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posted by admin on Sep 27

Adolescence is a time to explore your limits, test your boundaries. Wherever a parent defines a boundary, it is the function of adolescence to stretch it. This is a necessary part of the process of learning about who you are, where you fit into the world, and what it is that makes you unique. Taking risks is part of that exploration, but when you get a combination of risk-taking and sexual curiosity, you have a dangerous cocktail. Volatile if you add ignorance to the mixture.

One adolescent health counsellor tells of a fourteen-year-old mother still mystified as to how she could possibly have become pregnant. ‘My mother told me not to sleep with a boy or I would get pregnant. I had never slept with him. We had only had sex in the back of the car.’

Studies around the world have looked at young people’s altitudes to safer sex. A condom manufacturer told me that their market research showed ninety percent of people aged sixteen to twenty-one knew that it was sensible to use condoms, yet in only thirty percent of sexual encounters did they actually use one. This begs the question, ‘Why?’ What factors come into play at the time of  sexual activity that stand in the way or common sense? The answer is a complicated equation. The most often cited reason is this feeling of immortality, the ‘Nothing can happen to me!’ mentality. It

lakes a while to develop an understanding of consequences. ‘If I do this … then THIS will happen.’ This is compounded in times of economic uncertainty with high levels of unemployment. If a young person feels their prospects are hopeless, they will have no vision of themselves in the future. That being so, then their actions today don’t matter. They won’t care if they look after themselves or not.
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posted by admin on Sep 27

Conflict arises when a young person’s actions go against parents’ beliefs, and this is particularly so in the context of sexuality. Parents may have to ask themselves, ‘Is it really worth declaring war?’ One area where parents’ attitudes may clash with their children is on a sexual activity with a traditional image problem. Although attitudes to masturbation have progressed a lot in the past twenty years or so, there are still some people who see it as a sin with dire consequences. However, it is now widely recognized as a natural form of sexual expression.

Around puberty both boys and girls become aware that masturbation is a sexual activity and it is an opportunity to explore your sexual responses in privacy. This is probably the first time we become aware of the ability to orgasm. One friend recalls the first time he ejaculated. T remember I was masturbating in the shower one day when I was about thirteen. I saw this white stuff coming out of the end of my penis and my erection disappeared faster than it had ever done before. I had no idea what k was. I thought I had burst something, so I spent the next hour or so checking all my bits and pieces, and nothing seemed to have dropped off. After it happened a few more times I figured it must be okay, so I stopped worrying. Then I heard a few of the boys at school joking about it, and I realized I wasn’t the only one!’

It is a frequent cause of battles within families. A friend, now in her thirties, has bitter memories of the time her mother found out she was taking the Pill. ‘I was about nineteen and I had been going out with Rick for over two years. He was a bit younger than me, but we knew we were both ready for a sexual relationship. My mother always had this expectation that I would be a virgin when I got married. That was about all she ever said about sex at all. Although I never challenged her about it, it had never been my plan. I think I’d been sexually active for about four months. I came back from a weekend away at a girlfriend’s house and Mum found my packet of contraceptive pills when she was looking through my bag for washing. Well, I couldn’t have imagined a worse reaction if she’d found out I had a terminal disease! She cried, she yelled, she called Rick all sorts of terrible names and said I was ruined and all that. I felt guilty, like I’d really let her down. For ages afterwards I had trouble having sex, like every time Rick and I got close I felt like I was hurting Mum or something. It took me years to forgive her for it, and we still never talk about anything really personal.’

The issue here is clearly one of permission to make your own choices. One of the biggest difficulties about being a parent is the ability to accept that we cannot dictate every thought, belief or action of another person, even if it is our own child. The achievement is in equipping our children to make responsible decisions for themselves.
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posted by admin on May 21

Hepatitis A (infectious hepatitis) is transmitted through personal contact, or through contaminated food or water. The incubation time for the disease is 4-6 weeks. The illness tends to be more severe in adults.

Hepatitis B (serum hepatitis) is transmitted in children mainly via needle injuries. Children in institutions are also at slightly greater risk of being infected. In adults the risk is greatest amongst drug users who share needles.

All forms of hepatitis present a similar clinical picture, although hepatitis A tends to be more sudden in onset than hepatitis B. With hepatitis A, the child usually experiences initial symptoms of tiredness, fever, nausea, loss of appetite, vomiting and diarrhoea. The skin may feel very itchy, and the abdomen may be a little swollen and sore, especially over the upper right side overlying the liver. After several days the urine may appear to be darker and the skin take on a yellow tinge (jaundice). Convalescence may take several weeks. If your child has hepatitis B, he may at first complain of aching joints and may have a skin rash. Hepatitis B tends to be more severe than hepatitis A, and the clinical features tend to develop more slowly.

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posted by admin on May 19

When sex education and love education fail, there are clear signs of such failure. They are all very, very important signs of problems for the developing young person.

Drugs: There is no high like the high of intimacy with another person. When that high is not available, it may be sought elsewhere, and that elsewhere might be drugs. Moodiness, changes in eating habits, anger without explanation, pallor, darkened circles beneath the eyes, withdrawal, defensiveness, and marked personality change are some of the signs of drug use. There are others, but I believe that our society’s failure to help our young people become sexual people plays a major role in their turning to artificial and deadly ways to get high. The war on drugs must be accompanied by an emphasis on teaching loving and intimacy. We are leaving our children with nothing to do with their developing sexuality. If we don’t teach them safe means of sexual self-expression, they may find other, dangerous ways to express themselves.

