MsoNormal">If you are interested in the sexual part of the Kama Sutra writing check out the book of Sex Therapist Anne Cooper, who has written a great fully illustrated version of the Kama Sutra of sexual union at <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/2626571/Kamasutra-Sex-Positions">http://www.scribd.com/doc/2626571/Kamasutra-Sex-Positions</a>
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">One of the other oldest texts about sex is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculum_al_foderi" title="Speculum al foderi"><i>Speculum al foderi</i></a>, sometimes known as "The Mirror of Coitus" or literally "a mirror for fuckers", a 15th century <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language" title="Catalan language">Catalan</a> text discovered in the 1970s</div><h3 style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Other classical texts from around the world are: <i>Health Benefits of the Bedchamber, </i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishinp%C5" title="Ishinpō"><span class="mw-headline"><i><span style="color: #4f81bd; text-decoration: none;">Ishinpō</span></i></span></a><i>, </i></span><span class="mw-headline" style="font-size: small;"> I ching and even the bible for Christian sexuality. (which should have killed off Christinity)</span>
</h3><h3 style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: small;"> The novel entitled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rou_bu_tuan&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Rou bu tuan (page does not exist)"><i>Rou bu tuan</i></a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prayer_mat_of_flesh&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Prayer mat of flesh (page does not exist)"><i>Prayer mat of flesh</i></a>) even describes cross-species organ transplants for the sake of enhanced sexual performance</span>
</h3><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Wikipedia The free encyclopedia on line has a fascinating page about sex positions and descriptions at :</div><div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_positions">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_positions</a> For example her is Wikipedia’s description of Doggy style</div><h3> <span class="mw-headline">Penetrating from behind</span>
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<br>A couple engaged in a rear-penetration position commonly referred to as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggy-style" title="Doggy-style">doggy-style</a>.</div>Most of these positions can be used for either vaginal or anal penetration.<br><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Variants of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggy_style" title="Doggy style"><i>doggy style</i></a> or <i>doggy position</i> include:</li></ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span>The receiving partner is on all fours with their torso horizontal. The penetrating partner inserts from behind.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417392011-08-02T22:59:00-04:002022-02-28T08:26:34-05:00Episode 9- History of Sex<div class="MsoNormal">
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mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--><br><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">By Christie LaValley for Under the Covers on ipmnation.com<span style="color: black;"> <br>***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal </span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color: black;"> life, not for office visits.</span></i></div> <br>In learning the history on the views of Sex, we will find the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">History of sex is interesting because it really has nothing to do with Sex</i> , but of war, male domination, state and religious power and control. In the beginning of time as found Ancient Egypt, Pyramids were built with the context of comic sexuality. Sex was how gods kept the world alive. Sexual love was divine. </div><div class="MsoNormal">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NF1VSGesO4g/Tl2mlKDzhjI/AAAAAAAAACE/5dEuoobM-e8/s1600/phallic18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="//4.bp.blogspot.com/-NF1VSGesO4g/Tl2mlKDzhjI/AAAAAAAAACE/5dEuoobM-e8/s1600/phallic18.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div>It is believed that Argyle, the creator god masturbated to create the world. We as his creations were to replicate the Gods behavior to show our respect. Masturbation was even done publicly to honor the creator at festivals. Male and female were equal in ancient Egypt. You needed balance of opposites, so man and women had the same rights. Sexual behavior was sacred and how the world kept going.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Even in ancient Israel, sex was sacred as shown in the bible in the “Song of songs” which is over 5000 yrs old. It talks about the sexual desire with our loved one as the center of honoring sex as the gods did. The One God’s loved one was the Female Eostar which Easter is named after. This changed in 650 BC when Temple priest decided that any god that had any connection to other religions that had to be thrown out. This was a reaction to a war lost to another culture. Goodbye Eostar, Mrs. God.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> With the Loss of Eostar, there was a need to show that women were still part of creation, but evil and trouble. This when the story of Adam and Eve came out. Women were no longer looked at as the bringer of life, but as trouble and the downfall of men. Nakedness became shameful after eating the fruit of the garden.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Eve was the new image of women in the iron age as war changed. Men took over. War became important not fertility. As a matter of fact, the Scared Band of Thieves were all homosexuals and believed you brought your lover with you to fight in battle. It was believed you would not back down in front of your lover. Alexander the great was homosexual. Ancients did not think being gay was not macho. During this time men housed their wifes for family, but had sex with prostitutes, slave and boys. </div><div class="MsoNormal">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x_nQsXYHyPs/Tl2nO9mcnQI/AAAAAAAAACI/wAx9KQsz-y4/s1600/phallus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-x_nQsXYHyPs/Tl2nO9mcnQI/AAAAAAAAACI/wAx9KQsz-y4/s400/phallus.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" height="353" width="400" /></a></div>Pictures or statues of the penis were common which meant fertility and prosperity found on building or in gardens.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Augustus the emperor of roman insisted roman men needed to take a roman wife to make a pure race.. Italian women had dark hair and civilized. Men at that time being forced to marry brunette and be civilized found blonde slaves more fun. Woman started dying their hair blonde to be seen as more fun. Even Augustus’ own daughter.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Love and sex were separate in ancient times. However, Christianity changed the view of sexuality and it is surprising that human life continued after Christ. Paul said that Christ had told him that unmarried sex was shameful and a sin. So was homosexuality. Before Christianity there was no behavior that needed to be confessed and forgiven. The Adam and Eve story in the early Christian church pushed profound shame of private parts, married with the Greek idea of pure love and the idea of sin change sex forever. Marriage was even wrong in the early church, because it involved sex. A crime against god. This was a way for the leader of the church to control the population of the church and to keep their power. </div><div class="MsoNormal">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5fkeVGFi0H0/Tl2pdXe6UkI/AAAAAAAAACM/Awl56-MzZkA/s1600/nosex.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-5fkeVGFi0H0/Tl2pdXe6UkI/AAAAAAAAACM/Awl56-MzZkA/s1600/nosex.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div>Since early marriage were a business agreement arranged for keeping wealth in the richer families the church played the incest card. In 12<sup>th</sup> century A pope decided that you could not marry any relative that shared any family history for 11 generations for it was now a sin. In a town of 500 this made marriage impossible. The church would allow a marriage of a distant relative at a price. The church finally made marriage a sacrament in 16<sup>th</sup> century , but it was still to be sexless unless procreating. The church even made laws that you could only have one partner, could only have one position, men on top. No sex on holidays or fast days or without your clothes on and not in church.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> At the same time in India and still practiced today once a year there is a festival of the wedding of the gods. There is a statue of a penis known as the phallus or Lingiam in stands in a circle representing the vagina . Part of the ceremony is that the worshipers bath the phallus like that of a bridegroom in the products of the holy cow, then they adorn it for the wedding of the Gods After this the Gods are to be left alone to have scared sex. So the town is left deserted until the next year’s celebration.</div><div class="MsoNormal">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4m3ddJ_Q6B0/Tl2tQAsznpI/AAAAAAAAACQ/7c6S-WI6Ng8/s1600/bathing+the+shiva.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-4m3ddJ_Q6B0/Tl2tQAsznpI/AAAAAAAAACQ/7c6S-WI6Ng8/s1600/bathing+the+shiva.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div> For the first 1500 years after Christ, women were the considered property of man till Islamic influence was seen. Women there were to be concealed but honored. Sexual revolution of the first 1500 years changed the history of sexuality in France. Eleanor of Aquatian who wanted to be honored and was unsatisfied by her lack of sex in her marriage to King Louie of France. She had her marriage annulled due to incest a and married her lover the Duke of Normandy, Henry. Henry became the king and Eleanorwas able to put together the court of love under his rule. There they spoke of love and battles that were done for the love of a woman. Sex and love were brought to together in the language of early Romans to become known as the language of Romance.</div><div class="MsoNormal">In the 1100 and 1200’s, even though the church tried to keep sex down, Prostitution was a still very popular and part of many country’s normal bills to keep their armies happy. In London, brothels were licensed by the Bishop of Winchester .</div><div class="MsoNormal"> At the end of the 15<sup>th</sup> century, the spread of syphilis in 1495 in Naples, everybody blamed everybody else. It spread all over the continent which started a war on prostitution. Women bore must of the blame. Men wanted more control over women’s desire. However they did not know how women ticked.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Reynaldos Columbus discovered the clitoris in 1559. </div><div class="MsoNormal">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1v2KOIFAMQg/Tl2t1w5d02I/AAAAAAAAACU/0ttiW8w2PPI/s1600/bundling.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="//2.bp.blogspot.com/-1v2KOIFAMQg/Tl2t1w5d02I/AAAAAAAAACU/0ttiW8w2PPI/s1600/bundling.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div> In rural areas they used bundling boards to separate courting young people at night. As science grew, they tried to explain sex. However, many scientists held onto the church views of sex and instead of embracing sex as a part of human nature. They claimed that it was illness that made people especially women desire sex. Women who masturbated, had sexbefore marriage or had sex after menopause were considered mental ill and were classified nymphomaniacs. If woman showed this behavior, often thet would have a women’s ovaries or clitoris removed .</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B_i8J1iIn0Y/Tl2uySPKU1I/AAAAAAAAACY/dav0e2cXPZQ/s1600/cornflakes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="//1.bp.blogspot.com/-B_i8J1iIn0Y/Tl2uySPKU1I/AAAAAAAAACY/dav0e2cXPZQ/s1600/cornflakes.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" /></a></div>Dr Terrell a scientist close to the pope was published that men would go mad if they masturbated or had to much sex. He stated they would go blind or grow hair on their hand or become an imbecile. Castration was used to stop the desire. It was believed that a breakfast of eggs and ham made men want to masturbate. In 1898 Dr Kellogg’s came up with other breakfast option. He designed corn flakes to stop the masturbation. Unfortunately, they were so bland that sugar was added to get them to sell and no longer served their purpose. Kellogg walked away disgusted.</div><div class="MsoNormal">
<br> Controlling sex seems to have been a way for country to control their inhabitants. Even in the early United States laws were made to control behavior.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> * Here are some of the early laws and some laws that are still in place.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Before and even through the 1880’s the age of sexual consent was 10 years old and in Delaware age 7. It was not till 1889 that is was raised to 16.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Still on books: </div><div class="MsoNormal">Rumble Virginia- Must have lights off </div><div class="MsoNormal">Florida - illegal to handle a women’s breast eve r </div><div class="MsoNormal">Washington DC. Only missionary position is allowed.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Indiana and Utah. Erection that shows through clothing is illegal.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">Info taken from Video: “The Surprising History of Sex and love” @ http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/surprising-history-sex-love/<br><br><span style="color: black;">***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits. </span>
</div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417412011-07-12T17:36:00-04:002013-08-06T12:20:39-04:00Episode 7-Interesting Sex Facts<div class="MsoNormal">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%;">Interesting Sex facts</span></b><br><br><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Compiled By Christie LaValley for Under the Covers on ipmnation.com<span style="color: black;"> <br>***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits.</span></i></div>
<br><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">On </span><a href="http://www.mensfitness.com/advice/sex-tips/interesting-facts-about-sex"><span style="line-height: 115%;">http://www.mensfitness.com/advice/sex-tips/interesting-facts-about-sex</span></a></span></b>
</div>Not going out as much? 32% percent of men say they are masturbating more since the recession.<br>— Sex-related entertainment (porn mags or videos, strip clubs, escort services, phone sex, sexting, etc.) has taken the plunge with the economy: Forty-two percent of guys cut it from their budget entirely.<br>— Women are having sex 17% more often than the average guy.<br>— One in three men and women are completely satisfied with their sex life. (Alas, the same number of both sexes think their sex life could drastically improve.)<br>Not going out as much? 32% percent of men say they are masturbating more since the recession.<br>— Sex-related entertainment (porn mags or videos, strip clubs, escort services, phone sex, sexting, etc.) has taken the plunge with the economy: Forty-two percent of guys cut it from their budget entirely.<br>— Women are having sex 17% more often than the average guy.<br>— One in three men and women are completely satisfied with their sex life. (Alas, the same number of both sexes think their sex life could drastically improve.)<br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 4;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Did You Know?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>— The average American man's erect penis is five to seven inches long with a circumference of four to six inches, according to The Kinsey Institute.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>— 46% of women would give up getting laid for two weeks rather than logging off the Internet for the same amount of time, according to a survey conducted by Intel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>— Want the ultimate orgasm? Abstain from any sexual activity at all for three weeks. That's the amount of time it takes for your testosterone levels to peak and boost your libido, according to a study published in the <i>World Journal of Urology</i>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>— There are 500-1,000 deaths per year from autoerotic asphyxiation. that's equal to the numbers of murders in New York City each year.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.mensfitness.com/advice/sex-tips/interesting-facts-about-sex">http://www.mensfitness.com/advice/sex-tips/interesting-facts-about-sex</a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Here are 11 facts that just might surprise you: found on </b><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/">http://www.foxnews.com</a><b> </b></span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">1. When it comes to online porn, men are 6 times more likely than women to seek it out.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Why? Likely because men are more stimulated by the visual whereas women often prefer erotica where their imagination can fill in the blanks.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">2. If getting down involves being tied up, the man is most often the one bound.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Why? Studies say that it’s because men spend most of the time needing to be the ones in control. So, relinquishing that control is the turn on.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">3. According to Alfred Kinsey’s “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,” 81 percent of men say they have experienced nocturnal emissions.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Why? That’s an easy one. Men dream about sex. Women do as well. There are just fewer statistics on the subject because, according to Planned Parenthood, there is less “evidence” to research. (This lack of “evidence” may also be why research tells us that men average 11 erections a day and nine per night. But we don’t have comparable stats for women).</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">4. The most popular flavor of edible underwear is cherry. The least popular is chocolate.</span><span style='font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 10.5pt;'> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"></span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Why? This one has me stumped too. Personal preference, I suppose. But a survey of sex shop owners came up with this little factoid. And they certainly would be the experts on that count.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">5. According to the books, in Fairbanks, Alaska, it’s illegal for moose to have sex on the city sidewalks.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Why? It’s dangerous to passersby, as you can imagine. The problem is enforcement, as you can also imagine.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">6. Having sex can make a woman look younger and more attractive.</span><span style='font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 10.5pt;'> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"></span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Why? The experts agree: When a woman has sex, she produces amounts of the hormone estrogen, which gives a shine to the hair and a smoothness to the skin. Increased blood flow means a flush of the cheek and even a pout of the lips. And because sex also increases the production of collagen, having sex can ward off age spots and sagging. Some even call sex the real fountain of youth.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">7. You could say healthy sperm is a hard core athlete with serious staying power. It takes a sperm one hour to swim seven inches. Although ejaculate travels at 28 miles per hour during its initial spurt. (For reference, 27.1 mph is the world record for the 100 yard dash).</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Why? To get the job done, of course. Sperm are on a mission to fertilize, so the heartier the better. Not to mention the more the merrier. Did you know that studies show that throughout a man’s lifetime he will ejaculate approximately 18 quarts of semen. (That’s half a trillion sperm.)</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">8. Having a Ph.D. makes a woman twice as likely to be interested in a one-night stand as her Bachelor degree holding counterparts.</span><span style='font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 10.5pt;'> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"></span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Why? Well, some argue it’s because she’s not worried about him ever buying the cow, if you follow the metaphor. A woman with a Ph.D. doesn’t need to use her milk to get a man in order to support herself, she’s got a degree to help her make the big bucks. So, sex can be about pleasure for women in the same way in can for men.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">9. Fourteen percent of men and 60 percent of women say they did not enjoy sex the first time.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Why? Well, the disparity likely comes from the fact that women have historically and unnecessarily felt guilty about having sex for the first time, a feeling most men do not have. It is also a result of women not knowing what to expect since the topic of sex was, for a long time, concerned improper for women. Then there’s the issue of not having a partner who is able to please her since the old in and out doesn’t work for a woman the way it does for a man.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">10. More women talk dirty during sex than men, according to Playboy Magazine.</span><span style='font-family: "MS Mincho"; font-size: 10.5pt;'> </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"></span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Why? Women like the auditory simulation much like men like the visual. Studies show that women find pleasure in talking dirty and doing it inspires their partner to do the same, which they also find arousing.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">11. Although no one can agree on an exact number, a noteworthy percentage of women have said, when surveyed, that they prefer chocolate to sex.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Why? Research has shown that the same chemical that causes the ecstatic highs in sex, phenylethylamine, is also found in chocolate. And eating chocolate as opposed to having sex means, as the saying goes never having to say you’re sorry…</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">We may never have the complete picture when it comes to sex. That is, unless truth serum becomes a mandatory cocktail. Until then, it’s interesting to consider the facts and figures we can gather about the one thing that we all seem to know both everything and nothing about.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">Jenny Block is a freelance writer based in Dallas. She is the author of "Open: Love, Sex, and Life in an Open Marriage." Her work appears in "One Big Happy Family," edited by Rebecca Walker and "It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters," edited by Andrea Buchanan. Visit her website at </span><a href="http://www.jennyonthepage.com/"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">www.jennyonthepage.com </span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">or check out her blog at </span><a href="http://jennyonthepage.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;">http://jennyonthepage.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="font-size: 10.5pt;"></span><br><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: black;"><br>Read more: </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/10/21/surprising-sex-facts/#ixzz1RQ3rCaSf"><span style="color: #003399;">http://www.foxnews.com/health/2010/10/21/surprising-sex-facts/#ixzz1RQ3rCaSf</span></a>
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">On Random history.com</span></b></span></div><ol start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">During 30 minutes of active sex, the average person burns approximately 200 calories.<sup>e</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">On average, adult men think about sex every seven seconds.<sup>e</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Having sex at least once per week can lower a man’s risk of <a href="http://facts.randomhistory.com/heart-disease-facts.html">heart disease</a> by 30%, stroke by 50%, and <a href="http://facts.randomhistory.com/facts-about-diabetes.html">diabetes</a> by 40%. It has also been shown that men with an active sex life are more likely to live past 80 years.<sup>f</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">The average size of an erect penis measures between 5 and 6 inches, while the average size of a flaccid penis is about 3.5 inches.<sup>e</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">The sperm count of the average American male in 2008 was down nearly 30% from the sperm count of an average American male 30 years ago.<sup>h</sup>
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<span style='color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;'>Viagra was released in 1998 with over $411 million in profits within its first three months</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Viagra, the well-known blue pill designed to help with erectile dysfunction, made $411 million in profits within the first three months of its release in 1998 before going on to make $1.8 billion in 2003.<sup>g</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Use of the condom was first noted in published literature in the early 1500s. The device was originally made of linen, and historians believe the legendary lover Casanova used linen condoms.<sup>a</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Historical records show that even in 1850 B.C., women attempted to practice birth control. The most common method was a mixture of crocodile dung and honey placed in the vagina in the hopes of preventing pregnancy.<sup>a</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Although nearly any body part or item of clothing may be an object of sexual fetishism, the shoe and the foot are the two most common fetishes in Western society.<sup>e</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Just a decade ago, only 25% of women reported experiencing orgasm as a result of intercourse. In recent years, this number has risen to about 45%. In contrast, over 80% of women report experiencing orgasm though oral sex.<sup>e</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">The vibrator, a common sex toy for women, was originally designed in the nineteenth century as a medication to combat the anxiety-related symptoms of “hysteria” (now known as <a href="http://facts.randomhistory.com/random-facts-about-menstruation.html">menstruation</a>).<sup>a</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Homosexuality was listed as a mental illness with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) until 1973. It has since been removed and is now considered an orientation by the APA instead of an illness.<sup>h</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Throughout the United States, approximately 4% of the population self-identifies as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.<sup>h</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Approximately 1% of people worldwide identify as asexual (having no strong sexual attraction to either sex).<sup>b</sup>
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<span style='color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;'>One in five Americans has been sexually involved with a coworker</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Statistics suggest that approximately one in every five Americans has indulged in sex with a colleague at work.<sup>e</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Approximately 70% of people in the U.S. admit to fantasizing about group sex at some point in their life, and more than 50% of those people actually follow through.<sup>e</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Nearly one in four Americans (65 millions people) are currently living with an incurable <a href="http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/09/07_std.html">sexually transmitted disease</a> (STD).<sup>i</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">During 2007, more than 2.5 million people worldwide became infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. With these new cases, there are now 33 million people living with AIDS throughout the world.<sup>i</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Since AIDS was first diagnosed in 1981, more than 25 million people have died as a result of the virus. Two million people died from AIDS in the year 2007 alone.<sup>i</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">The average male produces several million new sperm daily. Conversely, a female is born with a finite amount of eggs and will produce no more than that throughout her lifetime.<sup>f</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Statistics show that approximately 90% of men and 65% of women masturbate from time to time.<sup>e</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Worldwide, 27.5% of women report that they felt pressured into having sex for the first time compared to 15% of men reporting the same feelings.<sup>c</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">According to a 2007 worldwide sex survey, the average age when people first have sex is 19.25. The survey also found that people in Asian countries tended to lose their virginity at a much later age (an average of 22) than those in Western cultures (an average of 18).<sup>c</sup>
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<span style='color: #333333; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 115%;'>The car is second only to the bedroom as a favorite place to have sex</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.<sup>c</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">The average couple spends about 20 minutes engaged in sexual foreplay prior to intercourse.<sup>e</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Worldwide, sexually active adults report having sex an average of 103 times per year. This number is down from an average of 127 times per year in 2003.<sup>d</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">One report states that 48% of women have faked an orgasm at least once in their life. Interestingly, an identical 48% of men also report faking an orgasm at least once.<sup>d</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Throughout the world, approximately 25% of people report having had only one sexual partner. Conversely, 21% of people report having more than 10 sexual partners in their lifetime.<sup>d</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">One survey reports that 53% of sexually active Americans claim to have sex at least once weekly. However, only 48% of Americans report being satisfied with their sex life.<sup>c</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Many of the ingredients in chocolate are proven to cause arousal similar in effect to sexual foreplay. In fact, some experts believe chocolate may be even more effective than foreplay for sexual arousal.<sup>a</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Both men and women can be turned on by the aromas of <a href="http://facts.randomhistory.com/2009/08/21_wine.html">wine</a>. The scents of many wines are believed to replicate human pheromones, the chemical substances that cause behavioral responses in humans.<sup>a</sup>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">Endorphins released during sexual activity create a euphoria similar to that produced by opioid drug use. These same endorphins also act as extremely effective pain killers.<sup>f</sup>
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</ol><div align="right" style="text-align: right;"><i>-- Posted January 10, 2009</i></div><b>References</b><br><sup>a</sup> Baker, JoAnn and Erica Orloff. 2001. <i>Dirty Little Secrets: True Tales and Twisted Trivia about Sex.</i> New York, NY: MacMillan Publishing Company, Inc.<br><sup>b</sup> Bogaert, Anthony F. 2004. “Asexuality: Prevalence and Associated Factors in a National Probability Sample.” <i>The Journal of Sex Research, </i>Vol. 41.<br><sup>c</sup> Durex. “The The Face of Global Sex 2007.“ Accessed: January 9, 2009.<br><sup>d</sup> Durex. “The Global Sex Survey 2005.“ Accessed: December 23, 2008.<br><sup>e</sup> Kanner, Bernice. 2005. <i>Are You Normal About Sex, Love, and Relationships? La Vergne, TN: </i>Lightning Source, Inc.<br><sup>f</sup> Keesling, Barbara. 2000. <i>Rx Sex: Making Love Is the Best Medicine. Alameda, CA: </i>Hunter House, Inc.<br><sup>g</sup> Kick, Russ, ed. 2006. <i>Everything You Know about Sex Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to the Extremes of Human Sexuality (and Everything in between).</i> New York, NY: The Disinformation Company Ltd.<br><sup>h</sup> Laumann, Edward O., John H. Gagnon, Robert T. Michael, and Stuart Michaels. 1995. <i>Sex in America</i>. New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing.<br><div class="MsoNormal">
<sup>i</sup> UNAIDS. “<a href="http://www.unaids.org/en/KnowledgeCentre/HIVData/GlobalReport/2008/2008_Global_report.asp" target="_blank">2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic</a>.” Accessed: December 28, 2008.<br><br>
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<span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;">10</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Weightloss <b><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";'>Fascinating Fact:</span></b> Sexual acts lead to weight loss</span>
</div><span style="font-size: small;">The average human loses 26 calories when kissing for a minute. Furthermore, vigorous sex for half an hour burns 150 calories (you can lose three pounds in a year – if you have sex 7 to 8 times a month). Kissing is also very good for your teeth: the extra saliva released during the act helps to keep the mouth clean – reducing the risk of decay.</span><br><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6226418854158660871" name="item-9"></a></span><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;">9</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Pubic Wigs <b><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";'>Fascinating Fact:</span></b> In Victorian times, whores wore pubic wigs</span>
</div><span style="font-size: small;">The pubic wig (merkin) has been around since the 1400s when it was originally worn by women who had shaved their pubic hair off to prevent lice. In the Victorian times it was frequently worn by prostitutes who wanted to conceal the fact that they had diseases like syphilis (Honest – we aren’t merkin’ this up). They are also used in the film industry to conceal actors genitals in nude scenes</span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6226418854158660871" name="item-8"></a><a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/merkin.jpg"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;"><img src="file:/C:/Users/Christie/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image005.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="Merkin" height="276" width="171" /></span></a><a href="http://listverse.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/800px-condom_1900.jpg"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;"><img src="file:/C:/Users/Christie/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image006.jpg" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="800Px-Condom 1900" height="168" width="400" /></span></a></span><br><div class="MsoNormal">
<span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;">8</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Condoms <b><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";'>Fascinating Fact:</span></b> Condoms were originally made of animal intestines or linen</span>
</div><span style="font-size: small;">In Asia before the fifteenth century, some use of glans condoms (devices covering only the head of the penis) is recorded. In China, glans condoms may have been made of oiled silk paper, or of lamb intestines. In Japan, they were made of tortoise shell or animal horn (ouch). In the 16th century, condoms were often made with linen sheaths soaked in a chemical solution and allowed to dry before use. The cloths were sized to cover the glans of the penis, and were held on with a ribbon. Pictured above is an animal intestine condom from the early 1900s.</span><br><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6226418854158660871" name="item-7"></a></span><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;">7</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Not Tonight Josephine- <b><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";'>Fascinating Fact:</span></b> Sex cures headaches</span>
</div><span style="font-size: small;">Next time your significant other refuses your advances by claiming to have a headache, remember this fact: the sex act can help to cure a headache. Sex causes the body to release endorphins which naturally reduce the pain of a headache.</span><br><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6226418854158660871" name="item-6"></a></span><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;">6</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Skin Care <b><span style='font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";'>Fascinating Fact:</span></b> Sperm is good for the skin</span>
</div><span style="font-size: small;">The proteins in sperm have a tightening effect on the skin. When sperm is left to dry, the evaporation of the water in it leaves behind protein which can help to reduce wrinkles. While this may be an excellent anti-aging treatment, the obvious downside is that you have to walk around with sperm on your face.</span><span class="msoIns" style="font-size: small;"><ins></ins></span><br><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6226418854158660871" name="item-5"></a></span><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">5</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Pubic Hair</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'> <b><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></b></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><b><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Fascinating Fact:</span></span></b></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins>Pubic hair is programmed to grow a certain amount</ins></span></span></u></span>
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">All hair on the body is controlled by a “growth program” which determines the growth duration (and consequently the length) of hair. Pubic hair has a shorter growth duration (on average just a few months) compared to hair on the head. This is what stops pubic hair growing to unmanageable lengths.</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span><br><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6226418854158660871" name="item-4"></a></span><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">4</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Blowsy Gal</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'> <b><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></b></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><b><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Fascinating Fact:</span></span></b></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins>The term “blow job” comes from the Victorian times</ins></span></span></u></span>
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">In Victorian times, a slang term for a prostitute was “blowsy”. At the same time, “blow” was slang for ejaculation. Consequently, by the 1930s, the act of fellatio came to be known as a blow job. It was also used to describe jet planes in World War Two. In Ancient Greece, the common slang for a blow job was “playing the flute”.</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span><br><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6226418854158660871" name="item-3"></a></span><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">3</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Male Porn</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'> <b><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></b></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><b><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Fascinating Fact:</span></span></b></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins>Men looking at male porn produce more sperm</ins></span></span></u></span>
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Studies have shown that men who looked at porn of two men and one woman produced more sperm than those who looked at just women. Scientists speculate that seeing competition makes men step up their baby-making capacities.</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span><br><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6226418854158660871" name="item-2"></a></span><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">2</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Sex For Fun</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'> <b><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></b></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><b><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Fascinating Fact:</span></span></b></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins>Humans aren’t the only creatures to have sex for fun.</ins></span></span></u></span>
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Humans aren’t the only members of the animal kingdom that have sex just for fun. Dolphins and Bonobo chimps have also been observed engaging in sexual activity, when they are not in their natural reproductive cycles. With the exception of a pair of Cohan gorillas observed doing so, bonobos are the only non-human animal to have been observed engaging in all of the following sexual activities: face-to-face genital sex, tongue kissing, and oral sex. When Bonobos come upon a new food source or feeding ground, the increased excitement will usually lead to communal sexual activity, presumably decreasing tension and allowing for peaceful feeding. Interestingly, Bonobo chimps also play and experience joy like humans.</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><br></span><br><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6226418854158660871" name="item-1"></a></span><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span class="itemnumber" style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">1</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Animal Prostitution</span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'> <b><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></b></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><b><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Fascinating Fact:</span></span></b></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins>Some female penguins engage in prostitution</ins></span></span></u></span>
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><ins></ins></span></span></u></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns">Believe it or not, in the wild, certain female penguins (even when in a committed relationship) will exchange sexual favors with strange males for the pebbles they need to build their nests. According to Dr Fiona Hunter (a zoologist): “It tends to be females targeting single males, otherwise the partner female would beat the intruder up.” On some occasions the prostitute penguins trick the males. They carry out the elaborate courtship ritual, which usually leads to mating. Having bagged their stone, they would then run off. [<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/60302.stm">Source</a>]</span></span></u></span><br><br><span style="color: black;">***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits. </span><u><span style='font-family: "Cambria","serif";'><span class="msoIns"><br></span></span></u>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417422011-07-05T22:19:00-04:002017-01-11T08:08:28-05:00Episode 1-Herpes<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> Herpes Simplex Type 1 and 2 </h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title">
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mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--> </h3><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Researched By Christie LaValley for Under the Covers on ipmnation.com<span style="color: black;"> <br>***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits.</span></i></div><div class="post-header"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;'><br></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Herpes simplex viruses -- more commonly known as herpes -- are categorized into two types: herpes type 1 (HSV-1, or oral herpes) and herpes type 2 (HSV-2, or genital herpes). Most commonly, herpes type 1 causes sores around the mouth and lips (sometimes called fever blisters or cold sores). HSV-1 can cause genital herpes, but most cases of genital herpes are caused by herpes type 2. In HSV-2, the infected person may have sores around the genitals or rectum. Although HSV-2 sores may occur in other locations, these sores usually are found below the waist.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Amazingly, under a microscope, HSV- 1 and 2 are virtually identical. They share approximately 50% of their DNA. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Both types infect the body's mucosal surfaces, usually the mouth or genitals, and then establishes residence in the nervous system. The primary difference between the two viral types is in where they typically establish residence in the body. Both Types of Herpes have a </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> "site of preference." HSV-1 usually establishes residence the trigeminal ganglion, a collection of nerve cells near the ear. From there, it tends to recur on the lower lip or face. HSV-2 usually sets up residence in the sacral ganglion at the base of the spine. From there, it recurs in the genital area . But not everyone who gets the herpes simplex virus develops cold sores. In some people, the virus stays dormant (asleep) permanently.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How common is it? </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The disease is very common. According to Wikipedia</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Worldwide rates of HSV infection are between 65% and 90%.<sup id="cite_ref-Peds09_0-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-Peds09-0">]</a></sup> HSV1 is more common than HSV2 with rates of both increasing as people age.<sup id="cite_ref-Peds09_0-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-Peds09-0">]</a></sup> Rates of infection are determined by the presence of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibodies" title="Antibodies">antibodies</a> against either viral species.<sup id="cite_ref-pmid12353183_62-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-pmid12353183-62">[</a></sup></span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">In the US, 57.7% of the population is infected with HSV-1<sup id="cite_ref-JAMA._2006.3B296:964-973._63-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-JAMA._2006.3B296:964-973.-63">[64]</a></sup> and 16.2% are infected with HSV-2. Among those HSV-2 positive, only 18.9% were aware that they were infected. About 1 million new cases are reported every year. Millions more likely go unreported.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> About one in five U.S. adults and teens have had a genital herpes infection -- and most don’t know it.. Genital herpes is a chronic, lifelong viral infection. At least 50 million persons in the United States have genital HSV infection. One out of four teens in the United States becomes infected with an</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> STD each year and by the age of 25, half of all sexually active young adults will get an STD. Women are more susceptible to herpes.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">STDs can increase the risk of HIV. People with genital herpes have at least twice the risk of becoming infected with HIV if exposed to it than those without it. Read more about herpes and HIV infection. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What Causes Herpes Infections and Outbreaks?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Herpes simplex type 1, through sores on the skin, can be spread through kissing or sharing objects such as toothbrushes or eating utensils. In general, a person can only get herpes type 2 infection during sexual contact with someone who has a genital HSV-2 infection. It is important to know that both HSV-1 and HSV-2 can be spread even if sores are not present.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pregnant women with genital herpes should talk to their doctor as genital herpes can be passed on to the baby during childbirth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some things that can trigger (wake up) the virus and cause attacks (or outbreaks) of herpes can be brought on by the following conditions:</span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">General illness (from mild illnesses to serious conditions)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Fatigue</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Physical or emotional stress</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Immunosuppression due to AIDS or such medications as chemotherapy or steroids</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Trauma to the affected area, including sexual activity</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Menstruation</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sun exposure</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Surgery</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Extreme Heat</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What Are the Symptoms of Herpes Simplex?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">When Herpes wakes up it will leave its home in the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">ganglion and follow the nervous system to a weakened nerve cell on the skin.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> As it leave the ganglion it will send out signals it is coming.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">It can stimulate the neurons along the cytoskeletal highway, engendering a tingling sensation. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">This is known as prodrome.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Prodrome</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <br>A warning sign (prodrome) is experienced by many people in recurring outbreaks. Warning symptoms which indicate the virus is becoming active, and is on its way to the skin's surface may include: </span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">itching</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">tingling</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">numbness</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">burning</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">general fatigue</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">flu-like symptoms</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">fever</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">swelling of the lymph nodes in the area of outbreak</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">headache</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">painful urination</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">pain in the buttocks, back of legs, lower back</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Weakened Nerve Cells under the skin- The infected area </b>i</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">s usually painful and may itch, burn or tingle, during the outbreak. Symptoms of herpes simplex virus typically appear as a blister or as multiple blisters on or around affected areas -- usually the mouth, genitals, or rectum. The blisters break, leaving tender sores.<b> </b></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">The first episode is usually the most severe as most people have not been exposed to the virus before and antibodies will not have been produced to trigger the immune response. When the herpes virus gets into skin cells it reproduces itself and starts to multiply, making the skin red and sensitive. Blisters or bumps may appear on the area of contact, the blisters first opening, then healing with the regeneration of new skin tissue</span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">usually develop within 2 to 20 days after contact</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">could continue up to 2 weeks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">may be so mild it goes unnoticed</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">may take longer or be less severe in some people, especially in those with partial immunity to the virus from having another form of herpes</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">the first attack sometimes causes visible sores</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">last between 10 - 21 days</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Other symptoms include:</b></span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">swollen lymph glands </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">painful inflamed blisters develop around infected area </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">headache </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">muscle ache </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">fever </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">vaginal or penis discharge </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">infection of the urethra causing a burning sensation during urination</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a burning sensation in the genitals </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">lower back pain</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">small red bumps may appear in the genital area following earlier symptoms, later developing into painful blisters, which crust over, form a scab, and heal.</span></li>
