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Old Jun 24, 2013, 02:04 PM
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I have had a problem especially if I take any Antidepressants or anti-Psychotics. does something to our sex drive as well as being able to acheive an orgasm, numbing the genital senses.Very frustrating to both. partners not being able to achieve that satisfaction.
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Old Jun 28, 2013, 01:58 AM
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Hi Big Mama

I’ve chatted to you online.


Everybody is missing the point!!


Fixing things in the now won’t fix your sexual problems. Read a great book I’m reading for survivors of sexual abuse: The Invisible Wound by Wayne Kritsberg. He is a psychologist and I agree with what he says. Your sex life won’t improve until you resolve the past traumas from your childhood ie when you were raped. You have to work through the anger, the terror, the emotional pain attached to those traumas in childhood, if you want to be functional and ‘turned on’ for sex with your H. So trying pot, bondage or other sexual activities won’t fix your problems. Pot may give you temporary results but long-term, no. Dealing with the sexual trauma from childhood (and adulthood) will lead to better sex as an adult. That’s my 2 cents.
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Old Jun 28, 2013, 07:53 AM
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Purple, thank you so much. I need to look for that book at the library. Thank you , thank you, thank you.
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Old Jul 05, 2013, 09:56 PM
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Pot may give you temporary results but long-term, no.
This is not entirely correct.

The point of trying pot is not just to release inhibitions in order to allow the enjoyment of sex in the moment.

The point is also in gaining insight, and the insight into the trauma's after-effects that can be gained via the pot experience will bring long-term relief. It is not a substitute for but a supplement and a catalyst to therapy.

Big Mama, sort of irrelevant now for you, but once it becomes more widely legal for medicinal use, as I hope it will within the next two years, I just wanted to let you know that the benefits are both short- and long-term, and that is not an EITHER/OR between therapy and pot, but their working jointly to help you. I hope!
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Old Jul 05, 2013, 10:03 PM
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Thanks. I think that the T is thinking along the same line. If we can help things along w/ something to lower inhibitions that sex would be so much more productive. Maybe. Who knows. I an so glad I have my T though.
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Old Jul 05, 2013, 10:04 PM
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Thanks. I think that the T is thinking along the same line. If we can help things along w/ something to lower inhibitions that sex would be so much more productive. Maybe. Who knows. I an so glad I have my T though.
oh, that T is on board with this is great!

now you just need legality of pot for your use
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Old Jul 07, 2013, 08:41 PM
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I am having issues w/ sex after rape. I have been working w/ the T some on this and I just don't get it and I am not so sure she does to. I also put this in survivors of abuse to, because I am not real sure where it goes. Here is what is going on:

I am so confused when it comes to sex. I don't know what to feel. I don't even know if I know how to feel. When my H and I have sex my body cooperates and it is as if my brain and my body are in a battle to make sure my brain wins and sex sucks. I stand there like a knot and I don;t know what to do when my H touches me. Where do my hands go, what am I supposed to do. I can feel the beginnings of pleasant sensations, but then it is like my brain says "no, no don't go there." My body says yes do, it is ok. My brain says no don't. As things progress and we move into greater intimate things my body enjoys for a minute and then it is like an alarm goes off and says stop. Then I can't enjoy the process that is about to unfold because I am to busy telling my brain but it is OK, it is good. I want this to happen. Nothing pleasurable happens and I have to tell my H to stop what ever he is trying to do to help things along because it just ain't workin. The harder I try the more of a failure it appears to be. Then we end up having sex that has no sensations and very little meaning.

Does this happen to anyone else, or do you have any idea what I can do to combat that. It has given me performance anxiety to boot. If things don't happen to me then my H feels bad. If we have to much preplaning then I start to freak out sometimes. If we waited for me to be forward and want to do it, it would be a very long wait for my H.

I want to like it I do. I get that it is important to my H and to men in general to have sex and feel loved and that confirms ones love for them. Though us ladies have to have confirmation first and sex next.

I know that details are missing about exactly what kind of sexual things are taking place. I can fill in those blanks. But some time to much info is not really helpful.
A question for you, Big Mama: Do you show signs of boredom elsewhere in your life?

My reason for asking this is that there's a psychology professor at the U of Waterloo named James Danckert. His particular research interest happens to be the psychology of boredom, and his research on this topic is getting considerable media attention over the last 12 months or so.
Danckert's mirror-world counterpart would probably be Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi from the University of Chicago; Mihaly is best known for Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience.
Danckert's idea is that boredom is a positive state of psychological distress even more than a negative state of disengagement from this world. Indeed, there's more than one kind: apathetic boredom, but also agitated boredom.
Thanks for this!
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Old Jul 08, 2013, 05:55 PM
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Douglas, Thank you very much for your input. I do seem to be of a very laid back natured personality type. I do get board easily. I also have ADD and do not have a legnthy focus. Dissociation is quite easy.
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Old Jul 08, 2013, 06:55 PM
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I also have ADD and do not have a legnthy focus.
my current partner's ex wife and bff post divorce has ADD and takes medicine selectively, only to be able to focus on exercise. She does not take it daily, but just takes it to be able to accomplish exercising.
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