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Fred Thompson Makes Remark About Jobless Men, Domestic Abuse

The actor/politician Fred Thompson made what can definitely be construed as some pretty controversial statements (I think I even read that he tweeted about it, who knew he was so hip, I don’t even tweet), about how the economy being in the toilet is going to increase domestic abuse cases. His reasoning is that jobless men often become abusive. My, that’s an awfully broad statement Fred!

Of course, I’ll acknowledge that the economy and the huge amount of jobless people and pay-reduced people is probably causing some definite marital and relationship strife, since many times couples argue about money, no shock there, but do you think it actually increases domestic abuse occurrences as well? I’m not sure, there could be some sort of correlation, but it also sounds like a bit of a stretch.

What I really want to know is, are there actual numbers and statistics that are supporting this type of statement? I’d be very interested to see it, because it’s just another reason why we need to get the economy fixed. Of course, they say that finances often split people apart, but there is the other argument (let me play devil’s advocate here), that people stay together for financial reasons as well.

Look at our society today. Most couples cannot live on one single income any more like it used to be. Most families has working moms and working dads, unless they just make due with one smaller salary, or one partner actually makes a ton of money at their job.

Also, divorce is very costly. You often have to split your assets, you lose your tax benefits of being married, and you essentially lose a room mate with whom to share your living expenses. Romantic, huh? But it’s the truth. Men and women alike suffer financially in a divorce situation. What I do want to know, is there anything to this domestic abuse rising claim due to the economy?

Men, You Can’t Blame Mid Life Crises Any More!

We’ve all heard that somewhat cliche term now “mid life crisis” or how about midlife crisis mobile? That’s the funny term someone coined for a middle aged man who goes out and buys some ridiculous fast sports car when he has only up until then driven reliable cars like Hondas and Toyotas.  But new research is suggesting that there really is no such thing as a mid life crisis, at least not any more, and not for the modern man (and yes, occasionally women can go through these too, but theyr’e a predominantly male thing).

The new research shows that men and women are typically actually happier as they approach and pass the age of 50, which is officially mid life for the population, who is living longer today than back when this “disorder” was coined by a psychologist to describe the weird things that (typically) men do when they reach this age, like have affairs, go out and do things they’ve never done before, and live life on the wild side a little bit, acting younger than their actual biological age.

You see, research is showing that we as a people are actually evolving and learning to appreciate “mid life”, since we live longer, and the perception is shifting to not being half over, but to being more confident, more knowledegable about yourself, and more secure in your desires and dreams.  People tend to do the things they really truly love with their lives when they reach this age because they are past a lot of the self judgment and self doubt that plagued them in their earlier years. Sounds good, now mid life doesn’t sound so bad at all!  It’s not all having to pop Viagra for sexual performance, and drinking beer on the sofa, only to go to a dead end job the next day!

Liquor : Lighter the Better?

Hey guys, David here, with an update for those that like to drink alcoholic beverages occasionally, or if you happen to enjoy a drink several nights a week even.  This is actually something I never knew, so I thought it would be interesting info to share with you.  I had always heard sayings like liquor before beer never fear and beer before liquor never sicker but honestly I could never even remember which way it was supposed to go, and I’d inevitably put them in the wrong order, getting hung over as hell. But this new tip is a little easier to get along with.

There is new evidence that lighter colored liquors like vodka are actually easier on your body when it comes to whether or not you are destined to get a hangover.  On the contrary, darker liquors like darkly colored rums and whiskeys are killer for hangovers. I guess that explains why vodka goes down so much easier for me and I’m much less likely to come down with a pounding headache and massive dehydration the next morning when I drink something like vodka as opposed to whiskey or dark rums.

I actually prefer lighter colored alcohols anyways, so that makes it easy for me.  Vodka is my favorite, followed by Bombay Sapphire gin – nothing better than a gin and tonic or a vodka and and tonic, made with a squeeze of lime and a squeeze of lemon, respectively.

So, why is there this fairly noticeable discrepancy between light and dark alcohols and the likelihood that you’ll be hung over, you ask?  That’s a very good question, and it’s not really so easily answered, it’s just one of those facts that is observed of being true in most cases.  However, it is likely because of toxic chemicals called congeners in the alcohol.  You see, when the alcohol is fermented, it produces these toxic byproducts which are filtered through your digestive system.