</ul><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How is Herpes Spread?</span></b></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Herpes is spread by direct skin to skin contact. Unlike other viruses that you can get through the air, herpes spreads by only by direct contact. For example, if you have a cold sore and kiss someone, you can transfer the virus to their mouth. Likewise, if you have active genital herpes and have vaginal or anal intercourse, you can give your partner genital herpes. Finally, if you have a cold sore and have oral sex by putting your mouth on your partner’s genitals, you can give your partner genital herpes. </span></div><div class="style12" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When Is Herpes Most Likely To Be Spread?</span></b></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Herpes is most easily spread when a sore is present, but, it is also spread at other times too. Some people notice itching, tingling or other sensations before they see anything on their skin. These are called "Prodromal Symptoms" and they warn that virus may be present on the skin. Herpes is most likely to be spread from the time these first symptoms are noticed until the area is completely healed and the skin looks normal again. Sexual contact (oral, vaginal, or anal) is very risky during this time.</span></div><div class="style12" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Can Herpes Be Transmitted Without Symptoms? <b>Yes! </b>Sometimes those who know they are infected spread the virus between outbreaks, when no signs or symptoms are present. This is called "Asymptomatic Transmission."</span><br><span style="font-size: x-small;">Research also shows that herpes simplex infections are spread by people who don't know they are infected. These people may have symptoms so mild they don't notice them at all or else don't recognize them as herpes. 60% of infected people do not know they are infected. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Due to this is are much safer in a relationship with infected person who is familiar with their body and are educated with STDs, then with someone who is uneducated with STDs.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How easily Herpes Spread?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Most people with genital herpes are just as concerned about transmission-the likelihood of spreading the virus to a partner-as about their own health. On the other hand, few people with oral herpes, share this concern. Is this because one type is more contagious than the other?</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">No!!! Both viral types are easily transmitted to their site of preference, and can also be spread to other sites. Both are most contagious during active outbreaks, but are may be spread through viral shedding when there are no recognizable symptoms. According to Spruance, people with recurrent oral HSV-1 shed virus in their saliva about 5% of the time even when they show no symptoms. In the first year of infection, people with genital HSV-2 shed virus from the genital area about 6-10% of days when they show no symptoms, and less often over time. (Both of these figures reflect shedding as detected by viral culture.)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> In other words, The longer someone has had herpes the less likely they are to have a shedding period.</span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">However, possible transmission gets more complicated. Acquisition of one type is more difficult-though certainly possible-if you already have the other type. This is because either type, contracted orally or genitally, causes the body to produce antibodies, some of which are active against both HSV-1 and 2. This acquired immune response gives some limited protection if the body encounters a second type. When a person with a prior HSV infection does contract the second type, the first episode tends to be less severe than when there are no prior antibodies present.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">This means oral HSV-1 is often the most easily acquired herpes infection. Usually the first herpes simplex virus that people encounter, oral HSV-1, is typically spread simply by the kind of social kiss that a relative gives a child. Because children have no prior infection with any HSV type, they have no immune defense against the virus.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">By the time they're teenagers or young adults, about 50% of Americans have HSV-1 antibodies in their blood. By the time they are over age 50, some 80-90% of Americans have HSV-1 antibodies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How Is Herpes Simplex Diagnosed?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Often, the appearance of herpes simplex virus is typical and no testing is needed to confirm the diagnosis. If a health care provider is uncertain, herpes simplex can be diagnosed with laboratory tests, including DNA -- or PCR -- tests and virus cultures.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How Painful Is Herpes Simplex?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some people experience very mild genital herpes symptoms or no symptoms at all. Frequently, people infected with the virus don't even know they have it. However, when it causes symptoms, it can be described as painful. This is especially true for the first outbreak, which is often the worst. Outbreaks are described as aches or pains in or around the genital area or burning, pain, or difficulty urinating. Some people experience discharge from the vagina or penis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Oral herpes lesions (cold sores) usually cause tingling and burning just prior to the breakout of the blisters. The blisters themselves can also be painful.</span></div><br><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How often does one have an outbreak?</span></b></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Just how much of a physical problem HSV poses for a person depends largely on three factors: </span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The first is how well the person's immune system is able to control the infection. Differences in immune response may be the main reason that some people are plagued by frequent cold sores or genital herpes outbreaks while others are not. It's also the reason that both HSV-1 and 2 can pose serious challenges for infants, who have a limited immune response; as well as for </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> people with compromised immune systems, including people with cancer, AIDS, severe burns, and people taking immunosuppressant medications.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The second factor affecting outbreaks is how long a person has had the infection. Over time, recurrences of both HSV- 1 and 2 tend to decrease, for reasons that aren't entirely clear. In the case of oral HSV-1, many of the approximately 100 million Americans acquired the virus when they were children. By the time they're adults, only some 5% of people are bothered enough to consider oral HSV-1 a medical problem, according to Spruance. Almost all of the approximately 40 million Americans infected with HSV-2 acquired the virus as teenagers or young adults. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> For those with HSV 2, those who have recurring outbreaks experience an average of four to six episodes in the first year. Over time, as with oral infections, the number of outbreaks usually drops off.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The third factor that affects </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> the frequency of HSV -1 and 2 outbreaks is whether the virus is took up” home” in its site of preference. While either HSV </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> type can infect both genital and oral areas, both types cause milder infections when they are away from "home" territory. When not making “home” in their site of preference, both type 1 and 2 seem to </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> lose most of their punch. For example, most people infected with HSV-1 in the genital area have few, if any, outbreaks after the initial episode, far fewer than is typical with either oral HSV-1 or genital HSV-2. While experts estimate that some 30% of genital herpes infections in the United States may be caused by HSV-1, only 2- 5% of recurring genital outbreaks are caused by HSV-1. Research conducted by Lawrence Corey, MD, and colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle shows that genital HSV-2 recurs 10 times more often than genital HSV-1.</span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">According to a study by Wald et al. (New England Journal of Medicine, 1995), among 110 women with genital herpes, the average number of recurrences per year for those with genital HSV-1 was zero. Other studies have shown an average of about one outbreak per year (Benedetti, Annals of Internal Medicine, 1994).</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Similarly, HSV-2 infection in the oral area-outside its site of preference-very rarely causes problems. First of all, oral, HSV-2 infections are rare, for reasons discussed below. But even when an infection occurs, recurrent outbreaks are uncommon. In one study (Lafferty et al., New England Journal of Medicine, 1987), oral HSV-2 recurred an average of 0.01 times a year in newly infected people. "I've never convincingly seen an oral type 2 recurrence," says Spruance.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">A possible fourth factor affecting recurrence rate is viral type. According to the Lafferty study, genital HSV-2 infections were the most frequently recurring herpes infections, followed by oral HSV-1, genital HSV-1, and last of all, oral HSV-2.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Social Views of Herpes </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">When an infected person first tells someone they have genital herpes, they may start by comparing the infection to oral herpes, or cold sores. Despite of scientific facts, the social stigma and negative emotional attitudes when dealing with genital herpes can make it hard to compare it objectively with an oral infection that most people casually accept. Viewing herpes with the negative assumptions of our society, many still believe there is a "good" herpes virus-HSV- 1, the usual cause of cold sores-and a "bad" herpes virus-HSV-2, the usual cause of genital herpes.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">However this is not an absolute. Either type can reside in either or both parts of the body and infect oral and/or genital areas. Unfortunately, many people aren't aware of this, which contributes both to the spread of type 1 and to the misperception that the two types are somehow different.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">"People don't understand that you can have type 1 genitally or orally, that the two types are essentially the same virus,' says Marshall Clover, manager of the National Herpes Hotline." One type is associated with stigma, the other is "'just a cold sore"- our society has a euphemism for it so we don't even have to acknowledge that it's herpes. </span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">While HSV is frustrating and can be a painful condition for some people, in general the virus is less a medical problem than a social problem. For most of us, genital herpes is no more dangerous than a cold sore. However, whether we like it or not, there is </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> social prejudice </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> that is a reality against someone with genital herpes, no matter which virus causes it, "People have more trouble explaining to a new partner that they have genital herpes, even if it's HSV- 1, than if they have a cold sore," says Glover. "Just saying the word "genital" is like an anvil that pulls the sentence down".</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">For people who have trouble dealing with social attitudes toward genital herpes, the blatant double standard society applies to oral herpes can be frustrating, to say the least, but can send many of its infected into isolation, depression or to suicide. Realistically</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> though after reading about HSV, wouldn’t</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> it better to have this disease in your pants than on your face? Understand if others seem freaked by you without taking it personally.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Can Herpes Be Cured?</span> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">There is no cure for herpes simplex. Once a person has the virus, it remains in the body. The virus lies inactive in the nerve cells of the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">trigeminal or sacral ganglion</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> until something triggers it to become active again</span>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Prevention:</span></span> </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ways to Reduce Your Risk </span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: x-small;">1. Use a condom every time you have sex.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">A <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-condoms">condom</a> may protect you from the <a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/default.htm">herpes</a> virus if it covers the infected area. Male condoms offer good protection, only if the infected area on the male is covered or contact with the infected area on the female is prevented. Female condoms may offer better protection as they cover a larger area. Protection is lost if a condom slips or breaks and contact is made with the infected.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> If you touch an infected area, immediately was the area that came in contact with the sores.</span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: x-small;">2. Ask your partner if he or she has ever had a sexually transmitted disease.</span>
</h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Most people who have genital herpes don't know they're infected, so ask whether he or she has had any other sexually transmitted disease. People with a history of <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/default.htm">STDs</a> are more likely to have genital herpes.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">It may be awkward, but it's important to be honest with each other. Your partner may be afraid to tell you the truth if he or she fears a negative reaction. If your partner feels comfortable talking with you, you'll be more likely to get straight answers.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: x-small;">3. Ask your partner about his or her sexual history.</span>
</h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Someone who has had many sexual partners is more likely to be infected with the herpes virus.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: x-small;">4. Limit the number of sexual partners you have.</span>
</h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">The fewer sexual partners you have in your lifetime, the less likely you are to be exposed to the herpes virus.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: x-small;">5. Look with your eyes. Have sex in the light</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Don’t go in blind.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> There is nothing wrong with relishing and looking your partner over for possible issues.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> You will both thank yourself later.</span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: x-small;">6. Don't receive oral sex from somebody with a cold sore or without STD Testing.</span>
</h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Oral Herpes which causes sores on the mouth, can be passed to the genitals through oral sex. Plus, who wants gonorrhea of the mouth </span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: x-small;">7. Ask your partner to be tested for STDs.</span>
</h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you think your partner is at high risk for genital herpes and other STDs, you may consider asking him or her to be tested. In that case, you should be tested, too.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: x-small;">8. Don't have sex while intoxicated.</span>
</h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Alcohol and illicit drugs lower inhibitions and impair judgment. People tend to be less careful about practicing safer sex while intoxicated and they often regret it later.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: x-small;">9. Wait to have sex.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The only way to be 100% certain you won't get a sexually transmitted disease is to have just one sex partner who has no STDs -- and only if both of you stay monogamous for life.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Plus the earlier you have sex the more likely you are to contact herpes or another STD.</span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: x-small;">10. Try alternate forms of sexual intimacy.</span>
</h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you don't want to be monogamous or totally celibate until you find a life partner, you could greatly reduce your risk of getting a sexually transmitted disease by doing things that don't involve genital-genital contact or oral-genital contact, such as mutual masturbation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: x-small;"> You ultimately decide what you are willing to deal with. Make an educated choice.</span></div><h2 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">What to Do if Your Partner Has Genital Herpes?</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Getting information on genital herpes is one way to deal with your feelings. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">A partner who has genital <a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/default.htm">herpes</a> needs your support and acceptance. The only way you can do that is to be truly educated. It took a lot of courage for your partner to tell you, and it means he or she cares about your well-being, health, and values your trust. They are telling you because you are special to them or they love you.. A good loving partner never wants to share this part of themselves with you. A person who tells you has integrity. They want you to be safe and to trust them with your life. Telling you is the ultimate sacrifice. For yes, you could reject them. And it is your right. Sometimes, as stated on other Herpes website "No good deed goes unpunished" is often a harsh fact of life. But if you care for this person at all, don't let it be that way in your relationship. Of course, your feelings and concerns matter, too. If you're uncomfortable with the idea of having sex with your partner again, or becoming sexually intimate for the first time, you're entitled to feel that way.</span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">But instead of declaring the sexual part of your relationship is over or out of the question, think of ways you can be intimate without risking infection. You can reduce the risk of becoming infected through sexual intercourse by using <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-condoms">condoms</a> and avoiding sex when your partner has symptoms. There will always be some risk, even if you practice safer sex, but you can minimize it as much as possible.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Get Informed About Genital Herpes</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Educate yourself about genital herpes if your partner has not explained it to your satisfaction. You'll find out that it's not as serious as it may seem, and that people can and do have wonderful relationships </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> with great sex even though one of them has genital herpes.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sometimes people in long-term relationships suspect that their partner has been cheating when he or she is diagnosed. That's not necessarily true, so don't make that accusation. Your partner could have been infected years or decades before you met.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Remember some people never have an outbreak.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Also, consider the possibility that you gave your partner herpes. Millions of people live with genital herpes without having a clue that they're infected. In fact, health experts estimate that 60-90% of those who are infected in the United States don't know it. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> A herpes infection doesn't always cause obvious sores on the genitals. In many cases, it causes no noticeable symptoms. Health care professionals say that sex partners of people with herpes should be tested, as that is the only way to know for sure if they are infected or not.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/guide/20061101/mother-to-infant-herpes-transmission"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Reducing Baby’s Risk of Herpes Infection</span></a> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pregnant women with genital herpes should talk to their doctor as genital herpes can be passed on to the baby during childbirth .Delivering a baby via cesarean section can protect an infant from infection with the herpes simplex virus (HSV). Read more about the recommendations for cesarean section and herpes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How Is Herpes Simplex Treated?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Although there is no cure for herpes, treatments can relieve the symptoms. Medication can decrease the pain related to an outbreak and can shorten healing time. They can also decrease the total number of outbreaks. Drugs including Famvir, Zovirax, and Valtrex are among the medications used to treat the symptoms of herpes. Warm baths may relieve the pain associated with genital sores. There are many ways to treat the disease including: diet, medication, topical ointments, herbs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">First and foremost the disease should be treated by diet. It is possible to significantly reduce outbreaks by eating healthy, avoiding certain foods and taking vitamin supplements to support a healthy immune system.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Diet:</b></span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Avoid alcohol, processed foods, colas, white flour products, surgar refined carbohydrates, coffee, and drugs use. </span></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">The following vitamin supplements are recommended by the book <u>Prescription for Nutritional Healing</u>:</span></div><div align="center" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable"><tbody>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vitamin A</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">50,000 IU daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vitamin B</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">50mg or more 3 times daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vitamin C</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5,000 – 10,000mg</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vitamin E</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">600 IU daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Calcium</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1500 mg daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Magnesium</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">750 mg daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Medication:</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br>Consult your doctor about the appropriate course of medication for your circumstances. Your doctor will usually prescribe a treatment that follows the CDC recommedations. Their recommended course of treatment depends on whether or not this is the first episode, or a recurring episode. The CDC basic guidelines are as follows: </span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">First episode: Many patients with first-episode herpes present with mild clinical manifestations but later develop severe or prolonged symptoms. Therefore, most patients with initial genital herpes should receive antiviral therapy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">One of the following courses is chosen. </span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 400 mg orally three times a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OR Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 200 mg orally five times a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OR Famciclovir [Famvir] 250 mg orally three times a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OR Valacyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/products.php?sn=237?img=49&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Valtrex and Valacyclovir">Valtrex</a>] 1 g orally twice a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
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<b>According to Wikipedia the definition of AIDS/HIVis: “Acquired immune deficiency syndrome</b> or <b>acquired immunodeficiency syndrome</b> (<b>AIDS</b>) is a disease of the human <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system" title="Immune system">immune system</a> caused by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV" title="HIV">human immunodeficiency virus</a> (HIV).<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-pmid11396444-0">[1]</a></sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-1"><sup>[2]</sup></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-2"><sup>[3]</sup></a> This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunistic_infection" title="Opportunistic infection">opportunistic infections</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor" title="Tumor">tumors</a>. HIV is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_%28medicine%29" title="Transmission (medicine)">transmitted</a> through direct contact of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucous_membrane" title="Mucous membrane">mucous membrane</a> or the bloodstream with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodily_fluid" title="Bodily fluid">bodily fluid</a> containing HIV, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood" title="Blood">blood</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen" title="Semen">semen</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal_fluid" title="Vaginal fluid">vaginal fluid</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preseminal_fluid" title="Preseminal fluid">preseminal fluid</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_milk" title="Breast milk">breast milk</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-CDCtransmission-3"><sup>[4]</sup></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-sfaf-4"><sup>[5]</sup></a> This transmission can involve <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_sex" title="Anal sex">anal</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal_sex" title="Vaginal sex">vaginal</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_sex" title="Oral sex">oral</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse" title="Sexual intercourse">sex</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_transfusion" title="Blood transfusion">blood transfusion</a>, contaminated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodermic_needle" title="Hypodermic needle">hypodermic needles</a>, exchange between mother and baby during <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy" title="Pregnancy">pregnancy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childbirth" title="Childbirth">childbirth</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breastfeeding" title="Breastfeeding">breastfeeding</a> or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids". <b>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS</b><br><br>As of 2009, it is estimated that there are 33.3 million people worldwide living with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS" title="HIV/AIDS"><span style="color: #444444;">HIV/AIDS</span></a> . There are 2.6 million new infections per year and 1.8 million annual deaths due to AIDS<sup>. </sup>According to UNAIDS 2009 report, some 60 million people have been infected worldwide<sup>.</sup><br><br>Genetic research indicates that HIV originated in west-central Africa during the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. AIDS was first recognized by the U.S. in 1981 and its cause, HIV, identified in the early 1980s.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>After being exposed to Hiv and actually becoming infected one will often show signs within the first few weeks. However, </span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>one may have no signs or symptoms at all, although still able to transmit the virus to others. Many people may develop a short flu-like illness two to four weeks after becoming infected. Some of the signs and symptoms may include: </span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Headache</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Sore throat</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Swollen lymph glands</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Rash</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;'>When one should see a doctor</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Many illnesses start with this simple array of symptoms, so infection is often overlooked and one never believes that they could have become infected.<b> </b><br>If you think you may have been infected with HIV or are at risk of contracting the virus, seek medical counseling as soon as possible. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;'>HIV Progression to AIDS</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> When receiving no treatment for HIV infection, the disease typically progresses to AIDS in about 10 years. By the time AIDS develops, the immune system has been severely damaged, making one susceptible to opportunistic infection — diseases that wouldn't trouble a person with a healthy immune system. One may remain symptom-free for years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The term AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) applies to the most advanced stages of HIV infection. The definition of AIDS includes all HIV-infected people who have fewer than 200 CD4+ T cells per cubic millimeter of blood. (Healthy adults usually have CD4+ T-cell counts of 1,000 or more.) As the virus continues to multiply and destroy immune cells, one could develop mild infections or chronic symptoms such as: </span></div><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Swollen lymph nodes — often one of the first signs of HIV infection</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Fever , shaking chills or fever higher than 100 F (38 C) for several weeks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Cough and shortness of breath</span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Weight loss </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Frequent fevers and sweats, soaking night sweats</span></li>
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<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Persistent or frequent </span><a href="http://women.emedtv.com/yeast-infection/yeast-infections.html"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>yeast infections</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> (oral or vaginal) </span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Persistent skin rashes, bumps or flaky skin</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Pelvic inflammatory disease (in women) that does not respond to treatment</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Short-term memory loss.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Chronic diarrhea</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Persistent white spots or unusual lesions on your tongue or in your mouth</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Headaches</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Blurred and distorted vision. Vision loss <a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=6226418854158660871" name="chapter_4"></a></span></li>
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<a href="http://nervous-system.emedtv.com/seizures/seizures.html"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Seizures</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> and lack of coordination </span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Difficult or painful swallowing </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Mental symptoms, such as confusion and forgetfulness </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Nausea, abdominal cramps, and vomiting </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Coma. </span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Children with AIDS may also suffer from severe common childhood bacterial infections, such as conjunctivitis , ear infections, and tonsillitis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>HIV is found in body fluids such as semen and vaginal fluids and in blood. HIV cannot live for long outside the body, so to be infected with HIV you need to directly allow some body fluid from an infected person to get inside your body, meaning the virus msy enter the body bu means of contact with the bloodstream or by passing through delicate mucous membranes, such as inside the urethra, vagina or rectum </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;'>The most common ways that people become infected with HIV are:</span></b></div><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Sexual intercourse with an infected partner.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Injecting drugs using a dirty needle or syringe. Dirty meaning that object has been used by someone who is infected.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Babies of an infected mother, often acquire HIV during pregnancy, labor and delivery, or through breastfeeding.</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Vaginal sex</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>HIV is found in the sexual fluids of an infected person. For a man, this means the pre-come and semen fluids that come out of the penis before and during </span><a href="http://www.avert.org/sex.htm"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>sex</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>. For a woman, it means HIV is in the vaginal fluids which are produced by the vagina to keep it clean and to help make intercourse easier. HIV can pass into the woman's body through the lining of the vagina, cervix and womb. The risk of HIV transmission is increased if the woman has a cut or sore inside or around her vagina; HIV can get into the man's body through a sore patch on the penis or by getting into the urethra or the inside of uncircumcised foreskin.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Anal sex</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Being on the bottom of Anal Sex carries a higher risk of HIV transmission than being on the bottom of vaginal intercourse. The lining of the anus is much more delicate than the tougher lining of the vagina. If a man takes the insertive (“top”) position in anal sex with a man or woman who has HIV, then he too risks becoming infected.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Oral sex</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Oral sex carries a small risk of HIV infection. A person giving oral sex (licking or sucking the penis or the vagina ) to a person with HIV, then infected fluid could get into their mouth, bleeding gums or tiny sores or ulcers somewhere in their mouth, means a higher risk of HIV entering their bloodstream. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>There is also a small risk that a person with HIV who gives oral sex when having bleeding gums or a bleeding wound in their mouth. Saliva does not pose a risk. HIV infection through oral sex alone seems to be very rare</span>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;'>Contact with any blood during sex</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>increases the chance of infection. Intercourse during a woman's period should be avoided . STDs such as herpes and gonorrhoea – can also raise the risk of HIV transmission.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-indent: .25in;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Drug Injecting</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Drug users that inject are a high-risk group for exposure to HIV. Sharing needles or other equipment is certain to transmit blood-borne viruses such as HIV and/or Hepatitis C. Sharing anything including product used for injecting is three times more likely to transmit HIV than sexual intercourse. Disinfecting equipment between each use can reduce the chance of transmission, but does not eliminate it entirely. If a person is on drugs (including alcohol) then their judgment may be clouded, making them more likely to become involved in risky sexual behavior, which increases the chance of exposure to HIV.</span>
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Mother to child transmission</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Pregnant woman that are infected can pass HIV on to her unborn baby during pregnancy, labor and delivery. HIV can also be transmitted through </span><a href="http://www.avert.org/hiv-breastfeeding.htm"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>breastfeeding</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Infected women can take drugs to greatly reduce the chances of her child becoming infected. </span><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Blood transfusions and blood products</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Some have been infected through a transfusion of </span><a href="http://www.avert.org/blood-safety-hiv.htm" target="_self"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>infected blood</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>. However, in developed countries all the blood used for transfusions are now tested for HIV, making HIV infection through blood transfusions is now extremely rare. In some developing countries, testing systems are not so efficient and transmission through blood transfusions continues to occur. Blood products, such as those used by people with haemophilia, are now heat-treated to make them safe.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Infection in health-care settings</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Hospitals and clinics now take precautions to prevent the spread of blood-borne infections, including the use of sterile surgical instruments, wearing gloves, and safely disposing of medical waste. In developed countries, HIV transmission in health-care settings is extremely rare. Health-care workers have on rare occasions become infected with HIV by being stuck with needles containing HIV-infected blood.). There have been only a very few documented instances of patients acquiring HIV from an infected health-care worker..</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Tattoos / piercing</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Anything that allows another person's blood to get into another bloodstream carries a risk. Equipment not been sterilized before having a tattoo or piercing, there could pose a significant risk of exposure if the person before was HIV positive. In most developed countries there are hygiene regulations governing tattoo and piercing. Always ask staff at the shop what procedures they take to avoid infection.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;'>You cannot get HIV from. . .</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Kissing</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Saliva does contain HIV, but the virus is only present in very small quantities and as such cannot cause HIV infection. Both partners would have to have large open sores in their mouths, or severely bleeding gums, for transmission risk from mouth-to-mouth kissing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Sneezing, coughing, sharing glasses/cups, etc</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>HIV cannot reproduce outside its living host, except under controlled laboratory conditions and does not survive in the open air, making the possibility of this type of environmental transmission remote. In practice no environmental transmission has been recorded.HIV cannot be transmitted through spitting, sneezing, sharing glasses, cutlery, or musical instruments. You also can't be infected in swimming pools, showers or by sharing washing facilities or toilet seats.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Insects</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Studies have shown no evidence of HIV transmission through insect bites, even in areas where there are many cases of HIV and AIDS.HIV only lives for a short time and cannot reproduce inside an insect. So, even if the virus enters a mosquito or another sucking or biting insect, the insect does not become infected and cannot transmit HIV to the next human it feeds on or bites.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Injecting drugs with sterile needles</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Injecting with a sterile needle and works will not transmit HIV. If a person is on drugs (including alcohol) then their judgement may be clouded, making them more likely to become involved in risky sexual behaviour, which increases the chance of exposure to HIV.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;'>Protected sex</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt;">·<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Condoms, iIf used correctly and consistently, are highly effective at preventing HIV transmission. Some believe condoms are not adequate ,scientific tests have disproved this theory.Condoms are effective at preventing HIV during both vaginal and anal sex and can help to reduce the risks during oral sex too. </span>
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Testing</span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span></b>
</div><h3> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">One can receive testing at their personal doctors or by visiting their local health Department. Many have the rapid testing which is only a 20 minute test. </span>
</h3><h3> IV antibody test</h3>HIV antibody tests are the most appropriate test for routine diagnosis of HIV among adults. Antibody tests are inexpensive and very accurate. The ELISA antibody test (enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent) also known as EIA (enzyme immunoassay) was the first HIV test to be widely used. When a person becomes infected with HIV, the body responds by producing proteins that fight infection, called antibodies. An HIV antibody test looks for these antibodies in blood, saliva or urine. If antibodies to HIV are present, it means a person has been infected with HIV. <br>Most people will develop detectable HIV antibodies within 6 to 12 weeks. In <b><i>very</i></b> rare cases, it can take up to 6 , it is exceedingly unlikely that someone would take longer than 6 months to develop antibodies. A negative test at three months almost always means a person is not infected with HIV. It is very important to note that if a person is infected with HIV, they can still transmit the virus to others during the window period.<br>ELISA tests are very sensitive and will detect very small amounts of HIV antibody. There is a small chance that a result could come back as ‘false positive’. A false positive result means that a person may not be infected with HIV, however, the antibody test has come back positive. All positive test results are followed up with a confirmatory test, such as:<br><h4> <span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal;">Rapid HIV tests</span>
</h4>These tests are based on the same technology as ELISA tests, but instead of sending the sample out to a laboratory to be analyzed, the rapid test can give results in a short 20 minutes. Rapid tests can use either a blood sample or oral fluids. They are easy to use and do not require highly trained staff or laboratory facilities.<br>All positive results from a rapid test must be followed up with a confirmatory test, the results of which can take from a few days to a few weeks.<br><h3> Antigen test (P24 test)</h3>Antigens are substances found on a foreign body or germ that cause the production of antibodies in the body. The antigen on HIV that commonly provokes an antibody response is the protein P24. Early on in the HIV infection, P24 is produced in excess and can be detected in the blood serum. P24 antigen tests are not usually used for general HIV diagnostic purposes, as they have a very low sensitivity and they only work before antibodies are produced in the period immediately after HIV infection. They are now most often used as a component of 'fourth generation' tests.<br><h3> PCR test</h3>A PCR test (Polymerase Chain Reaction test) detecst the genetic material of HIV instead of the antibodies to the virus, and so it can identify HIV in the blood within two or three weeks of infection. The test is also known as a viral load test and HIV NAAT (nucleic acid amplification testing).<br>Babies that are born to HIV positive mothers are usually tested using a PCR test. Babies retain their mother's antibodies for several months, making an antibody test inaccurate. Blood supplies in most developed countries are screened for HIV using PCR tests. However, as they are very expensive and more complicated to administer and interpret than a standard antibody test, they are not often used to test for HIV in individuals,<br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<a href="http://www.ehow.com/relationships-and-family/"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;'>Relationships</span></b></a><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20pt;'></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Relationships need not be affected in a negative way, although it is realistic to expect that some people will discriminate against you or socially reject you, It is very possible that you will find love and support if you keep positive. The healthiest relationships for you might be fostered when your HIV status is kept private, but you might be compelled to fully disclose your condition. In the case of intimate relationships, it is imperative that you disclose your condition to protect your partner.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;'>Intimate Partner</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l4 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style='font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;'>o<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>If your partner is not HIV positive, it is important to be honest about your HIV and to take proper precaution to keep them protected. HIV.</span>
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<span style='font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;'>o<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> High risk behavior includes vaginal or anal sex without a condom. </span>
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<span style='font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;'>o<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Sex with a condom, oral sex, french kissing or sharing cleaned sex </span><a href="http://www.ehow.com/hobbies-games/"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>toys</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> are all considered low risk sexual behavior. </span>
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<span style='font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;'>o<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>There is no risk with hugging, masturbation, fantasizing, dry kissing, phone sex, cyber sex or sex toys that are not shared. </span>
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<span style='font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;'>o<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>In order to keep from spreading HIV to others, you must use a condom every time you engage in either vaginal and anal sex.</span>
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<span style='font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;'>o<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> It is important to have a non-infected partner tested every six months to check her status.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;'>Friendships</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l4 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style='font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;'>o<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>It is your choice as to whether or not to tell your friends if you are HIV positive. You might choose to be open about your status and tell. Shock, pity, disbelief, helplessness or endless questions are common reactions. Physically, there are no risks posed to a friend of someone with HIV. Proper precautions should be taken though if there is blood shed.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;'>Work Relationships</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 1.0in; mso-list: l4 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list 1.0in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style='font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;'>o<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, people with HIV/AIDS are protected from discrimination. If you fear that HIV will affect your work performance and therefore threaten your employment, get a letter from your doctor explaining what you need.,. As long as the essential functions of your job can be completed, your employer has no legal right to terminate you on the condition of your HIV status.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;'>Family</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l4 level2 lfo3; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2; tab-stops: list 1.0in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style='font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 10pt;'>o<span style='font: 7pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>You will have to decide if telling your family will bring you love and support or stress and grief. A healthy relationship should be one that is supportive, dependable and loving. The question you should ask yourself before disclosing your HIV status to your family is whether your family will be able to offer you the support you need. Be prepared to answer personal questions, including how you contracted the virus. Whether to disclose your HIV status to your children is your decision as a parent. There is no right or wrong answer. However, it is also wise to have a counselor or another trusted adult to whom your child can speak with about their feelings.</span><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;'></span></b>
