For a while I've been intrigued by what goes on in the brain during sexual dreams. It seems like somehow, the usual connection between physical stimulation, erection, ejaculation, and the feeling of orgasm comes undone, in a way that is hard to predict. Clearly guys can have wet dreams without physically stimulating themselves, so in that sense it's possible to "think off" in your sleep. Last night I had an interesting alternative to that experience. I dreamed that I had two utterly authentic, wow-that-felt-great, honest-to-goodness orgasms, in rapid succession. But I didn't ejaculate. As I woke up afterwards I was certain I was going to find a puddle in my bed, but no, nothing. Just a nice firm erection. Which I proceeded to stimulate in the more usual manner, with the usual results :-)
Clearly the part of my brain that feels the pleasure of an orgasm was firing off without my body reacting in the usual way, and going into a refractory period afterwards. I wonder if there is some way to do that while awake.
Has anyone else had an equivalent experience?
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Buns of Iron!
Well, I went and saw Iron Man recently, and I just have to say "Purrrrrr" :-)
I mean, cool movie, lots of fun. And we already knew that Hollywood has no respect at all for the laws of physics, so no surprises there, but the two things that really stuck in my mind were Gwyneth Paltrow's hair, and Iron Man's bum.
I've wondered for a long time what Gwyneth Paltrow would look like as a redhead. Answer; quite yummy. I do find it amusing though that these movies cast blondes and dye their hair red (see also Kirsten Dunst in Spiderman) when there are plenty of talented and attractive redheaded actresses out there.
As for the Buns of Iron, I liked the first version of the high-tech suit. The shiny silver one, before it got the red-and-gold makeover. There was one all-too-brief glimpse of the titanium derriere which made me descend into a puddle of chrome-loving drool. Verily, it was a Hajime Sorayama wet dream come to life. I want one of those suits!
I mean, cool movie, lots of fun. And we already knew that Hollywood has no respect at all for the laws of physics, so no surprises there, but the two things that really stuck in my mind were Gwyneth Paltrow's hair, and Iron Man's bum.
I've wondered for a long time what Gwyneth Paltrow would look like as a redhead. Answer; quite yummy. I do find it amusing though that these movies cast blondes and dye their hair red (see also Kirsten Dunst in Spiderman) when there are plenty of talented and attractive redheaded actresses out there.
As for the Buns of Iron, I liked the first version of the high-tech suit. The shiny silver one, before it got the red-and-gold makeover. There was one all-too-brief glimpse of the titanium derriere which made me descend into a puddle of chrome-loving drool. Verily, it was a Hajime Sorayama wet dream come to life. I want one of those suits!
Saturday, May 3, 2008
More thoughts on open-source boobs
Well, this blog is all about my random thoughts, especially when I don't have salacious stories to share, so here's a few more random thoughts...
I've been musing off-and-on about the so-called Open Source Boob Project. As someone rightly pointed out, the name's a real misnomer, since the people who started it aren't contributing boobs, and in fact there is very little similarity at all to the open-source software (umm, no pun intended, for once) movement. But I digress...
So on the one hand, I think people are judging it too harshly. It doesn't seem like it was about a bunch of guys believing that they are entitled to sex, as some people have claimed. It seems more like they just wanted to cut out the awkwardness and embarassment of the normal courting process, and be able to ask women, directly, if some sexual interaction was okay. The women were always intended to be able to say "no".
On the other hand, I can see that the default option should be "no, it's not okay", and women don't want to have to live their lives constantly being asked if someone can cop a feel of their tits. Nor do they want to live in an environment where there's an chance of peer-pressure making them feel like they have to go along with something they don't really want to.
But what strikes me on further reflection here is that the folks whose brainchild this was were trying to solve what they perceived to be a problem. You can condemn them for their solution, but you can't fault them for trying. However, nobody who's been really critical of them has, to my knowledge, tried to do the same thing - identify a problem and find a solution for it. They've just indulged in name-calling, labelling these people "creeps", "nerds", or whatever.
I really feel that it's better to nurture than to punish, to educate rather than insult. So here's the problem I think needs to be solved - how do you educate the people who feel the need for an open-source boob project, so that they have a better chance of respecting women, and feeling fulfilled as men? If you could do that, you will have achieved a whole lot more than the
proposed open-source-knuckle-sandwich project ever could. Because let's face it, society does have some pretty fucked-up attitudes to sex. And while a lot of people have treated the women as victims of society's rediculous pressure to conform to stupid body-images, et cetera, men are often victims too. Victims of society's tendency to make women look unattainable and impossibly perfect. And that leads to a lot of insecurity on the part of men, which in turn leads a lot of men to act really badly around women, because they simply don't know what else to do. Hurling invective at such men is not going to rectify the problem, one little bit...
I've been musing off-and-on about the so-called Open Source Boob Project. As someone rightly pointed out, the name's a real misnomer, since the people who started it aren't contributing boobs, and in fact there is very little similarity at all to the open-source software (umm, no pun intended, for once) movement. But I digress...
So on the one hand, I think people are judging it too harshly. It doesn't seem like it was about a bunch of guys believing that they are entitled to sex, as some people have claimed. It seems more like they just wanted to cut out the awkwardness and embarassment of the normal courting process, and be able to ask women, directly, if some sexual interaction was okay. The women were always intended to be able to say "no".
On the other hand, I can see that the default option should be "no, it's not okay", and women don't want to have to live their lives constantly being asked if someone can cop a feel of their tits. Nor do they want to live in an environment where there's an chance of peer-pressure making them feel like they have to go along with something they don't really want to.
But what strikes me on further reflection here is that the folks whose brainchild this was were trying to solve what they perceived to be a problem. You can condemn them for their solution, but you can't fault them for trying. However, nobody who's been really critical of them has, to my knowledge, tried to do the same thing - identify a problem and find a solution for it. They've just indulged in name-calling, labelling these people "creeps", "nerds", or whatever.
I really feel that it's better to nurture than to punish, to educate rather than insult. So here's the problem I think needs to be solved - how do you educate the people who feel the need for an open-source boob project, so that they have a better chance of respecting women, and feeling fulfilled as men? If you could do that, you will have achieved a whole lot more than the
proposed open-source-knuckle-sandwich project ever could. Because let's face it, society does have some pretty fucked-up attitudes to sex. And while a lot of people have treated the women as victims of society's rediculous pressure to conform to stupid body-images, et cetera, men are often victims too. Victims of society's tendency to make women look unattainable and impossibly perfect. And that leads to a lot of insecurity on the part of men, which in turn leads a lot of men to act really badly around women, because they simply don't know what else to do. Hurling invective at such men is not going to rectify the problem, one little bit...
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