Thank you Michelle for your prompt reply on releasing pelvic armor. If you allow me, does that imply provoking/having orgasms without stimulation of the genitals? I mean, is that (the orgasm) the ultimate goal of those exercises listed in your reply or that is a too simplistic view? Thanks again - GordonPym
No, that doesn’t imply that. Improving orgasms is a benefit, and a reason many people work on that area, but strength and flexibility in the genital muscles also promotes optimal GI tract health; bladder, prostate and kidney control and health; and correct posture, spinal stability and bone health. All of this can contribute to overall health — better sleep, flexible and active muscles, and longer life. Specifically for women as well, genital exercises as well as pelvic exercises or exercise that includes moving the pelvis, like belly dancing or yoga, helps relax the uterine wall and abdominal muscles. Women who have had children, or, like me, vaginal or uterine surgery often suffer from a great deal of pain, scar tissue and soft tissue injuries as a result. Those kind of exercises have greatly reduced pain and stress for me. As a matter of fact, most insurance plans will pay for genital and pelvic massage for women undergoing hysterectomies and similar surgeries, because of the negative impact of scar tissue in that area. It really affects your whole body.
Amy Fettig, of the ACLU National Prison Project, at the Duke Divinity School Conference on Torture, Durham, NC.
We have a serious mercy deficit when we enact punishment to the maximum possible extent… .On any given day in this country, tens of thousands of people are subject to long-term isolation [where inmates] will be subject to enforced idleness, extreme social isolation … and you will also not have access to human touch. The only people who might touch you are the guards when they are cuffing you or when they are beating you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA9FVmdspf8 I love you, Mirjam Eilkenboom.
I love you, Mirjam Eilkenboom.
Retired Air Force Capt. Michael Kearns in an interview with Jason Leopold of TruthOut, published March 22, 2011 in “CIA Psychologist’s Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush’s Torture Program.”
We’re talking about the incompetence of the President of the United States.
Andrew Sullivan, “The Imperial President,” The Atlantic, March 18, 2011.
… . one suspects, in the end, the narrative will be America bombing the Arabs again. How many civilians might the US kill in such an action? More civilians than we are currently killing in Pakistan and Afghanistan? Have we learned nothing?
The proper response to this presidential power-grab is a Congressional vote – as soon as possible.
That will reveal the factions that support this kind of return to the role of global policeman, and force the GOP to go on the record. I also look forward to the statements of the various Republican candidates in support of this president.
But it seems clear enough: exactly the same alliance that gave us Iraq is giving us Libya: the neocons who want to see the US military deployed across the globe in the defense of freedom and the liberal interventionists who believe that the US should intervene whenever atrocities are occurring. What these two groups have in common is an unrelenting focus on the reason for intervention along with indifference to the vast array of unintended consequences their moralism could lead us into. I do not doubt their good intentions and motives. No human being can easily watch a massacre and stand by. Yet we did so with Iran; and we are doing so in Yemen and Bahrain as we speak, and have done so for decades because we rightly make judgments based on more than feeling.