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<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The aim of antiretroviral treatment is to keep the amount of HIV in the body at a low level This is the main type of treatment for </span><a href="http://www.avert.org/hiv.htm"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>HIV</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> or </span><a href="http://www.avert.org/aids.htm"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>AIDS</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>, yet is not a cure. It can stop people from becoming ill for many years. The treatment consists of drugs that have to be taken every day for the rest of a person’s life.This stops any weakening of the immune system and allows it to recover from any damage that HIV might have caused already.</span>
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Name="TOC Heading"/> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--><br><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">By Christie LaValley for Under the Covers on ipmnation.com<span style="color: 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These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits.</span></i></div>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hepatitis C is an infection caused by a virus that attacks the liver and leads to inflammation. Most people infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) have no symptoms. In fact, most people don't know they have the hepatitis C infection until liver damage shows up, decades later, during routine medical tests.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hepatitis C is one of several hepatitis viruses and is generally considered to be among the most serious of these viruses. Hepatitis C is passed through contact with contaminated blood — most commonly through needles shared during illegal drug use.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Hepatitis C infection usually produces no signs or symptoms during its earliest stages. When signs and symptoms do occur, they're generally mild and flu-like and may include:</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Fatigue<br> Fever<br> Nausea or poor appetite<br> Muscle and joint pains<br> Tenderness in the area of your liver</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Hepatitis C infection is caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). HCV is spread when you come in contact with contaminated blood. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Examples of how HCV can be spread include: </span></div><ul type="disc">
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Blood transfusions and organ transplants before 1992.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Improved blood-screening tests became available in 1992. Before that year, it was possible to unknowingly contract hepatitis C through a blood transfusion or organ transplant.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Shared needles.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> HCV can also spread through sharing contaminated needles when injecting drugs.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Childbirth.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> A small number of babies born to mothers with hepatitis C acquire the infection during childbirth.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Sexual contact.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> In rare cases, HCV may be transmitted sexually.</span>
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</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Your risk of hepatitis C infection is increased if you: </span></div><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Are a health care worker who has been exposed to infected blood</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Have ever injected illicit drugs</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Have HIV</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Received a piercing or tattoo in an unclean environment using unsterile equipment</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Received a blood transfusion or organ transplant before 1992</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Received clotting factor concentrates before 1987</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Received hemodialysis treatments for a long period of time</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Were born to a woman with a hepatitis C infection</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Hepatitis C infection that continues over many years can cause significant complications, such as: </span></div><ul type="disc">
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Scarring of the liver tissue (cirrhosis).</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> After 20 to 30 years of hepatitis C infection, cirrhosis may occur. Scarring in your liver makes it difficult for your liver to function.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Liver cancer.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> A small number of people with hepatitis C infection may develop liver cancer.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Liver failure.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> A liver that is severely damaged by hepatitis C may be unable to function.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Blood tests to diagnose hepatitis C</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> <br>Blood tests may help to: </span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Determine whether you have the hepatitis C virus</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Measure the quantity of the hepatitis C virus in your blood (viral load)</span></li>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Testing samples of liver tissue to determine severity of liver damage</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> <br>Your doctor may also recommend a procedure to remove a small sample of liver tissue for laboratory testing. A liver biopsy can help determine the severity of the disease and guide treatment decisions. During a liver biopsy, your doctor inserts a thin needle through your skin and into your liver to remove the tissue sample. </span>
</div><b>Treatment isn't always necessary </b><br>A diagnosis of hepatitis C infection doesn't necessarily mean you need treatment. If you have only slight liver abnormalities, you may not need treatment, because your risk of future liver problems is very low. Your doctor may recommend follow-up blood tests to monitor for liver problems. <br><b>Antiviral medications</b> <br>Hepatitis C infection is treated with antiviral medications intended to clear the virus from your body. Your doctor may recommend a combination of medications taken over several weeks. Once you complete a course of treatment, your doctor will test your blood for the hepatitis C virus. If hepatitis C is still present, your doctor may recommend a second round of treatment. <br>Antiviral medications can cause depression and flu-like signs and symptoms, such as fatigue, fever and headache. Some side effects can be serious enough that treatment must be delayed or stopped in certain cases. <br><b>Liver transplant</b> <br>If your liver has been severely damaged, a liver transplant may be an option. During a liver transplant, the surgeon removes your damaged liver and replaces it with a healthy liver. Most transplanted livers come from deceased donors, though a small number come from living donors who donate a portion of their livers. <br>For people with hepatitis C infection, a liver transplant is not a cure. Treatment with antiviral medications usually continues after a liver transplant, since hepatitis C infection is likely to recur in the new liver. <br><b>Vaccinations to protect against other forms of viral hepatitis</b> <br>Your doctor will likely recommend that you receive vaccines against the hepatitis A and B viruses. These are separate viruses that also can cause liver damage and complicate treatment of hepatitis C. <br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>If you receive a diagnosis of hepatitis C, your doctor will probably recommend certain changes. These measures will help keep you healthy longer and protect the health of others and those you love: </span></div><ul type="disc">
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Stop drinking alcohol.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Alcohol speeds the progression of liver disease.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Avoid medications that may cause liver damage.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Review your medications with your doctor, including the over-the-counter medications you take. Your doctor may recommend avoiding certain medications.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Stay healthy.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Make healthy lifestyle choices each day. For example, choose a diet full of fruits and vegetables, exercise most days of the week, and get enough sleep so that you wake feeling rested.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Help prevent others from coming in contact with your blood.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Cover any wounds you have and don't share razors or toothbrushes. Don't donate blood, body organs or semen, and advise health care workers that you have the virus.</span>
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<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>All information taken from: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hepatitis-c/DS00097</span><br><br><span style="color: black;">***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits. </span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><br></span>
</div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417452011-07-05T22:04:00-04:002013-08-06T12:20:40-04:00Episode 6, part 2-Milking the Prostate<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24pt;'>Milking the Prostate</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<i><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>By </span></i><a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Joseph_Ducat" title="EzineArticles Expert Author Joseph Ducat"><i><span style='color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Christie</span></i></a><i><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> LaValley for Under the Covers on Ipmnation.com</span></i><br><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> 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</div>The prostate is part of the male reproductive system and its primary function is to produce seminal fluid. It can be very helpful in stimulating orgasm in males. Unfortunately, Women do not have a prostate . The prostate gland can be affected by disease such as prostatitis. Prostatitis is the general term used to describe any prostate inflammation. Because the term is so general, it does not adequately describe the range of abnormalities that can be associated with prostate inflammation. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6226418854158660871&postID=7128747477517411335" name="tocd"></a><br>There are four types of recognized prostatitis:<br><ul type="disc">
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis</li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The prostate can also be affected prostate cancer, the second most deadly cancer among American males. As preventative treatment against prostate cancer and prostatitis, it has been recommended that milking the prostate regularly would be helpful. Prostate milking is also known as prostate massage. It is a fairly simple procedure that you can do yourself. According Joseph Ducat of EzineArticles.com, here are the steps to take in milking the prostate on your own:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>1. Perform urination or a bowel movement in order to maximize the relaxation of the area.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>2. Make sure that your fingernails are trimmed and have no jagged edges jutting out.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>3. Clean your body and your hands thoroughly. Then put on a sterile latex glove on your hand. Dab a little water-based lubricant on your fingers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>4. Carefully insert your finger or fingers into your anus. Move them gradually upwards and to the back, along the area of the rectum towards the front of your body. Your fingers should be moving in roughly the direction of your navel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>5. You will feel the prostate gland, which is like a small, round bulb about the size of a large walnut. Gently massage it with a light waving motion along its sides, taking care not to press hard on the central area, where the sensitive nerves are located. Avoid touching the prostate gland with your fingernails.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>6. You may experience a disconcerting sensation that makes you feel like going to the bathroom although you do not have to. Try not to let it affect you, and continue with the procedure.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>7. After a few minutes, the prostate gland may be stimulated enough for ejaculation to occur. You are also likely to experience sexual pleasure or orgasm. However, the procedure does not always successfully bring about ejaculation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Joseph says “Prostate milking when used as a preventative treatment may carry a few risks. It is a technique that is not recommended for men who have a disease of the prostate or acute prostatitis, an acute inflammation of the glandular tissue. The problem in such cases is that the act of milking the prostate may cause the infection to spread to other areas of the body.” So it is better to do it before you have issues. I would recommend visiting your doctor before trying to milk your prostate just to make sure everything is good to go.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Article Source: </span><a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Joseph_Ducat"><span style='color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Joseph_Ducat</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> </span>
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mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--> <br><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Female Orgasm, The Big O</b></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i>Researched By Christie LaValley for Under the Covers on ipmnation.com<span style="color: black;"> <br>***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal">According to several major surveys, only 25 percent of women always climax when having sex with a partner. The rest of women either sometimes do, or never<a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/sex-drive" target="_blank" title="Lost Your Libido? Here's How to Get It Back & Boost Your Sex Dirve"> </a>orgasm during intercourse at all, while 90 percent of men easily orgasm 100 percent of the time. No wonder men love sex! Why is there such a big difference? Elisabeth Lloyd, Ph.D., a biology professor at Indiana University, states in her book<i> The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution</i>, : "The clitoris has the indispensable function of promoting sexual excitement, which induces the female to have intercourse and become pregnant. But the actual incidence of the reflex of orgasm has never been tied to successful reproduction." Translation: Because women can and do get pregnant without climaxing, scientists can't figure out why women orgasm at all. However, most scientists do agree on the how. What they know is that knowledge can help the average girl hit her peak more often.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>A woman's most powerful sex organ lies just between her ears. If a woman can put aside all fear, guilt, stress and a host of other distracting thoughts and concentrate on the <i>feeling</i> of sex rather than any thinking, she is bound to be successful in her quest for orgasm. It is suggested the taking breaks to pleasure each other, manually and orally, is a great way to ward off any lingering diversions and to coax one or more orgasms. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">There is warm, unique rush women feel during foreplay that results in blood heading straight to their <a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/vagina-information">vagina</a>s and clitorises. The walls of the vagina start to swell and secrete these beads of lubrication that slowly gets bigger and eventually start to flow together. Like a man, , blood continues to flood the pelvic area as a woman becomes more turned on. The breathing speeds up, the heart rate increases, and the nipples become erect. The lower part of the vagina narrows to hold the penis while the upper part expands to give the penis someplace to go. Eventually nerve and muscle tension become intense in the genitals, pelvis, buttocks, and thighs. When enough tension builds the body will involuntarily releases all the tension at once in a series of intensely pleasurable waves, aka female orgasm.<br><br> During Female orgasm, the uterus, vagina, and anus will contract simultaneously at 0.8-second intervals. During a small orgasm may consist of three to five contractions; where as a biggie there could ten to fifteen. Everybody is different. Many women report feeling different types of orgasms — clitoral, vaginal, and/ or combinations of the two. It has been found that muscles in other parts of the body may contract involuntarily making women clench their toes or make goofy faces. As for the brain, a recent small-scale study at the Netherlands' University of Groningen found that areas involving fear and emotion are actually deactivated during orgasm. No wonder some of us turn to sex instead of a therapist. The body usually goes into a state of satisfied relaxation.<br><br>Women, like their male counterparts, can experience pelvic heaviness and aching if they do not reach orgasm leaving them with form of "blue balls. Like the male version, it's harmless.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;'>Types of Orgasms:</span>
</div>Betty Dodson’s descriptions of orgasm which she outlines in her excellent book <a href="http://erclk.about.com/?zi=8/rUF" target="_blank">Orgasms for Two</a> come from over 30 years of teaching women to orgasm, and her own orgasmic experience, which may be unparalleled. Her descriptions of orgasm are guided by her own biases, which favors genital stimulation, and while she discounts the experience of some women, these descriptions offer a great starting point to discuss the multitude of ways men and women can experience orgasm. Below is a summary of some of her orgasm types, with additional comments. <br><b>Pressure orgasms.</b> Dodson ties these to early childhood experiences rocking back and forth or masturbating by squeezing your legs together. This orgasm comes from indirect stimulation, no rubbing, but instead applying pressure (by leaning heavily against or on something). As children we may engage in this kind of self soothing and sex stimulating behavior even if it doesn’t result in an orgasm the way we think of them as adults. A <a href="http://sexuality.about.com/b/a/225102.htm">study </a>published in the journal Pediatrics in 2005 took note of this very common form of self-stimulation, particularly in young girls. Some adults may bring this behavior into their sex lives and have orgasms from it. <br><b>Tension orgasms.</b> This is the orgasm that comes from direct and intense stimulation usually while you are holding your body and muscles tight and tense, and holding your breath. Dodson considers tension orgasms the most common, favored because they are quick and dirty. She also calls them “peak orgasms” as they offer an intense build up followed by a sudden release. Tension orgasms could be our default because of early sexual experiences, which are often secretive and quick. It’s often been suggested that for men, <a href="http://sexuality.about.com/od/sexualhealthqanda/f/prematureejac.htm">premature ejaculation </a>is a result of learning early on how to get aroused and orgasm quickly. For women too, early experiences can influence later ones, and Dodson encourages people to try to experience more orgasms beyond these, even if they do do the trick. <br><b>Relaxation orgasms.</b> Dodson describes this type of orgasm as coming not from a build up of tension, but from deep relaxation during sexual stimulation, where you continue to release tension and relax your muscles and eventually the orgasm sneaks up on you. As opposed to the “peak orgasm” Dodson cites Shree Rajneesh, a <a href="http://sexuality.about.com/od/spiritualsex">Tantric sex </a>master and author of <a href="http://erclk.about.com/?zi=8/rUG" target="_blank">Tantra, Spirituality and Sex </a>, who refers to these kinds of orgasms as “valley orgasms”. <br><b>Combination or blended orgasms.</b>Ideally orgasm is a fluid process (no pun intended) and if sex play lasts long enough you’ll get to enjoy more than one experience during orgasm, which we can call a combination orgasm. For Dodson, who has been teaching women to orgasm for over 30 years, combination orgasms involve a specific set of actions, including: “clitoral stimulation, vaginal stimulation, PC muscle contractions, pelvic thrusting, and breathing out loud.” One could broaden this definition to include orgasms that offer a variety of experiences and opportunity for you to pay attention to the different waves of orgasmic feelings. <br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Clitoral stimulation.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Most women require stimulation of the clitoris and labia (the inner lips surrounding the clitoris) during sex to reach orgasm. Prolonged clitoral touch with a gentle, patient hand is, for many, the key to sexual ecstasy. Use sounds and positive words to guide your lover, showing your partner how to stroke you just so.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The sacred spot.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> The mythic Grafenberg Spot (G-spot) is referred to in Tantra as the "sacred spot." This potent and mysterious erogenous zone is located about two to three inches up on the front side of the vaginal channel. When aroused, a man should slip his ring finger into the woman’s vagina allowing his fingertip to brush against the inner wall. The G-spot is between the size of a pea and a quarter with a slightly rippled texture. For some women, though not for all, gentle stimulation can induce powerful orgasms and even female ejaculate. However, take care not to over-stimulate this sensitive spot.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">The <a href="http://sexuality.about.com/od/gspotfemaleejaculation/a/gspotdebate.htm">g spot debate </a>is far from over, and while Dodson doesn’t discount them, she favors clitoral stimulation at least being in the mix, and offers a wary attitude to those who argue for orgasms that come from penetration alone. Nonetheless, many women report orgasms that come from <a href="http://sexuality.about.com/od/gspotfemaleejaculation/tp/g_spot.htm">g spot </a>stimulation being fundamentally different from orgasms that come from other kinds of stimulation, and given the number of women who have written and talked about it, they certainly deserve a place in the orgasm encyclopedia.<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span>
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<b>Fantasy orgasms-</b>there have been several studies and years of anecdotal reports by women who have orgasms without any physical contact, and from mental fantasy alone. There is a tendency by many to see orgasms from fantasy as being less than other kinds of orgasms, but this attitude seems to come mostly from rigid thinking about the right and wrong way to orgasm, and less from people’s personal experiences.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b>Multiple orgasms. </b>While female multiple orgasms are more often talked about, both men and women are capable of having multiple orgasms. Dodson distinguishes between multiple orgasms and the “aftershocks of pleasure” that follow a big orgasm, which some people might call orgasms, and which allows them to count 20 or 30 orgasms a night. One of the pitfalls of multiple orgasms is the trap of waiting for them and having anxiety about whether or not you’ll have them. Do either of these things and your attention will be taken away from the pleasure you’re feeling, which is a waste of an orgasm whatever number it comes in.</div><div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Big "O" Blockers</b><br><br>So what goes wrong on those nights when a woman cannot seem to orgasm."Nine times out of 10 it's because the woman isn't getting enough continuous clitoral stimulation," Dr. Kerner says. Often, "A woman will get close to orgasm, her partner picks up on it, and [then he either] orgasms immediately or changes what he was doing."<br><br>That's why Dr. Kerner frequently recommends the <a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/the-best-sex-position" target="_blank" title="Best Sex Position for Women">woman-on-top position.</a> Because you control the angle and speed of the thrusts (try a back-and-forth motion so that your clitoris rubs against your partner's abdomen), it allows for the most constant clitoral stimulation.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Another solution is to find a position that mimics <a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/masturbation-1" target="_blank" title="How & Why to Masturbate: Health Benefits of Masturbation">how you masturbate.</a> If you have masturbate by lying on your belly and rubbing your clitoris with your hands tucked beneath you, then you should have your man can enter you from behind in that position. Letting a man watch you masturbate in your favorite position is helpful because by watching you he'll also get a better sense of the stimulation you need.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Many women get caught up in how the look. "It's when a woman is too concerned with her appearance and/or performance to actually enjoy herself," Dr. Kerner says. There's no way you're going to have an orgasm if you're fretting about your cellulite or stressing over whether your newest as-seen-on-late-night-cable moves feel good for him. Instead, you have to let the erotic sensations register in your mind. Focus. Breathe. Let go. "It may seem counterintuitive," he says, "but you need to relax to build sexual tension."<br><br>The best preparation for a big orgasm is probably a long, steamy shower, full-body massages by and for your man — or 10 minutes of steady oral sex, if you can get it. It's not so much your body that needs the R&R as your mind. "Many women need a transition period between dealing with the stress of everyday life and feeling sexual," Dr. Kerner says. "A few minutes of foreplay usually isn't enough." Doing something ritualistic and soothing that will clear your head of to-do lists, work issues, family problems, and whatever else might be distracting you from connecting with your body is essential to feeling ecstatic.</div><div class="MsoNormal">
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</div><span style="color: black;">Read more: </span><a href="http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/understand_the_female_orgasm/Follow_Her_Lead_Orgasm.php#ixzz1PsHF3xzV"><span style="color: #003399;">http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/understand_the_female_orgasm/Follow_Her_Lead_Orgasm.php#ixzz1PsHF3xzV</span></a> <span style="color: black;"><br></span><a href="http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/sex_relationships/facts/masturbationwomen.htm">http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/sex_relationships/facts/masturbationwomen.htm</a><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/understand_the_female_orgasm/#ixzz1PsExTSCH">http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/understand_the_female_orgasm/#ixzz1PsExTSCH</a><a href="http://healthguide.howstuffworks.com/tantric-sex-dictionary6.htm">http://healthguide.howstuffworks.com/tantric-sex-dictionary6.htm</a><br><a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/anatomy-of-an-orgasm">http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/anatomy-of-an-orgasm</a><br><a href="http://sexuality.about.com/od/orgasms/a/types_of_orgasm_2.htm">http://sexuality.about.com/od/orgasms/a/types_of_orgasm_2.htm</a> <br>Dodson, Betty. Orgasms for Two. New York: Harmony Books, 2002.<br><br><span style="color: black;">***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits. </span>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417472011-07-05T21:47:00-04:002013-08-06T12:20:40-04:00Episode 5-Male Orgasm<h3 class="post-title entry-title">Male Orgasm</h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"><i>Researched By Christie LaValley for Under the Covers on ipmnation.com<span style="color: black;"> <br>***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits.</span></i></span></h3><div class="post-header"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><br></span><br><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The male orgasm is a complicated experience. The main biological function of the male orgasm is the ejaculation of sperm to impregnated a mate, however, not all men ejaculate with orgasm. This fact is often a surprise to most men. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Ejaculation and the Male Orgasm</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><br>According to</span><span style="color: black;">: <a href="http://www.livestrong.com/article/12496-male-orgasm/#ixzz1QZQEx16Q"><span style="color: #003399;">http://www.livestrong.com/article/12496-male-orgasm/#ixzz1QZQEx16Q</span></a></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> , it is possible to have a male orgasm without ejaculation. </span>
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<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>To understand how the male come to have an orgasm first we must understand how the penis works. </span>Penile erection involves a complex interaction between three of the body systems to work together, the vascular system, the nervous system and the endocrine system. Penile erection happens when two tubular structures, known as the corpora cavernosa become engorged with venous blood, Corpora cavernosa run the length of the penis and usually fill up due to physiological stimuli, also known as sexual stimulation and sexual arousal. The corpus spongiosum, a single tubular structure which contains the urethra may also become slightly engorged with blood, but less so than the corpora cavernosa.<br><i>Nervous System</i><br>When aroused by sexual stimulus, the reflex centers of the spinal cord begin to emit impulses that leave the cord, go to the genitals and initiate emission, the forerunner of ejaculation. <br><br><i>Vascular System</i><br>Many fluids from the vas deferens, the prostate, the ampulla and the seminal vesicles and even more tiny glands), mix and head into the internal urethra by contractions of the groin muscles. The filling of the internal urethra evoke signals that are transmitted through the pudendal nerves from the spinal cord. Increases of pressure in the urethra prompt the semen to be thrusted out, resulting in ejaculation. After ejaculation, erection will subside within one or two minutes in most males.<br><br><i>Endocrine System:</i><br>Levels of testosterone in every man is different and play a major role in and performance.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>What Happens During the Male Orgasm?</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><br> When an orgasm begins, heart rate, blood pressure and respiration all increase. His pelvic thrusts become less voluntary and muscles of the penis will begin to contract rhythmically in order to eject semen from the urethra</span>. Males are able to reach orgasm from the time they begin puberty. During puberty, many males even reach orgasm during their sleep. This is called a "wet dream."<br>Men are capable of multiple orgasm however, too often when men hear the term “male multiple orgasm,” they view it as experiencing orgasm and ejaculation several times in a row. 15-20% of males in their teens and twenties reported that they were capable of repeated orgasm with ejaculation in a limited period of time. Most men will lost this ability by age 30 or 40’. However, the term male multiple orgasm usually refer to the experience of having several non-ejaculatory orgasms in a row during one session of sex play, which is a different, but intense and satisfying, sexual experience<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal">.</div><h3>Orgasm and Ejaculation are Separate for Men</h3>Just as we are not taught and often surprised women can ejaculate, men rarely taught that orgasm and ejaculation are also separate for men. Because most men learn to orgasm by themselves and share their experience verbally only with other young men, they never learn the distinction between orgasm and ejaculation.. But they are two different experiences, and when men learn to separate them, they can also learn to have more than one orgasm for each ejaculation. A male must to control ejaculation and hold it back, while having several non-ejaculatory orgasms. This is learn from masturbation . A man must discover his own sexual responses and feelings. Some men love these feelings and incorporate them into their regular sexual practice, where others claim that this experience has a spiritual element to it. It is not uncommon that some men will find that even though they are orgasm multiple times that they like ejaculating better. Western are most likely not to be taught the ancient tantric practices as a man in the east is taught.<br><div class="MsoNormal"> To learn more read the blog on” Male multiple orgasm” </div><div class="MsoNormal">Men like women can cheat themselves of orgasm by worrying about their performance. Take turns with your partner rather than worrying about performance. Have your partner agree to turn taking for both orgasm and performance. You will both benefit and will be able to have a more orgasmic productive love life .</div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417482011-07-05T21:43:00-04:002013-08-06T12:20:41-04:00Episode 6 part 1-Sex terms as defined on Slangsearch.com game -<h3 class="post-title entry-title">Sex terms as defined on Slangsearch.com </h3><div class="post-header"></div><br><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bank and biff</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Rhyming slang term for syphillis, where biff rhymes with <b>syph</b>, a common abbreviation for syphillis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>clap</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Gonorrhea. Often used with <i>the.</i> </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>crabs</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Infestation by crab lice. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>dose</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A venereal infection</span><br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bang, banged, banging, bangs</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: To have sexual intercourse with. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>blowjob</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The act or an instance of fellatio. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>boff, boffed boffing, boffs</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> <br>v: <br>To have sexual intercourse with. <br>v. intr.<br>To engage in sexual intercourse. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bonk</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: Have sexual intercourse with. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>carpet munching</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: Performing cunnilingus. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cluster fuck</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Group sex. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>come</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: <br>1. To experience orgasm. <br>2. Semen ejaculated during orgasm. Also <b>cum</b>. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cowgirl</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Refers to the sexual position of a woman sitting upon a reclining man. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cream</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: To ejaculate:<i>I creamed on her tits.</i> </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>felch</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: To lick or suck recently deposited semen from a rectum or vagina. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>French</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: To perform oral sex on. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>fisted, fisting</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: To insert the fist into the rectum or vagina of (another) as a means of sexual stimulation. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>fuck</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><br>v. <b>fucked, fucking, fucks</b> <br>To have sexual intercourse with. <br>v. intr.<br>To engage in sexual intercourse.<br>n. <br>1. An act of sexual intercourse.<br>2. A partner in sexual intercourse.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>gangbang</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> or <b>gang-bang</b> n:<br>1. Sexual intercourse, often rape, involving one person or victim and several others who have relations with that person in rapid succession.<br>2. Sexual intercourse involving several people who select and change partners in an indiscriminate manner.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>get it on</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><br><i>Phrasal Verb</i><br>1. To become filled with energy or excitement.<br>2. To engage in sexual intercourse. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>hand job</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Masturbation. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>head</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Oral sex: <i>Give me some head.</i> </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>humjob</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The act or an instance of fellatio. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>hummer</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The act or an instance of fellatio. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>golden shower</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A shower of urine as a means of sexual stimulation. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>lay</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><br>v. <b>laid, laying, lays</b> <br>v.tr.<br>To have sexual intercourse with.<i>I want to lay you.</i> <br>n. <br>1. Sexual intercourse.<br>2. A partner in sexual intercourse. <i>She's a good lay.</i> </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>mish</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Short for Missionary position. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>muff diving</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Oral stimulation of the clitoris or vulva. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>nooky</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> or <b>nookie</b>n: <br>1. Sexual intercourse. <br>2. The vulva. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pearl necklace</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: a deposit of ejaculated semen on the upper torso of a person. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>piece of ass</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. sexual intercourse.<br>2. a person regarded as sexually attractive and/or sexually promiscuous. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>poontang</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. Sexual intercourse with a woman.<br>2. Used as a disparaging term for a woman. <br><br>[Perhaps from French putain, <i>prostitute</i>, from Old French, from pute, feminine of put, <i>foul, stinking</i>, from Latin ptidus, from ptre, <i>to be rotten, stink</i>.] </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>porked, porking, porks </span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>v. To have sexual intercourse with. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>quicky</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> also <b>quickie</b> n : A hurried act of sexual intercourse. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>rimmed, rimming</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: To perform anilingus on.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>rimjob</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Anilingus; oral stimulation of the anus.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>sandwich</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Any sex act involving three people; a <b>threesome</b>. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>screw</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> <br>n: The act or an instance of having sexual intercourse.<br>v.intr: To have sexual intercourse. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>shag</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n : sexual intercourse.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>whoopee</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br><i>Idiom:</i><br><b>make whoopee </b><br>1. To engage in a noisy, boisterous celebration.<br>2. To make love. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>yellow shower</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The act of urinating on a person as a means of sexual stimulation; a <b>golden shower</b>. </span>
</div><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>arrow</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bag</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The scrotum. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>baloney</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A large penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>balls</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The testicles. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>beaver cleaver</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>beef bayonet</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>basket</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. Male genitals. Refers to the bulging shape of the male gentials when clothed in a jockstrap or athletic supporter.<br>2. Scrotum.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bishop</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. Refers to the glans of the penis, which is said to resemble a bishop's miter in shape. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>boner</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An erection of the penis.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>choad</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cobblers</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>Testicles. From th rhyming slang <i>cobblers awls</i>, meaning <b>balls</b>. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cock</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>dick</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>dong</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>dork</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>eggs</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Testicles.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>gism</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> also <b>gizm</b> n : Semen.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>goolies</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The testicles. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>hard-on</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An erect penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>hose</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>jizz</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> also <b>jizm</b> n : Semen.<br>v. <br><b>jizzed, jizzing, jizzes</b><br>v. tr.<br>To eject semen in orgasm. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Johnson, John Thomas</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>knob</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The glans of the penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>lap taffy</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>meat</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The genitals. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>nuts</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Testicles. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pecker</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>peter</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pipe</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pork sword</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>prick</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pud</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>schlong</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> or <b>shlong</b> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>shaft</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>spooge</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> or <b>splooge</b><br>v. To eject semen in orgasm.<br>n. Semen. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>stiffy</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An erect penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tackle</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The male genitals. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tallywacker</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tool</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A person used to carry out the designs of another; a dupe. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>trouser snake</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>wedding tackle</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The male genitals. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>wood</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> or <b>woody</b> n: An erection of the penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>artichoke</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. Refers to both appearance (the leaves imply the labia) and edibility. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bank</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Female genitals. Derives its connotation from <b>deposit</b>, meaning ejaculate.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>beaver</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bearded clam</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>beef curtains</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The labia; the folds of tissue of the female external genitalia. </span><br><div style="tab-stops: 116.25pt;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>booby</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> <br>n. pl. <b>boobies</b> A woman's breasts.</span>
