Well, yeah, he sort of did.  Well, besides that obvious personality flaw where he relentlessly chased an unwilling cat that had a stripe down her back and was mistaken for a fellow skunk, Pepe, the infamous Romeo of the skunk world in the Loony Tunes universe, Pepe had a few things right about appealing to the ladies and keeping them around long term for a good and healthy romantic relationships. 

How many women do you know that complain that they are in passion-free, non-romantic relationships, where her boyfriend, significant other or husband, find interesting topics of discussion to be what he just saw in the toilet after a night of pizza and beer prior to that morning?  I know lots, and the problem is that once men, and women, get comfortable in a relationship, they tend to stop doing the very things to and for eachother that made them fall head over heels in love in the first place.

Pepe Le Pew would have never let this happen, since romance, and making love, and going to the “casba” were his ideas of how life should be lived - to make romance and love to the woman he loved for the rest of his life.  But we all know that’s not possible, right?  What I do know is that even in today’s hectic world, we can all still find time to be romantic with one another and make our relationships keep that fire burning for longer, instead of watching helplessly as it peters out and soon you’re both not liking eachother too much and resenting the fact that the passion and fire is gone. 

This is all straight, smack dab on you!  The two people in a relationship have the absolute power to change that, and to make things better by keeping it fresh, making it known how sexually desirable you find eachother.  Men, it means getting your lady flowers and making sure she knows you think of her romantically in other little ways that add to the whole female sexual enhancement and intensity of sexual encounters for a woman, who tends to be more emotionally triggered by things that affect sex drive and orgasm abilities. 

Ladies, you know what men like - unfortunately we’re dirty minded all the time!  So we like sexy outfits, oral sex once in a while, and yeah, we even enjoy some embraces and touching once in a while too!  Just make sure you take care of eachother’s needs, before you succumb to the platonic room mates club that so many other couples do! 

There was a very interesting study in the subtlety of human behavior and our basic, prehistoric instincts that haven’t changed much over thousands of years, even with the evolution of both men and women to adopt to today’s modern world, having to do with the detection of subtle differences in a woman’s voice when she is ovulating, which we all know, is when a woman is most likely to conceive, or when she is most fertile. 

This is just another one of nature’s ways to propagate a species, by making it nearly impossible to avoid the instinct to mate and produce offspring by making the opposite of sex more alluring during peak times of fertility, and to make the male of the species want to “spread his seed”, so to speak, and unwittingly more attuned to these increasingly subtle changes in a woman’s voice, body, smell and appearance during olvulation to make her more attractive in a visual, olfactory and oral sense. 

Much like the pheromones men use to attract women, this is part of the woman’s instinctual ways of attracting men when they are most ready to mate and have offspring, whether they know it or not. 

The scientists who began the small study wanted to find out if men had evolved to the point where they could still pick up on the subtle difference in a woman’s voice during this time, because they say that women have evolved to better conceal the times when they are ovulating, so men had evolved to be more keenly attuned to these times by developing a higher awareness to the subtle nuances. 

Men could still detect a difference, and they identified women’s voices who were ovulating as being “sexier”, although to the naked ear, the woman’s voices sounded pretty much the same as they did any other time.  Supposedly the hormonal changes that occur during the ovulation period of the menstrual cycle in women has an effect on the voicebox, however subtle that men can pick up on.  It’s just nature’s way of making us virtually powerless against the will not to spawn! 

I was just reading today about a new patch that women are supposed to affix to the inside of their wrist, which purports to make women feel more sexy and make them think about sex more often because it emits a scent that is supposed to olfactorily (is that even a word, I mean smell) stimulate one’s mind into thinking about sex and intimacy.  It’s around the size of a quarter by the looks of the picture of the patch it showed in the article, and it is said to combine a sort of lemon-y and floral type of scent, at least according to one user.

