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Better Positions for a Small Penis

Better Positions for a Small Penis

2015-09-01

Lots of guys feel insecure about their size. But research has shown that the vast majority of men are within the normal range. Many are really unaware of this. Most straight men don’t check out other men while they are naked. Even if they do, there’s no way to tell another man’s size unless he is erect.Though most guys are average in size, there are still millions of men that are less than average.But even these men shouldn’t fear. It only takes three to four inches to please a woman. Moreover, women work differently when it comes to sex. The most important thing is to invest in a lot of foreplay. Invest in her too. Find out what really turns her on. But once you get her there and it’s time for penetration, initiate positions which will favor your size. There are some positions that a man with a small penis can do that will give a woman more pleasure than if she was with a larger man. Here are some of those positions.

Try the doggie. Here a woman is on her knees with her thighs together. She should place her head and shoulders on a pillow and arch her back. Use your body weight and lean forward with each thrust. The more body contact you make the better it will be for her. The antelope is another good position. Both of you are arched over a piece of furniture say an easy chair or the couch. Spread her legs and enter from behind. This can be really satisfying, offering a lot of body contact and friction. The next position is called the rabbit ears.

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Here you place her on the bed on her back. Lift her buttocks up and place a pillow underneath. Gently push her legs back until her knees are at the level of her ears. Help her keep her legs in place by using your arms. This position will give you deep penetration which should be very satisfying for both of you. Include clitoral stimulation to any of these moves and she’s likely to have an orgasm, and come back for more.

The Best Medications for an Overactive Bladder

The Best Medications for an Overactive Bladder

An overactive bladder (OAB) is a frequent or sudden urge to urinate. Some even experience leakage, multiple episodes of nighttime urination or urinary incontinence. For many patients, OAB interferes with their daily routine and quality of life. Luckily there are lots of treatment options, including medication. First, the physician has to find out what is causing the issue. For older men, an enlarged prostate or benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) is often the cause. Here, ED medications are sometimes prescribed. Those who have M.S. or Parkinson’s may find OAB a symptom of their condition. Bladder stones or even cancer may also be at fault, so it’s important to see a doctor. A full examination and diagnosis must be completed before the appropriate therapy can be arrived upon. Depending on the cause, some physicians suggest trying lifestyle changes and behavioral therapy before taking medication as some people can experience side effects. Creating a bathroom schedule, keeping tabs on what you drink, watching what you drink, relaxation techniques and more can help. For some patients, a specific cause cannot be found.

If these lifestyle changes fail to curb the problem, medication is usually the next step. What are the best medications for OAB? There are generally two kinds. The first relaxes the muscles in order to allow urine to pass more easily out of the body. The second is the type that strengthens the muscles of the bladder which may have weakened over time. Anticholinergics are the most commonly prescribed class of drugs for OAB. These relax the muscles and stop the spasms which lead to urination. They do so by blocking the chemical messenger acetylcholine. Dry mouth is the most common side effect. Tricyclic antidepressants are also pretty commonly prescribed. They strengthen the muscles at the neck of the bladder helping to curb incontinence while relaxing other muscles, lowering the urge to go. Sleepiness is the most common side effect. Lastly, Botox has been used to neutralize some of the muscles in the bladder that cause OAB. Though effective, this is a new procedure and may not be covered by insurance. If you haven’t already, see your doctor and find out what is causing OAB and which treatment is right for you.

Erectile Dysfunction in Most Men Left Untreated

Erectile Dysfunction in Most Men Left Untreated

It is predicted that 322 million men around the globe will develop erectile dysfunction by the year 2025. But what exactly is ED? According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) erectile dysfunction is defined as “the inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance.” Experts agree that lifestyle choices like diet and exercise have a lot to do with it. A poor diet and the tendency toward a sedentary lifestyle have elevated the risks. But the chance of developing ED only increases as a man gets older. Age-related body changes, conditions such as heart disease, cancer or diabetes and others increase the chances of decline in sexual functionality. Yet, even though ability has altered, studies have shown that desire remains. Also, sexual intercourse at any age can convey a whole host of physiological and psychological benefits. Conversely, dysfunction can have a negative impact on one’s mood and emotional wellbeing.

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Advances in medical science have allowed people to live longer. Growing older brings with it its own health related issues and problems. Older men have less endothelial function for instance. This is the ability for blood vessels to dilate, such as the arteries of the penis which cause an erection. Add to that plaque buildup from a poor diet and ED is likely to occur. A recent study finds that today, 69% of men in the U.S. between the ages of 40 and 69 develop ED. 77% of men over age 70 experience such dysfunction. Older men also are more likely to have severe symptoms. Over half of those with ED had not discussed it with their doctor. 72% received no treatment at all. That’s a problem because erectile dysfunction may be a symptom of a more worrisome illness or mood disorder such as depression. There are lots of treatments available today. Anyone who has ED shouldn’t ignore it.