</div><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>box</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva and the vagina.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bush</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A growth of pubic hair.<br>v. <b>bushed, bushing, bushes</b><br>adj. Bush-league; second-rate </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cans</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>clam</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>coochy, coochie</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cookie</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cooter</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cunt</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The female genital organs. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>fur burger</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's genitals including the pubic hair, especially in the context of cunnilingus. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>hair pie</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's genitals including the pubic hair, especially in the context of cunnilingus. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>hooters</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>jugs</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>knockers</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>melons</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> A woman's breasts, especially large breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>muff, muffin</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>nooky</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> or <b>nookie</b>n: <br>1. Sexual intercourse. <br>2. The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>piss flaps</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The labia; the folds of tissue of the female external genitalia. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pussy, pussies</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1.<br>a. The vulva. <br>b. Sexual intercourse with a woman.<br>2. Used as a disparaging term for a woman.<br>3. A man regarded as weak, timid, or unmanly. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pussy fart</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An expulsion of vaginal gas; a queef. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>queef</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> <br>v: To expel trapped gas through the vaginal opening.<br>n: A discharge of vaginal gas; a vart. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>quim</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>rack</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>slit</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>snatch</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>ta-ta's</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tit</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breast. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>twat</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. The vulva. <br>2. A woman or girl. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>vart</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An expulsion of vaginal gas; <i>A vaginal fart</i>. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Barclay's Bank</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Rhyming slang for masturbation; bank rhymes with <b>wank</b>, the most common British term for masturbation. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bash the bish</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: <i>phrase</i>. masturbate. Bish refers to the glans of the penis, which is said to resemble a bishop's miter in shape. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>chicken choker</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A person who masturbates. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>diddle</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: <br>1. To have intercourse with (a woman). 2. To practice masturbation upon.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>finger</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: <br>To digitally stimulate the vulva.<br><i>Idiom</i><br><b>finger-fuck</b><br>To masturbate by means of inserting one's finger(s) into the vestibule of the vagina. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>jack off</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v : To masturbate. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>jerk off</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v : get sexual gratification through self-stimulation. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>taffy pulling</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A euphemism for male masturbation. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>toss</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An act of masturbation (applies to males only).<br>v.<br><b>toss, tossing, tossed</b><br>To masturbate (applies to males only).<br><i>Phrasal Verb:</i><br><b>toss off</b><br>To masturbate. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tosser</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A person who masturbates (applies to males only). </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>wanker</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A person who masturbates.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>arse</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. Buttocks. <br>2. Anus: <i>Stick it up your arse</i><br>3. Sexual intercourse. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>ass</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. <br>a. Buttocks. <br>b. The anus. <br>2. Sexual intercourse. <br>3. Any of several hoofed mammals of the genus Equus, resembling and closely related to the horses but having a smaller build and longer ears, and including the domesticated donkey. <br>4. a pompous fool. <br>5. A vain, self-important, silly, or aggressively stupid person. <br>6. A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>asshole</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. excretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal.<br>2. A thoroughly contemptible, detestable person. <br>3. The most miserable or undesirable place in a particular area.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>backdoor</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A euphemism for the anus.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bum</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The buttocks. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bun</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. One of the buttocks. Often used in the plural. <br>2. A drunken spree. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bunghole</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The anus. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>can</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The buttocks. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>fanny</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n : Buttocks. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>fart chimney</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The colon. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>keister</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n:<br>1. Buttocks.<br>2. The anus. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>moon</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The bared buttocks.<br>v. intr.<br><b>mooned, mooning, moons</b><br>To expose one's buttocks in public as a prank or disrespectful gesture </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>poop chute</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The colon. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>rimmed, rimming</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: To perform anilingus on.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>rimjob</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Anilingus; oral stimulation of the anus.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tooshie</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The buttocks. <br>[Alteration of Yiddish tokhes, from Hebrew] </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tush</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Buttocks. </span><br><br><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>http://www.slangsearch.com </span>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/1048652011-07-05T20:00:00-04:002011-07-05T20:00:00-04:00Herpes- Episode 1<h3 class="post-title entry-title">What everyone needs to know about Herpes Simplex Type 1 and 2 </h3><div class="post-header"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;'><br></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Herpes simplex viruses -- more commonly known as herpes -- are categorized into two types: herpes type 1 (HSV-1, or oral herpes) and herpes type 2 (HSV-2, or genital herpes). Most commonly, herpes type 1 causes sores around the mouth and lips (sometimes called fever blisters or cold sores). HSV-1 can cause genital herpes, but most cases of genital herpes are caused by herpes type 2. In HSV-2, the infected person may have sores around the genitals or rectum. Although HSV-2 sores may occur in other locations, these sores usually are found below the waist.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Amazingly, under a microscope, HSV- 1 and 2 are virtually identical. They share approximately 50% of their DNA. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Both types infect the body's mucosal surfaces, usually the mouth or genitals, and then establishes residence in the nervous system. The primary difference between the two viral types is in where they typically establish residence in the body. Both Types of Herpes have a </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> "site of preference." HSV-1 usually establishes residence the trigeminal ganglion, a collection of nerve cells near the ear. From there, it tends to recur on the lower lip or face. HSV-2 usually sets up residence in the sacral ganglion at the base of the spine. From there, it recurs in the genital area . But not everyone who gets the herpes simplex virus develops cold sores. In some people, the virus stays dormant (asleep) permanently.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How common is it? </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The disease is very common. According to Wikipedia</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">,</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Worldwide rates of HSV infection are between 65% and 90%.<sup id="cite_ref-Peds09_0-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-Peds09-0">]</a></sup> HSV1 is more common than HSV2 with rates of both increasing as people age.<sup id="cite_ref-Peds09_0-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-Peds09-0">]</a></sup> Rates of infection are determined by the presence of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibodies" title="Antibodies">antibodies</a> against either viral species.<sup id="cite_ref-pmid12353183_62-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-pmid12353183-62">[</a></sup></span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">In the US, 57.7% of the population is infected with HSV-1<sup id="cite_ref-JAMA._2006.3B296:964-973._63-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-JAMA._2006.3B296:964-973.-63">[64]</a></sup> and 16.2% are infected with HSV-2. Among those HSV-2 positive, only 18.9% were aware that they were infected. About 1 million new cases are reported every year. Millions more likely go unreported.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"> About one in five U.S. adults and teens have had a genital herpes infection -- and most don’t know it.. Genital herpes is a chronic, lifelong viral infection. At least 50 million persons in the United States have genital HSV infection. One out of four teens in the United States becomes infected with an</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> STD each year and by the age of 25, half of all sexually active young adults will get an STD. Women are more susceptible to herpes.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">STDs can increase the risk of HIV. People with genital herpes have at least twice the risk of becoming infected with HIV if exposed to it than those without it. Read more about herpes and HIV infection. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What Causes Herpes Infections and Outbreaks?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Herpes simplex type 1, through sores on the skin, can be spread through kissing or sharing objects such as toothbrushes or eating utensils. In general, a person can only get herpes type 2 infection during sexual contact with someone who has a genital HSV-2 infection. It is important to know that both HSV-1 and HSV-2 can be spread even if sores are not present.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pregnant women with genital herpes should talk to their doctor as genital herpes can be passed on to the baby during childbirth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some things that can trigger (wake up) the virus and cause attacks (or outbreaks) of herpes can be brought on by the following conditions:</span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">General illness (from mild illnesses to serious conditions)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Fatigue</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Physical or emotional stress</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Immunosuppression due to AIDS or such medications as chemotherapy or steroids</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Trauma to the affected area, including sexual activity</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Menstruation</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sun exposure</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Surgery</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Extreme Heat</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What Are the Symptoms of Herpes Simplex?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">When Herpes wakes up it will leave its home in the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">ganglion and follow the nervous system to a weakened nerve cell on the skin.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> As it leave the ganglion it will send out signals it is coming.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;">It can stimulate the neurons along the cytoskeletal highway, engendering a tingling sensation. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">This is known as prodrome.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Prodrome</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <br>A warning sign (prodrome) is experienced by many people in recurring outbreaks. Warning symptoms which indicate the virus is becoming active, and is on its way to the skin's surface may include: </span>
</div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">itching</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">tingling</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">numbness</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">burning</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">general fatigue</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">flu-like symptoms</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">fever</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">swelling of the lymph nodes in the area of outbreak</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">headache</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">painful urination</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">pain in the buttocks, back of legs, lower back</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Weakened Nerve Cells under the skin- The infected area </b>i</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">s usually painful and may itch, burn or tingle, during the outbreak. Symptoms of herpes simplex virus typically appear as a blister or as multiple blisters on or around affected areas -- usually the mouth, genitals, or rectum. The blisters break, leaving tender sores.<b> </b></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">The first episode is usually the most severe as most people have not been exposed to the virus before and antibodies will not have been produced to trigger the immune response. When the herpes virus gets into skin cells it reproduces itself and starts to multiply, making the skin red and sensitive. Blisters or bumps may appear on the area of contact, the blisters first opening, then healing with the regeneration of new skin tissue</span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">usually develop within 2 to 20 days after contact</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">could continue up to 2 weeks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">may be so mild it goes unnoticed</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">may take longer or be less severe in some people, especially in those with partial immunity to the virus from having another form of herpes</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">the first attack sometimes causes visible sores</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">last between 10 - 21 days</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Other symptoms include:</b></span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">swollen lymph glands </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">painful inflamed blisters develop around infected area </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">headache </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">muscle ache </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">fever </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">vaginal or penis discharge </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">infection of the urethra causing a burning sensation during urination</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a burning sensation in the genitals </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">lower back pain</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">small red bumps may appear in the genital area following earlier symptoms, later developing into painful blisters, which crust over, form a scab, and heal.</span></li>
</ul><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How is Herpes Spread?</span></b></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Herpes is spread by direct skin to skin contact. Unlike other viruses that you can get through the air, herpes spreads by only by direct contact. For example, if you have a cold sore and kiss someone, you can transfer the virus to their mouth. Likewise, if you have active genital herpes and have vaginal or anal intercourse, you can give your partner genital herpes. Finally, if you have a cold sore and have oral sex by putting your mouth on your partner’s genitals, you can give your partner genital herpes. </span></div><div class="style12" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When Is Herpes Most Likely To Be Spread?</span></b></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Herpes is most easily spread when a sore is present, but, it is also spread at other times too. Some people notice itching, tingling or other sensations before they see anything on their skin. These are called "Prodromal Symptoms" and they warn that virus may be present on the skin. Herpes is most likely to be spread from the time these first symptoms are noticed until the area is completely healed and the skin looks normal again. Sexual contact (oral, vaginal, or anal) is very risky during this time.</span></div><div class="style12" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Can Herpes Be Transmitted Without Symptoms? <b>Yes! </b>Sometimes those who know they are infected spread the virus between outbreaks, when no signs or symptoms are present. This is called "Asymptomatic Transmission."</span><br><span style="font-size: x-small;">Research also shows that herpes simplex infections are spread by people who don't know they are infected. These people may have symptoms so mild they don't notice them at all or else don't recognize them as herpes. 60% of infected people do not know they are infected. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Due to this is are much safer in a relationship with infected person who is familiar with their body and are educated with STDs, then with someone who is uneducated with STDs.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How easily Herpes Spread?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Most people with genital herpes are just as concerned about transmission-the likelihood of spreading the virus to a partner-as about their own health. On the other hand, few people with oral herpes, share this concern. Is this because one type is more contagious than the other?</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">No!!! Both viral types are easily transmitted to their site of preference, and can also be spread to other sites. Both are most contagious during active outbreaks, but are may be spread through viral shedding when there are no recognizable symptoms. According to Spruance, people with recurrent oral HSV-1 shed virus in their saliva about 5% of the time even when they show no symptoms. In the first year of infection, people with genital HSV-2 shed virus from the genital area about 6-10% of days when they show no symptoms, and less often over time. (Both of these figures reflect shedding as detected by viral culture.)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> In other words, The longer someone has had herpes the less likely they are to have a shedding period.</span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">However, possible transmission gets more complicated. Acquisition of one type is more difficult-though certainly possible-if you already have the other type. This is because either type, contracted orally or genitally, causes the body to produce antibodies, some of which are active against both HSV-1 and 2. This acquired immune response gives some limited protection if the body encounters a second type. When a person with a prior HSV infection does contract the second type, the first episode tends to be less severe than when there are no prior antibodies present.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">This means oral HSV-1 is often the most easily acquired herpes infection. Usually the first herpes simplex virus that people encounter, oral HSV-1, is typically spread simply by the kind of social kiss that a relative gives a child. Because children have no prior infection with any HSV type, they have no immune defense against the virus.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">By the time they're teenagers or young adults, about 50% of Americans have HSV-1 antibodies in their blood. By the time they are over age 50, some 80-90% of Americans have HSV-1 antibodies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How Is Herpes Simplex Diagnosed?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Often, the appearance of herpes simplex virus is typical and no testing is needed to confirm the diagnosis. If a health care provider is uncertain, herpes simplex can be diagnosed with laboratory tests, including DNA -- or PCR -- tests and virus cultures.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How Painful Is Herpes Simplex?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Some people experience very mild genital herpes symptoms or no symptoms at all. Frequently, people infected with the virus don't even know they have it. However, when it causes symptoms, it can be described as painful. This is especially true for the first outbreak, which is often the worst. Outbreaks are described as aches or pains in or around the genital area or burning, pain, or difficulty urinating. Some people experience discharge from the vagina or penis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Oral herpes lesions (cold sores) usually cause tingling and burning just prior to the breakout of the blisters. The blisters themselves can also be painful.</span></div><br><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How often does one have an outbreak?</span></b></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Just how much of a physical problem HSV poses for a person depends largely on three factors: </span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The first is how well the person's immune system is able to control the infection. Differences in immune response may be the main reason that some people are plagued by frequent cold sores or genital herpes outbreaks while others are not. It's also the reason that both HSV-1 and 2 can pose serious challenges for infants, who have a limited immune response; as well as for </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> people with compromised immune systems, including people with cancer, AIDS, severe burns, and people taking immunosuppressant medications.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The second factor affecting outbreaks is how long a person has had the infection. Over time, recurrences of both HSV- 1 and 2 tend to decrease, for reasons that aren't entirely clear. In the case of oral HSV-1, many of the approximately 100 million Americans acquired the virus when they were children. By the time they're adults, only some 5% of people are bothered enough to consider oral HSV-1 a medical problem, according to Spruance. Almost all of the approximately 40 million Americans infected with HSV-2 acquired the virus as teenagers or young adults. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> For those with HSV 2, those who have recurring outbreaks experience an average of four to six episodes in the first year. Over time, as with oral infections, the number of outbreaks usually drops off.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The third factor that affects </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> the frequency of HSV -1 and 2 outbreaks is whether the virus is took up” home” in its site of preference. While either HSV </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> type can infect both genital and oral areas, both types cause milder infections when they are away from "home" territory. When not making “home” in their site of preference, both type 1 and 2 seem to </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> lose most of their punch. For example, most people infected with HSV-1 in the genital area have few, if any, outbreaks after the initial episode, far fewer than is typical with either oral HSV-1 or genital HSV-2. While experts estimate that some 30% of genital herpes infections in the United States may be caused by HSV-1, only 2- 5% of recurring genital outbreaks are caused by HSV-1. Research conducted by Lawrence Corey, MD, and colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle shows that genital HSV-2 recurs 10 times more often than genital HSV-1.</span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">According to a study by Wald et al. (New England Journal of Medicine, 1995), among 110 women with genital herpes, the average number of recurrences per year for those with genital HSV-1 was zero. Other studies have shown an average of about one outbreak per year (Benedetti, Annals of Internal Medicine, 1994).</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Similarly, HSV-2 infection in the oral area-outside its site of preference-very rarely causes problems. First of all, oral, HSV-2 infections are rare, for reasons discussed below. But even when an infection occurs, recurrent outbreaks are uncommon. In one study (Lafferty et al., New England Journal of Medicine, 1987), oral HSV-2 recurred an average of 0.01 times a year in newly infected people. "I've never convincingly seen an oral type 2 recurrence," says Spruance.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">A possible fourth factor affecting recurrence rate is viral type. According to the Lafferty study, genital HSV-2 infections were the most frequently recurring herpes infections, followed by oral HSV-1, genital HSV-1, and last of all, oral HSV-2.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Social Views of Herpes </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">When an infected person first tells someone they have genital herpes, they may start by comparing the infection to oral herpes, or cold sores. Despite of scientific facts, the social stigma and negative emotional attitudes when dealing with genital herpes can make it hard to compare it objectively with an oral infection that most people casually accept. Viewing herpes with the negative assumptions of our society, many still believe there is a "good" herpes virus-HSV- 1, the usual cause of cold sores-and a "bad" herpes virus-HSV-2, the usual cause of genital herpes.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">However this is not an absolute. Either type can reside in either or both parts of the body and infect oral and/or genital areas. Unfortunately, many people aren't aware of this, which contributes both to the spread of type 1 and to the misperception that the two types are somehow different.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">"People don't understand that you can have type 1 genitally or orally, that the two types are essentially the same virus,' says Marshall Clover, manager of the National Herpes Hotline." One type is associated with stigma, the other is "'just a cold sore"- our society has a euphemism for it so we don't even have to acknowledge that it's herpes. </span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">While HSV is frustrating and can be a painful condition for some people, in general the virus is less a medical problem than a social problem. For most of us, genital herpes is no more dangerous than a cold sore. However, whether we like it or not, there is </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> social prejudice </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> that is a reality against someone with genital herpes, no matter which virus causes it, "People have more trouble explaining to a new partner that they have genital herpes, even if it's HSV- 1, than if they have a cold sore," says Glover. "Just saying the word "genital" is like an anvil that pulls the sentence down".</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">For people who have trouble dealing with social attitudes toward genital herpes, the blatant double standard society applies to oral herpes can be frustrating, to say the least, but can send many of its infected into isolation, depression or to suicide. Realistically</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> though after reading about HSV, wouldn’t</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> it better to have this disease in your pants than on your face? Understand if others seem freaked by you without taking it personally.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Can Herpes Be Cured?</span> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">There is no cure for herpes simplex. Once a person has the virus, it remains in the body. The virus lies inactive in the nerve cells of the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">trigeminal or sacral ganglion</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> until something triggers it to become active again</span>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Prevention:</span></span> </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ways to Reduce Your Risk </span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">1. Use a condom every time you have sex.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">A <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-condoms">condom</a> may protect you from the <a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/default.htm">herpes</a> virus if it covers the infected area. Male condoms offer good protection, only if the infected area on the male is covered or contact with the infected area on the female is prevented. Female condoms may offer better protection as they cover a larger area. Protection is lost if a condom slips or breaks and contact is made with the infected.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> If you touch an infected area, immediately was the area that came in contact with the sores.</span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">2. Ask your partner if he or she has ever had a sexually transmitted disease.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Most people who have genital herpes don't know they're infected, so ask whether he or she has had any other sexually transmitted disease. People with a history of <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/default.htm">STDs</a> are more likely to have genital herpes.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">It may be awkward, but it's important to be honest with each other. Your partner may be afraid to tell you the truth if he or she fears a negative reaction. If your partner feels comfortable talking with you, you'll be more likely to get straight answers.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">3. Ask your partner about his or her sexual history.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Someone who has had many sexual partners is more likely to be infected with the herpes virus.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">4. Limit the number of sexual partners you have.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">The fewer sexual partners you have in your lifetime, the less likely you are to be exposed to the herpes virus.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">5. Look with your eyes. Have sex in the light</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Don’t go in blind.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> There is nothing wrong with relishing and looking your partner over for possible issues.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> You will both thank yourself later.</span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">6. Don't receive oral sex from somebody with a cold sore or without STD Testing.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Oral Herpes which causes sores on the mouth, can be passed to the genitals through oral sex. Plus, who wants gonorrhea of the mouth </span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">7. Ask your partner to be tested for STDs.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you think your partner is at high risk for genital herpes and other STDs, you may consider asking him or her to be tested. In that case, you should be tested, too.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">8. Don't have sex while intoxicated.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Alcohol and illicit drugs lower inhibitions and impair judgment. People tend to be less careful about practicing safer sex while intoxicated and they often regret it later.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">9. Wait to have sex.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The only way to be 100% certain you won't get a sexually transmitted disease is to have just one sex partner who has no STDs -- and only if both of you stay monogamous for life.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Plus the earlier you have sex the more likely you are to contact herpes or another STD.</span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">10. Try alternate forms of sexual intimacy.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you don't want to be monogamous or totally celibate until you find a life partner, you could greatly reduce your risk of getting a sexually transmitted disease by doing things that don't involve genital-genital contact or oral-genital contact, such as mutual masturbation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: x-small;"> You ultimately decide what you are willing to deal with. Make an educated choice.</span></div><h2 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What to Do if Your Partner Has Genital Herpes?</span></h2><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Getting information on genital herpes is one way to deal with your feelings. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">A partner who has genital <a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/default.htm">herpes</a> needs your support and acceptance. The only way you can do that is to be truly educated. It took a lot of courage for your partner to tell you, and it means he or she cares about your well-being, health, and values your trust. They are telling you because you are special to them or they love you.. A good loving partner never wants to share this part of themselves with you. A person who tells you has integrity. They want you to be safe and to trust them with your life. Telling you is the ultimate sacrifice. For yes, you could reject them. And it is your right. Sometimes, as stated on other Herpes website "No good deed goes unpunished" is often a harsh fact of life. But if you care for this person at all, don't let it be that way in your relationship. Of course, your feelings and concerns matter, too. If you're uncomfortable with the idea of having sex with your partner again, or becoming sexually intimate for the first time, you're entitled to feel that way.</span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">But instead of declaring the sexual part of your relationship is over or out of the question, think of ways you can be intimate without risking infection. You can reduce the risk of becoming infected through sexual intercourse by using <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-condoms">condoms</a> and avoiding sex when your partner has symptoms. There will always be some risk, even if you practice safer sex, but you can minimize it as much as possible.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Get Informed About Genital Herpes</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Educate yourself about genital herpes if your partner has not explained it to your satisfaction. You'll find out that it's not as serious as it may seem, and that people can and do have wonderful relationships </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> with great sex even though one of them has genital herpes.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Sometimes people in long-term relationships suspect that their partner has been cheating when he or she is diagnosed. That's not necessarily true, so don't make that accusation. Your partner could have been infected years or decades before you met.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Remember some people never have an outbreak.</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Also, consider the possibility that you gave your partner herpes. Millions of people live with genital herpes without having a clue that they're infected. In fact, health experts estimate that 60-90% of those who are infected in the United States don't know it. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> A herpes infection doesn't always cause obvious sores on the genitals. In many cases, it causes no noticeable symptoms. Health care professionals say that sex partners of people with herpes should be tested, as that is the only way to know for sure if they are infected or not.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/guide/20061101/mother-to-infant-herpes-transmission"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Reducing Baby’s Risk of Herpes Infection</span></a> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pregnant women with genital herpes should talk to their doctor as genital herpes can be passed on to the baby during childbirth .Delivering a baby via cesarean section can protect an infant from infection with the herpes simplex virus (HSV). Read more about the recommendations for cesarean section and herpes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How Is Herpes Simplex Treated?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Although there is no cure for herpes, treatments can relieve the symptoms. Medication can decrease the pain related to an outbreak and can shorten healing time. They can also decrease the total number of outbreaks. Drugs including Famvir, Zovirax, and Valtrex are among the medications used to treat the symptoms of herpes. Warm baths may relieve the pain associated with genital sores. There are many ways to treat the disease including: diet, medication, topical ointments, herbs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">First and foremost the disease should be treated by diet. It is possible to significantly reduce outbreaks by eating healthy, avoiding certain foods and taking vitamin supplements to support a healthy immune system.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Diet:</b></span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Avoid alcohol, processed foods, colas, white flour products, surgar refined carbohydrates, coffee, and drugs use. </span></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">The following vitamin supplements are recommended by the book <u>Prescription for Nutritional Healing</u>:</span></div><div align="center" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable"><tbody>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vitamin A</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">50,000 IU daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vitamin B</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">50mg or more 3 times daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vitamin C</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">5,000 – 10,000mg</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Zinc chelate</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">50-100mg daily in divided doses</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Vitamin E</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">600 IU daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Calcium</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">1500 mg daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Magnesium</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">750 mg daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Medication:</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br>Consult your doctor about the appropriate course of medication for your circumstances. Your doctor will usually prescribe a treatment that follows the CDC recommedations. Their recommended course of treatment depends on whether or not this is the first episode, or a recurring episode. The CDC basic guidelines are as follows: </span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">First episode: Many patients with first-episode herpes present with mild clinical manifestations but later develop severe or prolonged symptoms. Therefore, most patients with initial genital herpes should receive antiviral therapy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">One of the following courses is chosen. </span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 400 mg orally three times a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OR Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 200 mg orally five times a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OR Famciclovir [Famvir] 250 mg orally three times a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OR Valacyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/products.php?sn=237?img=49&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Valtrex and Valacyclovir">Valtrex</a>] 1 g orally twice a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Recurring episode: Effective episodic treatment of recurrent herpes requires initiation of therapy within 1 day of lesion onset, or during the prodrome that precedes some outbreaks. The patient should be provided with a supply of drug or a prescription for the medication with instructions to self-initiate treatment immediately when symptoms begin. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">One of the following courses is chosen. </span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 400 mg orally three times a day for 5 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OR Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 200 mg orally five times a day for 5 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OR Famciclovir [Famvir] 125 mg orally twice a day for 5 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OR Valacyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/products.php?sn=237?img=49&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Valtrex and Valacyclovir">Valtrex</a>] 500 mg orally twice a day for 3--5 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">OR Valacyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/products.php?sn=237?img=49&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Valtrex and Valacyclovir">Valtrex</a>] 1.0 g orally once a day for 5 days</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Medication treatment information and dosage suggestions are from the Center for Disease Control treatment recommendations. More info at: <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/2-2002TG.htm#GenitalHerpes">http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/2-2002TG.htm#GenitalHerpes</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Herbs: </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Herbs shown to be effective include mint family herbs such as: lemon balm, oregano, rosemary, sage, and thyme. Herbal teas that include these have shown to be beneficial. Application of lemon balm to sores is reported to be effective at shortening the outbreaks. A popular and effective product containing the essential oil of lemon balm is <a href="http://www.herpescounter.com/info/HBalm.php" target="_blank">HBalm</a>. It has positive results for many people. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Another genital herpes fighting product based on essential oils is H-Away from <a href="http://www.amoils.com/" target="_blank">Amoils.com</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">One promising study of herbal treatments documents that it was able to cure 49% of the study participants. This is the only mention of a cure in a medical study. This may work for many people with <a href="http://www.secret-cures.com/">herpes</a>. More info at: <a href="http://www.herpescounter.com/info/secretcures.php">http://www.secret-cures.com</a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3625840549062929177&postID=7933233423826969713" name="dynamiclear"></a><b>Dynamiclear: </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Treatment with Dynamiclear has shown amazing results. Most people report that once treated, sores never return. The ingredients are kept a closely guarded secret, but the numerous testimonials prove it is without a doubt one of the most effective products available today. Get it at: <a href="http://www.herpescounter.com/info/dynamiclear.php">http://www.dynamiclear.com</a></span><br><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: x-small;">Information for this article was found on these fine websites:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.herpes.com/hsv1-2.html">http://www.herpes.com/hsv1-2.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/guide/genital-herpes-overview-facts">http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/guide/genital-herpes-overview-facts</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.herpescounter.com/#common">http://www.herpescounter.com/#common</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex</a></span></div><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;'>You may use or repost all or any parts of this article by giving credit to: </span><u><span style='color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt;'>http://stylingsouls.blogspot.com/</span></u><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6226418854158660871-7582289108131598832?l=underthecoversonipmnationcom.blogspot.com" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/1048542011-07-05T20:00:00-04:002011-07-05T20:00:00-04:00Sex terms as defined on Slangsearch.com<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> Sex terms as defined on Slangsearch.com </h3><div class="post-header"></div><br><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bank and biff</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Rhyming slang term for syphillis, where biff rhymes with <b>syph</b>, a common abbreviation for syphillis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>clap</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Gonorrhea. Often used with <i>the.</i> </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>crabs</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Infestation by crab lice. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>dose</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A venereal infection</span><br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bang, banged, banging, bangs</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: To have sexual intercourse with. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>blowjob</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The act or an instance of fellatio. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>boff, boffed boffing, boffs</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> <br>v: <br>To have sexual intercourse with. <br>v. intr.<br>To engage in sexual intercourse. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bonk</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: Have sexual intercourse with. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>carpet munching</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: Performing cunnilingus. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cluster fuck</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Group sex. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>come</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: <br>1. To experience orgasm. <br>2. Semen ejaculated during orgasm. Also <b>cum</b>. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cowgirl</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Refers to the sexual position of a woman sitting upon a reclining man. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cream</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: To ejaculate:<i>I creamed on her tits.</i> </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>felch</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: To lick or suck recently deposited semen from a rectum or vagina. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>French</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: To perform oral sex on. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>fisted, fisting</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: To insert the fist into the rectum or vagina of (another) as a means of sexual stimulation. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>fuck</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><br>v. <b>fucked, fucking, fucks</b> <br>To have sexual intercourse with. <br>v. intr.<br>To engage in sexual intercourse.<br>n. <br>1. An act of sexual intercourse.<br>2. A partner in sexual intercourse.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>gangbang</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> or <b>gang-bang</b> n:<br>1. Sexual intercourse, often rape, involving one person or victim and several others who have relations with that person in rapid succession.<br>2. Sexual intercourse involving several people who select and change partners in an indiscriminate manner.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>get it on</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><br><i>Phrasal Verb</i><br>1. To become filled with energy or excitement.<br>2. To engage in sexual intercourse. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>get off</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: <br>1. To act or speak with effrontery. Used in the imperative to express contempt or disdainful disbelief.<br>2. To have an orgasm.<br>3. <br>a. To feel great pleasure or gratification.<br>b. To experience euphoria, for example, as a result of taking a drug.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>hand job</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Masturbation. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>head</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Oral sex: <i>Give me some head.</i> </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>humjob</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The act or an instance of fellatio. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>hummer</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The act or an instance of fellatio. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>golden shower</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A shower of urine as a means of sexual stimulation. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>lay</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'><br>v. <b>laid, laying, lays</b> <br>v.tr.<br>To have sexual intercourse with.<i>I want to lay you.</i> <br>n. <br>1. Sexual intercourse.<br>2. A partner in sexual intercourse. <i>She's a good lay.</i> </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>mish</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Short for Missionary position. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>muff diving</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Oral stimulation of the clitoris or vulva. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>nooky</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> or <b>nookie</b>n: <br>1. Sexual intercourse. <br>2. The vulva. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pearl necklace</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: a deposit of ejaculated semen on the upper torso of a person. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>piece of ass</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. sexual intercourse.<br>2. a person regarded as sexually attractive and/or sexually promiscuous. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>poke</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An act of sexual intercourse: <i>I gave her a poke.</i> </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>poontang</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. Sexual intercourse with a woman.<br>2. Used as a disparaging term for a woman. <br><br>[Perhaps from French putain, <i>prostitute</i>, from Old French, from pute, feminine of put, <i>foul, stinking</i>, from Latin ptidus, from ptre, <i>to be rotten, stink</i>.] </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>porked, porking, porks </span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>v. To have sexual intercourse with. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>quicky</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> also <b>quickie</b> n : A hurried act of sexual intercourse. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>rimmed, rimming</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: To perform anilingus on.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>rimjob</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Anilingus; oral stimulation of the anus.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>sandwich</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Any sex act involving three people; a <b>threesome</b>. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>screw</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> <br>n: The act or an instance of having sexual intercourse.<br>v.intr: To have sexual intercourse. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>shag</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n : sexual intercourse.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>whoopee</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br><i>Idiom:</i><br><b>make whoopee </b><br>1. To engage in a noisy, boisterous celebration.<br>2. To make love. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>yellow shower</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The act of urinating on a person as a means of sexual stimulation; a <b>golden shower</b>. </span>
