Phalloplasty is probably exactly what it sounds like, and I think is actually a fairly comical name, since it doesn’t involve the word “penis” since the surgery involves the penis, but instead uses a word that alludes to the phallic symbol, or the symbol of the penis and ultimate symbol of the enhanced male sexuality and member.

“Phallo” refers to phallic, as I stated, and the “plasty” is just a shortened term for plastic surgery, which means it involves an actual incision into the skin to perform something that will alter an appearance or the volume of a certain part of the body.

Other examples of this type of plastic surgery or mammoplasty, which is breast augmentation surgery, rhinoplasty, which is surgery on the nose (another comical allusion), and abdominoplasty, which involved surgery on the stomach (this one makes sense!)

Phalloplasty, while it is making some strides in penis enlargement and male sexual enhancement, is still a somewhat imperfect procedure in many patient’s and doctors opnions, shearly because of the incidence of complications that still happen. 

At the point you consider any type of surgery which interferes with such an organ that can bring great pleasure and fulfillment into your life, you should first make sure that it’s been to the point of perfection to where you have a minimal risk of complications. 

We cannot yet say that about phalloplasty at this point unfortunately.  Doesn’t mean that day won’t come, but it hasn’t come yet. 

We’ll talk a little more next time about phalloplasty and how it is performed now, with what types of instruments and with what types of skin grafts if any, especially since penile enlargement surgery involves widening and lengthening, and certainly may require additional skin to be attached to accomodate the additional expansion of the tissue. 

Anyways, we’ll talk about all that next posting! 

Kirk Douglas is a whopping 90 years old, and sure, to look at him, you can tell he’s lived a lot of years here on the planet earth, but I can’t say that I’d guess he’s 90 years old, and that’s thanks to a strict regimen he follows at the gym every day, and also I’m sure some healthy living that most of us aren’t bent on enough to be able to live to this ripe an age in still good health. 

He’s able to walk around fine, and aside from a speech impediment, he has clear thoughts and is mentally sharp.  He just came out with a book too.  In the book, Kirk, known for being a Hollywood icon back in the glory days of Hollywood movies, when movies were still good, is supposed to be pretty upfront and honest about a lot of things in his new book too, including his desire to be in more movies but his thoughts that he wouldn’t get hired because of his speech problems. 

He and his wife Anne live in Beverly Hills, and Kirk maintains an active lifestyle and still looks healthy and vibrant for his age, with the distinct looks he had in his younger days, he definitely looks like a guy who was a real looker in his day too, you can just tell. 

He has said that he wishes he would have cherished his friends more, because being ninety now, he has seen the loss of so many.  Makes me think of my friends, and how I just seem too busy to hang out with them a lot any more, and how said I’ll be when they eventually go.  His book really makes you think about taking life by the cajones, and not putting things off, because life truly is short.  Now that’s a man to look up to!  He’s a class act, and hopefully we’ll have him around for many more years!

Besides surgery for penile enlargement, are there any other surgeries that are typically performed on the penis? 

Well, the only other surgery I’d really heard of that was performed on the penis itself, and not just on the tubes when a man would get “fixed” and have a vasectomy, was when a man would need to have his penis repaired in some way, like say John Bobitt, who notoriously had his penis cut off by an angry wife.

But, apparently there are other reasons besides penile enlargement that men need to have surgery on perhaps their most beloved and treasured and protected part of their anatomy.

Some of the reasons for penile surgery may be that there is a buried penis shaft, meaning almost the entire shaft of the penis is “buried” in the body and needs to be coaxed out surgically.  Other penile deformities ranging in a vast array of deformities such as a short penis, an extremely small penis, or otherwise deformed penis may warrant surgery.

Also, scarring may warrant surgery on the penis as well.  Many times men have to undergo surgery to correct penile enhancement surgery that has gone awry (imagine that). 

There are other things that are in the category or a deformation such as penile fat nodules, and a penis that hangs abnormally low and must be pulled up, and no we don’t mean by penis enlargement exercises, but by actual surgery, which involves pulling skin up. 

I’d imagine this could also get dangerous and awfully embarrassing, although most men might consider a large, low hanging penis to be a blessing.  I’m sorry, but no one is going near a penis with a scalpel without a very good reason!