Better Positions for a Small Penis

Better Positions for a Small Penis

2015-08-12

Lots of guys feel insecpositionsure about their size. But research has shown that the vast majority of men are within the normal range. Many are really unaware of this. Most straight men don’t check out other men while they are naked. Even if they do, there’s no way to tell another man’s size unless he is erect.There are some positions that a man with a small penis can do that will give a woman more pleasure than if she was with a larger man. Here are some of those positions.

Try the doggie. Here a woman is on her knees with her thighs together. She should place her head and shoulders on a pillow and arch her back. Use your body weight and lean forward with each thrust. The more body contact you make the better it will be for her. The antelope is another good position. Both of you are arched over a piece of furniture say an easy chair or the couch. Spread her legs and enter from behind. This can be really satisfying, offering a lot of body contact and friction. The next position is called the rabbit ears. Here you place her on the bed on her back. Lift her buttocks up and place a pillow underneath. Gently push her legs back until her knees are at the level of her ears. Help her keep her legs in place by using your arms. This position will give you deep penetration which should be very satisfying for both of you. Include clitoral stimulation to any of these moves and she’s likely to have an orgasm, and come back for more.

Proper Genital Maintenance for Men

Proper Genital Maintenance for Men

2015-07-28

Lots of guys ignore their health until it becomes a problem. They don’t eat right and fail to exercise. Many men wave away concern over health. But when it comes to sexual health suddenly they are all ears. The trouble is the two are inexorably linked. For instance, healthy blood flow is critical not only to good health but to sexual functioning.Those who are overweight or obese, smoke or abuse alcohol or have serious emotional problems like chronic stress, depression or anxiety, will eventually feel the effects in the bedroom. For any man who wants to perform well sexually up until their eighties and perhaps even beyond, proper maintenance of the genitals and the health of the body in general are essential. Here are some ways to live healthy and protect your sexual functioning as well. If you have abdominal weight, do your best to lose it. Fat around the abdomen saps testosterone, a hormone essential for sperm production, sex drive and the formation of erections.

If you start to experience erectile dysfunction, see your doctor right away. It could be an indicator of a more serious health issue. For smokers, it’s critical that you quit. Find the right cessation plan. Smoking injures blood vessels throughout the body including those that feed the penis and cause erections. Smoking doubles your risk of developing ED. There are lots of products on the market today to help you quit. Talk to your doctor and see which one may be right for you.  Get some exercise, particularly lower body exercise. Even if it means taking a walk after dinner each night, exercise gooses the endothelial cells that line the blood vessels, causing them to produce more nitric oxide—a key biochemical in the development of erections. The healthier a man is the more nitric oxide he will produce and the harder his erections will be. Lastly, those between the ages of 15 and 40 should inspect their testicles once a month for any hard growths or unusual lumps. Though uncommon, 8,000 men each year are diagnosed with testicular cancer, which has good treatment options and outcomes if caught early. Take care of yourself and you will enjoy a healthy sex life up into your golden years.

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Everything You Need to Know about Penis Piercings

Everything You Need to Know about Penis Piercings

Some guys are thrill seekers. They also like women who walk on the wild side. Others like to shock and titillate. Then there are those who just think such a piercing looks cool. Whatever the reasoning, you are considering getting your penis pierced. This is a very simple, straightforward procedure. Still, if not done right it can lead to serious complications such as infection. You can even contract a life-threatening disease. It’s important that you take the time to look into the procedure and safeguard yourself. Here is everything you need to know about penis piercings. First, find a reputable establishment to perform the procedure. Make sure they are licensed and certified. Do they have a clean environment? Is the equipment sterilized? Never try to perform such a piercing yourself. Always seek a professional. How much will it cost? Depending upon where you live, about $50 plus the cost of the jewelry.

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The procedure entails using a needle to make a hole in the penis and placing a ring or bar through it. Piercings may occur through the head, foreskin, the scrotum and parts of the shaft. Under no circumstances should a piercing pass directly through the shaft, however. This can cause serious injury. If you decide to remove it later on, say you don’t want it anymore, the hole often stays open. If it does close, a scar will likely occur. Once pierced, leave the jewelry in until it has fully healed. Follow the aftercare instructions faithfully. Keep the wound clean. Be sure to periodically check for any signs of allergy or infection. Select hypoallergenic jewelry as to avoid the chances of allergy. If you are going to have sex, use a sturdy condom. Select one with lots of room so the piercing won’t tear it, making the condom ineffective. Common aftereffects include a small amount of bleeding, soreness, redness, and the chance of infection including a urinary tract infection.Diabetics have a higher chance of it getting infected. If not performed with a sterile needle, one can contract HIV or hepatitis B or C.  Safeguard yourself and you should be able to enjoy your piercing without complication.