</div><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>arrow</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bag</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The scrotum. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>baloney</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A large penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>balls</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The testicles. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>beaver cleaver</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>beef bayonet</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>basket</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. Male genitals. Refers to the bulging shape of the male gentials when clothed in a jockstrap or athletic supporter.<br>2. Scrotum.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bishop</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. Refers to the glans of the penis, which is said to resemble a bishop's miter in shape. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>boner</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An erection of the penis.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>choad</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cobblers</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>Testicles. From th rhyming slang <i>cobblers awls</i>, meaning <b>balls</b>. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cock</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>dick</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>dong</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>dork</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>eggs</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Testicles.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>gism</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> also <b>gizm</b> n : Semen.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>goolies</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The testicles. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>hard-on</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An erect penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>hose</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>jizz</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> also <b>jizm</b> n : Semen.<br>v. <br><b>jizzed, jizzing, jizzes</b><br>v. tr.<br>To eject semen in orgasm. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Johnson, John Thomas</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>knob</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The glans of the penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>lap taffy</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>meat</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The genitals. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>nuts</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Testicles. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pecker</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>peter</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pipe</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pork sword</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>prick</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pud</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>schlong</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> or <b>shlong</b> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>shaft</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>spooge</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> or <b>splooge</b><br>v. To eject semen in orgasm.<br>n. Semen. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>stiffy</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An erect penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tackle</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The male genitals. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tallywacker</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tool</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A person used to carry out the designs of another; a dupe. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>trouser snake</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>wedding tackle</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The male genitals. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>wood</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> or <b>woody</b> n: An erection of the penis. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>artichoke</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. Refers to both appearance (the leaves imply the labia) and edibility. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bank</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Female genitals. Derives its connotation from <b>deposit</b>, meaning ejaculate.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>beaver</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bearded clam</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>beef curtains</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The labia; the folds of tissue of the female external genitalia. </span><br><div style="tab-stops: 116.25pt;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>booby</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> <br>n. pl. <b>boobies</b> A woman's breasts.</span>
</div><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>box</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva and the vagina.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bush</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A growth of pubic hair.<br>v. <b>bushed, bushing, bushes</b><br>adj. Bush-league; second-rate </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cans</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>clam</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>coochy, coochie</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cookie</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cooter</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>cunt</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The female genital organs. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>fur burger</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's genitals including the pubic hair, especially in the context of cunnilingus. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>hair pie</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's genitals including the pubic hair, especially in the context of cunnilingus. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>hooters</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>jugs</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>knockers</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>melons</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> A woman's breasts, especially large breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>muff, muffin</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>nooky</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> or <b>nookie</b>n: <br>1. Sexual intercourse. <br>2. The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>piss flaps</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The labia; the folds of tissue of the female external genitalia. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pussy, pussies</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1.<br>a. The vulva. <br>b. Sexual intercourse with a woman.<br>2. Used as a disparaging term for a woman.<br>3. A man regarded as weak, timid, or unmanly. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>pussy fart</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An expulsion of vaginal gas; a queef. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>queef</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> <br>v: To expel trapped gas through the vaginal opening.<br>n: A discharge of vaginal gas; a vart. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>quim</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>rack</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>slit</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>snatch</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The vulva. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>ta-ta's</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breasts. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tit</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A woman's breast. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>twat</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. The vulva. <br>2. A woman or girl. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>vart</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An expulsion of vaginal gas; <i>A vaginal fart</i>. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>Barclay's Bank</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Rhyming slang for masturbation; bank rhymes with <b>wank</b>, the most common British term for masturbation. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bash the bish</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: <i>phrase</i>. masturbate. Bish refers to the glans of the penis, which is said to resemble a bishop's miter in shape. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>chicken choker</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A person who masturbates. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>diddle</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: <br>1. To have intercourse with (a woman). 2. To practice masturbation upon.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>finger</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v: <br>To digitally stimulate the vulva.<br><i>Idiom</i><br><b>finger-fuck</b><br>To masturbate by means of inserting one's finger(s) into the vestibule of the vagina. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>jack off</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v : To masturbate. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>jerk off</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> v : get sexual gratification through self-stimulation. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>taffy pulling</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A euphemism for male masturbation. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>toss</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: An act of masturbation (applies to males only).<br>v.<br><b>toss, tossing, tossed</b><br>To masturbate (applies to males only).<br><i>Phrasal Verb:</i><br><b>toss off</b><br>To masturbate. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tosser</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A person who masturbates (applies to males only). </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>wanker</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A person who masturbates.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>arse</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. Buttocks. <br>2. Anus: <i>Stick it up your arse</i><br>3. Sexual intercourse. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>ass</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. <br>a. Buttocks. <br>b. The anus. <br>2. Sexual intercourse. <br>3. Any of several hoofed mammals of the genus Equus, resembling and closely related to the horses but having a smaller build and longer ears, and including the domesticated donkey. <br>4. a pompous fool. <br>5. A vain, self-important, silly, or aggressively stupid person. <br>6. A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>asshole</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. excretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal.<br>2. A thoroughly contemptible, detestable person. <br>3. The most miserable or undesirable place in a particular area.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>backdoor</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: A euphemism for the anus.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bum</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The buttocks. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bun</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: <br>1. One of the buttocks. Often used in the plural. <br>2. A drunken spree. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>bunghole</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The anus. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>can</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The buttocks. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>fanny</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n : Buttocks. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>fart chimney</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The colon. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>keister</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n:<br>1. Buttocks.<br>2. The anus. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>moon</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The bared buttocks.<br>v. intr.<br><b>mooned, mooning, moons</b><br>To expose one's buttocks in public as a prank or disrespectful gesture </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>poop chute</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The colon. </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>rimmed, rimming</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: To perform anilingus on.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>rimjob</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Anilingus; oral stimulation of the anus.</span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tooshie</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: The buttocks. <br>[Alteration of Yiddish tokhes, from Hebrew] </span><br><b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>tush</span></b><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'> n: Buttocks. </span><br><br><span style='font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;'>http://www.slangsearch.com </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6226418854158660871-1468108218254541707?l=underthecoversonipmnationcom.blogspot.com" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/1048532011-07-05T20:00:00-04:002011-07-05T20:00:00-04:00Male Orgasm<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><br></h3><div class="post-header"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>by Christie LaValley </span><br><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The male orgasm is a complicated experience. The main function of the male orgasm is the ejaculation of sperm, however, not all men ejaculate with orgasm. This fact is often a surprise to most men. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Ejaculation and the Male Orgasm</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><br>According to</span><span style="color: black;">: <a href="http://www.livestrong.com/article/12496-male-orgasm/#ixzz1QZQEx16Q"><span style="color: #003399;">http://www.livestrong.com/article/12496-male-orgasm/#ixzz1QZQEx16Q</span></a></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> , it is possible to have a male orgasm without ejaculation. </span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Pre-adolescent boys may experience an orgasm without ejaculation.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Some men do not have an ejaculation until several seconds after orgasm. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Some men, who are incapable of ejaculation, are still capable of orgasm.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Some men, may experience several ejaculations and go on to have further orgasms, but without ejaculation.</span></li>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Physical Experience of the Male orgasm</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><br>The male orgasm seems to have psychological effect as well as a physical effects. Some men experience, an orgasm in just the scrotum and the genital area, while other men report a sensation that expands out to other parts of the body. Still, other men claim that their orgasms full body experience. </span>
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<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>To understand how the male come to have an orgasm first we must understand how the penis works. </span>Penile erection involves a complex interaction between three of the body systems to work together, the vascular system, the nervous system and the endocrine system. Penile erection happens when two tubular structures, known as the corpora cavernosa become engorged with venous blood, Corpora cavernosa run the length of the penis and usually fill up due to physiological stimuli, also known as sexual stimulation and sexual arousal. The corpus spongiosum, a single tubular structure which contains the urethra may also become slightly engorged with blood, but less so than the corpora cavernosa.<br><i>Nervous System</i><br>When aroused by sexual stimulus, the reflex centers of the spinal cord begin to emit impulses that leave the cord, go to the genitals and initiate emission, the forerunner of ejaculation. <br><br><i>Vascular System</i><br>Many fluids from the vas deferens, the prostate, the ampulla and the seminal vesicles and even more tiny glands), mix and head into the internal urethra by contractions of the groin muscles. The filling of the internal urethra evoke signals that are transmitted through the pudendal nerves from the spinal cord. Increases of pressure in the urethra prompt the semen to be thrusted out, resulting in ejaculation. After ejaculation, erection will subside within one or two minutes in most males.<br><br><i>Endocrine System:</i><br>Levels of testosterone in every man is different and play a major role in and performance.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>What Happens During the Male Orgasm?</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><br> When an orgasm begins, heart rate, blood pressure and respiration all increase. His pelvic thrusts become less voluntary and muscles of the penis will begin to contract rhythmically in order to eject semen from the urethra</span>. Males are able to reach orgasm from the time they begin puberty. During puberty, many males even reach orgasm during their sleep. This is called a "wet dream."<br>Men are capable of multiple orgasm however, too often when men hear the term “male multiple orgasm,” they view it as experiencing orgasm and ejaculation several times in a row. 15-20% of males in their teens and twenties reported that they were capable of repeated orgasm with ejaculation in a limited period of time. Most men will lost this ability by age 30 or 40’. However, the term male multiple orgasm usually refer to the experience of having several non-ejaculatory orgasms in a row during one session of sex play, which is a different, but intense and satisfying, sexual experience<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal">.</div><h3>Orgasm and Ejaculation are Separate for Men</h3>Just as we are not taught and often surprised women can ejaculate, men rarely taught that orgasm and ejaculation are also separate for men. Because most men learn to orgasm by themselves and share their experience verbally only with other young men, they never learn the distinction between orgasm and ejaculation.. But they are two different experiences, and when men learn to separate them, they can also learn to have more than one orgasm for each ejaculation. A male must to control ejaculation and hold it back, while having several non-ejaculatory orgasms. This is learn from masturbation . A man must discover his own sexual responses and feelings. Some men love these feelings and incorporate them into their regular sexual practice, where others claim that this experience has a spiritual element to it. It is not uncommon that some men will find that even though they are orgasm multiple times that they like ejaculating better. Western are most likely not to be taught the ancient tantric practices as a man in the east is taught.<br><div class="MsoNormal"> To learn more read the blog on” Male multiple orgasm” </div><div class="MsoNormal">Men like women can cheat themselves of orgasm by worrying about their performance. Take turns with your partner rather than worrying about performance. Have your partner agree to turn taking for both orgasm and performance. 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Name="TOC Heading"/> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}</style> <![endif]--> <br><div class="MsoNormal">According to several major surveys, only 25 percent of women always climax when having sex with a partner. The rest of women either sometimes do, or never<a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/sex-drive" target="_blank" title="Lost Your Libido? Here's How to Get It Back & Boost Your Sex Dirve"> </a>orgasm during intercourse at all, while 90 percent of men easily orgasm 100 percent of the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No wonder men love sex! Why is there such a big difference?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elisabeth Lloyd, Ph.D., a biology professor at Indiana University, states in her book<i> The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution</i>, : "The clitoris has the indispensable function of promoting sexual excitement, which induces the female to have intercourse and become pregnant. But the actual incidence of the reflex of orgasm has never been tied to successful reproduction." Translation: Because women can and do get pregnant without climaxing, scientists can't figure out why women orgasm at all. However, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>most scientists do agree on the how. What they know is that knowledge can help the average girl hit her peak more often.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>A woman's most powerful sex organ lies just between her ears. If a woman can put aside all fear, guilt, stress and a host of other distracting thoughts and concentrate on the <i>feeling</i> of sex rather than any thinking, she is bound to be successful in her quest for orgasm. It is suggested the taking breaks to pleasure each other, manually and orally, is a great way to ward off any lingering diversions and to coax one or more orgasms. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">There is warm, unique rush women feel during foreplay that results in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>blood heading straight to their <a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/vagina-information">vagina</a>s and clitorises. The walls of the vagina start to swell and secrete these <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beads of lubrication that slowly gets bigger and eventually start to flow together. Like a man, , blood continues to flood the pelvic area as a woman becomes more turned on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The breathing speeds up, the heart rate increases, and the nipples become erect. The lower part of the vagina narrows to hold the penis while the upper part expands to give the penis someplace to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually nerve and muscle tension become intense in the genitals, pelvis, buttocks, and thighs. When enough tension builds the body will involuntarily releases all the tension at once in a series of intensely pleasurable waves, aka female orgasm.<br><br><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During Female orgasm, the uterus, vagina, and anus will contract simultaneously at 0.8-second intervals. During a small orgasm may consist of three to five contractions; where as a biggie there could <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ten to fifteen. Everybody is different.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many women report feeling different types of orgasms — clitoral, vaginal, and/ or combinations of the two.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been found that muscles in other parts of the body may contract involuntarily making women clench their toes or make goofy faces. As for the brain, a recent small-scale study at the Netherlands' University of Groningen found that areas involving fear and emotion are actually deactivated during orgasm. No wonder some of us turn to sex instead of a therapist. The <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>body usually goes into a state of satisfied relaxation.<br><br>Women, like their male counterparts, can experience pelvic heaviness and aching if they do not reach orgasm leaving them with form of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"blue balls. Like the male version, it's harmless.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Types of Orgasms:</span>
</div>Betty Dodson’s descriptions of orgasm which she outlines in her excellent book <a href="http://erclk.about.com/?zi=8/rUF" target="_blank">Orgasms for Two</a> come from over 30 years of teaching women to orgasm, and her own orgasmic experience, which may be unparalleled. Her descriptions of orgasm are guided by her own biases, which favors genital stimulation, and while she discounts the experience of some women, these descriptions offer a great starting point to discuss the multitude of ways men and women can experience orgasm. Below is a summary of some of her orgasm types, with additional comments. <br><b>Pressure orgasms.</b> Dodson ties these to early childhood experiences rocking back and forth or masturbating by squeezing your legs together. This orgasm comes from indirect stimulation, no rubbing, but instead applying pressure (by leaning heavily against or on something). As children we may engage in this kind of self soothing and sex stimulating behavior even if it doesn’t result in an orgasm the way we think of them as adults. A <a href="http://sexuality.about.com/b/a/225102.htm">study </a>published in the journal Pediatrics in 2005 took note of this very common form of self-stimulation, particularly in young girls. Some adults may bring this behavior into their sex lives and have orgasms from it. <br><b>Tension orgasms.</b> This is the orgasm that comes from direct and intense stimulation usually while you are holding your body and muscles tight and tense, and holding your breath. Dodson considers tension orgasms the most common, favored because they are quick and dirty. She also calls them “peak orgasms” as they offer an intense build up followed by a sudden release. Tension orgasms could be our default because of early sexual experiences, which are often secretive and quick. It’s often been suggested that for men, <a href="http://sexuality.about.com/od/sexualhealthqanda/f/prematureejac.htm">premature ejaculation </a>is a result of learning early on how to get aroused and orgasm quickly. For women too, early experiences can influence later ones, and Dodson encourages people to try to experience more orgasms beyond these, even if they do do the trick. <br><b>Relaxation orgasms.</b> Dodson describes this type of orgasm as coming not from a build up of tension, but from deep relaxation during sexual stimulation, where you continue to release tension and relax your muscles and eventually the orgasm sneaks up on you. As opposed to the “peak orgasm” Dodson cites Shree Rajneesh, a <a href="http://sexuality.about.com/od/spiritualsex">Tantric sex </a>master and author of <a href="http://erclk.about.com/?zi=8/rUG" target="_blank">Tantra, Spirituality and Sex </a>, who refers to these kinds of orgasms as “valley orgasms”. <br><b>Combination or blended orgasms.</b>Ideally orgasm is a fluid process (no pun intended) and if sex play lasts long enough you’ll get to enjoy more than one experience during orgasm, which we can call a combination orgasm. For Dodson, who has been teaching women to orgasm for over 30 years, combination orgasms involve a specific set of actions, including: “clitoral stimulation, vaginal stimulation, PC muscle contractions, pelvic thrusting, and breathing out loud.” One could broaden this definition to include orgasms that offer a variety of experiences and opportunity for you to pay attention to the different waves of orgasmic feelings. <br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Clitoral stimulation.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> Most women require stimulation of the clitoris and labia (the inner lips surrounding the clitoris) during sex to reach orgasm. Prolonged clitoral touch with a gentle, patient hand is, for many, the key to sexual ecstasy. Use sounds and positive words to guide your lover, showing your partner how to stroke you just so.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The sacred spot.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> The mythic Grafenberg Spot (G-spot) is referred to in Tantra as the "sacred spot." This potent and mysterious erogenous zone is located about two to three inches up on the front side of the vaginal channel. When aroused, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a man should slip his ring finger into the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>woman’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>vagina allowing his fingertip to brush against the inner wall. The G-spot is between the size of a pea and a quarter with a slightly rippled texture. For some women, though not for all, gentle stimulation can induce powerful orgasms and even female ejaculate. However, take care not to over-stimulate this sensitive spot.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">The <a href="http://sexuality.about.com/od/gspotfemaleejaculation/a/gspotdebate.htm">g spot debate </a>is far from over, and while Dodson doesn’t discount them, she favors clitoral stimulation at least being in the mix, and offers a wary attitude to those who argue for orgasms that come from penetration alone. Nonetheless, many women report orgasms that come from <a href="http://sexuality.about.com/od/gspotfemaleejaculation/tp/g_spot.htm">g spot </a>stimulation being fundamentally different from orgasms that come from other kinds of stimulation, and given the number of women who have written and talked about it, they certainly deserve a place in the orgasm encyclopedia.<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span>
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<b>Fantasy orgasms-</b>there have been several studies and years of anecdotal reports by women who have orgasms without any physical contact, and from mental fantasy alone. There is a tendency by many to see orgasms from fantasy as being less than other kinds of orgasms, but this attitude seems to come mostly from rigid thinking about the right and wrong way to orgasm, and less from people’s personal experiences.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b>Multiple orgasms. </b>While female multiple orgasms are more often talked about, both men and women are capable of having multiple orgasms. Dodson distinguishes between multiple orgasms and the “aftershocks of pleasure” that follow a big orgasm, which some people might call orgasms, and which allows them to count 20 or 30 orgasms a night. One of the pitfalls of multiple orgasms is the trap of waiting for them and having anxiety about whether or not you’ll have them. Do either of these things and your attention will be taken away from the pleasure you’re feeling, which is a waste of an orgasm whatever number it comes in.</div><div class="MsoNormal">
<b>Big "O" Blockers</b><br><br>So what goes wrong on those nights when a woman cannot seem to orgasm."Nine times out of 10 it's because the woman isn't getting enough continuous clitoral stimulation," Dr. Kerner says. Often, "A woman will get close to orgasm, her partner picks up on it, and [then he either] orgasms immediately or changes what he was doing."<br><br>That's why Dr. Kerner frequently recommends the <a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/the-best-sex-position" target="_blank" title="Best Sex Position for Women">woman-on-top position.</a> Because you control the angle and speed of the thrusts (try a back-and-forth motion so that your clitoris rubs against your partner's abdomen), it allows for the most constant clitoral stimulation.</div><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another solution is to find a position that mimics <a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/masturbation-1" target="_blank" title="How & Why to Masturbate: Health Benefits of Masturbation">how you masturbate.</a> If you have masturbate<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by lying on your belly and rubbing your clitoris with your hands tucked beneath you, then you should have your man can enter you from behind in that position. Letting a man watch you masturbate in your favorite position<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is helpful because by watching you he'll also get a better sense of the stimulation you need.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">Many women get caught up in how the look. "It's when a woman is too concerned with her appearance and/or performance to actually enjoy herself," Dr. Kerner says. There's no way you're going to have an orgasm if you're fretting about your cellulite or stressing over whether your newest as-seen-on-late-night-cable moves feel good for him. Instead, you have to let the erotic sensations register in your mind. Focus. Breathe. Let go. "It may seem counterintuitive," he says, "but you need to relax to build sexual tension."<br><br>The best preparation for a big orgasm is probably a long, steamy shower, full-body massages by and for your man — or 10 minutes of steady oral sex, if you can get it. It's not so much your body that needs the R&R as your mind. "Many women need a transition period between dealing with the stress of everyday life and feeling sexual," Dr. Kerner says. "A few minutes of foreplay usually isn't enough." Doing something ritualistic and soothing that will clear your head of to-do lists, work issues, family problems, and whatever else might be distracting you from connecting with your body is essential to feeling ecstatic.</div><div class="MsoNormal">
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</div><span style="color: black;">Read more: </span><a href="http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/understand_the_female_orgasm/Follow_Her_Lead_Orgasm.php#ixzz1PsHF3xzV"><span style="color: #003399;">http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/understand_the_female_orgasm/Follow_Her_Lead_Orgasm.php#ixzz1PsHF3xzV</span></a> <span style="color: black;"><br></span><a href="http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/sex_relationships/facts/masturbationwomen.htm">http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/sex_relationships/facts/masturbationwomen.htm</a><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/understand_the_female_orgasm/#ixzz1PsExTSCH">http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/understand_the_female_orgasm/#ixzz1PsExTSCH</a><a href="http://healthguide.howstuffworks.com/tantric-sex-dictionary6.htm">http://healthguide.howstuffworks.com/tantric-sex-dictionary6.htm</a><br><a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/anatomy-of-an-orgasm">http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/anatomy-of-an-orgasm</a><br><a href="http://sexuality.about.com/od/orgasms/a/types_of_orgasm_2.htm">http://sexuality.about.com/od/orgasms/a/types_of_orgasm_2.htm</a> <br>Dodson, Betty. Orgasms for Two. 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<i><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>By </span></i><a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Joseph_Ducat" title="EzineArticles Expert Author Joseph Ducat"><i><span style='color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Christie</span></i></a><i><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> LaValley for Under the Covers on Ipmnation.com</span></i><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span>
</div>The prostate is part of the male reproductive system and its primary function is to produce seminal fluid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can be very helpful in stimulating orgasm in males. Women do not have a prostate . The prostate gland can be affected by disease such as prostatitis. Prostatitis is the general term used to describe any prostate inflammation Because the term is so general, it does not adequately describe the range of abnormalities that can be associated with prostate inflammation. <a href name="tocd"></a><br>There are four types of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>recognized prostatitis:<br><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">acute bacterial prostatitis</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">chronic bacterial prostatitis</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">chronic prostatitis without infection</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;">asymptomatic inflammatory prostatitis</li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The prostate can also be affected <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>prostate cancer, the second most deadly cancer among American males. As <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>preventative treatment against prostate cancer and prostatitis, it has been recommended that milking the prostate regularly would be helpful. Prostate milking is also known as prostate massage. It is a fairly simple procedure that you can do yourself. According Joseph<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ducat of EzineArticles.com, here are the steps to take in milking the prostate on your own:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>1. Perform urination or a bowel movement in order to maximize the relaxation of the area.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>2. Make sure that your fingernails are trimmed and have no jagged edges jutting out.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>3. Clean your body and your hands thoroughly. Then put on a sterile latex glove on your hand. Dab a little water-based lubricant on your fingers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>4. Carefully insert your finger or fingers into your anus. Move them gradually upwards and to the back, along the area of the rectum towards the front of your body. Your fingers should be moving in roughly the direction of your navel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>5. You will feel the prostate gland, which is like a small, round bulb about the size of a large walnut. Gently massage it with a light waving motion along its sides, taking care not to press hard on the central area, where the sensitive nerves are located. Avoid touching the prostate gland with your fingernails.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>6. You may experience a disconcerting sensation that makes you feel like going to the bathroom although you do not have to. Try not to let it affect you, and continue with the procedure.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>7. After a few minutes, the prostate gland may be stimulated enough for ejaculation to occur. You are also likely to experience sexual pleasure or orgasm. However, the procedure does not always successfully bring about ejaculation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Joseph says “Prostate milking when used as a preventative treatment may carry a few risks. It is a technique that is not recommended for men who have a disease of the prostate or acute prostatitis, an acute inflammation of the glandular tissue. The problem in such cases is that the act of milking the prostate may cause the infection to spread to other areas of the body.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it is better to do it before you have issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would recommend visiting your doctor before trying to milk your prostate just to make sure everything is good to go.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Article Source: </span><a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Joseph_Ducat"><span style='color: blue; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Joseph_Ducat</span></a><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span>
</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6226418854158660871-7128747477517411335?l=underthecoversonipmnationcom.blogspot.com" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417202011-07-05T18:14:00-04:002013-08-06T12:20:33-04:00Male Orgasm<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> by Christie LaValley for Under the Covers on ipmnation.com</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><span style="color: black;">***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits.</span></i></span> <br><div class="MsoNormal"> </div>
<br><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The male orgasm is a complicated experience. The main function of the male orgasm is the ejaculation of sperm, however, not all men ejaculate with orgasm. This fact is often a surprise to most men. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Ejaculation and the Male Orgasm</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><br>According to</span><span style="color: black;">: <a href="http://www.livestrong.com/article/12496-male-orgasm/#ixzz1QZQEx16Q"><span style="color: #003399;">http://www.livestrong.com/article/12496-male-orgasm/#ixzz1QZQEx16Q</span></a></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> , it is possible to have a male orgasm without ejaculation. </span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Pre-adolescent boys may experience an orgasm without ejaculation.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Some men do not have an ejaculation until several seconds after orgasm. </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Some men, who are incapable of ejaculation, are still capable of orgasm.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Some men, may experience several ejaculations and go on to have further orgasms, but without ejaculation.</span></li>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Physical Experience of the Male orgasm</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><br>The male orgasm seems to have psychological effect as well as a physical effects. Some men experience, an orgasm in just the scrotum and the genital area, while other men report a sensation that expands out to other parts of the body. Still, other men claim that their orgasms full body experience. </span>
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<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'>To understand how the male come to have an orgasm first we must understand how the penis works. </span>Penile erection involves a complex interaction between three of the body systems to work together, the vascular system, the nervous system and the endocrine system. Penile erection happens when two tubular structures, known as the corpora cavernosa become engorged with venous blood, Corpora cavernosa run the length of the penis and usually fill up due to physiological stimuli, also known as sexual stimulation and sexual arousal. The corpus spongiosum, a single tubular structure which contains the urethra may also become slightly engorged with blood, but less so than the corpora cavernosa.<br><i>Nervous System</i><br>When aroused by sexual stimulus, the reflex centers of the spinal cord begin to emit impulses that leave the cord, go to the genitals and initiate emission, the forerunner of ejaculation. <br><br><i>Vascular System</i><br>Many fluids from the vas deferens, the prostate, the ampulla and the seminal vesicles and even more tiny glands), mix and head into the internal urethra by contractions of the groin muscles. The filling of the internal urethra evoke signals that are transmitted through the pudendal nerves from the spinal cord. Increases of pressure in the urethra prompt the semen to be thrusted out, resulting in ejaculation. After ejaculation, erection will subside within one or two minutes in most males.<br><br><i>Endocrine System:</i><br>Levels of testosterone in every man is different and play a major role in and performance.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;'></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>What Happens During the Male Orgasm?</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><br> When an orgasm begins, heart rate, blood pressure and respiration all increase. His pelvic thrusts become less voluntary and muscles of the penis will begin to contract rhythmically in order to eject semen from the urethra</span>. Males are able to reach orgasm from the time they begin puberty. During puberty, many males even reach orgasm during their sleep. This is called a "wet dream."<br>Men are capable of multiple orgasm however, too often when men hear the term “male multiple orgasm,” they view it as experiencing orgasm and ejaculation several times in a row. 15-20% of males in their teens and twenties reported that they were capable of repeated orgasm with ejaculation in a limited period of time. Most men will lost this ability by age 30 or 40’. However, the term male multiple orgasm usually refer to the experience of having several non-ejaculatory orgasms in a row during one session of sex play, which is a different, but intense and satisfying, sexual experience<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal">.</div><h3>Orgasm and Ejaculation are Separate for Men</h3>Just as we are not taught and often surprised women can ejaculate, men rarely taught that orgasm and ejaculation are also separate for men. Because most men learn to orgasm by themselves and share their experience verbally only with other young men, they never learn the distinction between orgasm and ejaculation.. But they are two different experiences, and when men learn to separate them, they can also learn to have more than one orgasm for each ejaculation. A male must to control ejaculation and hold it back, while having several non-ejaculatory orgasms. This is learn from masturbation . A man must discover his own sexual responses and feelings. Some men love these feelings and incorporate them into their regular sexual practice, where others claim that this experience has a spiritual element to it. It is not uncommon that some men will find that even though they are orgasm multiple times that they like ejaculating better. Western are most likely not to be taught the ancient tantric practices as a man in the east is taught.<br><div class="MsoNormal"> To learn more read the blog on” Male multiple orgasm” </div><div class="MsoNormal">Men like women can cheat themselves of orgasm by worrying about their performance. Take turns with your partner rather than worrying about performance. Have your partner agree to turn taking for both orgasm and performance. You will both benefit and will be able to have a more orgasmic productive love life .</div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417212011-06-28T07:28:00-04:002013-08-06T12:20:34-04:00Under The Covers episode 4: female orgasm<div class="MsoNormal"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>By Christie LaValley for Under the Covers on ipmnation.com<span style="color: black;"> <br>***This is in no way is an ad for sex. These are suggestions for your personal life, not for office visits.</span></i></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal">According to several major surveys, only 25 percent of women always climax when having sex with a partner. The rest of women either sometimes do, or never<a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/sex-drive" target="_blank" title="Lost Your Libido? Here's How to Get It Back & Boost Your Sex Dirve"> </a>orgasm during intercourse at all, while 90 percent of men easily orgasm 100 percent of the time. No wonder men love sex! Why is there such a big difference? Elisabeth Lloyd, Ph.D., a biology professor at Indiana University, states in her book<i> The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution</i>, : "The clitoris has the indispensable function of promoting sexual excitement, which induces the female to have intercourse and become pregnant. But the actual incidence of the reflex of orgasm has never been tied to successful reproduction." Translation: Because women can and do get pregnant without climaxing, scientists can't figure out why women orgasm at all. However, most scientists do agree on the how. What they know is that knowledge can help the average girl hit her peak more often.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>A woman's most powerful sex organ lies just between her ears. If a woman can put aside all fear, guilt, stress and a host of other distracting thoughts and concentrate on the <i>feeling</i> of sex rather than any thinking, she is bound to be successful in her quest for orgasm. It is suggested the taking breaks to pleasure each other, manually and orally, is a great way to ward off any lingering diversions and to coax one or more orgasms. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal">There is warm, unique rush women feel during foreplay that results in blood heading straight to their vaginas and clitorises. The walls of the vagina start to swell and secrete these beads of lubrication that slowly gets bigger and eventually start to flow together. Like a man, , blood continues to flood the pelvic area as a woman becomes more turned on. The breathing speeds up, the heart rate increases, and the nipples become erect. The lower part of the vagina narrows to hold the penis while the upper part expands to give the penis someplace to go. Eventually nerve and muscle tension become intense in the genitals, pelvis, buttocks, and thighs. When enough tension builds the body will involuntarily releases all the tension at once in a series of intensely pleasurable waves, aka female orgasm.<br><br> During Female orgasm, the uterus, vagina, and anus will contract simultaneously at 0.8-second intervals. During a small orgasm may consist of three to five contractions; where as a biggie there could ten to fifteen. Everybody is different. Many women report feeling different types of orgasms — clitoral, vaginal, and/ or combinations of the two. It has been found that muscles in other parts of the body may contract involuntarily making women clench their toes or make goofy faces. As for the brain, a recent small-scale study at the Netherlands' University of Groningen found that areas involving fear and emotion are actually deactivated during orgasm. No wonder some of us turn to sex instead of a therapist. The body usually goes into a state of satisfied relaxation.<br><br>Women, like their male counterparts, can experience pelvic heaviness and aching if they do not reach orgasm leaving them with form of "blue balls. Like the male version, it's harmless.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16pt;'>Types of Orgasms:</span>
</div>Betty Dodson’s descriptions of orgasm which she outlines in her excellent book Orgasms for Two come from over 30 years of teaching women to orgasm, and her own orgasmic experience, which may be unparalleled. Her descriptions of orgasm are guided by her own biases, which favors genital stimulation, and while she discounts the experience of some women, these descriptions offer a great starting point to discuss the multitude of ways men and women can experience orgasm. Below is a summary of some of her orgasm types, with additional comments. <br><b>Pressure orgasms.</b> Dodson ties these to early childhood experiences rocking back and forth or masturbating by squeezing your legs together. This orgasm comes from indirect stimulation, no rubbing, but instead applying pressure (by leaning heavily against or on something). As children we may engage in this kind of self soothing and sex stimulating behavior even if it doesn’t result in an orgasm the way we think of them as adults. A study published in the journal Pediatrics in 2005 took note of this very common form of self-stimulation, particularly in young girls. Some adults may bring this behavior into their sex lives and have orgasms from it. <br><b>Tension orgasms.</b> This is the orgasm that comes from direct and intense stimulation usually while you are holding your body and muscles tight and tense, and holding your breath. Dodson considers tension orgasms the most common, favored because they are quick and dirty. She also calls them “peak orgasms” as they offer an intense build up followed by a sudden release. Tension orgasms could be our default because of early sexual experiences, which are often secretive and quick. It’s often been suggested that for men, premature ejaculation is a result of learning early on how to get aroused and orgasm quickly. For women too, early experiences can influence later ones, and Dodson encourages people to try to experience more orgasms beyond these, even if they do do the trick. <br><b>Relaxation orgasms.</b> Dodson describes this type of orgasm as coming not from a build up of tension, but from deep relaxation during sexual stimulation, where you continue to release tension and relax your muscles and eventually the orgasm sneaks up on you. As opposed to the “peak orgasm” Dodson cites Shree Rajneesh, a Tantric sex master and author of Tantra, Spirituality and Sex , who refers to these kinds of orgasms as “valley orgasms”. <br><b>Combination or blended orgasms.</b>Ideally orgasm is a fluid process (no pun intended) and if sex play lasts long enough you’ll get to enjoy more than one experience during orgasm, which we can call a combination orgasm. For Dodson, who has been teaching women to orgasm for over 30 years, combination orgasms involve a specific set of actions, including: “clitoral stimulation, vaginal stimulation, PC muscle contractions, pelvic thrusting, and breathing out loud.” One could broaden this definition to include orgasms that offer a variety of experiences and opportunity for you to pay attention to the different waves of orgasmic feelings. <br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Clitoral stimulation.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> Most women require stimulation of the clitoris and labia (the inner lips surrounding the clitoris) during sex to reach orgasm. Prolonged clitoral touch with a gentle, patient hand is, for many, the key to sexual ecstasy. Use sounds and positive words to guide your lover, showing your partner how to stroke you just so.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>The sacred spot.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'> The mythic Grafenberg Spot (G-spot) is referred to in Tantra as the "sacred spot." This potent and mysterious erogenous zone is located about two to three inches up on the front side of the vaginal channel. When aroused, a man should slip his ring finger into the woman’s vagina allowing his fingertip to brush against the inner wall. The G-spot is between the size of a pea and a quarter with a slightly rippled texture. For some women, though not for all, gentle stimulation can induce powerful orgasms and even female ejaculate. However, take care not to over-stimulate this sensitive spot.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">The g spot debate is far from over, and while Dodson doesn’t discount them, she favors clitoral stimulation at least being in the mix, and offers a wary attitude to those who argue for orgasms that come from penetration alone. Nonetheless, many women report orgasms that come from g spot stimulation being fundamentally different from orgasms that come from other kinds of stimulation, and given the number of women who have written and talked about it, they certainly deserve a place in the orgasm encyclopedia.<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'></span>
