Archive for the ‘Sex and the Middle Aged City’ Category

LAUNCH THE LIBIDO…REDUCE THE ROMANCE

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

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Mary,

It is heartening to know that “what’s good for the goose is good for the gander” has finally come true in the form of female Viagra, even if it is known as Oxytocin!!  Better hang tight with the few you have and steer those other gals to the nearest doctor’s office, and oh, by the way……..who is the maker of this pill cause we need to buy stock NOW.

All of this emphasis on making sure no one ever suffers from any type of sexual dysfunction is all well and good, but I have this nagging visual in the back of my head…let me paint the picture

A loving couple enjoying a romantic dinner replete with candles, fresh flowers, wine and soft music.  They flirt and touch but before they take these loving moments to the next level they each grab their “Viagra” and Oxytocin pill respectively,  their water glass, toast and swallow……..

Romance tempered with pharmacology……….Whatever works!!

Lorraine 

SEX PILLS FOR WOMEN

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

happy-pills.jpg Apparently I have one of the better kept secrets known to womankind.  It’s a man’s world that’s for sure.   I hear the word Viagra on a daily basis multiple times.  I can’t watch TV at night without being subjected to at least half a dozen of those erection marathon commercials.So, why haven’t you and I heard about OXYTOCIN???  Remember oxytocin?  Okay, let me really jar your memory…remember LABOR?  Remember that our bodies secreted oxytocin during labor so we could actually get that enormous huge baby body out of our teensy weensie ones?Well, I recently went to the hormone doc for a check up.  She asked me about my sex life and I said it was pretty darn good, all things considering (saggy body, sleep deprivation, heat flash on/heat flash off).   With a twinkle in her eye, she asked me if I’d like a little help…a little boost?I have always regretted never doing drugs in college.  What was I thinking?  It was the early 70’s and I wouldn’t participate in anything.  When my friends were talking about “going on a trip”, I just always assumed they were talking about something that involved a plane ticket.  And I could never understand why they were always so happy.I was such a fuddy dud.  So, I jumped at the chance for this little Viagra wannabe and she wrote the prescription.So, now I’ve got these  tiny pills that promise a pack of punch and I’m ready to go. I’m a bit skeptical.  How come I’ve never heard of these sex-drive supplements?  Why hasn’t this been on the news and why aren’t all the commercials shown during Oprah and The View crammed with the promotion of these libido loving capsules?I’ve told a few girlfriends about this and they’re all vying and begging me to give them a few of mine.  I politely told them that that would be illegal…just like the drugs in the ’70’s.Mary   

RE: NEW COMPUTERIZED PILLOW HELPS STOP SNORING…AND DIVORCE!

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

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Hey, forget about the earplugs and the breathing strips…We can now get rid of the divorce and defense attorneys!

This pillow could single-handedly prevent the demise of marriage as we know it. Thanks to this clever invention, the divorce rate may go from over 50% to 10% because my personal and professional experience tells me that the “snore factor” is a lot more threatening to marriage than the occasional secretary.

Forget about men are from mars and women are from venus and every other self-help book out there for couples.

People are SLEEP DEPRIVED and no one can take care of themselves, let alone their marriages when operating under zombie status.

Snoring has long been a best-kept secret of marital discord and separate bedrooms for decades. THE SECRET has remained a secret perhaps because many marriage counselors (myself included) suffer from this shaming sound system ourselves.

This snore buster pillow could put a lot of therapists (me) out of business.

I must get to the bottom of this ASAP! Surely there is some cancer-causing agent in the fabric of these new divorce downers and I’m going to personally ensure that they get taken off the market immediately (or before any of my clients find out about them)!

Mary

NEW COMPUTERIZED PILLOW HELPS STOP SNORING!

Monday, October 8th, 2007

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How great is this – a pillow that helps stop SNORING!! If this computerized cushion for your head really does work it should be chosen as the INVENTION OF THE CENTURY!

This new invention calls for a major shout-out! Think of it, non-snorers of the world can sleep comfortably not having to be kept awake by the annoying snoring sonata and not having to perform the karate-type moves such as the elbow, the shove, the kick, the prod, the bump or even the verbal bark to the person in the room doing the snoring.

This discovery could be the savior that some night-noisy relationships have been looking for to avoid jail time. How many of us admit to laying silently for hours, irritated to the point of implosion by the sound of a motor boat or a buzz saw AND contemplating a quick homicide either by smothering with one’s own pillow or strangulation with one’s own hands. Come on – we have all been there – and the best legal defense would be sleep deprivation and audio distress all brought on by snoring.

If this pillow really works we can rid our nightstands of nasal strips and earplugs!

Lorraine

WARNING TO WOMEN: NEW FAKE ORGASM DETECTOR!!!

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

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Lorraine,

This is depressing and ridiculous. I open my local newspaper to the Lifestyle section and see this heading “STUDY REVEALS HOW TO TELL IF SHE’S FAKING” (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4111360.stm). It goes on to say that researchers (ALL MALE OF COURSE) found that, and I quote, “Parts of the female brain are switched off when a woman is having an orgasm, but remain active if she is faking.”

DUH GEORGE.

Who came up with the idea of this study and what kind of kill joys are they? I think it’s really crossing a line, scientific or otherwise, when money is funded to figure out a female secret ploy that has been used since Eve. How dare they!

And, how will this work exactly in the bedroom? Will men suddenly wheel in a brain scan and attach it to our heads while we’re having sex so they can find out if we’re faking it or not??? And what does it mean when the studies show that in order for a woman to have an orgasm, her BRAIN HAS TO BE DEACTIVATED! Another blow to the male ego I’m sure.

Now, of course, I have never ever ever never never personally faked an orgasm (wink wink nudge nudge). But I know plenty of women who have and they do not need this new device in their lives!

Mary,

I have a very short reply to this: Why do they have to know if the woman is faking? Talk about insecurities -will it make them feel less manly if they know they can’t bring the woman to orgasm? I not, then why ask?

They are only going to make themselves feel bad and have to order more Viagra.

If the woman is faking an orgasm and making the man feel good, why is he complaining? She is the miserable one, again trying to make everything all better, and making her man feel good.

These guys don’t know when they have a good thing going, cause if they roll in the scanning machine they will all find out that they are not all of that, and a bag of chips in the bedroom. What about that old adage - “leave well enough alone” - - as far as a woman’s brain shutting down in order to have an orgasm–yeah, she has to shut down the part that says her partner is an idiot and a jerk if he has any interest in a brain-sex-check scan. That is the only way to get on with it and enjoy herself.

Here’s a brain scan that NO MAN wants to explore - who is your partner fantasizing about???

Let me give you the big clue pal, IT AIN’T YOU. If these men are in so much denial that they think it’s otherwise, that’ll show them not to mess with the inner neurons of our heads - -bring on those scanning machines and give up your hard-ons.

One more comment on the brain scan - if they thought there were a lot of “jumpers” after the stock market crashed, bring on the “orgasmic meter” and don’t walk under any tall buildings, cause once these men find out there could be some fakin’ goin’ on it may be raining “Macho Macho men”.

Can you imagine the deflated egos: “Oh yeah baby, you’re the best - this is sooooo great - don’t stop” - blah blah blah.

Just pair the orgasmic meter/scan up with the B.S. meter and now we’re talkin’!!

Wait ’til we have to tell them that most of our excitement during sex is actually because we are fantasizing about that great pair of pumps at Nordstroms–and how we talk dirty to get it over with quick so we can hop in the car and shop.

But hey - I guess for them ignorance isn’t bliss. It should be and they can go on thinking that they are the Masters of their Sexual Domain. Pitiful.

Lorraine