Do you know how many people say that they just don’t feel “in the mood” because they feel fat or bloated?  And no, I’m not just talking about the female sex, but also the male sex.  Men, how many times have you had a huge meal, and felt all big and bloated, and almost on the verge of sick, and this has dampened your desire to have sexual intercourse? 

Of course, for men, it’s probably not as profound as for women, since women are notoriously more self conscious about their bodies during sex and also are more prone to connecting sexual emotions with how they feel, but it does happen for us men too sometimes, right?

Well, maybe I’m speaking too soon, or from too personal of a perspective, but I know that feeling like I ate too much or just in general, feeling out of shape and “fat” really does dampen my whole sexual feeling, that I’m a sexual being who is attractive and capable of having great sex.  Sound crazy?  Well, maybe not. 

Surveys have found that men are increasingly body-aware when it comes to sex and with the new metrosexual trend and the acceptability of a guy who cares about his looks and is self conscious about his looks, it seems this has been a double edge sword for dudes, making them more self conscious about these things. 

Not only that, when you eat too much, it actually can have a chemical reaction which dampens sexual response and also dampens the actual mood, so there really is something to it! 

I had to laugh the other day, I was watching a British movie, or at least a movie made by Americans with British accents, shall we say, and they kept referring to men they thought were idiots or “penis heads” or the less complementary term we all know here in America “wankers”.

Wankers is Britain is really just a slam on men who act like idiots, pretty much like our word for the male part of the anatomy that would get bleeped on TV or the radio nowadays. 

Let’s just say it rhymes with “tick”, and it’s a funny word, one that many women find very descriptive of men when they’ve ticked them off in one way or another or that men also find very useful when they’re slamming a comrade or a friend who’s made them ad.

At any rate, the British language is a funny one, because almost everything in the British language has a slang term that is the equivalent for one we’ve created here in the US, it just sounds more proper and all, considering they have those darned sophisticated sounding accents! 

Anything, even the most vile sentence would probably sound innocent and debonnaire when spoken with a British accent.  So unfair, right, that we weren’t given a great accent like that here in America.  Instead we have the southern drawl and the gum smacking Jersey accents! 

Yeah, supposedly there are ways that you can actually step up the intensity of your workout, men, and end up spending less of your precious time in the gym, if you spend any time in the gym at all.  Couch potatoes, no need to even tune in for this one.  Lots of guys work out so that they do multiple reps in the gym, and they focus on only one body part at a time.  A well known fact amongst men that go to the gym, right?

Well, supposedly health experts and fitness guru extraordinaires are saying that reworking the time you spend in the gym and changing your routine up a bit can not only get you better results, but also faster results, which translates to less time in the gym for you guys who are body and health conscious. 

So, how can you cut back on your gym time? 

Well, supposedly if you use an approach where you gradually build up your intensity, whether weight lifting, or cardiovascular workouts, while then doing sudden, shorter bursts of more intense activity, will help you reduce your time in the gym. 

This means that while you’re probably used to keeping the intensity higher for a long period of time while doing only short periods of your “warm up” time which is less intense by definition, this could actually be prolonging the time you need to workout while giving your the exact same results as the more targeted, slow alternating between short bursts of intensity and a shorter period of warmup.  Get it? 

Likewise, on the treadmill or elliptical machine, vary your intensity.  Don’t just do high intensity for long periods of time, but instead keep varying the intensity in short bursts.  This is actually more efficient than long periods of high intensity as well.  So, if there are interval training settings on your piece of equipment, or one with hills or various amounts of intensity, go for that one instead. 

Who knew that working too hard for too long could actually be detrimental to your efficiency when working out?  I certainly didn’t.  If you already knew this principle well then good for you!  If not, hope you learned something valuable!

After a failed attempt at getting rare pandas in captivity to mate and produce offspring using Viagra, zoo and wildlife officials have turned to the help of “panda porn”.  That’s right, apparently pandas may be turned on by watching themselves (or who knows, maybe humans) having sex, and be prompted to mate with one another, producing healthy viable offspring, something that is rare and hard to keep alive in the wild. 