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<b>Fantasy orgasms-</b>there have been several studies and years of anecdotal reports by women who have orgasms without any physical contact, and from mental fantasy alone. There is a tendency by many to see orgasms from fantasy as being less than other kinds of orgasms, but this attitude seems to come mostly from rigid thinking about the right and wrong way to orgasm, and less from people’s personal experiences.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<b>Multiple orgasms. </b>While female multiple orgasms are more often talked about, both men and women are capable of having multiple orgasms. Dodson distinguishes between multiple orgasms and the “aftershocks of pleasure” that follow a big orgasm, which some people might call orgasms, and which allows them to count 20 or 30 orgasms a night. One of the pitfalls of multiple orgasms is the trap of waiting for them and having anxiety about whether or not you’ll have them. Do either of these things and your attention will be taken away from the pleasure you’re feeling, which is a waste of an orgasm whatever number it comes in.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"></div><br><span style="color: black;">Sites used in writing this article:</span><br><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/understand_the_female_orgasm/Follow_Her_Lead_Orgasm.php#ixzz1PsHF3xzV"><span style="color: #003399;">http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/understand_the_female_orgasm/Follow_Her_Lead_Orgasm.php#ixzz1PsHF3xzV</span></a> <span style="color: black;"><br></span><a href="http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/sex_relationships/facts/masturbationwomen.htm">http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/sex_relationships/facts/masturbationwomen.htm</a><span style="color: black;"> </span><a href="http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/understand_the_female_orgasm/#ixzz1PsExTSCH">http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/understand_the_female_orgasm/#ixzz1PsExTSCH</a><a href="http://healthguide.howstuffworks.com/tantric-sex-dictionary6.htm">http://healthguide.howstuffworks.com/tantric-sex-dictionary6.htm</a><br><a href="http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/anatomy-of-an-orgasm">http://www.womenshealthmag.com/sex-and-relationships/anatomy-of-an-orgasm</a><br><a href="http://sexuality.about.com/od/orgasms/a/types_of_orgasm_2.htm">http://sexuality.about.com/od/orgasms/a/types_of_orgasm_2.htm</a> <br>Dodson, Betty. Orgasms for Two. 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mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style> <![endif]--> <div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 22.0pt;">HIV and AIDS</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">BY: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rev. Christie LaValley</span></b></div><b>According to Wikipedia the definition of AIDS/HIVis: “Acquired immune deficiency syndrome</b> or <b>acquired immunodeficiency syndrome</b> (<b>AIDS</b>) is a disease of the human <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system" title="Immune system">immune system</a> caused by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV" title="HIV">human immunodeficiency virus</a> (HIV).<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-pmid11396444-0">[1]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-1">[2]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-2">[3]</a></sup> This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunistic_infection" title="Opportunistic infection">opportunistic infections</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor" title="Tumor">tumors</a>. HIV is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_%28medicine%29" title="Transmission (medicine)">transmitted</a> through direct contact of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucous_membrane" title="Mucous membrane">mucous membrane</a> or the bloodstream with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodily_fluid" title="Bodily fluid">bodily fluid</a> containing HIV, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood" title="Blood">blood</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semen" title="Semen">semen</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal_fluid" title="Vaginal fluid">vaginal fluid</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preseminal_fluid" title="Preseminal fluid">preseminal fluid</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_milk" title="Breast milk">breast milk</a>.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-CDCtransmission-3">[4]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-sfaf-4">[5]</a></sup> This transmission can involve <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_sex" title="Anal sex">anal</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal_sex" title="Vaginal sex">vaginal</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_sex" title="Oral sex">oral</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_intercourse" title="Sexual intercourse">sex</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_transfusion" title="Blood transfusion">blood transfusion</a>, contaminated <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodermic_needle" title="Hypodermic needle">hypodermic needles</a>, exchange between mother and baby during <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy" title="Pregnancy">pregnancy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childbirth" title="Childbirth">childbirth</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breastfeeding" title="Breastfeeding">breastfeeding</a> or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids". <b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS</span></b><br><br><sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-Kallings-5"></a></sup> As of 2009, it is estimated that there are 33.3 million people worldwide living with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS" style="color: #444444;" title="HIV/AIDS">HIV/AIDS</a> . There are 2.6 million new <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV" title="HIV"></a> infections per year and 1.8 million annual deaths due to AIDS<sup>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-UNAIDS2007-7"></a></sup> According to UNAIDS 2009 report, some 60 million people have been infected worldwide<sup>.</sup><br><br><sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-UNAIDS2009-8"></a></sup><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_phylogenetics" style="color: black;" title="Molecular phylogenetics">Genetic research</a> indicates that HIV originated in west-central Africa during the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.<sup><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS#cite_note-Worobey-10"></a></sup> AIDS was first recognized by the U.S. in 1981 and its cause, HIV, identified in the early 1980s.<sup></sup><br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><br></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>After being exposed to HIV and actually becoming infected one will often show signs within the first few weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, </span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>one may have no signs or symptoms at all, although still able to transmit the virus to others. Many people may develop a short flu-like illness two to four weeks after becoming infected. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the signs and symptoms may include: </span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Fever</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Headache</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Sore throat</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Swollen lymph glands</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l3 level1 lfo1; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Rash</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>When one should see a doctor</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many illnesses start with this simple array of symptoms, so infection is often overlooked and one never believes that they could have become infected.<b> </b><br>If you think you may have been infected with HIV or are at risk of contracting the virus, seek medical counseling as soon as possible. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>HIV Progression to AIDS</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When receiving no treatment for HIV infection, the disease typically progresses to AIDS in about 10 years. By the time AIDS develops, the immune system has been severely damaged, making one susceptible to opportunistic infection — diseases that wouldn't trouble a person with a healthy immune system. One may remain symptom-free for years.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The actual term AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) applies to the most advanced stages of HIV infection. The definition of AIDS includes all HIV-infected people who have fewer than 200 CD4+ T cells per cubic millimeter of blood.Healthy adults usually have CD4+ T-cell counts of 1,000 or more. The virus continue to multiply and destroy immune cells. One could develop mild infections or chronic symptoms such as: </span></div><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Swollen lymph nodes — often one of the first signs of HIV infection</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Fever , shaking chills or fever higher than 100 F (38 C) for several weeks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Cough and shortness of breath</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Lack of energy, Persistent, unexplained fatigue</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Weight loss </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Frequent fevers and sweats, soaking night sweats</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Persistent or frequent <a href="http://women.emedtv.com/yeast-infection/yeast-infections.html">yeast infections</a> (oral or vaginal) </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Persistent skin rashes, bumps or flaky skin</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Pelvic inflammatory disease (in women) that does not respond to treatment</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Short-term memory loss.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Chronic diarrhea</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Persistent white spots or unusual lesions on your tongue or in your mouth</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Headaches</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Blurred and distorted vision. Vision loss <a href="http://stylingsouls.blogspot.com/" name="chapter_4"></a></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><a href="http://nervous-system.emedtv.com/seizures/seizures.html">Seizures</a> and lack of coordination </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Difficult or painful swallowing </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Mental symptoms, such as confusion and forgetfulness </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Nausea, abdominal cramps, and vomiting </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo4; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Coma. </span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Children with AIDS may also suffer<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>from severe common childhood bacterial infections, such as conjunctivitis , ear infections, and tonsillitis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>HIV is found in body fluids such as semen and vaginal fluids and in blood. HIV cannot live for long outside the body, so to be infected with HIV you need to directly allow some body fluid from an infected person to get inside your body, meaning the virus msy enter the body bu means of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>contact with the bloodstream or by passing through delicate mucous membranes, such as inside the urethra, vagina or rectum </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>The most common ways that people become infected with HIV are:</span></b></div><ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Sexual intercourse with an infected partner.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Injecting drugs using a dirty needle or syringe. Dirty meaning that object <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>has been used by someone who is infected.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Babies of an infected mother, often acquire HIV during pregnancy, labor and delivery, or through breastfeeding.</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Vaginal sex</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>HIV is found in the sexual fluids of an infected person. For a man, this means the pre-come and semen fluids that come out of the penis before and during <a href="http://www.avert.org/sex.htm">sex</a>. For a woman, it means HIV is in the vaginal fluids which are produced by the vagina to keep it clean and to help make intercourse easier. HIV can pass into the woman's body through the lining of the vagina, cervix and womb. The risk of HIV transmission is increased if the woman has a cut or sore inside or around her vagina; HIV can get into the man's body through a sore patch on the penis or by getting into the urethra or the inside of uncircumcised foreskin.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Anal sex</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Being on the bottom of Anal Sex carries a higher risk of HIV transmission than being on the bottom of vaginal intercourse. The lining of the anus is much more delicate than the tougher lining of the vagina. If a man takes the insertive (“top”) position in anal sex with a man or woman who has HIV, then he too risks becoming infected.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Oral sex</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Oral sex carries a small risk of HIV infection. A person giving oral sex (licking or sucking the penis or the vagina ) to a person with HIV, then infected fluid could get into their mouth, bleeding gums or tiny sores or ulcers somewhere in their mouth, means a higher risk of HIV entering their bloodstream. </span>
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>There is also a small risk that a person with HIV <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who gives oral sex when having <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bleeding gums or a bleeding wound in their mouth. Saliva does not pose a risk. HIV infection through oral sex alone seems to be very rare</span>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Contact with any blood during sex</span></b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'> </span>
</div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>increases the chance of infection. Intercourse during a woman's period should be avoided . STDs such as herpes and gonorrhoea – can also raise the risk of HIV transmission.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-indent: .25in;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Drug Injecting</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Drug users that inject are a high-risk group for exposure to HIV. Sharing needles or other <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>equipment is certain to transmit blood-borne viruses such as HIV and/or Hepatitis C. Sharing anything including product used for injecting is three times more likely to transmit HIV than sexual intercourse. Disinfecting equipment between each use can reduce the chance of transmission, but does not eliminate it entirely. If a person is on drugs (including alcohol) then their judgment may be clouded, making them more likely to become involved in risky sexual behavior, which increases the chance of exposure to HIV.</span>
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Mother to child transmission</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Pregnant woman that are infected can pass HIV on to her unborn baby during pregnancy, labor and delivery. HIV can also be transmitted through <a href="http://www.avert.org/hiv-breastfeeding.htm">breastfeeding</a>.</span>
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Infected women can take drugs to greatly reduce the chances of her child becoming infected. </span><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b>
</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Blood transfusions and blood products</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Some have been infected through a transfusion of <a href="http://www.avert.org/blood-safety-hiv.htm" target="_self">infected blood</a>. However, in developed countries all the blood used for transfusions are now tested for HIV, making HIV infection through blood transfusions is now extremely rare. In some developing countries, testing systems are not so efficient and transmission through blood transfusions continues to occur. Blood products, such as those used by people with haemophilia, are now heat-treated to make them safe.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Infection in health-care settings</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Hospitals and clinics now take precautions to prevent the spread of blood-borne infections, including the use of sterile surgical instruments, wearing gloves, and safely disposing of medical waste. In developed countries, HIV transmission in health-care settings is extremely rare. Health-care workers have on rare occasions become infected with HIV by being stuck with needles containing HIV-infected blood.). There have been only a very few documented instances of patients acquiring HIV from an infected health-care worker..</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: .25in; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Tattoos / piercing</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Anything that allows another person's blood to get into another bloodstream carries a risk. Equipment not been sterilized before having a tattoo or piercing, there could pose a significant risk of exposure if the person before was HIV positive. In most developed countries there are hygiene regulations governing tattoo and piercing. Always ask staff at the shop what procedures they take to avoid infection.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>You cannot get HIV from. . .</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Kissing</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Saliva does contain HIV, but the virus is only present in very small quantities and as such cannot cause HIV infection. Both partners would have to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have large open sores in their mouths, or severely bleeding gums, for transmission risk from mouth-to-mouth kissing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Sneezing, coughing, sharing glasses/cups, etc</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>HIV cannot reproduce outside its living host, except under controlled laboratory conditions and does not survive in the open air, making <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the possibility of this type of environmental transmission remote. In practice no environmental transmission has been recorded.HIV cannot be transmitted through spitting, sneezing, sharing glasses, cutlery, or musical instruments. You also can't be infected in swimming pools, showers or by sharing washing facilities or toilet seats.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Insects</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Studies have shown no evidence of HIV transmission through insect bites, even in areas where there are many cases of HIV and AIDS.HIV only lives for a short time and cannot reproduce inside an insect. So, even if the virus enters a mosquito or another sucking or biting insect, the insect does not become infected and cannot transmit HIV to the next human it feeds on or bites.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Injecting drugs with sterile needles</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Injecting with a sterile needle and works will not transmit HIV. If a person is on drugs (including alcohol) then their judgement may be clouded, making them more likely to become involved in risky sexual behaviour, which increases the chance of exposure to HIV.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Protected sex</span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: normal; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style='font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";'> </span></span></span><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Condoms, iIf used correctly and consistently, are highly effective at preventing HIV transmission. Some <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>believe condoms are not adequate ,scientific tests have disproved this theory.Condoms are effective at preventing HIV during both vaginal and anal sex and can help to reduce the risks during oral sex too. </span>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 20.0pt;">Testing</span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'></span></b>
</div><h3><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">One can receive testing at their personal doctors or by visiting their local health Department.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many have the rapid testing which is only a 20 minute test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></h3><h3>IV antibody test</h3>HIV antibody tests are the most appropriate test for routine diagnosis of HIV among adults. Antibody tests are inexpensive and very accurate. The ELISA antibody test (enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent) also known as EIA (enzyme immunoassay) was the first HIV test to be widely used. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When a person becomes infected with HIV, the body responds by producing proteins that fight infection, called antibodies. An HIV antibody test looks for these antibodies in blood, saliva or urine. If antibodies to HIV are present, it means a person has been infected with HIV. <br>Most people will <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>develop detectable HIV antibodies within 6 to 12 weeks. In <b><i>very</i></b> rare cases, it can take up to 6 , it is exceedingly unlikely that someone would take longer than 6 months to develop antibodies. A negative test at three months almost always means a person is not infected with HIV. It is very important to note that if a person is infected with HIV, they can still transmit the virus to others during the window period.<br>ELISA tests are very sensitive and will detect very small amounts of HIV antibody. There is a small chance that a result could come back as ‘false positive’. A false positive result means that a person may not be infected with HIV, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>however,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>antibody test has come back positive. All positive test results are followed up with a confirmatory test, such as:<br><h4><span style="color: windowtext; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Rapid HIV tests</span></h4>These tests are based on the same technology as ELISA tests, but instead of sending the sample out to a laboratory to be analyzed, the rapid test can give results in a short 20 minutes. Rapid tests can use either a blood sample or oral fluids. They are easy to use and do not require highly trained staff or laboratory facilities.<br>All positive results from a rapid test must be followed up with a confirmatory test, the results of which can take from a few days to a few weeks.<br><h3>Antigen test (P24 test)</h3>Antigens are substances found on a foreign body or germ that cause the production of antibodies in the body. The antigen on HIV that commonly provokes an antibody response is the protein P24. Early on in the HIV infection, P24 is produced in excess and can be detected in the blood serum. P24 antigen tests are not usually used for general HIV diagnostic purposes, as they have a very low sensitivity and they only work before antibodies are produced in the period immediately after HIV infection. They are now most often used as a component of 'fourth generation' tests.<br><h3>PCR test</h3>A PCR test (Polymerase Chain Reaction test) detecst the genetic material of HIV instead of the antibodies to the virus, and so it can identify HIV in the blood within two or three weeks of infection. The test is also known as a viral load test and HIV NAAT (nucleic acid amplification testing).<br>Babies that are born to HIV positive mothers are usually tested using a PCR test.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Babies retain their mother's antibodies for several months, making an antibody test inaccurate. Blood supplies in most developed countries are screened for HIV using PCR tests. However, as they are very expensive and more complicated to administer and interpret than a standard antibody test, they are not often used to test for HIV in individuals,<br><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'><a href="http://www.ehow.com/relationships-and-family/"><span style="color: windowtext;">Relationships</span></a></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>Relationships need not be affected in a negative way, although it is realistic to expect that some people will discriminate against you or socially reject you, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is very possible that you will find love and support if you keep positive. 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</div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/13417232011-05-08T02:44:00-04:002013-08-06T12:20:35-04:00What everyone needs to know about Herpes Simplex Type 1 and 2<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;'><br></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Herpes simplex viruses -- more commonly known as herpes -- are categorized into two types: herpes type 1 (HSV-1, or oral herpes) and herpes type 2 (HSV-2, or genital herpes). Most commonly, herpes type 1 causes sores around the mouth and lips (sometimes called fever blisters or cold sores). HSV-1 can cause genital herpes, but most cases of genital herpes are caused by herpes type 2. In HSV-2, the infected person may have sores around the genitals or rectum. Although HSV-2 sores may occur in other locations, these sores usually are found below the waist.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">Amazingly, under a microscope, HSV- 1 and 2 are virtually identical. They share approximately 50% of their DNA. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> Both types infect the body's mucosal surfaces, usually the mouth or genitals, and then establishes residence in the nervous system. The primary difference between the two viral types is in where they typically establish residence in the body. Both Types of Herpes have a </span><span style="font-size: small;"> "site of preference." HSV-1 usually establishes residence the trigeminal ganglion, a collection of nerve cells near the ear. From there, it tends to recur on the lower lip or face. HSV-2 usually sets up residence in the sacral ganglion at the base of the spine. From there, it recurs in the genital area . But not everyone who gets the herpes simplex virus develops cold sores. In some people, the virus stays dormant (asleep) permanently.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How common is it? </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">The disease is very common. According to Wikipedia</span><span style="font-size: small;">,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Worldwide rates of HSV infection are between 65% and 90%.<sup id="cite_ref-Peds09_0-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-Peds09-0">]</a></sup> HSV1 is more common than HSV2 with rates of both increasing as people age.<sup id="cite_ref-Peds09_0-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-Peds09-0">]</a></sup> Rates of infection are determined by the presence of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibodies" title="Antibodies">antibodies</a> against either viral species.<sup id="cite_ref-pmid12353183_62-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-pmid12353183-62">[</a></sup></span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">In the US, 57.7% of the population is infected with HSV-1<sup id="cite_ref-JAMA._2006.3B296:964-973._63-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-JAMA._2006.3B296:964-973.-63">[64]</a></sup> and 16.2% are infected with HSV-2. Among those HSV-2 positive, only 18.9% were aware that they were infected. About 1 million new cases are reported every year. Millions more likely go unreported.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: small;"> About one in five U.S. adults and teens have had a genital herpes infection -- and most don’t know it.. Genital herpes is a chronic, lifelong viral infection. At least 50 million persons in the United States have genital HSV infection. One out of four teens in the United States becomes infected with an</span><span style="font-size: small;"> STD each year and by the age of 25, half of all sexually active young adults will get an STD. Women are more susceptible to herpes.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">STDs can increase the risk of HIV. People with genital herpes have at least twice the risk of becoming infected with HIV if exposed to it than those without it. Read more about herpes and HIV infection. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What Causes Herpes Infections and Outbreaks?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Herpes simplex type 1, through sores on the skin, can be spread through kissing or sharing objects such as toothbrushes or eating utensils. In general, a person can only get herpes type 2 infection during sexual contact with someone who has a genital HSV-2 infection. It is important to know that both HSV-1 and HSV-2 can be spread even if sores are not present.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Pregnant women with genital herpes should talk to their doctor as genital herpes can be passed on to the baby during childbirth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;'><span style="font-size: small;">Some things that can trigger (wake up) the virus and cause attacks (or outbreaks) of herpes can be brought on by the following conditions:</span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">General illness (from mild illnesses to serious conditions)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatigue</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Physical or emotional stress</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Immunosuppression due to AIDS or such medications as chemotherapy or steroids</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trauma to the affected area, including sexual activity</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Menstruation</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sun exposure</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Surgery</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Extreme Heat</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What Are the Symptoms of Herpes Simplex?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">When Herpes wakes up it will leave its home in the </span><span style="font-size: small;">ganglion and follow the nervous system to a weakened nerve cell on the skin.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> As it leave the ganglion it will send out signals it is coming.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">It can stimulate the neurons along the cytoskeletal highway, engendering a tingling sensation. </span><span style="font-size: small;">This is known as prodrome.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Prodrome</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <br>A warning sign (prodrome) is experienced by many people in recurring outbreaks. Warning symptoms which indicate the virus is becoming active, and is on its way to the skin's surface may include: </span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">itching</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">tingling</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">numbness</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">burning</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">general fatigue</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">flu-like symptoms</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">fever</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">swelling of the lymph nodes in the area of outbreak</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">headache</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">painful urination</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">pain in the buttocks, back of legs, lower back</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Weakened Nerve Cells under the skin- The infected area </b>i</span><span style="font-size: small;">s usually painful and may itch, burn or tingle, during the outbreak. Symptoms of herpes simplex virus typically appear as a blister or as multiple blisters on or around affected areas -- usually the mouth, genitals, or rectum. The blisters break, leaving tender sores.<b> </b></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">The first episode is usually the most severe as most people have not been exposed to the virus before and antibodies will not have been produced to trigger the immune response. When the herpes virus gets into skin cells it reproduces itself and starts to multiply, making the skin red and sensitive. Blisters or bumps may appear on the area of contact, the blisters first opening, then healing with the regeneration of new skin tissue</span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">usually develop within 2 to 20 days after contact</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">could continue up to 2 weeks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">may be so mild it goes unnoticed</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">may take longer or be less severe in some people, especially in those with partial immunity to the virus from having another form of herpes</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">the first attack sometimes causes visible sores</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">last between 10 - 21 days</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Other symptoms include:</b></span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">swollen lymph glands </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">painful inflamed blisters develop around infected area </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">headache </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">muscle ache </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">fever </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">vaginal or penis discharge </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">infection of the urethra causing a burning sensation during urination</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">a burning sensation in the genitals </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">lower back pain</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">small red bumps may appear in the genital area following earlier symptoms, later developing into painful blisters, which crust over, form a scab, and heal.</span></li>
</ul><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How is Herpes Spread?</span></b></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Herpes is spread by direct skin to skin contact. Unlike other viruses that you can get through the air, herpes spreads by only by direct contact. For example, if you have a cold sore and kiss someone, you can transfer the virus to their mouth. Likewise, if you have active genital herpes and have vaginal or anal intercourse, you can give your partner genital herpes. Finally, if you have a cold sore and have oral sex by putting your mouth on your partner’s genitals, you can give your partner genital herpes. </span></div><div class="style12" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When Is Herpes Most Likely To Be Spread?</span></b></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Herpes is most easily spread when a sore is present, but, it is also spread at other times too. Some people notice itching, tingling or other sensations before they see anything on their skin. These are called "Prodromal Symptoms" and they warn that virus may be present on the skin. Herpes is most likely to be spread from the time these first symptoms are noticed until the area is completely healed and the skin looks normal again. Sexual contact (oral, vaginal, or anal) is very risky during this time.</span></div><div class="style12" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">Can Herpes Be Transmitted Without Symptoms? <b>Yes! </b>Sometimes those who know they are infected spread the virus between outbreaks, when no signs or symptoms are present. This is called "Asymptomatic Transmission."</span><br><span style="font-size: small;">Research also shows that herpes simplex infections are spread by people who don't know they are infected. These people may have symptoms so mild they don't notice them at all or else don't recognize them as herpes. 60% of infected people do not know they are infected. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> Due to this is are much safer in a relationship with infected person who is familiar with their body and are educated with STDs, then with someone who is uneducated with STDs.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How easily Herpes Spread?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Most people with genital herpes are just as concerned about transmission-the likelihood of spreading the virus to a partner-as about their own health. On the other hand, few people with oral herpes, share this concern. Is this because one type is more contagious than the other?</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">No!!! Both viral types are easily transmitted to their site of preference, and can also be spread to other sites. Both are most contagious during active outbreaks, but are may be spread through viral shedding when there are no recognizable symptoms. According to Spruance, people with recurrent oral HSV-1 shed virus in their saliva about 5% of the time even when they show no symptoms. In the first year of infection, people with genital HSV-2 shed virus from the genital area about 6-10% of days when they show no symptoms, and less often over time. (Both of these figures reflect shedding as detected by viral culture.)</span><span style="font-size: small;"> In other words, The longer someone has had herpes the less likely they are to have a shedding period.</span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">However, possible transmission gets more complicated. Acquisition of one type is more difficult-though certainly possible-if you already have the other type. This is because either type, contracted orally or genitally, causes the body to produce antibodies, some of which are active against both HSV-1 and 2. This acquired immune response gives some limited protection if the body encounters a second type. When a person with a prior HSV infection does contract the second type, the first episode tends to be less severe than when there are no prior antibodies present.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">This means oral HSV-1 is often the most easily acquired herpes infection. Usually the first herpes simplex virus that people encounter, oral HSV-1, is typically spread simply by the kind of social kiss that a relative gives a child. Because children have no prior infection with any HSV type, they have no immune defense against the virus.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">By the time they're teenagers or young adults, about 50% of Americans have HSV-1 antibodies in their blood. By the time they are over age 50, some 80-90% of Americans have HSV-1 antibodies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How Is Herpes Simplex Diagnosed?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Often, the appearance of herpes simplex virus is typical and no testing is needed to confirm the diagnosis. If a health care provider is uncertain, herpes simplex can be diagnosed with laboratory tests, including DNA -- or PCR -- tests and virus cultures.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How Painful Is Herpes Simplex?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Some people experience very mild genital herpes symptoms or no symptoms at all. Frequently, people infected with the virus don't even know they have it. However, when it causes symptoms, it can be described as painful. This is especially true for the first outbreak, which is often the worst. Outbreaks are described as aches or pains in or around the genital area or burning, pain, or difficulty urinating. Some people experience discharge from the vagina or penis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Oral herpes lesions (cold sores) usually cause tingling and burning just prior to the breakout of the blisters. The blisters themselves can also be painful.</span></div><br><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How often does one have an outbreak?</span></b></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Just how much of a physical problem HSV poses for a person depends largely on three factors: </span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">The first is how well the person's immune system is able to control the infection. Differences in immune response may be the main reason that some people are plagued by frequent cold sores or genital herpes outbreaks while others are not. It's also the reason that both HSV-1 and 2 can pose serious challenges for infants, who have a limited immune response; as well as for </span><span style="font-size: small;"> people with compromised immune systems, including people with cancer, AIDS, severe burns, and people taking immunosuppressant medications.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The second factor affecting outbreaks is how long a person has had the infection. Over time, recurrences of both HSV- 1 and 2 tend to decrease, for reasons that aren't entirely clear. In the case of oral HSV-1, many of the approximately 100 million Americans acquired the virus when they were children. By the time they're adults, only some 5% of people are bothered enough to consider oral HSV-1 a medical problem, according to Spruance. Almost all of the approximately 40 million Americans infected with HSV-2 acquired the virus as teenagers or young adults. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> For those with HSV 2, those who have recurring outbreaks experience an average of four to six episodes in the first year. Over time, as with oral infections, the number of outbreaks usually drops off.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The third factor that affects </span><span style="font-size: small;"> the frequency of HSV -1 and 2 outbreaks is whether the virus is took up” home” in its site of preference. While either HSV </span><span style="font-size: small;"> type can infect both genital and oral areas, both types cause milder infections when they are away from "home" territory. When not making “home” in their site of preference, both type 1 and 2 seem to </span><span style="font-size: small;"> lose most of their punch. For example, most people infected with HSV-1 in the genital area have few, if any, outbreaks after the initial episode, far fewer than is typical with either oral HSV-1 or genital HSV-2. While experts estimate that some 30% of genital herpes infections in the United States may be caused by HSV-1, only 2- 5% of recurring genital outbreaks are caused by HSV-1. Research conducted by Lawrence Corey, MD, and colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle shows that genital HSV-2 recurs 10 times more often than genital HSV-1.</span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">According to a study by Wald et al. (New England Journal of Medicine, 1995), among 110 women with genital herpes, the average number of recurrences per year for those with genital HSV-1 was zero. Other studies have shown an average of about one outbreak per year (Benedetti, Annals of Internal Medicine, 1994).</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Similarly, HSV-2 infection in the oral area-outside its site of preference-very rarely causes problems. First of all, oral, HSV-2 infections are rare, for reasons discussed below. But even when an infection occurs, recurrent outbreaks are uncommon. In one study (Lafferty et al., New England Journal of Medicine, 1987), oral HSV-2 recurred an average of 0.01 times a year in newly infected people. "I've never convincingly seen an oral type 2 recurrence," says Spruance.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">A possible fourth factor affecting recurrence rate is viral type. According to the Lafferty study, genital HSV-2 infections were the most frequently recurring herpes infections, followed by oral HSV-1, genital HSV-1, and last of all, oral HSV-2.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Social Views of Herpes </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">When an infected person first tells someone they have genital herpes, they may start by comparing the infection to oral herpes, or cold sores. Despite of scientific facts, the social stigma and negative emotional attitudes when dealing with genital herpes can make it hard to compare it objectively with an oral infection that most people casually accept. Viewing herpes with the negative assumptions of our society, many still believe there is a "good" herpes virus-HSV- 1, the usual cause of cold sores-and a "bad" herpes virus-HSV-2, the usual cause of genital herpes.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">However this is not an absolute. Either type can reside in either or both parts of the body and infect oral and/or genital areas. Unfortunately, many people aren't aware of this, which contributes both to the spread of type 1 and to the misperception that the two types are somehow different.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">"People don't understand that you can have type 1 genitally or orally, that the two types are essentially the same virus,' says Marshall Clover, manager of the National Herpes Hotline." One type is associated with stigma, the other is "'just a cold sore"- our society has a euphemism for it so we don't even have to acknowledge that it's herpes. </span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">While HSV is frustrating and can be a painful condition for some people, in general the virus is less a medical problem than a social problem. For most of us, genital herpes is no more dangerous than a cold sore. However, whether we like it or not, there is </span><span style="font-size: small;"> social prejudice </span><span style="font-size: small;"> that is a reality against someone with genital herpes, no matter which virus causes it, "People have more trouble explaining to a new partner that they have genital herpes, even if it's HSV- 1, than if they have a cold sore," says Glover. "Just saying the word "genital" is like an anvil that pulls the sentence down".</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For people who have trouble dealing with social attitudes toward genital herpes, the blatant double standard society applies to oral herpes can be frustrating, to say the least, but can send many of its infected into isolation, depression or to suicide. Realistically</span><span style="font-size: small;"> though after reading about HSV, wouldn’t</span><span style="font-size: small;"> it better to have this disease in your pants than on your face? Understand if others seem freaked by you without taking it personally.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Can Herpes Be Cured?</span> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">There is no cure for herpes simplex. Once a person has the virus, it remains in the body. The virus lies inactive in the nerve cells of the </span><span style="font-size: small;">trigeminal or sacral ganglion</span><span style="font-size: small;"> until something triggers it to become active again</span>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Prevention:</span></span> </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ways to Reduce Your Risk </span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">1. Use a condom every time you have sex.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">A <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-condoms">condom</a> may protect you from the <a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/default.htm">herpes</a> virus if it covers the infected area. Male condoms offer good protection, only if the infected area on the male is covered or contact with the infected area on the female is prevented. Female condoms may offer better protection as they cover a larger area. Protection is lost if a condom slips or breaks and contact is made with the infected.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> If you touch an infected area, immediately was the area that came in contact with the sores.</span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">2. Ask your partner if he or she has ever had a sexually transmitted disease.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Most people who have genital herpes don't know they're infected, so ask whether he or she has had any other sexually transmitted disease. People with a history of <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/default.htm">STDs</a> are more likely to have genital herpes.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">It may be awkward, but it's important to be honest with each other. Your partner may be afraid to tell you the truth if he or she fears a negative reaction. If your partner feels comfortable talking with you, you'll be more likely to get straight answers.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">3. Ask your partner about his or her sexual history.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Someone who has had many sexual partners is more likely to be infected with the herpes virus.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">4. Limit the number of sexual partners you have.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">The fewer sexual partners you have in your lifetime, the less likely you are to be exposed to the herpes virus.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">5. Look with your eyes. Have sex in the light</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">Don’t go in blind.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> There is nothing wrong with relishing and looking your partner over for possible issues.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> You will both thank yourself later.</span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">6. Don't receive oral sex from somebody with a cold sore or without STD Testing.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"> Oral Herpes which causes sores on the mouth, can be passed to the genitals through oral sex. Plus, who wants gonorrhea of the mouth </span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">7. Ask your partner to be tested for STDs.