The difference is that lighter alcohols have much less of these toxic substances while darker ones derive their darker color from them, and therefore have them in a much higher concentration, which is thought to be the reason behind their higher likelihood of creating a hangover state in the body.  This is definitely valuable information to get under your belt during this season, which is the biggest drinking season of the year.

Chaz Bono Glad About Sex Change Op

Chastity Bono, now Chaz Bono, underwent a sex change operation after years of knowing what she truly was inside, which was a man.  She says that it’s the best decision for her, and that she didn’t want to go through her whole life wondering what it would have been like to have all male equipment and live like a man truly, so she finally went ahead and had the gender reassignment surgery and the hormone therapy so that she could fully embody what it was to be a man. Her partner, a woman, agrees that it was the best decision, and has been supportive of Chaz’ operations and attempt to become what she feels she was always destined to be.

Chaz, formerly Chastity, was born a girl to celebrities Sonny and Cher, 40 years ago, and says that she always felt like a male inside and knew that she was not, at the very least, a heterosexual female.  She came out of the closet and announced herself formally as a lesbian over ten years ago, and says she’d been toying with the idea of having a sex change operation for a while, and wanted to do it while she was still young enough to enjoy the full benefits of what it truly felt like to be a biological male.

She has been a GLBT activist and spokesperson for some time now, and now may also start to be a spokesperson for transgender men and women, at least that would make sense. When one undergoes sex reassignment surgery, they essentially are getting the male or female genitalia that they are biologically missing, and they also undergo some form of hormone therapy so that they can also develop other male or female characteristics, besides just the genitalia.

Women may develop more facial hair, for example, and deeper voices, while men who undergo surgery may undergo different changes, such as softer skin and less facial hair as well as higher pitched voices. It’s fascinating that we can actually control the gender we are by simply administering hormones.

Monogomy Too Unrealistic?

In this day and age of sex being sold to you everywhere through all different mediums, beckoning and calling you at any given moment of the day, it’s hard to keep from having a wandering eye if you are in a monogomous relationship, whether you are a woman or a man.  Recent news even suggests that this gets even harder when you have any sort of wealth or power attached to that, or any type of celebrity, since these types of people typically thrive off of excitement and newness in the first place, and they have many more opportunities to stray on monogomous partners than the average Joe Schmoe does too.

So is infidelity and hopeless fleeting eyes something that only belongs to the rich and famous, or is it something that us every day folk have to deal with as well?  Well, put quite simply, everyone has to deal with it. I don’t care if you’re married to a supermodel, you’re going to eventually get used to looking at them, and the way they like to be touched and the way they touch you, and it’s human nature to wonder about what other people must be like as lovers and what they feel like and look like without their clothes. Many women will admit this as well, it’s not just a guy thing.

We all get restless every once in a while, and that’s why solid monogomous relationships are built on open and honest commnciation between the two of you.  It’s also built on a genuine desire to keep the relationship sacred, and by to keep things exciting by changing things up every once in a while, especially the longer the two of you have been together.

Monogomy benefits us as humans in a lot of ways. First off, it benefits us on a physiological level because we aren’t sleeping around, boudn to get any one of the major STD’s that’s always floating around out there, so it’s better for our health. Number two, unless you’re in a rocky marriage, it keeps you from the daily drama and uncertainty that new sexual relationships always tend to bring, so it’s sort of a protective mechanism emotionally as well.  Monogomy is also better for us financially in general. Studies have been done that show that people who remain married for their lives are significantly better off than those who divorce.

For men, many studies have shown that men who are in married relationships are generally much happier and more content, and they are also less likely to die a premature death than single men. They also tend to live a little longer in general, so those are all things to think about as well.

Man Suffers 2 Day Erection, is Awarded Nine Mil

In one of the largest awards to date for men having something go awry with their most prized treasure, a 53 year old man was awarded nine million bucks for his pain and suffering, and by the way, also permanent scarring, for treatment he underwent for erectile dysfunction.