Any Difference between a Transplanted Penis and a Natural One?

Any Difference between a Transplanted Penis and a Natural One?

Back in December, a groundbreaking procedure made headlines around the world. South African surgeons performed the world’s first successful penis transplant. The recipient of the donor organ, a 21 year-old man whose identity is being held for his privacy and protection, has just announced that he is going to become a father. The news has given hope to men around the world who have suffered a birth defect, a terrible infection or serious injury to their penis. Now these men have hope. But questions remain. One of the most common, Is there any difference between a transplanted penis and a natural one? An interesting thing to note is that urination and even ejaculation doesn’t require a penis at all. For ejaculation is controlled not by the sex organ but the spinal cord. When the pelvic muscles contract in a certain rhythm, ejaculation occurs.

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In South Africa, traditional circumcision is sometimes botched, as with the case of the young man who received the transplant. Other reasons for this kind of operation include amputation due to serious infection or penile cancer, birth defect or an injury where a significant trauma to the groin makes the penis unrecoverable. In America, surgeons have discussed performing penile transplants for returned veterans who have sustained such injuries in the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan. It is an extremely complicated procedure. The South African surgery took nine hours. Nerve endings and tiny blood vessels need to be reattached. Also half of the hardware resides inside the body, the other half outside, making the procedure more complicated. When transplanting other organs, surgeons don’t need to worry so much about the aesthetics of the organ itself. A transplanted kidney for instance doesn’t need to look pretty on the inside. But with a penile transplant, aesthetics are an important issue. These South African surgeons have reported that the young man can urinate and ejaculate normally. But experts say there is no guarantee that it looks and feels just like one’s natural penis.

Condom Detects STIs by Changing Color

Condom Detects STIs by Changing Color

Those who are worried about contracting a sexually transmitted infection (STI) may soon have a new, discreet option at their disposal. But it wasn’t developed by scientists. Instead, this STI-detecting condom was the brainchild of three U.K. teens. Called the S.T. Eye, this condom changes color when it comes into contact with detectable, sexually transmitted diseases. Two 14 year-olds Daanyaal Ali and Chirag Shah, along with 13 year-old Muaz Nawaz created the design. Don’t expect to see an S.T. Eye in your local pharmacy in the coming weeks. The condom is still in the development stages. But the science is there and a condom company has contacted the trio about their idea. It works by embedding antibodies that react to common STIs into the condom itself. When the antibodies come into contact with certain antigens–viruses or bacteria, they react changing the condom’s color.

Still life with six colorful condoms, illustrating the decision to take precautions during sex
Still life with six colorful condoms, illustrating the decision to take precautions during sex

The boys say their idea originated with an HIV test called Elisa, which also utilizes antibodies to create a color change. The transformation in hue can take place on both sides of the condom. What color it becomes indicates the type of STI detected.There is yellow for herpes, blue for syphilis, green for chlamydia and purple for genital warts.  Instead of the embarrassment of going to a clinic or the fear of not knowing, a person can know right away in the privacy of their own bedroom. Muaz said he and his team got the idea when they came across a Reddit post about things that should be invented. A color changing condom was one item on the list. But changing color to indicate the presence of an STI was the students’ own twist. At first, they were worried that no one would take them seriously. But with the guidance of a science teacher, they were able to form the scientific basis which could easily produce a prototype. The students entered their design into a contest, and won. They are now the recipients of a TeenTech award, in addition to making headlines worldwide. For winning the contest, their school will be awarded £1,000  and the team will be brought to Buckingham Palace to meet the Duke of York this coming October.

New features on Apple’s ‘Health’ app allow users to track sexual activity

New features on Apple’s ‘Health’ app allow users to track sexual activity

2015-07-08

 

Cue Siri to play Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get it On.”

New features on Apple’s pre-installed “Health” app will allow users to track their sexual activity, namely whether or not they used protection and the time of day they had sex.

The new Health app, which already tracks other health information like fitness and nutrition data, will be available on iOS 9, which is set to come out later this year, and will also include the ability to track other reproductive health metrics like menstruation and ovulation cycles.

And all that is great, some users say — Apple notoriously ignored women’s health issues as it developed previous versions of Health — but also not so great, others say, since tracking how often people do the deed is perhaps a little too personal.

