I don't read much highbrow lit, but DH does. Sunday, he showed me a review of a new novel by Philip Roth that was in the NYT, because he said it had to do with PC. So I had a look, because rarely do I see prostate cancer take center stage in art. I was [...]
Word for the Day: "Embarrassment." Do you still remember what that means? I don't. And you can throw out "Privacy," too. Does anyone have a dictionary? That's because everybody here has had someone, most likely wearing a white coat, trespass on their "private property." Or been close to someone who has. Since DH's (Dear Husband's) [...]
Joke or Fable? I read a joke to my husband the other day, and he said, "This is not just funny, it's philosophical." So I rolled my eyes and said, "You're such an egghead. What are you talking about?" He replied, "It's making the point that you should never rush into anything. You have to [...]
People are always complaining that they can't afford to pay $13 for a Viagra pill. Who can blame them? It's not as if you can put a bottle of pills on layaway (or would want to, for that matter). So a lot of folks are left "frustrated" in more ways than one. As a matter [...]
Recently, because of "Women's Equality Day," I have seen some questions about matriarchal societies. Do they even exist? The Dutch naturalist Frans de Waal believes they do: He cites our close relatives, the bonobos, as an example. Talking about our oversexed cousins is always fun. But people are starting to challenge de Waal's research. There [...]
Also on the subject of "Women's Equality Day": There are three things I learned online in the past year. 1) Women like sex. (2) Old people have sex (in the paper last week); and (3) Men are nicer than we think. Nurturing, for example. My husband gave me a poem that had been published in [...]
We need to talk about sex. That's never easy, but this is an emergency: A professor and long-time PC patient I've spoken to who is familiar with research about sex and prostate cancer told me that *50% of the time* couples will incur serious damage to their marriag after the man has had treatment for [...]
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Hi All, Over the past year I've done a lot of research on issues relating to sexual function after RP. I started out with this because my dear husband was rendered impotent by his surgery. The doctor had given him the usual treatment: a prescription for Viagra, which we kept on renewing. We watched and waited, and there was some progress, but not enough. W knew it [...]
Folks, on August 13th I'll be celebrating my first anniversary of participating in online conversation. It also happens to be my birthday. When I initially posted to a bulletin board I was looking to spread the gospel of penile injections for ED, and I thought that would be the end of it. My husband had had an RP about 10 months before (Oct. [...]