Now brace yourself. You know what kind of treatment it was? It was one of those ones that makes every man shake in his boots, where a needle of medication is injected directly into the penis itself, so that the man may obtain and maintain an erection.  The stuff that’s actually injected is an opium related concoction that is supposed to increase blood flow.  I don’t care if you’re shooting pure gold into my penis, that is just plain scary getting anything put into your penis with a needle.

I have a hard enough time with shots and getting blood drawn, I think I would pass out at the sheer sight of a needle that I knew was intended to be injected right directly into the chambers of my beloved penis.  Yes, I called it beloved, so what!?  You know that’s what you’re thinking too!

And increase blood flow, it did, to the extreme for this poor guy.  He was given the shots originally in the office where he purchased them, and then he was supposedly taught how to administer them himself in the most delicate of delicate areas, at home.

He maintains that he was misled about the treatments, but the men’s health clinic maintains that he was properly taught. At any rate, he was in pain and discomfort for two whole days, and he also has some scarring involved as well, not mentioning the emotional scars I’m sure this traumatic experience included.

Priapism, which is the definition given to long lasting erection, is actually a known potential side effect of any erectile dysfunction drug, but this is extreme, and since he also endured the scarring, that probably accounts for his large award from the court. I’m willing to bet the medical company appeals though, so it may be reduced in the future.  What do you think his trauma is worth!?  Hard to say what kind of price tag to put on that kind of a scare, but I was a little surprised at the heftiness of the price tag.

So fellas, before you go out getting shots, please check out some other natural means of male enhancement, you see what happens when you start messing with things unnaturally like that!?

Letterman Sex Scandal

David Letterman, who has cracked jokes on the air for about twenty years now, and who is one of my favorite late night hosts aside from Conan O’Brien, has apparently been involved in some extracurricular activities with women he has worked with, that have gotten him into hot water with an extortion attempt by a producer of a popular television show.  It’s amazing to me how many people that are famous or rich have been blackmailed with embarrassing information about their personal lives.

We’ve had John Travolta, who was blackmailed with documents in the death of his son by a medic who worked the case (shame on these people, really, it’s disgusting and inhuman to even think of taking advantage of people like that), and then there was a case with a famous coach who had an extramarital affair and then was blackmailed over that as well.

Now, David Letterman has surprised his audience a few nights ago with claims that he was attempted to be blackmailed a few weeks ago when he received a package in his car after work from someone claiming that they knew he did some bad things and had the proof to back it up enclosed as well.

The extortionist was wanting to be paid $2 million to make these claims, which incidentally, Dave himself admitted (I gotta give the man serious kudos for admitting it instead of giving into this scumbag), are true, disappear into thin air.  Apparently when the blackmailer was presented with a fake $2 million dollar check, the fraud was completed, and he was arrested.

Dave then came out on his show and admitted to affairs with women he works with over several years saying that he wants to protect people’s privacy and needs to do the right thing.  The audience was reportedly kind of confused over whether this was part of a bit for him or was actually true, nervously laughing during certain parts when he attempted to make jokes out of an obviously precarious situation.  More and more of these sex scandals seem to be making their way out, it’s no wonder that women even trust men with money at all!

I guess that all’s fair in love and war, and obviously there is a lot of regret in this case.  We’ll see where things go from here.

Are Men Really Ready for Sex Any Time?

I hate to break it to the ladies who might believe that us men are super-sexed up freaks all the time, ready to dive in, so to speak, at the drop of a hat, to a great sexual interlude, but it’s not true.  Maybe there are a few men out there that fit this bill, I’m sure there are since there are always the one offs to every rule, but most men defy this mythology of men constantly wanting and ready for sex, and they actually have to “be in the mood” if you can believe that, kind of like a woman.

Albeit, we may get turned on or typically want sex more than the average woman, but we still need to have some sort of a turn on that occurs, we’re not just always ready with the flip switch. We actually have a breaker that needs to be tripped, so to speak!  So I’ve found out being in a relationship with my girl for several years now, that a lot of women have this misconception about men, and they actually get sort of hurt if they’re in the mood and you happen to not so much be in the mood.

Of course this doesn’t usually happen in the first year or so of a relationship, because you’re generally ready to tear eachother’s clothes off at any given moment during those formative months of a relationship, but as time goes on, and more is required to keep things spicy and interesting, these cases can crop up more and more where you and your woman don’ t really sync up with eachother on the desire spectrum and therefore you keep missing the beat to go at it when you’re both in the mood.  Such is life, and such is relationships!