“Just say no” has been the new major campaign against dru{ use. It will never work. The issue is, What can our developing young people say yes to? How can they safely say it? Both answers relate as much to sexuality as any other aspect. A society thai campaigns against sex, drugs, and violence, but fails to teach sexuality, love, and tenderness, is running a dishonest and ineffective campaign.

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posted by admin on May 18

SCORING: 3—ALWAYS 2—USUALLY 1-SELDOM 0—NEVER

1. I feel I must respond sexually to my spouse’s advances.

2. I try to match my response to my husband’s, faking if I have to.

3. When I start to feel very good sexually, start to really get involved in the sexual experience, I get distracted by my spouse’s response.

4. I find that if I am too active in my sexual motions, it tends to cause my spouse to lose control of his sexual response, sometimes making him come too soon.

5. My orgasms are characterized by a throbbing in the vaginal area.

6. When I have not had sex in a long time, I tend to be more easily aroused.

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7. I experience some physical discomfort when I have sexual intercourse, g. I try to “match” my response to my spouse’s, and if he is tired or wants to suspend sexual interaction, I go along.

9. I have trouble letting go and getting lost in my orgasms, usually trying to “come” like my husband “comes.”

10. If I don’t feel contractions in my vagina, I don’t feel as if I have had a really complete sexual experience.

11. My orgasms are essentially the same no matter what type of sex I am having (coitus, oral sex, masturbation). Whatever the source of stimulation, I essentially climax the same way.

12. As I get older, I notice that my orgasms are less intense than they used to be. The throbbing is less intense and there are fewer throbs.

13. I notice that my lubrication is less and less reliable than it used to be.

14. I feel a “turn-taking” in our sex, so I must have orgasm first and then he takes his turn.

15. Before orgasm, I feel warm and close in our lovemaking, but after orgasm, there seems to be a distance between us.

16. I have trouble “getting over the edge.” I seem to get right to the point where I could come and then it is difficult for me to go the rest of the way.

17. I hold back during sex. I might want to talk, groan, or say loving things, but I have trouble expressing myself during sex.

18. If I have masturbated, I feel some guilt, and this can even extend to my sex with my husband.

19. I feel that sex is focused on my breasts and in my genitals. I feel reacted to in parts, not “me.”

20.    I feel “worked on” during sex, rubbed and stimulated to get ready or to

get “there.”

Thirty-five or more points on this test, and it is likely that you are not experiencing psychasms but orgasms, working toward physiological reflex in response to genital or breast stimulation.

Remember that the object of this test is to promote discussion with your partner, not replace one set of expectations with another. Super marital sex depends on being open to the gift of complete erotic response with someone else, not on living up to the new goal of psychasms instead of orgasms. Orgasms are reflexes. Psychasms are emotional and conscious experiences related to a freedom from “organ reflex.”

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posted by admin on May 18

Dental amalgams, whether gold or silver, contain mercury, one of the most toxic metals to our body. Having amalgam fillings, is like having a constant supply of toxic mercury, released slowly but constantly.

Removal and replacement of amalgam fillings instantly removes the source of mercury supply, however the mechanical removal process itself (drilling) can temporarily increase the concentration of mercury in your body.

When you decide to replace amalgams, make sure that you are already on the detoxification program and that you tell your dentist to apply a lot of suction during the removal process, reducing the concentration of mercury vapours.

Note, that it may take a considerable amount of time for your body to neutralise and excrete the mercury that has accumulated in your body over many years.

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posted by admin on May 15

The most commonly accepted theory is that it is due to an infection with an unknown virus during childhood in genetically susceptible individuals.

It is believed the virus lies dormant for many years before either directly or by some immune process causing the disease.

The half-closed eyes of the late Aristotle Onassis were very obvious in most published photographs of him.

Those eyes are probably the commonest sign of the disease from which it is alleged he suffered — myasthenia gravis.

This unusual disorder occurs in all races and in both sexes. It is characterised by abnormal muscle weakness which tends to affect one group of muscles more than others.

The cause is unknown but it is thought to be one of the auto-immune diseases, where the body, as it were, becomes allergic to its own tissues and makes antibodies which fix on and then destroy those tissues.

The thymus seems to be somehow involved in the disorder. This poorly understood organ lies in the upper chest, in front of the heart and lungs. It is large in childhood and slowly decreases in size, so as to be hardly noticeable when the chest of a mature or elderly adult is opened at operation or autopsy.

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posted by admin on May 15

The coming of winter is dreaded by those who suffer from chilblains.

Chilblains, or perniosis, is one of those minor illnesses which are not regarded very seriously by doctors, but which can cause severe discomfort to the sufferer.

This condition is due to the action of cold, damp weather on skin which is particularly sensitive to its effects.

The superficial blood vessels in the skin appear to be over-sensitive to the cold. They dilate, and the blood does not flow fully through the tissues, which then suffer from lack of oxygen.

The skin develops blotchy red or bluish areas which thicken, and are usually intensely itchy.

They occur on the exposed parts of the body, such as the nose, the hands, the feet and lower legs.

The disorders of superficial circulation such as chilblains appear to be much more common in women than in men, but why they occur at all is not fully understood.

Sometimes the skin breaks down over the chilblain and ulcerates, due either to scratching or to lack of nutrition from poorly circulating blood.

This may lead to secondary infection, and in treatment it may be necessary to use antibiotics both locally and generally.

In treatment, however, the most important element is to keep the affected part warm, and this can be done by the wearing of gloves, thick socks, stockings or boots.

The direct application of heat, such as exposing the part to an open fire or radiator, only makes the condition worse.

Drugs, unfortunately, are of limited use.

Calcium, either in tablet form or by injection, has long enjoyed a reputation as being useful in treating chilblains.

How it acts is not certain, although some people do obtain considerable relief.

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