“Really think it through. Why do I need a computer to figure out this part of my life?” said Teresa Schoch, associate director of Berkeley Research Group.

You don’t, Schoch thinks, especially if the data you enter ends up on some kind of cloud or external server.

You can choose to store your data solely on your device without backing it up to the cloud. But Apple also let’s you choose to share your data with your doctor or anonymously with researchers.

Apple is also set to release “HealthKit,” which will pool data entered into various health and fitness apps. For example, if you use an app that tracks blood pressure and another that tracks caloric intake, those apps could share the information they gather with HealthKit to provide a comprehensive overview of your health data.

And that, in a Utopian world where all data is safe all the time and nothing bad ever happens on the Web, sounds like a fantastic way to track your health.

“It just might be the beginning of a health revolution,” Apple’s Website reads.

Or it could be a great way to put personal information at risk and provide hackers nuanced and specific information.

“Data about reproductive health is very sensitive, but there are situations where maybe you want someone to know that,” said Harlan Yu, principal at Upturn, a technology consulting firm. “You might want your doctor or researchers to know that. But in other situations you might not want drug companies or insurance companies to have that information.”

Think about this: Harvard professor Latanya Sweeney found in a 2000 study that 87 percent of Americans were uniquely identifiable based on their gender, birth date and zip code. Sweeney found all that information using Census data that at the time was 10 years old.

So now, imagine what nuanced health information could say, even if it’s collected in bulk or anonymously and even if it’s not obtained nefariously, Schoch says.

“They can pinpoint you if they wanted to,” she said.

That doesn’t mean health data collection is inherently dangerous, though. Collection of reproductive health data feels more creepy, but it can still be innocuous.

“The way I look at this stuff is I look at harm,” said University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo, who specializes in Internet privacy. “Could this information be used in a way that could disadvantage you?”

That’s a question to answer before using an app to track your bedroom behavior.

Sex-ed programs that address gender issues more effective

Sex-ed programs that address gender issues more effective

By Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune

Sexual education programs that discuss gender balance within relationships are significantly more effective at preventing sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancies than programs that don’t, a new study finds.

 

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The results are particularly compelling in light of Northwestern University researcher Alice Dreger’s live-tweeting of her son’s ninth grade sex-ed class, revealing a disheartening reliance on fear, shame and anecdotes about condom breakage.

The new study, published in International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health and authored by Nicole Haberland, a senior associate at the Population Council, spells out a more effective route.

After evaluating 22 sex-ed programs that took place from 1990 to 2012, Haberland found that programs that addressed gender and power were five times more effective.

“Fully 80 percent of them were associated with a significantly lower rate of STIs or unintended pregnancy,” she writes. “In contrast, among the programs that did not address gender or power, only 17 percent had such an association.”

What gives?

“Harmful gender norms have been correlated with a number of adverse sexual and reproductive health outcomes and risk behaviors, even after other variables have been controlled for,” Haberland writes. “Studies have found that individuals who adhere to harmful gender attitudes are significantly less likely than those who do not to use contraceptives or condoms. Also, compared with women and female adolescents’ reports of more equitable relationships, reports of low power in sexual relationships have been independently correlated with negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes, including higher rates of STIs and HIV infection. And women and female adolescents who have experienced intimate partner violence are significantly more likely than those who have not to have a host of adverse outcomes — from low rates of condom use to higher rates of pregnancy and STIs or HIV infection.”

But when adolescents and young adults are taught to consider and strive for gender equity, results improve.

“Some of the curriculums in Haberland’s study challenged young people’s thinking on gender roles by having them discuss the advantages and disadvantages of being male or female, or by analyzing media portrayals of men and women,” Julie Beck writes in the Atlantic. “They asked things like, ‘What is this ad saying to you about what a woman is supposed to look like and act like?’ Haberland says. ‘What are guys supposed to feel and act like?’”

Haberland continued: “Another thing people might do is use case studies,” she told the Atlantic. “Working with a class to critically analyze what is really going on between these two characters. Why is it that Jane isn’t able to use a condom? It’s not because she doesn’t want to, it’s because she can’t say it. He has the car, the money, and he doesn’t want to, and she’s afraid he’s going to leave her. Helping kids identify the inequality in those power dynamics and how it affects all of us in our relationships.”

Of the effective programs, Haberland writes in the study:

“They addressed gender and power explicitly, used participatory and learner-centered teaching approaches, facilitated critical thinking about gender and power in participants’ society, fostered personal reflection about how these concepts affect one’s own life and relationships, and helped participants value their own potential as individuals and as change agents.”

Sounds like a good road map for parents, too, as we tackle the complex topics of sexuality and gender with our own children. As with all things, equality should be at the heart.