But yes, ladies if you are reading this, it’s not just your guy, and no, he’s most likely not falling out of love with you, but most men do have to be stimulated or be in the mood in the first place to engage in sexual intercourse with you.  you could be a supermodel, and this is still the case with most men, so it’s not you, it’s us.  Of course, there are tons of great libido enhancers that you can use to get us in the mood, so make sure you have your little bag of sexy tricks stuffed with those my friends!

How Often Do Men Stare at Women?

You’ve always heard the glib remarks about how often men think of sex in a day, and it’s often some astronomical number that seems like all we men do is sit around and drool on ourselves thinking about our next sexual encounter, or women we’d like to bed, or just dreaming up sequences about Jane Doe at the office that we’ve always had a crush on.  And while partly this is true as most men do spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the deed rather than actually doing it, there is another fact that has to do with sex that we don’t think about as often.  One of those facts is, how often do men typically stare at attractive women in a given day?

The study was carried out in Britain, but it probably is somewhat indicative to what their overseas counterparts would do, so it’s good enough.  There may be some slight cultural differences that would skew the results, but you catch the drift.  When surveyed, British men indicated that they usually stare at about ten women in a given day, spending roughly 43 minutes of their day enjoying the looks of a female. Wow!  What if you don’t even leave your house in a day? Does online oggling count or not?  If it does, then I guess that would make sense, sometimes you don’t even see ten women that you deem stare-worthy in a day!

When this all adds up at the end of a typical male life span, men spend nearly one whole year of their life looking at the opposite sex.  Hmm, that’s actually about right. After all, we are hard wired to constantly seek out mates, so it does make sense that we would spend about a year of our life at least scoping out the goods.  Even married men do it (and so do you women, don’t deny it!).  There’s no harm in it as long as it’s not “creepy” and obvious, and as long as you don’t take it too far and embarrass your significant other if you ask me.  We can all look a little and enjoy the scenery even if we’re attached, it’s only human.

Men surveyed indicated that their favorite places to give women the once (and twice) over was at bars and grocery stores.  So ladies, you’re not even safe when shopping I guess!  I’d never thought of the grocery store to be honest.  She’d have to be pretty gorgeous to get my attention there when I’m focused on getting grub for the week.

Claims that Sperm Cells Made of Stem Cells Not True

Stem cells seems to be a huge buzzword these days, what with the controversy over using them in research for treatments and preventive medicine for various diseases due to the moral aspect of using something that could potentially become human life and essentially destroying it.  All stem cells are destroyed in the course of research, since they are used as guinea pigs in various tests to figure out how to make things to further the human cause and treat disease that are otherwise hopeless.  Where you stand on that debate probably greatly depends on your religious background, since most people who have serious reservations about stem cell research have these reservations because of their faith.

Whatever your belief, there was some interesting news that came out a few weeks, or maybe even a few months ago (time is flying by this summer, it’s always so scary how quickly time goes).

There were scientists who claimed that they had created sperm cells out of stem cells.  This wasn’t a totally far cry if you think about it, since stem cells are sort of the basis for a lot of other types of cells and living organisms, which is exactly why they are considered so precious, they can be used in a variety of ways to create all types of cells and recreate damaged nerve cells, etc., which is why they are considered for very important in research against autoimmune and nervous system diseases which have very little options for treatment so far with out this stem cell research.

One of the vocal people you may recall that have campaigned for stem cell research is Michael J Foxx, because he has Parkinson’s disease, and many think that stem cell research can greatly benefit those with nervous system disorders that are otherwise pretty hopeless and don’t have much treatment available that actually improves the quality of life.

Apparently though, the fact they there were even spermatazoa created from stem cells in the first place was highly debatable, with some being critical because the study did not conclusively show that the resultant cells were identical and would act like sperm cells, so therefore could not be treated as such.  They did exhibit sperm cell qualities, however they questioned whether they would actually act as sperm cells and create life if they came in contact with a female egg.  The journal that originally published the information retracted the statement originally because they said the information had been plagiarized, although they still back up the research behind the reported finding.