A sixty day supply of the Scentuelle patch is about thirty bucks, which doesn’t seem too bad, but I guess that really depends on whether the patch workd well as a female sexual enhancement and libido booster.  The woman who wrote about it and tried the product for a while said that she also got accompanying emails from the company reminding her to think about sex every day, and touch herself suggestively, such as running her fingers along her arm or other errogenous zone to help her feel more sexy, and to do other things that would increase her erotic feelings, such  as looking up online what other womens’ fantasies might be.

She did say that since she had the Scentuelle patch on, she felt more sexy and thought about sex more often, but wondered if it was just because of the emails and not the patch, which she actually said sort of gave her a headache at first.  It’s difficult to say sometimes whether sexual enhancement products for men and women work well alone, or if it’s also the idea behind them that stimulates the user to think of sex more often, as a psychosomatic symptom almost. 

Women are said to like scents such as certain floral scents as well as sweet smells that you may find in a kitchen, and men are actually attracted to the same types of things, with women being most turned off by scents such as barbeque and even heavy men’s cologne.  I could see this, except I do think it probably depends on what type fo cologne it is, because there are some that some female friends tells me makes them into a raging sex maniac. 

If we’re lucky enough in our lifetime, we’ve both heard and said the L word to partners and family members many times by the time we die.  I’m talking about the word Love, and what it means to sexual and intimate relationships.  It seems that when we are in a committed relationship it would be wonderful to hear those three little words “I love you” all the time, just as a reassurance that our partners do indeed still love us.  But is there a point where we can take it too far and actually push someone away by proclaiming our love for eachother on too frequent a basis?  Yes, absolutely.

We’ve all heard the cliche of a partner who is a bit too clingy and feels the need to constantly voice our love for the other, and indeed there is usually, statistically, one partner who is a little more needy than another - that’s how relationships usually work, one is usually able to give emotionally a bit more than the other, and this creates a balance. 

However, when one partner is constantly either saying or demanding that you say you love them, it can get old really fast, and instead of fostering a nuturing relationship based on emotional trust, can quickly turn one against the other and even create feelings of hostility and resentment toward a partner who is demanding this emotional output 24/7.

There’s always got to be a balance though, and if you approach a partner who seems overly amorous all the time and is constantly either voicing their love or making you do it or making you feel guilty for not voicing it enough, you should really sit down and talk to them about it, and get to the heart of why this is so important to them and that it makes you feel overly pressured and pushes you away.  After all, there’s nothing wrong with saying I love you, but doing it too often almost diminishes its meaning and often times can create a feeling of burden in a relationship on one partner. 

Coming to a drugstore near you soon very likely will be a kit for around thirty bucks that can determine the paternity of a child by some simply saliva swabbing from the mother, the alleged baby daddy (like my pop culture reference there?) and the child.  Apparently someone decided there’s a market for this?  Honestly it’s kind of shocking to me how cheap the kit is, especially considering these types of tests are usually court ordered.  I mean, aren’t pregnancy tests a good starting point?

Well, the sales of this new product brought to market by a genomics firm have actually taken off quite well at Rite Aid stores where they are available so far, in California, Washington and Oregon.  But it’s not just the typical Jerry Springer types of situation you might be thinking of (I’ll admit, I’m guilty of that judgment too), but it’s also for families who have long speculated about the definite paternity of a child, even if they’re now an adult, and have had their curiousity satisfied as to who is going to be the father in their family tree. 

Of course the do it yourself paternity tests are not without their critics.  Some question the morality of finding out such a profound piece of information in such a cheap, simple way, and even might question the total accuracy of the testing.  Also, they say there is no FDA supervision on this type of test yet, so they are worried about the limited amount of consumer protection.  That’s of course not going to stop people from buying them out of simple curiousity though.

Also, I’m wondering how this would work if this were an estranged situation.  How would you get the saliva samples from all three people involved, the child, father and mother?  It seems a bit complicated, and I’m trying to picture situations where all three can happily sit together without any awkwardness, but apparently these types of situations are more plentiful than I realize. 

