Documentary of the Week

The documentary I chose this week is Louis Theroux's Weird Weekend- Porn. BBC documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux delves into the world of the male porn star. Most men think this is the dream gig- getting paid good money to have sex with tons of beautiful women. What most men don't know is that it is an extremely hard job, resulting in very few men making it in the business. Louis is a great filmmaker and storyteller, getting right to the heart of the story and in front of the camera, all in the name of film.

http://watchdocumentary.com/watch/louis-therouxs-weird-weekends-porn-video_f59d1f11d.html

Documentary of the Week

The documentary I chose to feature this week is entitled 'The Virgin Daughters' and is an intimate look inside the purity movement in the central states. I believe there is a lot that can be taken away from this documentary, but most importantly I believe that the purity movement lacks education on contraception and STI's. I think abstinance is a great idea and theory, but in the end it is a very unrealistic outlook on the sexuality of today's youth. Telling a young person to make a vow for celibacy and not educating them further is just a recipe for disaster. Aside from that fundamental flaw, I enjoyed the great relationships between family members and the encouragement the young people received for respecting themselves.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/virgin-daughters/

Until next time!

Documentary of the Week

I watch so many documentaries in my free time, i've decided to share some of the sex-related ones with you on a weekly schedule.

This week is: Ancient Inventions- Sex and Love, brought to you by Monty Python's Terry Jones. This particular documentary can be found at the following link, and is the second video down.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/ancient-inventions-war-sex-city-life/

Cheers,
Janice

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The G-Spot and Female Ejaculation

            This post will be taken from a paper I did for my Human Sexuality class in university. I will edit it for presentation and will make my citations available to anyone who asks. I figured that I wrote a few papers that I can use here, why just let them collect dust on my hard drive when I worked so hard on them.

I have had the chance to hear much anecdotal evidence for the existence of the g-spot and of female ejaculation. The amount of personal evidence I have accumulated on these topics leaves no room for doubt of their existence in my mind amid much scientific speculation. I will present arguments that support my view with scientific evidence, as well as different views presenting doubts from other academic individuals.

            First, I will discuss the g-spot, named after the individual who first recorded its existence in 1950, Dr. Ernst Grafenberg. The g-spot can be located in any woman quite easily on the anterior wall of the vagina, when stimulating this area; the result is an intensely pleasurable experience. Approximately thirty seconds to one minute after the initiation of the manual stimulation, this region will begin to swell noticeably. In a study the g-spot was located without any problem in all 27 of their female subjects, demonstrating the ease of which it can be located if one knows where to look. Much of the literature has called the g-spot the ‘female prostate’, making reference to the idea that the g-spot is homologous to the male prostate. Although it is quite easy for the woman to feel the difference, the g-spot is not easily located visually.

            Accompanying the g-spot in some women is what has been called female ejaculation. Many women have sought out professional help for a problem they took to be urinary incontinence. In a 2005 case study, the woman described an intense feeling of the need to urinate during intercourse. The subject in this study also reported an amount of fluid being expelled from her urethra upon orgasm; believing that she was wetting the bed, this caused her great distress. This could in fact be a problem for a lot of women who are afraid or embarrassed to bring the subject up to a family doctor. The embarrassment and fear of wetting the bed caused the woman in this case study to have a lower sex drive and to inhibit her sexual reaction and; therefore, her orgasms.

            Education about the female body is very important for both men and women. In the 2005 case study,  the woman’s avoidance behaviour was interpreted as a loss of interest in sex by her partner. Proper education about her sexual reaction allowed her to realize that she was not suffering from the embarrassing problem of incontinence, and allowed her to ‘let go’ and enjoy sex once again.      

            Physiologically, some possible explanations given for the cause of fluid expelled during orgasm could be: urinary stress incontinence, which can be ruled out by a doctor; the bartholin’s gland, which has only anecdotal evidence; vaginal secretions expelled forcefully upon orgasm; and the skene’s gland. From the information that I have read and heard over the years, I believe that the skene’s gland is responsible for the release of the fluid through the urethra accompanied by an orgasm.

            In some cases, the expulsion of fluid is accompanied by a refractory period, this is similar to men. The connection that female ejaculation has to the g-spot is the observance by researchers in 1981 that the subject in this study only produces fluid when manually stimulated on her g-spot, and never her clitoris alone. Researchers ran tests on fluid collected from one of these orgasmic expulsions and they found that the fluid has different physical qualities and chemical composition from urine; and therefore, is not originating from the bladder, but somewhere else. Arguments against this view state that the ejaculate is just urine with its chemical composition changed from sexual arousal; I believe this speculation to be highly unlikely.