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">If you think your partner is at high risk for genital herpes and other STDs, you may consider asking him or her to be tested. In that case, you should be tested, too.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">8. Don't have sex while intoxicated.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Alcohol and illicit drugs lower inhibitions and impair judgment. People tend to be less careful about practicing safer sex while intoxicated and they often regret it later.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">9. Wait to have sex.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">The only way to be 100% certain you won't get a sexually transmitted disease is to have just one sex partner who has no STDs -- and only if both of you stay monogamous for life.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Plus the earlier you have sex the more likely you are to contact herpes or another STD.</span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">10. Try alternate forms of sexual intimacy.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">If you don't want to be monogamous or totally celibate until you find a life partner, you could greatly reduce your risk of getting a sexually transmitted disease by doing things that don't involve genital-genital contact or oral-genital contact, such as mutual masturbation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: small;"> You ultimately decide what you are willing to deal with. Make an educated choice.</span></div><h2 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What to Do if Your Partner Has Genital Herpes?</span></h2><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">Getting information on genital herpes is one way to deal with your feelings. </span><span style="font-size: small;">A partner who has genital <a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/default.htm">herpes</a> needs your support and acceptance. The only way you can do that is to be truly educated. It took a lot of courage for your partner to tell you, and it means he or she cares about your well-being, health, and values your trust. They are telling you because you are special to them or they love you.. A good loving partner never wants to share this part of themselves with you. A person who tells you has integrity. They want you to be safe and to trust them with your life. Telling you is the ultimate sacrifice. For yes, you could reject them. And it is your right. Sometimes, as stated on other Herpes website "No good deed goes unpunished" is often a harsh fact of life. But if you care for this person at all, don't let it be that way in your relationship. Of course, your feelings and concerns matter, too. If you're uncomfortable with the idea of having sex with your partner again, or becoming sexually intimate for the first time, you're entitled to feel that way.</span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">But instead of declaring the sexual part of your relationship is over or out of the question, think of ways you can be intimate without risking infection. You can reduce the risk of becoming infected through sexual intercourse by using <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-condoms">condoms</a> and avoiding sex when your partner has symptoms. There will always be some risk, even if you practice safer sex, but you can minimize it as much as possible.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Get Informed About Genital Herpes</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">Educate yourself about genital herpes if your partner has not explained it to your satisfaction. You'll find out that it's not as serious as it may seem, and that people can and do have wonderful relationships </span><span style="font-size: small;"> with great sex even though one of them has genital herpes.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes people in long-term relationships suspect that their partner has been cheating when he or she is diagnosed. That's not necessarily true, so don't make that accusation. Your partner could have been infected years or decades before you met.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Remember some people never have an outbreak.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Also, consider the possibility that you gave your partner herpes. Millions of people live with genital herpes without having a clue that they're infected. In fact, health experts estimate that 60-90% of those who are infected in the United States don't know it. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> A herpes infection doesn't always cause obvious sores on the genitals. In many cases, it causes no noticeable symptoms. Health care professionals say that sex partners of people with herpes should be tested, as that is the only way to know for sure if they are infected or not.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/guide/20061101/mother-to-infant-herpes-transmission"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Reducing Baby’s Risk of Herpes Infection</span></a> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Pregnant women with genital herpes should talk to their doctor as genital herpes can be passed on to the baby during childbirth .Delivering a baby via cesarean section can protect an infant from infection with the herpes simplex virus (HSV). Read more about the recommendations for cesarean section and herpes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How Is Herpes Simplex Treated?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Although there is no cure for herpes, treatments can relieve the symptoms. Medication can decrease the pain related to an outbreak and can shorten healing time. They can also decrease the total number of outbreaks. Drugs including Famvir, Zovirax, and Valtrex are among the medications used to treat the symptoms of herpes. Warm baths may relieve the pain associated with genital sores. There are many ways to treat the disease including: diet, medication, topical ointments, herbs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">First and foremost the disease should be treated by diet. It is possible to significantly reduce outbreaks by eating healthy, avoiding certain foods and taking vitamin supplements to support a healthy immune system.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Diet:</b></span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Avoid alcohol, processed foods, colas, white flour products, surgar refined carbohydrates, coffee, and drugs use. </span></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">The following vitamin supplements are recommended by the book <u>Prescription for Nutritional Healing</u>:</span></div><div align="center" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable"><tbody>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vitamin A</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">50,000 IU daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vitamin B</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">50mg or more 3 times daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vitamin C</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">5,000 – 10,000mg</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zinc chelate</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">50-100mg daily in divided doses</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vitamin E</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">600 IU daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Calcium</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">1500 mg daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Magnesium</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">750 mg daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Medication:</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br>Consult your doctor about the appropriate course of medication for your circumstances. Your doctor will usually prescribe a treatment that follows the CDC recommedations. Their recommended course of treatment depends on whether or not this is the first episode, or a recurring episode. The CDC basic guidelines are as follows: </span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">First episode: Many patients with first-episode herpes present with mild clinical manifestations but later develop severe or prolonged symptoms. Therefore, most patients with initial genital herpes should receive antiviral therapy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">One of the following courses is chosen. </span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 400 mg orally three times a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 200 mg orally five times a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Famciclovir [Famvir] 250 mg orally three times a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Valacyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/products.php?sn=237?img=49&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Valtrex and Valacyclovir">Valtrex</a>] 1 g orally twice a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Recurring episode: Effective episodic treatment of recurrent herpes requires initiation of therapy within 1 day of lesion onset, or during the prodrome that precedes some outbreaks. The patient should be provided with a supply of drug or a prescription for the medication with instructions to self-initiate treatment immediately when symptoms begin. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">One of the following courses is chosen. </span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 400 mg orally three times a day for 5 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 200 mg orally five times a day for 5 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Famciclovir [Famvir] 125 mg orally twice a day for 5 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Valacyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/products.php?sn=237?img=49&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Valtrex and Valacyclovir">Valtrex</a>] 500 mg orally twice a day for 3--5 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Valacyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/products.php?sn=237?img=49&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Valtrex and Valacyclovir">Valtrex</a>] 1.0 g orally once a day for 5 days</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Medication treatment information and dosage suggestions are from the Center for Disease Control treatment recommendations. More info at: <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/2-2002TG.htm#GenitalHerpes">http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/2-2002TG.htm#GenitalHerpes</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Herbs: </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Herbs shown to be effective include mint family herbs such as: lemon balm, oregano, rosemary, sage, and thyme. Herbal teas that include these have shown to be beneficial. Application of lemon balm to sores is reported to be effective at shortening the outbreaks. A popular and effective product containing the essential oil of lemon balm is <a href="http://www.herpescounter.com/info/HBalm.php" target="_blank">HBalm</a>. It has positive results for many people. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Another genital herpes fighting product based on essential oils is H-Away from <a href="http://www.amoils.com/" target="_blank">Amoils.com</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">One promising study of herbal treatments documents that it was able to cure 49% of the study participants. This is the only mention of a cure in a medical study. This may work for many people with <a href="http://www.secret-cures.com/">herpes</a>. More info at: <a href="http://www.herpescounter.com/info/secretcures.php">http://www.secret-cures.com</a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3625840549062929177&postID=7933233423826969713" name="dynamiclear"></a><b>Dynamiclear: </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">Treatment with Dynamiclear has shown amazing results. Most people report that once treated, sores never return. The ingredients are kept a closely guarded secret, but the numerous testimonials prove it is without a doubt one of the most effective products available today. Get it at: <a href="http://www.herpescounter.com/info/dynamiclear.php">http://www.dynamiclear.com</a></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Information for this article was found on these fine websites:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.herpes.com/hsv1-2.html">http://www.herpes.com/hsv1-2.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/guide/genital-herpes-overview-facts">http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/guide/genital-herpes-overview-facts</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.herpescounter.com/#common">http://www.herpescounter.com/#common</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-autospace: none;">
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">This information was compiled for new internet Radio show <u>Under The Covers- Sex Questions Answer</u> on <a href="http://www.ipmnation.com/">http://www.ipmnation.com </a></span></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/1005372011-05-07T20:00:00-04:002020-06-22T16:50:58-04:00What everyone needs to know about Herpes Simplex Type 1 and 2<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18pt;'><br></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Herpes simplex viruses -- more commonly known as herpes -- are categorized into two types: herpes type 1 (HSV-1, or oral herpes) and herpes type 2 (HSV-2, or genital herpes). Most commonly, herpes type 1 causes sores around the mouth and lips (sometimes called fever blisters or cold sores). HSV-1 can cause genital herpes, but most cases of genital herpes are caused by herpes type 2. In HSV-2, the infected person may have sores around the genitals or rectum. Although HSV-2 sores may occur in other locations, these sores usually are found below the waist.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">Amazingly, under a microscope, HSV- 1 and 2 are virtually identical. They share approximately 50% of their DNA. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> Both types infect the body's mucosal surfaces, usually the mouth or genitals, and then establishes residence in the nervous system. The primary difference between the two viral types is in where they typically establish residence in the body. Both Types of Herpes have a </span><span style="font-size: small;"> "site of preference." HSV-1 usually establishes residence the trigeminal ganglion, a collection of nerve cells near the ear. From there, it tends to recur on the lower lip or face. HSV-2 usually sets up residence in the sacral ganglion at the base of the spine. From there, it recurs in the genital area . But not everyone who gets the herpes simplex virus develops cold sores. In some people, the virus stays dormant (asleep) permanently.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How common is it? </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">The disease is very common. According to Wikipedia</span><span style="font-size: small;">,</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Worldwide rates of HSV infection are between 65% and 90%.<sup id="cite_ref-Peds09_0-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-Peds09-0">]</a></sup> HSV1 is more common than HSV2 with rates of both increasing as people age.<sup id="cite_ref-Peds09_0-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-Peds09-0">]</a></sup> Rates of infection are determined by the presence of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibodies" title="Antibodies">antibodies</a> against either viral species.<sup id="cite_ref-pmid12353183_62-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-pmid12353183-62">[</a></sup></span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">In the US, 57.7% of the population is infected with HSV-1<sup id="cite_ref-JAMA._2006.3B296:964-973._63-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#cite_note-JAMA._2006.3B296:964-973.-63">[64]</a></sup> and 16.2% are infected with HSV-2. Among those HSV-2 positive, only 18.9% were aware that they were infected. About 1 million new cases are reported every year. Millions more likely go unreported.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: small;"> About one in five U.S. adults and teens have had a genital herpes infection -- and most don’t know it.. Genital herpes is a chronic, lifelong viral infection. At least 50 million persons in the United States have genital HSV infection. One out of four teens in the United States becomes infected with an</span><span style="font-size: small;"> STD each year and by the age of 25, half of all sexually active young adults will get an STD. Women are more susceptible to herpes.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">STDs can increase the risk of HIV. People with genital herpes have at least twice the risk of becoming infected with HIV if exposed to it than those without it. Read more about herpes and HIV infection. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What Causes Herpes Infections and Outbreaks?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Herpes simplex type 1, through sores on the skin, can be spread through kissing or sharing objects such as toothbrushes or eating utensils. In general, a person can only get herpes type 2 infection during sexual contact with someone who has a genital HSV-2 infection. It is important to know that both HSV-1 and HSV-2 can be spread even if sores are not present.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Pregnant women with genital herpes should talk to their doctor as genital herpes can be passed on to the baby during childbirth.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 12pt;'><span style="font-size: small;">Some things that can trigger (wake up) the virus and cause attacks (or outbreaks) of herpes can be brought on by the following conditions:</span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">General illness (from mild illnesses to serious conditions)</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fatigue</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Physical or emotional stress</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Immunosuppression due to AIDS or such medications as chemotherapy or steroids</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trauma to the affected area, including sexual activity</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Menstruation</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sun exposure</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Surgery</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Extreme Heat</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">What Are the Symptoms of Herpes Simplex?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">When Herpes wakes up it will leave its home in the </span><span style="font-size: small;">ganglion and follow the nervous system to a weakened nerve cell on the skin.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> As it leave the ganglion it will send out signals it is coming.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;">It can stimulate the neurons along the cytoskeletal highway, engendering a tingling sensation. </span><span style="font-size: small;">This is known as prodrome.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Prodrome</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> <br>A warning sign (prodrome) is experienced by many people in recurring outbreaks. Warning symptoms which indicate the virus is becoming active, and is on its way to the skin's surface may include: </span>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">itching</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">tingling</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">numbness</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">burning</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">general fatigue</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">flu-like symptoms</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">fever</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">swelling of the lymph nodes in the area of outbreak</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">headache</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">painful urination</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">pain in the buttocks, back of legs, lower back</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Weakened Nerve Cells under the skin- The infected area </b>i</span><span style="font-size: small;">s usually painful and may itch, burn or tingle, during the outbreak. Symptoms of herpes simplex virus typically appear as a blister or as multiple blisters on or around affected areas -- usually the mouth, genitals, or rectum. The blisters break, leaving tender sores.<b> </b></span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">The first episode is usually the most severe as most people have not been exposed to the virus before and antibodies will not have been produced to trigger the immune response. When the herpes virus gets into skin cells it reproduces itself and starts to multiply, making the skin red and sensitive. Blisters or bumps may appear on the area of contact, the blisters first opening, then healing with the regeneration of new skin tissue</span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">usually develop within 2 to 20 days after contact</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">could continue up to 2 weeks</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">may be so mild it goes unnoticed</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">may take longer or be less severe in some people, especially in those with partial immunity to the virus from having another form of herpes</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">the first attack sometimes causes visible sores</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">last between 10 - 21 days</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Other symptoms include:</b></span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">swollen lymph glands </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">painful inflamed blisters develop around infected area </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">headache </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">muscle ache </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">fever </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">vaginal or penis discharge </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">infection of the urethra causing a burning sensation during urination</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">a burning sensation in the genitals </span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">lower back pain</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">small red bumps may appear in the genital area following earlier symptoms, later developing into painful blisters, which crust over, form a scab, and heal.</span></li>
</ul><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How is Herpes Spread?</span></b></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Herpes is spread by direct skin to skin contact. Unlike other viruses that you can get through the air, herpes spreads by only by direct contact. For example, if you have a cold sore and kiss someone, you can transfer the virus to their mouth. Likewise, if you have active genital herpes and have vaginal or anal intercourse, you can give your partner genital herpes. Finally, if you have a cold sore and have oral sex by putting your mouth on your partner’s genitals, you can give your partner genital herpes. </span></div><div class="style12" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">When Is Herpes Most Likely To Be Spread?</span></b></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Herpes is most easily spread when a sore is present, but, it is also spread at other times too. Some people notice itching, tingling or other sensations before they see anything on their skin. These are called "Prodromal Symptoms" and they warn that virus may be present on the skin. Herpes is most likely to be spread from the time these first symptoms are noticed until the area is completely healed and the skin looks normal again. Sexual contact (oral, vaginal, or anal) is very risky during this time.</span></div><div class="style12" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">Can Herpes Be Transmitted Without Symptoms? <b>Yes! </b>Sometimes those who know they are infected spread the virus between outbreaks, when no signs or symptoms are present. This is called "Asymptomatic Transmission."</span><br><span style="font-size: small;">Research also shows that herpes simplex infections are spread by people who don't know they are infected. These people may have symptoms so mild they don't notice them at all or else don't recognize them as herpes. 60% of infected people do not know they are infected. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> Due to this is are much safer in a relationship with infected person who is familiar with their body and are educated with STDs, then with someone who is uneducated with STDs.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How easily Herpes Spread?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Most people with genital herpes are just as concerned about transmission-the likelihood of spreading the virus to a partner-as about their own health. On the other hand, few people with oral herpes, share this concern. Is this because one type is more contagious than the other?</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">No!!! Both viral types are easily transmitted to their site of preference, and can also be spread to other sites. Both are most contagious during active outbreaks, but are may be spread through viral shedding when there are no recognizable symptoms. According to Spruance, people with recurrent oral HSV-1 shed virus in their saliva about 5% of the time even when they show no symptoms. In the first year of infection, people with genital HSV-2 shed virus from the genital area about 6-10% of days when they show no symptoms, and less often over time. (Both of these figures reflect shedding as detected by viral culture.)</span><span style="font-size: small;"> In other words, The longer someone has had herpes the less likely they are to have a shedding period.</span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">However, possible transmission gets more complicated. Acquisition of one type is more difficult-though certainly possible-if you already have the other type. This is because either type, contracted orally or genitally, causes the body to produce antibodies, some of which are active against both HSV-1 and 2. This acquired immune response gives some limited protection if the body encounters a second type. When a person with a prior HSV infection does contract the second type, the first episode tends to be less severe than when there are no prior antibodies present.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">This means oral HSV-1 is often the most easily acquired herpes infection. Usually the first herpes simplex virus that people encounter, oral HSV-1, is typically spread simply by the kind of social kiss that a relative gives a child. Because children have no prior infection with any HSV type, they have no immune defense against the virus.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">By the time they're teenagers or young adults, about 50% of Americans have HSV-1 antibodies in their blood. By the time they are over age 50, some 80-90% of Americans have HSV-1 antibodies.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How Is Herpes Simplex Diagnosed?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Often, the appearance of herpes simplex virus is typical and no testing is needed to confirm the diagnosis. If a health care provider is uncertain, herpes simplex can be diagnosed with laboratory tests, including DNA -- or PCR -- tests and virus cultures.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How Painful Is Herpes Simplex?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Some people experience very mild genital herpes symptoms or no symptoms at all. Frequently, people infected with the virus don't even know they have it. However, when it causes symptoms, it can be described as painful. This is especially true for the first outbreak, which is often the worst. Outbreaks are described as aches or pains in or around the genital area or burning, pain, or difficulty urinating. Some people experience discharge from the vagina or penis.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Oral herpes lesions (cold sores) usually cause tingling and burning just prior to the breakout of the blisters. The blisters themselves can also be painful.</span></div><br><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">How often does one have an outbreak?</span></b></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Just how much of a physical problem HSV poses for a person depends largely on three factors: </span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">The first is how well the person's immune system is able to control the infection. Differences in immune response may be the main reason that some people are plagued by frequent cold sores or genital herpes outbreaks while others are not. It's also the reason that both HSV-1 and 2 can pose serious challenges for infants, who have a limited immune response; as well as for </span><span style="font-size: small;"> people with compromised immune systems, including people with cancer, AIDS, severe burns, and people taking immunosuppressant medications.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The second factor affecting outbreaks is how long a person has had the infection. Over time, recurrences of both HSV- 1 and 2 tend to decrease, for reasons that aren't entirely clear. In the case of oral HSV-1, many of the approximately 100 million Americans acquired the virus when they were children. By the time they're adults, only some 5% of people are bothered enough to consider oral HSV-1 a medical problem, according to Spruance. Almost all of the approximately 40 million Americans infected with HSV-2 acquired the virus as teenagers or young adults. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> For those with HSV 2, those who have recurring outbreaks experience an average of four to six episodes in the first year. Over time, as with oral infections, the number of outbreaks usually drops off.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The third factor that affects </span><span style="font-size: small;"> the frequency of HSV -1 and 2 outbreaks is whether the virus is took up” home” in its site of preference. While either HSV </span><span style="font-size: small;"> type can infect both genital and oral areas, both types cause milder infections when they are away from "home" territory. When not making “home” in their site of preference, both type 1 and 2 seem to </span><span style="font-size: small;"> lose most of their punch. For example, most people infected with HSV-1 in the genital area have few, if any, outbreaks after the initial episode, far fewer than is typical with either oral HSV-1 or genital HSV-2. While experts estimate that some 30% of genital herpes infections in the United States may be caused by HSV-1, only 2- 5% of recurring genital outbreaks are caused by HSV-1. Research conducted by Lawrence Corey, MD, and colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle shows that genital HSV-2 recurs 10 times more often than genital HSV-1.</span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">According to a study by Wald et al. (New England Journal of Medicine, 1995), among 110 women with genital herpes, the average number of recurrences per year for those with genital HSV-1 was zero. Other studies have shown an average of about one outbreak per year (Benedetti, Annals of Internal Medicine, 1994).</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Similarly, HSV-2 infection in the oral area-outside its site of preference-very rarely causes problems. First of all, oral, HSV-2 infections are rare, for reasons discussed below. But even when an infection occurs, recurrent outbreaks are uncommon. In one study (Lafferty et al., New England Journal of Medicine, 1987), oral HSV-2 recurred an average of 0.01 times a year in newly infected people. "I've never convincingly seen an oral type 2 recurrence," says Spruance.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">A possible fourth factor affecting recurrence rate is viral type. According to the Lafferty study, genital HSV-2 infections were the most frequently recurring herpes infections, followed by oral HSV-1, genital HSV-1, and last of all, oral HSV-2.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Social Views of Herpes </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">When an infected person first tells someone they have genital herpes, they may start by comparing the infection to oral herpes, or cold sores. Despite of scientific facts, the social stigma and negative emotional attitudes when dealing with genital herpes can make it hard to compare it objectively with an oral infection that most people casually accept. Viewing herpes with the negative assumptions of our society, many still believe there is a "good" herpes virus-HSV- 1, the usual cause of cold sores-and a "bad" herpes virus-HSV-2, the usual cause of genital herpes.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">However this is not an absolute. Either type can reside in either or both parts of the body and infect oral and/or genital areas. Unfortunately, many people aren't aware of this, which contributes both to the spread of type 1 and to the misperception that the two types are somehow different.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">"People don't understand that you can have type 1 genitally or orally, that the two types are essentially the same virus,' says Marshall Clover, manager of the National Herpes Hotline." One type is associated with stigma, the other is "'just a cold sore"- our society has a euphemism for it so we don't even have to acknowledge that it's herpes. </span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">While HSV is frustrating and can be a painful condition for some people, in general the virus is less a medical problem than a social problem. For most of us, genital herpes is no more dangerous than a cold sore. However, whether we like it or not, there is </span><span style="font-size: small;"> social prejudice </span><span style="font-size: small;"> that is a reality against someone with genital herpes, no matter which virus causes it, "People have more trouble explaining to a new partner that they have genital herpes, even if it's HSV- 1, than if they have a cold sore," says Glover. "Just saying the word "genital" is like an anvil that pulls the sentence down".</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">For people who have trouble dealing with social attitudes toward genital herpes, the blatant double standard society applies to oral herpes can be frustrating, to say the least, but can send many of its infected into isolation, depression or to suicide. Realistically</span><span style="font-size: small;"> though after reading about HSV, wouldn’t</span><span style="font-size: small;"> it better to have this disease in your pants than on your face? Understand if others seem freaked by you without taking it personally.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Can Herpes Be Cured?</span> </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">There is no cure for herpes simplex. Once a person has the virus, it remains in the body. The virus lies inactive in the nerve cells of the </span><span style="font-size: small;">trigeminal or sacral ganglion</span><span style="font-size: small;"> until something triggers it to become active again</span>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>Prevention:</span></span> </span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ways to Reduce Your Risk </span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">1. Use a condom every time you have sex.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">A <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-condoms">condom</a> may protect you from the <a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/default.htm">herpes</a> virus if it covers the infected area. Male condoms offer good protection, only if the infected area on the male is covered or contact with the infected area on the female is prevented. Female condoms may offer better protection as they cover a larger area. Protection is lost if a condom slips or breaks and contact is made with the infected.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> If you touch an infected area, immediately was the area that came in contact with the sores.</span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">2. Ask your partner if he or she has ever had a sexually transmitted disease.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Most people who have genital herpes don't know they're infected, so ask whether he or she has had any other sexually transmitted disease. People with a history of <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/default.htm">STDs</a> are more likely to have genital herpes.</span></div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">It may be awkward, but it's important to be honest with each other. Your partner may be afraid to tell you the truth if he or she fears a negative reaction. If your partner feels comfortable talking with you, you'll be more likely to get straight answers.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">3. Ask your partner about his or her sexual history.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Someone who has had many sexual partners is more likely to be infected with the herpes virus.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">4. Limit the number of sexual partners you have.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">The fewer sexual partners you have in your lifetime, the less likely you are to be exposed to the herpes virus.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">5. Look with your eyes. Have sex in the light</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">Don’t go in blind.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> There is nothing wrong with relishing and looking your partner over for possible issues.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> You will both thank yourself later.</span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">6. Don't receive oral sex from somebody with a cold sore or without STD Testing.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;"> Oral Herpes which causes sores on the mouth, can be passed to the genitals through oral sex. Plus, who wants gonorrhea of the mouth </span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">7. Ask your partner to be tested for STDs.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">If you think your partner is at high risk for genital herpes and other STDs, you may consider asking him or her to be tested. In that case, you should be tested, too.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">8. Don't have sex while intoxicated.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Alcohol and illicit drugs lower inhibitions and impair judgment. People tend to be less careful about practicing safer sex while intoxicated and they often regret it later.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">9. Wait to have sex.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">The only way to be 100% certain you won't get a sexually transmitted disease is to have just one sex partner who has no STDs -- and only if both of you stay monogamous for life.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Plus the earlier you have sex the more likely you are to contact herpes or another STD.</span>
</div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">10. Try alternate forms of sexual intimacy.</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">If you don't want to be monogamous or totally celibate until you find a life partner, you could greatly reduce your risk of getting a sexually transmitted disease by doing things that don't involve genital-genital contact or oral-genital contact, such as mutual masturbation.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: small;"> You ultimately decide what you are willing to deal with. Make an educated choice.</span></div><h2 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What to Do if Your Partner Has Genital Herpes?</span></h2><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">Getting information on genital herpes is one way to deal with your feelings. </span><span style="font-size: small;">A partner who has genital <a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/default.htm">herpes</a> needs your support and acceptance. The only way you can do that is to be truly educated. It took a lot of courage for your partner to tell you, and it means he or she cares about your well-being, health, and values your trust. They are telling you because you are special to them or they love you.. A good loving partner never wants to share this part of themselves with you. A person who tells you has integrity. They want you to be safe and to trust them with your life. Telling you is the ultimate sacrifice. For yes, you could reject them. And it is your right. Sometimes, as stated on other Herpes website "No good deed goes unpunished" is often a harsh fact of life. But if you care for this person at all, don't let it be that way in your relationship. Of course, your feelings and concerns matter, too. If you're uncomfortable with the idea of having sex with your partner again, or becoming sexually intimate for the first time, you're entitled to feel that way.</span>
</div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">But instead of declaring the sexual part of your relationship is over or out of the question, think of ways you can be intimate without risking infection. You can reduce the risk of becoming infected through sexual intercourse by using <a href="http://www.webmd.com/sex/birth-control/birth-control-condoms">condoms</a> and avoiding sex when your partner has symptoms. There will always be some risk, even if you practice safer sex, but you can minimize it as much as possible.</span></div><h3 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">Get Informed About Genital Herpes</span></h3><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">Educate yourself about genital herpes if your partner has not explained it to your satisfaction. You'll find out that it's not as serious as it may seem, and that people can and do have wonderful relationships </span><span style="font-size: small;"> with great sex even though one of them has genital herpes.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Sometimes people in long-term relationships suspect that their partner has been cheating when he or she is diagnosed. That's not necessarily true, so don't make that accusation. Your partner could have been infected years or decades before you met.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Remember some people never have an outbreak.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Also, consider the possibility that you gave your partner herpes. Millions of people live with genital herpes without having a clue that they're infected. In fact, health experts estimate that 60-90% of those who are infected in the United States don't know it. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> A herpes infection doesn't always cause obvious sores on the genitals. In many cases, it causes no noticeable symptoms. Health care professionals say that sex partners of people with herpes should be tested, as that is the only way to know for sure if they are infected or not.</span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/guide/20061101/mother-to-infant-herpes-transmission"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Reducing Baby’s Risk of Herpes Infection</span></a> </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Pregnant women with genital herpes should talk to their doctor as genital herpes can be passed on to the baby during childbirth .Delivering a baby via cesarean section can protect an infant from infection with the herpes simplex virus (HSV). Read more about the recommendations for cesarean section and herpes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">How Is Herpes Simplex Treated?</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Although there is no cure for herpes, treatments can relieve the symptoms. Medication can decrease the pain related to an outbreak and can shorten healing time. They can also decrease the total number of outbreaks. Drugs including Famvir, Zovirax, and Valtrex are among the medications used to treat the symptoms of herpes. Warm baths may relieve the pain associated with genital sores. There are many ways to treat the disease including: diet, medication, topical ointments, herbs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">First and foremost the disease should be treated by diet. It is possible to significantly reduce outbreaks by eating healthy, avoiding certain foods and taking vitamin supplements to support a healthy immune system.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Diet:</b></span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Avoid alcohol, processed foods, colas, white flour products, surgar refined carbohydrates, coffee, and drugs use. </span></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">The following vitamin supplements are recommended by the book <u>Prescription for Nutritional Healing</u>:</span></div><div align="center" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoNormalTable"><tbody>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vitamin A</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">50,000 IU daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vitamin B</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">50mg or more 3 times daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vitamin C</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">5,000 – 10,000mg</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Zinc chelate</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">50-100mg daily in divided doses</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Vitamin E</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">600 IU daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Calcium</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">1500 mg daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">Magnesium</span></div></td> <td style="padding: 0.75pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">750 mg daily</span></div></td> </tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Medication:</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br>Consult your doctor about the appropriate course of medication for your circumstances. Your doctor will usually prescribe a treatment that follows the CDC recommedations. Their recommended course of treatment depends on whether or not this is the first episode, or a recurring episode. The CDC basic guidelines are as follows: </span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">First episode: Many patients with first-episode herpes present with mild clinical manifestations but later develop severe or prolonged symptoms. Therefore, most patients with initial genital herpes should receive antiviral therapy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">One of the following courses is chosen. </span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 400 mg orally three times a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 200 mg orally five times a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Famciclovir [Famvir] 250 mg orally three times a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Valacyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/products.php?sn=237?img=49&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Valtrex and Valacyclovir">Valtrex</a>] 1 g orally twice a day for 7--10 days</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Recurring episode: Effective episodic treatment of recurrent herpes requires initiation of therapy within 1 day of lesion onset, or during the prodrome that precedes some outbreaks. The patient should be provided with a supply of drug or a prescription for the medication with instructions to self-initiate treatment immediately when symptoms begin. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">One of the following courses is chosen. </span></div><ul style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;' type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 400 mg orally three times a day for 5 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Acyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/online-pharmacy/buy-zovirax-online/193.html?img=31&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Zovirax and Acyclovir">Zovirax</a>] 200 mg orally five times a day for 5 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Famciclovir [Famvir] 125 mg orally twice a day for 5 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Valacyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/products.php?sn=237?img=49&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Valtrex and Valacyclovir">Valtrex</a>] 500 mg orally twice a day for 3--5 days</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">OR Valacyclovir [<a href="http://www.xlpharmacy.com/products.php?sn=237?img=49&kbid=18822" target="_blank" title="Best prices on Herpes Medication Valtrex and Valacyclovir">Valtrex</a>] 1.0 g orally once a day for 5 days</span></li>
</ul><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Medication treatment information and dosage suggestions are from the Center for Disease Control treatment recommendations. More info at: <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/2-2002TG.htm#GenitalHerpes">http://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment/2-2002TG.htm#GenitalHerpes</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Herbs: </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Herbs shown to be effective include mint family herbs such as: lemon balm, oregano, rosemary, sage, and thyme. Herbal teas that include these have shown to be beneficial. Application of lemon balm to sores is reported to be effective at shortening the outbreaks. A popular and effective product containing the essential oil of lemon balm is <a href="http://www.herpescounter.com/info/HBalm.php" target="_blank">HBalm</a>. It has positive results for many people. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Another genital herpes fighting product based on essential oils is H-Away from <a href="http://www.amoils.com/" target="_blank">Amoils.com</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">One promising study of herbal treatments documents that it was able to cure 49% of the study participants. This is the only mention of a cure in a medical study. This may work for many people with <a href="http://www.secret-cures.com/">herpes</a>. More info at: <a href="http://www.herpescounter.com/info/secretcures.php">http://www.secret-cures.com</a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;'><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=3625840549062929177&postID=7933233423826969713" name="dynamiclear"></a><b>Dynamiclear: </b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'>
<span style="font-size: small;">Treatment with Dynamiclear has shown amazing results. Most people report that once treated, sores never return. The ingredients are kept a closely guarded secret, but the numerous testimonials prove it is without a doubt one of the most effective products available today. Get it at: <a href="http://www.herpescounter.com/info/dynamiclear.php">http://www.dynamiclear.com</a></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; line-height: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Information for this article was found on these fine websites:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.herpes.com/hsv1-2.html">http://www.herpes.com/hsv1-2.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/guide/genital-herpes-overview-facts">http://www.webmd.com/genital-herpes/guide/genital-herpes-overview-facts</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.herpescounter.com/#common">http://www.herpescounter.com/#common</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; punctuation-wrap: simple; text-autospace: none;">
