what's happening to our borad TMI

well, true and true.

better than being struck by another's jet imo

i'm not about to submit for comparison but i suspect so

just a bit of jizz let's be cool

- "God, these allergies. Do you have a tissue, Darragh?"

- "Yeah, sure. Check inside that cigar box over there."

unfortunate pools where I sought purchase

I just watched a documentary called Orgasm, Inc., which focuses on the pharma industry's efforts to identify Female Sexual Dysfunction as a "disease" so they can sell drugs to treat it. I have a lot of feelings about some of the people and info in it.

yes! i watched this a few months ago and thought it was fascinating (and sad, e.g. the woman who had been diagnosed as having "sexual dysfunction", she was getting all those weird treatments, and then you find out that she's doing it all not because she can't have an orgasm, but because she can't have an orgasm in a ~particular~ way).

I wanted to write more about her but I haven't really thought about my thoughts yet, so I held back! Her story seemed very sad even though it wasn't presented that way.

It's unbelievable to me that she was willing to have a surgical procedure to implant an electrode next to her spinal cord and carry around this device that was wired to a wound in her back in order to try to have orgasms during regular intercourse, and no one told her that like 70% of women don't reliably orgasm from that particular thing.

That's medically negligent imo. Just for starters.

WOAH! That sounds insane.

i know, it was shocking to me - i need to watch it again, i have a terrible memory so i can't really remember much of the specifics. but that woman stuck out to me.

also: that really skewed statistic, the one oprah had been trumpeting, about how something like 40% of women suffer from "sexual dysfunction".

Yeah, it was like 43% but it turned out to have been based on a questionnaire that asked things like: Have you ever had sex that was painful? Sex that was not pleasurable even if not painful? Problems with lubrication? A lack of interest in sex? LIKE, EVER. IF YOU HAVE EVER LACKED INTEREST IN SEX FOR ONE SECOND.

lol yes, so stupid! if you don't have a perfect sex life you are DYSFUNCTIONAL

Yes but also so much more. There was no acceptance of any individuality in sexual interest or response, no variety of experience. This one way, or you're broken.

God that is so stupid and harmful.

and then you find out that she's doing it all not because she can't have an orgasm, but because she can't have an orgasm in a ~particular~ way

are you fucking kidding me, seriously

Yeah way! From the first interview with her, she says straight up, "All my life I have had enormous difficulty achieving orgasm" and as a viewer I think you just assume she means AT ALL and not until like halfway through the doc does the filmmaker ask her, can you orgasm by other means? and the lady is like oh, yeah, sure, that's not a problem, I'm just abnormal in this one way and need to be healed of that, otherwise it's not a problem.

And then someone tells her that she's in the majority of all female experience and she dances around the room saying, "I'm normal! There's nothing wrong with me!" and just...like...

I mean all of her doctors need to be marooned on an island with few natural resources and several natural predators, obviously.

How does anyone go through life and not realize that most women don't orgasm through intercourse. I mean read one magazine.

staying out of this thread cuz this kind of thing drives me demented with rage and i swear that doesn't happen that often

maybe i should take A FUCKING PILL

Of course you're right in that her doctors should have filled her in but I'm pretty sure I knew that way before I ever even had sex.

Seriously if I could even figure out the number of people I've dated who have said, "I don't get it, none of my other girlfriends ever had this problem" the statistic you'd get out of their anecdotal recollections would be the opposite of the real one, and ever higher.

*even

Some people are not.... literate

lol oh dear

so delusional!

"I don't get it, none of my other girlfriends ever had this problem"

this is when you're supposed to put on shades and say:
"Well, I guess you're not... the solution"

Damn, I should take you with me next time, I never think of lines like that.

I pop out from behind the nightstand in a David Caruso costume, but there are fees involved

Yeah, that'll bring on an orgasm.

my TMI update: I am finding myself mezmerized by erotic/porn gif tumblrs. I've been kind of uninterested/burnt out on porn for a while, but somehow these are way more compelling, partly because the ones I'm looking at use higher quality and less gross porn, but also something about the repetitive moving images.

a+ segue

(unlurks)

cream + sugar tmblr is good for those kinda gifs, xpost. lots of photos but some good gifs

(relurks)

confusion: Metamucil and Imodium in one's week

It is a delicate balance.

Or you take both and somehow your colon disappears, idk

has nearly happened

this was recommended to me by a doctor recently. i haven't tried it yet.

i am the worst fucking self-nurse, just wiped out 24 hours of 'progress'

:(

Damn frustrating.

I'm not saying this because I'm any good at it, but I think in recovery it's important to forgive your body for being fallible/fragile? Its timetable is different from the mental self's no matter how much we rage. I wish you patience (i know, right?) with your physicality, Morbs.

It just gets old to spend an entire weekend barely being able to move OR eat...

Ah but your girlish figure.

If you could, what would you WANT to eat? Do you dream about food? Or is there nausea that makes the idea of eating not even a pleasure?

I wanted to eat what I had for breakfast this morning, and it was 'too soon.' Not nausea, other unpleasantness.

I do not dream about food.

when you dream about playing for the mets, what position do you play

I can't even dream about playing Fantasy Camp with the oldies.