Well, it certainly appears that the level of housework a man does in a relationship with his spouse or significant other definitely proportionately relates to the amount or frequency of sex that he is having with said partner.  And why would these two seemingly unrelated items be related in any way? Well, I’m sure if you ask any women she’d tell you the answer. 

It is because it is one of women’s number one complaints in relationships and marriages with men, is that the man does not do his fair share of the housework and she ends up resenting him for that, and whether it be consciously or subconsciously, she ends up with holding sexual interaction with him because of it.  Of course, other factors may enter in as well, but housework remains one of the number one tension creators in male and female relationships.

Throw into the  mix the fact that women have picked up a lot of the financial responsibilities in the household as well, and it’s no wonder women are feeling frustrated.  Whether men want to admit it or not, they actually still expect their female counterparts to do the majority of the housework, the cooking, cleaning and child rearing if there’s a child involved, and women are starting to report that they are feeling not only worn out from doing it all, but also resentful toward their partner if they are not picking up their fair share of the housework.

But men have been picking up the slack as it has been reported by various studies and surveys, because men have about quadrupled in their housework capacity over the past few decades, thanks to changing ideals and the fact that most women are out in the work force.  It’s no longer the happy, simple situation in those old sit coms like Leave it to Beaver, where June Cleaver was home all day cooking and cleaning and taking care of the kids and has dinner all ready when the guy walks in the door.  Oh no, women are out in the work force and contributing financially to a couple’s home and bills, so things have changed dramatically in the paradigms of what a man and woman’s “duties” are in the household. 

Men are getting better, women are saying, but they still feel they get the brunt of the housework, and if you want to keep your lady happy, not only should you be getting her some female sexual enhancement helpers like chocolates and flowers, but you should also be pitching in more around the house.  Apparently it’s an often overlooked aphrodisiac for women! 

Ah, the infamous “G spot” on a woman.  Nothing has amazed, perplexed and confounded men so much as to first of all, figure out exactly where this supposedly magic spot in a woman’s anatomy is when they are sexually intimate with a woman, and second exactly what part the G spot plays in female sexual experience enhancement and orgasm control.

The G spot is no myth though.  There is a spot right inside a woman’s vaginal wall, that a man can supposedly find with his two forefingers, as long as he knows how to find it.  This spot, it is said, is highly sensitive, and depending on the woman, may send her into instant sexual ecstasy if it is touched the right way, with the right pressure, and in the right place. 

Well, it has been seemingly proven (I say seemingly because half of these studies seem to be disproved in one way or another later on, so we never really know the true answer), that only some women have an actual G spot, while other women do not have it.  It’s all a matter of personal anatomy it seems, and perhaps genetics, that play a part in whether a woman has a G spot.  I would argue that it may also be mental, and if a woman is not feeling into sex, it may not do the same things for her, even if the “spot” is present in her sexual organs.

The G spot, which was named after the scientist who first discovered this slightly mythological spot, Dr. Grafenberg, was shown to have been present in some women but not others in the study which used ultrasound equipment to determine this.  The way it was determined is that women who reported heavy orgasms, around the area they thought of as their G spot, were shown to have a thicker tissue in that specific area than the women who did not, and this is thought to be the actual G spot, characterized by a thicker tissue in one specific region of the vagina. 

They also concluded in their study that women without any physical evidence of an apparent G spot, ie the thickened tissue in this area, could not achieve a vaginal orgasm, which is considere to be the ultimate in female sexual orgasms, trumping the more externally achieved orgasm, which is triggered supposedly by the clitoris, and is not as intense.  They said that now there is a test to see if a woman has the G spot or not, since the ultra sound proved an effective method to locate this mysterious area.

Guys, I’ve got news for you.  Women usually don’t like being on the birth control pill, but they have to be if they really want to safeguard against getting pregnant.  There are other methods of course to birth control that can work well, but the most effective way to safeguard against pregnancy is still the pill and various versions of hormone dosage like injections and the patch that are available, but honestly which have gotten worse press for side effects than just the good old fashioned birth control pill.