            I have heard different opinions over the years about female ejaculation, some people think it is just urine, others think that some women can do it and others can’t, and other people think that it can be a ‘learned talent’. I believe in the latter, the biggest obstacle that woman face is the fear of letting go or the fear that they are indeed peeing the bed. Researchers in 1988 found that there were no physiological or biological differences between the 27 women in their study who could and could not ejaculate. This leads me to believe that all women have the capacity to ejaculate and that the women who did not ejaculate in the study are inhibiting themselves either consciously or unconsciously.

            Evidence in the form of historical references to female ejaculation dates back to Aristotle, the Kama Sutra, and Victorian times, there are still a lot of disbelief and opponents to this idea in the modern scientific community. Researchers liken female ejaculation to a gynecological UFO, and while I find this statement to be amusing, I also agree that more scientific research is needed. Research up until this point on female ejaculation consists on a great deal of case studies and anecdotal evidence. Who knows, perhaps someday I will prove the existence of this phenomena.

Ancient Greece Series- Religion

           Religion is a powerful and driving force behind the lives of many humans. Time in history makes no difference toward the devotion of humans to the unseen celestial forces. Many deities have been worshipped for the many aspects of sexuality, and ancient Greece is no different. There are many gods and goddesses in Greek religion that represent different aspects of sexuality. The goddess Aphrodite represents love, lust and beauty, the goddess Demeter represents fertility while the goddess Hera presides over matters of marriage, women and childbirth. The god Hermes is known for many different reasons, but a little known fact is that Hermes taught his frustrated son, Pan, how to masturbate. In turn, Pan taught the activity to the herdsmen he presided over. Some minor gods and goddesses also preside over sexual matters. Apheae is a minor goddess of fertility, Eros is the son of Aphrodite and he looks after love, lust and sex, and Hymen is the goddess of marriage and marriage feasts.

          Both homosexuality and heterosexuality are represented in stories about the god’s adventures. The powerful god named Zeus was a classic womanizer, but he was also susceptible to the powerful pull of a beautiful young boy. It was said that Zeus fell in love with a Trojan prince named Ganymede, and abducted him, taking him back to Olympus.

          Religion is commonly shown in the form of art. Neolithic figurines show a lot of strong sexual themes and genital representation from a variety of timelines. Sex and fertility figures are commonly found, most of them are indistinguishable from one to the next. The mythical creatures called Satyrs are half man, half goat and are always depicted in art with an erect phallus. These mythical creatures are sexually insatiable and always in pursuit of a person or thing that will satisfy their needs.

          Overall, public attitudes towards sex and sexuality have become much more closed-minded in modern times compared to times in ancient Greece. Although, an amazing amount of similarities do exist between these two times. The most similarities exist with regards to superstition and religion. Humans consistently believe in what they cannot see and perform the necessary rituals to achieve the desired result of a situation.

Amcient Greece Series- Superstition

          The concept of superstition doesn’t seem to have changed too much, just the nature of specific superstitious beliefs. We all have certain beliefs or have heard of some being performed in order to have a particular sex for a child or to ward off evil energy surrounding a union. The ancient Greeks also had their own superstitions, too many to mention them all. The following are a selection of some of the more common superstitions.

          Menstruating women were feared, it was thought that they could taint the objects around them. It was said that a menstruating woman could make plants wither and pregnant mares miscarry. Menstruating women could tarnish mirrors by looking into them, dull razors, turn linens in the wash black and rust bronze. The most potent women were those menstruating for the first time or the first time after losing their virginity, these women were thought to have the power to break magical charms.

          To induce impotence, one had to introduce mouse dung or the plant called byra mixed with the urine of an ox to a man’s diet. There are also multiple remedies for the inability for couples to conceive children or to promote a healthy pregnancy. Popular remedies for a variety of ailments include urine, feces and a mother’s milk. These bodily by-products were thought to have healing qualities. If a married couple wanted a baby boy, the mother would have to eat the testicles or womb of a hare or the testicles of a cock.

         The ‘evil eye’ that is known in today’s culture was also present in ancient times. Many ways to avoid the gaze of the evil eye were created. The most popular superstitious method to avoid the negative repercussions of the evil eye is the public displaying of a phallus symbol. It was thought that the evil eye would avert its gaze out of embarrassment at the sight of the phallus. People erected statues, wore jewelry and creatively displayed the phallus symbol. The reason that male genitalia were thought to ward off the evil eye and not female genitalia was that males were thought to be the more powerful sex; therefore, female genitalia were not powerful enough to ward off the evil eye.