I didn’t know Viagra could be used on other species, but like any other unnatural and natural male sexual enhancement drugs, I suppose it would work the same on a panda, sending an increased circulation of bloodflow to the penis, and enhancing the erection, making for a better shot (no pun intended) at impregnating the female panda successfully, since Viagra is also known to sometimes increase the amount of semen that comes out of the male penis.

This would increase the female panda’s likelihood of getting pregnant, because the more sperm that the male produces and ejaculates, the more chance she has of getting one of her eggs fertilized. 

No word yet on whether the pandas have successfully mated at the point I’m writing this, but who knows, by the time this hits the web, we may be one panda ahead of the game in the race to prevent them from extinction if wildlife experts have their way!  Who would have thought that Viagra, one of the biggest male sexual enhancement drugs in history, would be possibly responsible for the savior of an endangered species?

When I first started reading this story about a man who is charged with raping two seventeen year old girls in a dungeon-like area and then leaving them both bound and gagged presumably to die, and heard some of his accusations against the girls, I must admit, I kind of thought maybe the guy had a point that he might have been set up and the sex was consensual. 

But then I read that the same man was convicted several years ago of raping a twelve year old girl, and had a new conviction that this guy was a scumbag who almost got away with something heinous again.

Here’s how the story goes.  This guy says that he was charged with raping the two young ladies after dragging them from their beds late one night and then leaving the bound and gagged to die (however they were either found or escaped, but that is not elaborated on in the news story). 

He claims that these two young women actually consented to the sex, there was no dragging from a bed, and actually they bought a sex toy and demonstrated how to use it for him, and then had consensual sex with him, asking for money to boot after it occurred.  He said that the two young ladies were supposed to help him paint the next day, and he was surprised when instead police showed up with an arrest warrant for him the next day. 

He says he thought they were there to search his place for marijuana, which he says he had stashed in his basement, so he panicked and ran.  He then says that he only found out what he was being charged with and spun his tale (which, we don’t know could be true, but seeing how the man has been convicted of a sex crime previously, that puts a serious damper on his case). 

We’ll see what the jury decides, but my hunch is, his history is pretty damning and he will be convicted unless there is compelling proof that he did not commit the crime and the sex was in fact consensual. 

I read an interesting article the other day about how roughly one in every five adult couples has a cheating partner.  That’s a kind of high percentage I guess, but to be honest I thought it might be higher, because the older I get the more I learn that a cheating partner or cheating spouse in marriages around me and relationships is not as uncommon as I thought it should be in my idealistic world.

An interesting fact of the cheating numbers is that the number is higher among men (what a shock, men are known for being the more sexually motivated of the sexes), and also that it didn’t make much of a difference whether there were children in the marriage or not when it came to straying spouses and partners, so apparently there is just as much dissention in the ranks when you have kids too. 

Although I will say that experts many times say that marital satisfaction goes down once kids come into the equation, simply because the couple does not have as much time to commit to one another, and the intimacy and marriage relationship falters as a result most times. 

The scary part?  Very few cheaters that were surveyed were ever caught, and they either got away with an affair without their partner having a clue, or only being mildly suspicious, so yes, you could be cheated on and never know it!  I guess what it really comes down to is keeping things spicy in a relationship, and letting eachother know how much the other is appreciated. 

Never putting eachother down, supporting one another and keeping the bedroom in check will help, because then people are less likely to feel under-appreciated and under-loved and to find that acceptance and romantic and sexual gratification (something we all crave) somewhere else.

If you feel that you want to cheat, you should probably sit down with your partner, and discuss the reasons why you are feeling alienated in the relationship.  It is true that some men and women are just simply more naturally apt to cheat on their spouses or partners, but there is usually an underlying reason in a relationship where a person feels emotionally detached and begins to seek the attention of other men or women, or finds themselves thinking about being with other men or women in a romantic or sexual way. 

You can definitely mend relationships and prevent cheating from happening, it just depends on whether the relationship is really beyond repair or not, and how much you really love and respect your partner to really want it to work out.  Get some fun sex herbs like Deer Antler Plus for men, that’ll put a little kick in your sex life too!  Just a suggestion :_)