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><div class="MsoNormal" style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">This information was compiled for new internet Radio show <u>Under The Covers- Sex Questions Answer</u> on <a href="http://www.ipmnation.com/">http://www.ipmnation.com </a></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3625840549062929177-7933233423826969713?l=stylingsouls.blogspot.com" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/1005382011-04-21T20:00:00-04:002022-03-14T09:10:32-04:00John Hopkins Update on Cancer<span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 24pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_5" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">Johns Hopkins</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 24pt;"> Update -</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt;"><br>This is an extremely good article. Everyone should read it.</span> <div class="ecxyiv1229988705ecxmsonormal">
<span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br>AFTER YEARS OF TELLING PEOPLE CHEMOTHERAPY IS THE ONLY WAY TO TRY ('TRY', BEING THE KEY WORD) TO ELIMINATE CANCER, <u>JOHNS HOPKINS IS FINALLY STARTING TO TELL YOU</u> THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE WAY.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>Cancer Update from <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_6">Johns Hopkins</span>:</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>1. <u>Every person has </u></span><u><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_7" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">cancer cells</span></span></u><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> in the body</span></u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">. These </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_8">cancer <br> cells</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> do not show up in the standard tests until they have<br> multiplied to a few billion. When doctors tell cancer patients<br> that there are no </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_9">more cancer cells</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> in their bodies after <br> treatment, it just means the tests are unable to detect the<br> <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_10">cancer cells</span> because they have not reached the detectable<br> size.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>2. Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a <br> person's lifetime.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>3. <u>When the person's immune system</u> is strong the </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_11" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; cursor: pointer;">cancer <br> cells</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> will be destroyed and prevented from multiplying and<br> forming tumors.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>4. When a person has cancer it indicates the person has<br> <u> </u></span><u><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_12">nutritional deficiencies</span></span></u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">. These could be due to genetic,<br> but also to <u>environmental, <strong>food</strong> and lifestyle factors</u>.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>5. To overcome the multiple nutritional deficiencies,<u> changing</u><br> <u>diet</u> to eat more adequately and healthy, 4-5 times/day</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br> and by including supplements will strengthen the immune system.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>6. </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_13" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">Chemotherapy</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <u>involves poisoning</u> the rapidly-growing<br> cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells<br> in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and can <br> cause organ damage, like liver, kidneys, heart, lungs etc.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>7.. Radiation while destroying cancer cells <u>also</u> burns, scars <br> and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>8. Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often<br> reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of<br> chemotherapy and radiation do not result in more tumor<br> destruction.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>9. When the body has too much toxic burden from<br> chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either<br> compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb<br> to various kinds of infections and complications.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>10. Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to<br> mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy.<br> Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other<br> sites.<br><br>11. An effective way to battle cancer is to starve the </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_14">cancer<br> cells</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply. <u><br><br>*CANCER CELLS FEED ON:</u><br><br>a. </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_15">Sugar substitutes</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> like </span><u><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_16">NutraSweet</span></span></u><u><span style="color: #c20000; font-size: 13.5pt;">, Equal, Spoonful, etc are made</span></u><span style="color: #c20000; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br> <u>with Aspartame and it is harmful</u></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">. A better natural substitute<br> would be Manuka honey or molasses, but only in very small<br> amounts. </span><u><span style="color: #c20000; font-size: 13.5pt;">Table salt</span></u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> has a chemical added to make it white in<br> color Better alternative is Bragg's aminos or <u>sea salt</u>.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>b. <u>Milk </u>causes the body to produce mucus, especially in the<br> gastro-intestinal tract. <u>Cancer feeds on mucus</u>. By cutting<br> off milk and substituting with unsweetened </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_17">soy milk cancer</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> cells are being starved.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>c. Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. </span><u><span style="color: #c20000; font-size: 13.5pt;">A meat-based</span></u><span style="color: #c20000; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br> <u> diet</u></span><span style="color: #000061; font-size: 13.5pt;"> is acidic </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">and it is best to eat fish, and a little other meat,</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br> like chicken. Meat also contains livestock<br> antibiotics, </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_18" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">growth hormones</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> and parasites, which are all<br> harmful, especially to people with cancer.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span>
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<span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">d. A diet made of <u>80%</u> fresh vegetables and juice, </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_19">whole<br> grains</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">, seeds, nuts and a little fruits help put the body into<br> an <u>alkaline environment</u>. About 20% can be from cooked<br> food including beans. </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_20" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">Fresh vegetable juices</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> provide live<br> enzymes that are easily absorbed and reach down to<br> cellular levels within 15 minutes to nourish and enhance<br> growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building<br> healthy cells try and drink fresh </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_21" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">vegetable juice</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> (most<br> vegetables including be an sprouts) and eat some raw<br> vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. <u>Enzymes are destroyed</u> at<br> temperatures of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C)..</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>e. Avoid <u>coffee, tea, and chocolate</u>, which have high<br> caffeine </span><u><span style="color: #c20000; font-size: 13.5pt;">Green tea</span></u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> is a better alternative and has cancer<br> fighting properties. Water-best to drink purified water, or<br> filtered, to avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap<br> water. </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_22" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">Distilled water</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> is acidic, avoid it. <br><br>12. <u>Meat protein</u> is difficult to digest and requires a lot of<br> </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_23">digestive enzymes</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">. Undigested meat remaining in the<br> intestines becomes putrefied and leads to more toxic<br> buildup.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>13. </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_24">Cancer cell walls</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> have a tough protein covering. By<br> refraining from or eating less meat it frees more enzymes<br> to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the<br> body's killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>14. <u>Some supplements</u> build up the immune system<br> (IP6, Flor-ssence, Essiac, anti-oxidants, vitamins, minerals,<br> EFAs etc.) to enable the bodies own killer cells to destroy<br> cancer cells.. <u>Other supplements</u> like vitamin E are known<br> to cause apoptosis, or </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_25" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">programmed cell death</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">, the body's<br> normal method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or<br> unneeded cells.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>15. Cancer is a disease of the <u>mind, body, and spirit</u>.<br> A proactive and positive spirit will help the cancer warrior<br> be a survivor. <u>Anger, un-forgiveness and bitterness</u> put<br> the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to<br> have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy<br> life.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>16. Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated<br> environment. <u>Exercising daily</u>, and <u>deep breathing </u>help to<br> get more oxygen down to the cellular level. </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_26" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">Oxygen <br> therapy</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> is another means employed to destroy <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_27">cancer<br> cells</span>.</span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>1. </span><span style="color: #c20000; font-size: 13.5pt;">No </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_28">plastic containers</span></span><span style="color: #c20000; font-size: 13.5pt;"> <u>in micro</u>. </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>2. </span><span style="color: #c20000; font-size: 13.5pt;">No water bottles <u>in freezer</u>. </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>3. </span><span style="color: #c20000; font-size: 13.5pt;">No plastic wrap <u>in microwave</u>.. </span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br><br>Johns Hopkins has recently sent this out in its newsletters. This information is being circulated at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as well. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_29" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">breast cancer</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">.<u> </u></span><u><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_30">Dioxins</span></span></u><u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;"> are highly poisonous </span></u><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">to the cells of our bodies. Don't freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. Recently, Dr Edward Fujimoto, Wellness Program Manager at Castle Hospital , was on a TV program to explain this</span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;">health hazard</span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">. He talked about dioxins and how bad they are for us. He said that we should not be heating our food in the microwave using <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_31">plastic containers</span>. This especially applies to foods that contain fat He said that the combination of fat, high heat, and plastics releases dioxin into the food and ultimately into the cells of the body. Instead, he recommends using glass, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food You get the same results, only without the dioxin. So such things as </span><span style="color: #366388; font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1303469990_32">TV dinners</span></span><span style="color: navy; font-size: 13.5pt;">, instant ramen and soups, etc., should be removed from the container and heated in something else. Paper isn't bad but you don't know what is in the paper. It's just safer to use tempered glass, Corning Ware, etc. He reminded us that a while ago some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper The dioxin problem is one of the reasons. <br>Please share this with your whole email list......................... <br>Also, he pointed out that <u>plastic wrap, such as Saran</u>, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As the food is nuked, the high heat causes poisonous toxins to actually melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food. Cover food with a paper towel instead. </span><b><i><span style="color: navy; font-size: 36pt;"><br></span></i></b>
</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3625840549062929177-5384077982574505793?l=stylingsouls.blogspot.com" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/1005392011-04-07T20:00:00-04:002019-09-23T04:28:55-04:00How to remain happy everyday<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> I found this great blogger - Hamazi. Here just one of his writing. Check him out @ http://change-today.blogspot.com/2011/04/ow-to-remain-happy-everyday.html</h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title">How to Remain Happy Everyday </h3><div class="post-header"></div><div class="post-body entry-content">
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">So how can you remain happy everyday? Or how can you actually learn how to 'practice' happiness? Here are three simple ways to help you get started.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>1. Practicing gratitude.</b></div>
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">By practicing gratitude and being thankful for the things you have, you will find it a lot easier to be happy with what you already have in your life. Just take a look at someone who is unhappy and you would find that most of the time it is because they are actually expecting or wanting something that they currently do not have in their lives. This actually prevents them from being happy with the things they already have!</div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Not practicing gratitude is probably the main cause of unhappiness, and all of us fall into this bad habit sometimes. But the more you start to become thankful for the things you have in life, the more happy and joyous you will be!</div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Like the old cliché always go: Laughter is the best medicine. I am sure that you already know that it is actually really difficult to laugh and still be unhappy for long. In fact, laughter is currently probably the best or strongest cure for unhappiness now. The reason behind this is because laughter actually helps to takes the edge off of something bad and clears your mind of worry and anxiety.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Maybe you would think that if something is really bad, you would not be able to laugh or feel like laughing. But that is totally not true at all, and that is also the best thing about laughter - it is quite difficult to control and can happen anytime whether you like it a not. Laughter is almost uncontrollable, spontaneous, yet wonderful at the same time. So start keeping a collection of funny movies or recordings of great comedians, and make laughter a part of your life!</div>
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;">Usually, the main cause of emotional pain and unhappiness is because one feels that his life lacks a sense of direction or purpose and that his growth is stagnant. Everybody requires something in their lives that will be able to provide them with a sense of purpose and also allowing them to grow at the same time. Thus just by having a strong sense of purpose and having constant growth, one would be able to remain happy.</div>
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</div><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn">hamza</span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="http://change-today.blogspot.com/2011/04/ow-to-remain-happy-everyday.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-04-07T14:58:00Z">2:58 PM</abbr></a> </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3625840549062929177-456742534839749037?l=stylingsouls.blogspot.com" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/1005402011-03-04T19:00:00-05:002022-05-21T07:30:40-04:00Summary of The four Agreements based on the writings of don Miguel Ruiz.<div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'><span style="font-size: small;">The following is an overview of the meaning of each of The Four Agreements, based on the writings of <a href="http://www.humanpotentialunlimited.com/Toltecs-content.html">don Miguel Ruiz</a>.</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'></span> <h2 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Be Impeccable with Your Word</span></h2><h4 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.</span></h4><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: small;">Impeccable means “without sin” and a sin is something you do or believe that goes against yourself. It means not speaking against yourself, to yourself or to others. It means not rejecting yourself. To be impeccable means to take responsibility for yourself, to not participate in “the blame game.”<br><br>Regarding the word, the rules of “action-reaction” apply. What you put out energetically will return to you. Proper use of the word creates proper use of energy, putting out love and gratitude perpetuates the same in the universe. The converse is also true. <br><br>Impeccability starts at home. Be impeccable with yourself and that will reflect in your life and your relationships with others. This agreement can help change thousands of other agreements, especially ones that create fear instead of love.</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><br style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'></span> <h2 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Don't Take Anything Personally</span></h2><h4 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.</span></h4><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: small;">We take things personally when we agree with what others have said. If we didn't agree, the things that others say would not affect us emotionally. If we did not care about what others think about us, their words or behavior could not affect us.<br><br>Even if someone yells at you, gossips about you, harms you or yours, it still is not about you! Their actions and words are based on what they believe in their personal dream. <br><br>Our personal “Book of Law” and belief system makes us feel safe. When people have beliefs that are different from our own, we get scared, defend ourselves, and impose our point of view on others. If someone gets angry with us it is because our belief system is challenging their belief system and they get scared. They need to defend their point of view. Why become angry, create conflict, and expend energy arguing when you are aware of this?</span> </div><span style="font-size: small;"><br style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'></span> <h2 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Don't Make Assumptions</span></h2><h4 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.</span></h4><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'>
<span style="font-size: small;"> When we make assumptions it is because we believe we know what others are thinking and feeling. We believe we know their point of view, their dream. We forget that our beliefs are just our point of view based on our belief system and personal experiences and have nothing to do with what others think and feel. <br><br>We make the assumption that everybody judges us, abuses us, victimizes us, and blames us the way we do ourselves. As a result we reject ourselves before others have the chance to reject us. When we think this way, it becomes difficult to be ourselves in the world.<br><br>Take action and be clear to others about what you want or do not want; do not gossip and make assumptions about things others tell you. Respect other points of view and avoid arguing just to be right. Respect yourself and be honest with yourself. Stop expecting the people around you to know what is in your head.</span> </div><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> </div><h2 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Always Do Your Best</span></h2><h4 style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-weight: normal;'><span style="font-size: small;">Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.</span></h4><div style='font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;'> <span style="font-size: small;">Doing your best means enjoying the action without expecting a reward. The pleasure comes from doing what you like in life and having fun, not from how much you get paid. Enjoy the path traveled and the destination will take care of itself.<br><br>Living in the moment and releasing the past helps us to do the best we can in the moment. It allows us to be fully alive right now, enjoying what is present, not worrying about the past or the future.<br><br>Have patience with yourself. Take action. Practice forgiveness. If you do your best always, transformation will happen as a matter of course.</span> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3625840549062929177-8923795030108220762?l=stylingsouls.blogspot.com" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/1005412011-03-01T19:00:00-05:002024-01-20T02:31:44-05:00Hobbies make you Healthier.In searching for a way to be healthier and happier even though I could not afford to do things I found out some interesting facts about hobbies. Reading the article not only proved to me hobbies are life giving, but explained a little about my personality. People have always asked me if there was nothing I could not do. I have always searched out hobbies and I have become quite proficient at many of them. As a matter of fact, I made a few of them my work. Now, I enjoy everyday and try to find new ways to enjoy myself in my off time. I am a healthy hobbyist.<br><br> According to Wikipedia, a hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit. Hobbies are practiced for interest and enjoyment, rather than financial reward.<br><br>Hobbies can engage you physically and mentally. People who have a hobby "are generally healthier," says Peter Lichtenberg, Ph.D., director of the Institute of Gerontology at Wayne State University. "We also know they are at a lower risk for depression and dementia. The great value of hobbies is they're a way for people to stay engaged on multiple levels."<br><br>Most hobbies involve at least some level of mental activity, Dr. Lichtenberg says. Because we enjoy most things more when we share them, hobbies offer a reason to stay connected to other people with similar interests.<br>According to a study at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, men with no hobbies have higher levels of illness and take more sick leave than their more involved counterparts.<br><br>It has also been shown that mortality risks are significantly higher in urban men who don't participate in hobbies, club activities or community groups, according to a study of more than 3,000 men by researchers at Gunma University School of Medicine in Maebashi, Japan.<br><br>And in Canada, researchers from the University of Manitoba have shown that higher overall activity levels in older people promote happiness, improve functioning and lower mortality rates.<br><br>What's more, while the social and productive activities tend to produce physical benefits in terms of health and longevity, the more solitary pursuits, such as handiwork hobbies or a love of reading, bring more psychological benefits in providing a sense of engagement with life.<br>Even in centenarians, and among those with disabilities, ‘maintenance of social relationships is of major importance for survival', according to a study from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza'.<br><br>What kind of hobby is best? Hobbies that require expertise are more satisfying, Dr. Lichtenberg says. That's because developing an expertise in something like photography or astronomy requires commitment, and commitment results in a higher level of engagement. Of course, hobbies that involve physical fitness, such as walking, "provide a physical benefit as well," he says.<br><br>Psychologist Michael Brickey, Ph.D., is the author of the book Defy Aging. His focus is on helping people stay physically and mentally active so they can enjoy their later years. Dr. Brickey says hobbies help by reducing stress and providing a sense of accomplishment.<br><br>"Hobbies can be thought of on three levels," Dr. Brickey says. "The first is as a diversion. Hobbies help us pass the time. The second is as a passion. When a hobby becomes a passion, we become truly engaged in doing something we love. It not only helps us pass time, it makes us unaware that time is passing. The third level is as something that creates a sense of purpose. We all need that." The ideal hobby, he says, combines all three levels.<br><br>Before deciding on your new hobby, it may be helpful to think about things that you wanted to learn to do in the past, but for whatever reason did not. If any of those old ideas still appeal to you, making it happen might actually end up resulting in the fulfillment of an old and forgotten dream.<br><br>3 things to help you find the hobby that fits you:<br>1. Try each thing at least 3 times before you kick it to the curb. The first couple of times trying something new can be awkward and less than encouraging. Give a few tries to get the hang of it.<br>2. Find someone to start with you. Spouse, sibling, friend, parent, child. Have someone to get you motivated, someone for you to motivate back. It will help deepen your relationships by sharing experiences.<br>3. Don’t give up. Keep trying different things until you find something that you absolutely love. The list is endless. Don’t even settle for kind of liking it. There is something out there for everyone.<br><br>Don’t know where to start? Here is a short list of things to try out:<br>Amateur Radio, Arts, Astrology, Astronomy, Beachcombing, Beadwork, Blacksmithing, Blogging, Board Games, Boating, Bowling, Brewing Beer, Bridge Building, Bringing Food To The Disabled, Building A House For Habitat For Humanity, Building Dollhouses, Butterfly Watching, Cake Decorating, Calligraphy, Camping, Candle Making,<br>Entertaining Exercise (aerobics, weights), Fast cars, Fencing, Rock Collecting ,Rockets Rocking AIDS Babies, Texting, Textiles, Tombstone Rubbing, Tool Collecting,<br>There are so many more. I found a website that gives you tons of ideas and links: http://www.notsoboringlife.com/list-of-hobbies/ <br><br>Some hobbies can help you lose weight.<br><br>Hiking, rock climbing, walking, inline skating, biking, running, soccer, baseball, volleyball, tennis, swimming, racquetball, dancing, yoga, pilates, kickboxing, disc golf, martial arts, skiing/snowboarding, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, kayaking, canoeing, scuba diving, water skiing/wakeboarding, <br><br>Here’s a list of simple hobbies that help with weight loss that you can do daily.<br><br>1. Walking your dog<br>How many times have you just let your puppy outside to run around within the confines of your fenced backyard? Sure, you’re a busy guy or gal with lots to tend to once you get home, but what if you spend 30 or even 10 minutes walking your dog? That could be an extra 100 calories burned with your furry best friend.<br>2. Shopping<br>Ladies listen up! Who doesn’t love to shop with their girlfriends? Take advantage of this time and walk the whole mall or go to a mall that’s outside with more stores and take in the fresh air. Additionally, if you park a little further from the entrance you’ll get even more steps into your day.<br>3. Clean your house<br>I bet you didn’t know that you could burn almost 150 calories an hour (depending upon your weight and rigor) while simply cleaning your house! If you’re house is bigger and you spend all or half a day doing it – you could burn 400 calories. I was surprised that this is one of the most constructive exercises that burns the most calories and after I get to sit in a clean house.<br>4. Just dance.<br>Many of the Dancing with the Stars contestants end up loosing a significant amount of weight and build muscle mass while on the show – you could too!<br>5. Video games for weight loss<br>Nintendo Wii Fit is new to the weight loss scene and many people are reaping the benefits. It’s a perfect idea for those of you who like to play video games all the while in the comfort of your own home. If this idea really tickled your fancy, check out this article on how to lose weight with Wii Fit Plus.<br><br>Make sure You do something every single day that improves you or the world<br><br>http://www.wvhc.staywellsolutionsonline.com/library/Wellness/1,2540<br>http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/health/118/613.html<br>http://livingachangedlife.blogspot.com/2011/01/guest-post-active-hobbies-healthy-life.html<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3625840549062929177-2777667752473510034?l=stylingsouls.blogspot.com" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/1005422011-02-13T19:00:00-05:002017-01-11T08:08:21-05:00Hair Tips from Styling Souls<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>As Personal Care Specialists, we are often asked tips of great hair and Skin. Here are some of our favorites for all around great hair and skin. Article Written by Rev. Christie La Valley, Personal Care Specialist.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Don't rip your brush through snarls</span></b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>. If you don't have detangler spray, wet the area and generously apply conditioner and work it through evenly. Brush gently with a <a href="http://www.secure-booker.com/osgs/ShopOnline/Products.aspx">Vent Brush</a> and slowly work the tangles out.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Always use cool water, after shampooing your hair rinse and condition it out</span></b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>. This will seal the cuticles and prevent frizz and dryness.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Use large tooth comb</span></b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'> when applying condition or combing your hair. </span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Opt for a baby brush</span></b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'> for smoothing the edges of dry hair.</span><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;'> </span>
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<span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;'> </span><b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Air-dry whenever possible</span></b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;'>. Try to minimize the use of blow dryer as the strong heat tends to damage the hair, also the moisture lost makes them look rough and lifeless. Give your hair a break from that blow dryer, those curling irons. When you are kind to your hair, it rewards you by looking and feeling better. Choose a hairstyle that will let your hair fall naturally.</span><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'> A <a href="http://www.stylingsouls.com/">great cut</a> makes all the difference<br><b>Get your hair trimmed on a regular basis</b></span><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;'> (approximately every two months). This is especially important for growing out layers and/or bangs to reshape and make each stage of growing hair out a style.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Try rubbing lemon juice or apple cider vinegar into your roots</span></b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>: This encourages a beautiful, shiny look and prevents greasy-looking hair and frizz</span><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>. Use caution if you have dark hair when using lemon juice, it can lighten your hair color if you stay in the sun with it in your hair</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Coffee</span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'> not only wakes you up but can wake up the hair.</span></b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'> Brew some regular coffee. Make sure to let it cool down to avoid burning yourself, but make sure it is still warm. Pour it throughout dry hair then twist your hair into a bun and cover with a plastic cap. Let it sit for 30 minutes then rinse out and use your usual shampoo and conditioner. Coffee is very acidic and will leave your hair cuticle smooth and shiny. This will also enhance color. (Use caution if you have blonde hair, darkening may occur)</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Mayonnaise and avocado oil</span></b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>: Depending on how long your hair is, use about 1 cup of mayonnaise and add 2 tablespoons of warm <a href="http://www.stylingsoulsessentialoils.webs.com/">avocado oil.</a> Mix up the ingredients and spread through hair as you would with conditioner. Use this home-made conditioner when you have free time because you will have to leave it in for about 3 hours. If possible, you can wrap your hair with plastic and leave the conditioner in overnight for deep conditioning. Rinse thoroughly and use your regular shampoo and conditioner. Smothering the hair with Mayonnaise is also a treatment for lice management</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Apple Cider Vinegar</span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>:</span></b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'> Shampoo your hair with your usual shampoo and rinse your hair thoroughly with warm running water . Measure two cups of apple cider vinegar and one cup of water and rinse hair carefully with the mix. Leave vinegar and water mixture on your hair for fifteen minutes. Rinse the vinegar off your hair with clean warm running water until the vinegar smell dissipates. You will surprisingly find your hair is now detangled, healthy looking and manageable. Repeat process every week or less if desired. Apple cider vinegars acidity level is close to that of natural hair. Not only does it detangle but, it's also an effective germ killer.</span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>If you don't have detangler on hand</span></b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>, you can mix up some yourself. <br></span>
</div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Fill a spray bottle with the following detangler mixture:</span></li></ul><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>8 ounces distilled water<br>1 teaspoon aloe vera gel <br>10-15 drops grapefruit seed extract<br>1-2 drops glycerin<br>1-2 drops <a href="http://www.stylingsoulsessentialoils.webs.com/">essential oil</a> (e.g., lavender, jojoba, chamomile)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Tips to Sleep on:</span></b></span><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'></span><br><span style="font-size: small;"><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'><b>Get good quality and a correct amount of sleep</b> to help with the natural rejuvenation process</span></span><br><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'><b><span style="font-size: small;">Your hair is like your skin </span></b>- it can repair itself overnight. There are great natural products or products you can make that when left overnight can leave your hair healthy and shiny. </span><br><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'><b>It is highly recommended to sleep on a silk pillow case</b> as opposed to a cotton one. Silk helps prevent tangling and dullness in your hair. The benefit of silk is your hair slides across the pillow case, whereas on cotton pillow case it catches and tangles”</span><br><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;'>Sleeping with your hair in a bun or braid may make it easier to brush in the morning, and will control some of the frizz.</span><br><br><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Eat and drink your way to healthier skin and hair:</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'><b>Drink plenty of water</b> [7 to 8 glasses] water. Always keep your body hydrated.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'><b>Eat foods that are rich with iron. </b>Iron is very good for hair and skin. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. Vitamin E is very useful to get shiny the hair. Eat more foods rich with Vitamin E Add brown rice, nuts, wheat germ and leafy green vegetables in your diet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
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<b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Erase Hair color stains left on the skin:</span></b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>, Simply use a regular tube of toothpaste or cigarette ash. Apply a small dab to your finger and gently rub the toothpaste over the stained area of the skin. Rinse with lukewarm water. Repeat until the stain is removed.</span><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'></span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Tame with Chapstick:</span></b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'> put a little in on your fingertips and smooth it over baby hairs.</span><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'></span>
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<b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif";'>Use Mascara to temporarily cover up gray hair: </span></b><b><span style='font-family: "Berlin Sans FB","sans-serif"; font-weight: normal;'>Chose a shade close to your own hair color.</span></b>
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</ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3625840549062929177-6993967888760641160?l=stylingsouls.blogspot.com" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/1005452011-02-12T19:00:00-05:002011-02-12T19:00:00-05:0011:11 and other triple digits<span class="fw_sanitized">Have you seen triple or more digits on clocks, addresses, your odometer or other digital objects? If you have it is believed that you are getting a wake-up call to become who you really are and to do your life’s purpose. <br>This happened to me about 5 years ago. All of a sudden, I was seeing 11:11 on the clock all the time. When I went to the store I would get a total owed of $3.33 and change of $2.22. I was seeing triple digits everywhere. I was so taken back one day by the amount of triple digits I was seeing and especially the 11:11, that I mentioned it to my children. The children told me it meant to make a wish. I asked them where they got that information. They told me everyone knew it and I could find it on the internet. So I decided to go look up the answer. I love the internet for its research purposes. <br>I do not remember exactly where I found some of thei nformation I am going to share with you, because it was five years ago that I looked it up. However, I was asked by this sweet girl Stephanie who I met the other day to share what I have learned from both the internet and personal experience. Weirdly, she had just gotten back from meeting the Mayans. It will make since later.<br>So I typed in 11:11 on the computer. Many websites came up, but the one I really liked was crystalinks.com. I still remember that site and visit it from time to time. Not to quote them, since I am writing this from memory, but 11 is a master number,when seen together it is a DNA reminder of who you are and reminds you of your psychic awareness. I do not remember if it was this site that said it is your wake up call to be a light worker and help bring others to connection with the light. Not the light they speak of when we die, but the light of knowledge. The knowledge being: the awareness of the energies within us and around us and new way of communicating with our world and our higher power through higher consciousness. <br> This new consciousness is to take place in the year 2012 on December 12 at 11:11. Being a little bit of a skeptic and not overly trusting of all self proclaimed prophets or mystics, I did not know what to think. I have always believed there is more out there than meets the eye. I have always been a search of faith. I have visited many churches, read many books, studied history of religion and beliefs just to come to my own view of faith. But without proof I always wondered if these people were charlatans, manipulating others to achieve power or fame. Something I had seen many times in my research, especially when some of the dogmas of religion go so against the grain of human nature. <br>Somewhere in my research I came across these definitions of triple digits in the following chart. I have used them to help me pay attention to the synchronicities that I have experienced in my life since becoming aware of triple digits. <br>Three or more same number equals energy flow of enhancing a level.<br>11:11- a new beginning, water money ,sex, kundalini, magnetic<br>222-Middle of Resurrection, Process of ascension <br>333- Decision time. Make a choice between 666(material) or 999(spiritual)<br>444 Resurrection<br>555 Christ consciousness <br>666 material<br>777- integration of lower levels with higher spiritual frequency.<br>888- Infinity, physical merging with spiritual, moving toward completion.<br>999- Completion, Spiritual<br>000- Great void, null zone, Switch to new energy.<br>12:12- Comic connection. Not a time a destination. You are right where you should be.<br><br>I did try to find my source for this chart I have used for years. The closest I can was to http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=75513 This site speaks more in layman’s terms. You will probably find it useful. <br>The way to use this chart is when you see one of these numbers, you take a breath and look around. You stop, you think and appreciate your first thought. You look for your synchronicity. In doing this,many wonderful experiences have come my way. Answers to questions, proof that there is magic in numbers and in the world. That communication is not always words spoken or written. That there is energy all around us and it speaks to you if you listen. It will give you the answers you need. It will take you on new paths. You just have to pay attention.<br>I will give you one example before I conclude this testimonial of numbers working to build our lives our universe and if you pay attention how they can work for you.<br>One night and old friend was having what he thought was a heart attack. However, he remembered that I had recently gone through a bout of anxiety that I had also thought was a heart attack. He was at home with his wife and they were both very concerned about his current state. They called and asked me what to do and what the symptoms were. I explained the best I could, but just to be sure since my friend tends to smoke a little too much,I suggested he go the hospital to make sure it was not a heart attack. He asked me to come to the hospital with him and his wife. I felt a little strange. I was not sure how his wife would feel about me going. She had always been a little weird about her husband and I’s friendship. <br> I got in my car and put the key in the ignition, at the same time I asked my self and my God if I was doing the right thing going? I turned the car on. It did the strangest thing and lost all power. No lights no nothing. So I turned the key back to off. When I did everything came back on. When you lose power in a clock,what time shows up on the clock? Most clocks go back to 12:00 if I am correct. My clock in the car was 12:12. (A Comic connection, not a time a destination. You are right where you should be). My God had spoken to me. I was in the car on the way to my friend. I had a destination to be right where I should be. I never questioned triple digits again. Now, I stop, I look, I listen, I pay attention to my synchronicities. I am thankful for the help. My God, my angels, my deceased loved ones now all can speak to me for I slow down when I see these numbers. Since then I have become a Reiki Master,using the energies to help other become balanced enough to see these energies themselves. Originally, I became a Reiki Practitioner by accident. I substituted for an absent teacher. Her class was Reiki I. Or was it an accident? I think not. And to go a step further , I found myself an ordain Minister of the Universal Life Church. My faith being there is truth in all faiths.<br>Lastly, I made some tough changes recently concerning my business. I love being a business owner,but I want to have more time. I decide to close my physical location to try to rent a booth somewhere a couple day a week. This would give me more time to do some of the things being a business owner does not allow you to do like spending time with your family, writing and going back to school. I did not want to give up what I do. I love doing hair. I just wanted more time for all my passions. The changes were to take place on 1/10/11. <br> Strangely, the new tenant of the space wanted to hurry things. My business changes happened on 1/1/11 and that very day my car’s odometer read 111,111. 1/1/11 was a new beginning for me, and oddly enough I got all my wishes. I am still a business owner, in the same space but, I now rent part time from the new tenant, my friend and former massage therapist. I still get to see my customers, but now I get to see my family, my friends, build a life in my new home town. I get to write and learn. I got my new beginning with a big synchronicity. Thank you!<br>Namaste,<br>Christie LaValley</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3625840549062929177-567770583123059392?l=stylingsouls.blogspot.com" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/1005442011-02-12T19:00:00-05:002021-11-15T12:32:55-05:00Avoid Allergies, Colds and Sinus Pressure<span class="fw_sanitized">I am sitting at the doctors office patiently awaiting my turn to see the doctor. I picked up a parenting magazine to keep myself occupied. It has been a long time since I picked up a parenting magazine. My girls are now 16 and 18, young adults. It was nice to see the smiling babies and read the cute comments that children make. However, what really got my attention and is still lingering in my mind was a little blurb in the cold section. A simple little thing you could do to get rid of the sinus pressure of a cold or allergies. It is the simplest of solutions. It is absolutely pure and effective. Plain and simple -the use of a saline solution spray.</span><br><span class="fw_sanitized"> Last week in the shop everyone was complaining of feeling sick. They had stuffy heads, sinus pressure and were not focusing well on anything. They are always mad at me, because I do not get really sick like them. I tried to tell them the importance of using saline solution to reduce the pressure. I use it often and I never seem to suffer like everyone else from the effects of colds or allergies. Saline solution is mixture of salt and water. It is all natural and will not cause any ill side effects. By spraying the nasal cavity which is often dry when we turn the heat on, it can release dryness. But often as the heat comes on after a summer of sitting, it is full of allergens that might stuff up our noses. Saline spray is great for washing that all away including germs that we might have breathed in. For both cold and allergy sufferers the use of saline spray after exposure to irritants or germs is great way to avoid a stuffy nose, sneezing and being sick. Granted the taste of saline is not pleasant but the fact that it cleans our noses and keeps us healthy is well worth the nasty after taste. You can purchase saline solution at any local pharmacy and the store brand is just as effective as a name brand.You may also order it from Styling Souls at http://www.secure-booker.com/osgs/ShopOnline/Products.aspx. If you are interested in giving the nose a real cleaning, there is also the netty pot. It looks a little like a tea kettle, but is meant to clean the entire sinus cavity by flooding the entire cavity with a burst of salt water. This is suggested by doctors who would prefer alternative treatments for sinus infections.</span><br><span class="fw_sanitized"> For more information about these products or methods, please call us or visit these websites: http://www.ehow.com/how_2167016_use-netty-pot.html http://coldflu.about.com/od/medications/gr/salinespray.htm http://www.webmd.com/allergies/treatments-08/saline-spray</span><br><span class="fw_sanitized">I hope you find this information helpful and you enjoy a healthy winter.</span><br><span class="fw_sanitized">Rev.Christie La Valley, RMT</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3625840549062929177-1553711066473984562?l=stylingsouls.blogspot.com" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div>ipmNation.comtag:ipmnation.com,2005:Post/1005432011-02-12T19:00:00-05:002011-02-12T19:00:00-05:00Building Sexual Energy With Your Partner Through Simple Tantric Practices<span class="fw_sanitized"><br>Outline written by Rev.ChristieLaValley,RMT<br><br>Tantric Means: Transformation of Energy<br><br>3 Main Facts: 1.Men should not always ejaculate. This is "congenital Chi/ Jing."<br> Men have a limited supply and it cannot be replaced.<br> 2. Learn to breathe together. <br> 3. Learn to view lovemaking as a shared meditative state.<br><br>Important facts<br>a. Bring additional sexual energy up to other <a href="http://www.freewebs.com/thesoulroom/chakras.htm">Chakras. </a><br><br>b. We are energy beings Water conducts energy-always make sure you are well <br> lubed. Massage is a great way for couples to ensure proper lubrication.<br><br>c. Circulate breathing through your Chakras and your partner's chakras. Pay <br> special attention to your heart and your partner's heart.<br><br>d. Not ejaculating helps in 3 ways.<br> 1. Not losing vital energy/jing (essence)<br> 2. Strengthen and tones from muscular exercise.<a href="http://www.askmen.com/dating/love_tip_60/67_love_tip.html"> Kegal Exercise for men</a><br> 3. Vital energy is being aroused and since it is not being discharged <br> it can circulate and be re-absorbed through the body with you <br> and your partners breathing. It can be vital in healing.<br><br>e. Women lose jing during menstruation- Excessive blood loss is damaging. <br> Help her build her energy with breathing.<br><br>f. Impotence is considered loss of too much jing.<br> Taoist cure- Have sex for 10 days with the same woman/energy without <br> ejaculation. Relax without expectations of performance and feel the <br> experience. Woman should be on top. <br><br>g. Prostate Health- We are now living longer and we have more casual sex. <br> We as westerners believe ejaculation must occur during orgasms resulting <br> in less jing and depleted energy. Western doctors encourage more <br> ejaculation as eastern medicine encourage less. Who is correct? <br><br><br>Information gathered from: Excerpt from Subtle Energy:Awakening to the Unseen Forces in Our Lives by William Collinge, Ph.D., Warner Books, Inc.,1998 </span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3625840549062929177-5035447922360831469?l=stylingsouls.blogspot.com" class="size_orig justify_inline border_" alt="" height="1" width="1" /></div>ipmNation.com