The reason I’m writing this is because lots of guys don’t realize that being on the pill, especially some of the higher dose pills, can really wreak havoc on a woman’s sex drive, and this exhibits itself unfortunately in taking its toll on a man and woman’s relationship, when a guy thinks it’s because of him that the woman doesn’t want to have sex. 

Female sexual enhancement products of course may help the situation, but being on the pill may also trump even the best in products for a woman’s sexual enhancement simply because the dosing of hormones is simply too powerful to be overcome. 

The solution may be to move to a lower dose pill or for the woman to discuss options with her doctor and get their opinion on some other options for birth control after she explains that the current one is really making her a loss for a real desire to have sex with her partner.  Besides that, being on the pill can also have additional effects that lead to lack of sex drive, like weight gain. 

Sure, they say the pill doesn’t make you gain weight, but i doubt they asked any of the women on the pill before they said that, because many women claim that the pill has made them gain a few pounds in water weight. 

Yep, that’s right, that stuff that women cannot seem to get enough of, and men are more and more climbing aboard with as well, chocolate, is not only a creamy, sumptuous dessert like treat, but it also serves as somewhat of a known aphrodisiac for women, and also possibly for men as well.

Chocolate has been known to emit endorphin like pleasure in the human body, and even in babies that are still in the womb of mother’s who consume chocolate, for reasons not totally understood, but most likely due to a chemical in the chocolate that raises the pleasure sensors in us.  Many women report feeling a little more in the mood after eating chocolate, while some compare eating chocolate to female sexual pleasure.  Heck, many of them prefer chocolate to sex! 

So, some of the best Valentine’s gifts are boxes of fine chocolates.  You can find a lot of chocolates at the local drug store this time of year, but those often aren’t as tasty as the chocolatiers who specialize in making the sweet treat.  One of the better “drugstore” available brands of chocolate that may make some sort of Valentine package are the Lindt chocolates and truffles, as well as Dove brand chocolates, which offer both dark chocolates and milk chocolates.

Nowadays there are lots of local shops that make home made chocolates, which are often the best, since they may be more likely to be preservative free and contain more of the stuff that makes chocolate taste so good.  Dark chocolates offer the highest chocolate content, and therefore may also offer the most female aphrodisiac and attractant properties, however this is all just my hypothesis! 

I read the most interesting article today about how friends that have kids, while their friend remains childless, many times experience a serious shift in the friendship, and often even hard feelings at first about the life changes that kids almost always bring to the table.  An example is, say your guy friend was always the guy you hung out with after work, went to happy hours with at bars, and golfed with on the weekends.  Mr. Fun suddenly marries, and shortly after has a kid or two.

Now, your fun trips to the bar after work and the weekend golfing trips have disappeared, or been severely limited.  It’s often hard to accept that readily, but apparently women have a much harder time losing their friends to their kids than men do. It’s not really a surprise though, since women many times still seem to be the primary caretakers of the children, and often are the first to ban outside activities in their own life before men do.  It’s just the unfortunate differences between the sexes. 

I remember a friend of mine recently telling me that she has to “ask” her husband if she can let him watch the kids while she goes out with a girlfriend, but he will just go out and do things with his friends or whatever else, and it’s more of an understanding that she’ll be ok with the kids alone, so it is a bit of a double standard I must admit. 

Some of the boundaries that can be set is letting your children know that adult conversations are important too, and while they are also important, they shouldn’t interrupt when adults are mid sentence, or at least politely ask if they can get something or whatever else it is they need.  Also, women should try to be more mindful that it’s up to them to still set aside time for themselves, as being happy is what makes one a good parent. 

Men need to also be mindful that their friends priorities change when they have kids, and they should be open and accepting of that, and if it’s a true, long time friendship, then these shifts shouldn’t matter to the friendship and they should be able to have a long lasting, mutually supportive relationship for life.