Archive for May 18th, 2009

YOUR MARITAL HEALTH/THE MOST OFTEN ASKED QUESTION: WHY CAN’T WE COME TOGETHER?

May 18th, 2009

“Why can’t we come together? We have tried every trick in the book. We never climax together.”

ANSWER: Nobody ever comes together if by that you mean simultaneous pelvic muscle contraction. If it does happen, it is rare and an accident, mere chance and luck. The effort to accomplish this mutual reflex would be like trying to sneeze together. You might be able to do it, but you would wait a long time, and even if you did it, you would wonder why. Trying to have pelvic contractions together only gets in the way of enjoying psychasms together, which is much more satisfying because they are much longer and easier to share. Remember that orgasmic contractions last less than fifteen seconds. It makes little sense to spend most of the sexual encounter to synchronize your fifteen seconds. A super marital sex rule is that where you are going together is much more important than trying to end together. It’s too bad the-word “climax” was ever used. A better word might be to ‘ ‘preamble” together, to start instead of end. You might try using a less motion-oriented vocabulary of “come,” “get,” and “do” in favor of the more experiential terms of “share,” “feel,” and “be.”

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WHY CANT WE CURE ALL CANCER WITH RADIATION? – RADIATION IS A LOCAL TREATMENT

May 18th, 2009

I have already said that any cell can be killed by radiation, provided the dose is high enough. So, what is it that prevents us from using radiation to cure all people with cancer?

The first problem is that radiation (with a few exceptions which I will mention later) is, like surgery, a local form of treatment. Only known cancer deposits, or areas that are very likely to be involved, are treated. This means that any undetected groups of cancer cells lying outside the irradiated area escape treatment. The treatment then cannot cure the patient, not because it fails to kill the treated cells, but because some cells are not treated at all. It is exactly the same sort of problem as we have with surgery that is aimed at cure. Careful assessment reduces the chance of some cancer escaping untreated. However, as you know, there are no tests that are capable of picking up very tiny groups of cancer cells. This means that even the most careful search for secondaries followed by a course of treatment which kills every cancer cell in the treated area cannot be guaranteed to produce a complete and permanent cure.

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