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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Do I need to have sex with her to know whether we'll be sexually compatible?
Gone Savage left this comment, and thank God, because I rarely hear guys in the community owning up to this:
>>>"what if SHE sucks in bed after I commit to her?"
I used to think this way. After you get a couple hundred notches on your belt, you'll know if woman is expressive/enthusuastic/good before you've penetrated. It's just not at issue -- you know.
So true, GS.
And let me just say, as a woman with a pretty low "number," it *really* does not require 200 notches to know this. I have NEVER once not been able to tell whether the sex would be good BEFORE having sex.
I can tell by the kissing, by the foreplay, and by the level of connection.
Please, guys, stop using this excuse. It's complete and utter bullshit.
41 comments:
- David Shade said...
Correct Erika. There are ways to tell in the first few minutes of conversation if a woman is going to be sexually compatible.
- June 18, 2009 at 9:16 PM
I ... in as friendly, respectable manner as possible, call.... BULLSHIT! :-)
Erika, look at this thing you said:
"And let me just say, as a woman with a pretty low "number," it *really* does not require 200 notches to know this. I have NEVER once not been able to tell whether the sex would be good BEFORE having sex.
I can tell by the kissing, by the foreplay, and by the level of connection."
I am inclined to believe you have this intuition. However, you're mistaking your experience, as not only a an intuitive person, but as a woman, for a universal quality found in most men as well.
The fact is... most men can't really tell. Just like men misread IOI's, and think a girl giggling means he's "in," a man without a ton of sexual experience cannot see when a woman will be good in bed.
I sure can't. In fact, I'd wager that it isn't enough to say you don't know how a woman is in bed until you have sex with her. I say you don't know how a woman is until you've had sex with her MULTIPLE TIMES. First time, she may be nervous. Hell, I may even be nervous the first time.
I used to think a woman was a good or bad kisser based on our first makeout, but I've discovered that it sometimes takes a little time together before you two become either kissing compatible or sexing compatible. You end up matching each other after enough intimacy.
Let me be clear, you and GoneSavage may have the sexual ability intuition, but I sure as hell don't. Neither do most men. And for that manner, I've heard of plenty of women being pleasantly or unpleasantly surprised by their lover's bed skills.
That being said, Erika. If you can write a detailed post on how men can tell if a woman will be good in bed, I will print it out and read it over and over again until I pick up the skill.
If you have a method for figuring out which women are looking for sex that night, I'll be down for that too. :-)
Always a pleasure reading,
--Dan the Man - June 18, 2009 at 9:48 PM
- Erika said...
hey Dan,
GS may be better qualified to write that post than I am, and you're right, even with two people it can vary and go up and down.
But I find it difficult to believe that you can't gauge the basic chemistry/energy of the pairing.
If you really can't, are you really being present during the encounter? - June 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM
- Erika said...
Thanks for commenting. You are, after all, the expert on this. And it is always a pleasure to have you on the blog :-) - June 18, 2009 at 9:55 PM
I have had the experience many times where the chemistry was on and once we got physical it was a disappointment. In fact, I've only had one significant long term girlfriend that I would consider a satisfying sex partner. The rest have been the range from terrible to just OK.
I clearly either have very high standards or I don't know how to screen. Probably some of both. I'm probably attracted to the wrong type to start with. I definitely need some guidance! Please help! - June 18, 2009 at 11:07 PM
- SMoKeLioN said...
I dont think its entirely bullshit. What do you guys mean by "commit" anyways?
You can guess-timate whether the girl will be good or not, but its not always the case. Some partners that you have a lot of chemistry with otherwise simply dont hold up in bed. Others whom you barely have much to talk about with can surprise you and you both can share a huge amount of sexual chemistry.
"And let me just say, as a woman with a pretty low "number," it *really* does not require 200 notches to know this. I have NEVER once not been able to tell whether the sex would be good BEFORE having sex."
I dont think this is that good of an argument. It could just be the case that you're err'ing on the side of caution. What I mean by that is you'll never know whether you were right or not with the guys you chose not to have sex with. Its like if youre a baseball batter and have a 90% hit ratio for when you swing the bat.... except you only ever swing it when its thrown super easy at you.
Its the same reason I rarely ever get blown out on the open. Why? Because im notoriously lazy with waiting for approach invitations. I think that analogy should make sense.
I would really like to read an indepth post about how GS can figure out if a girl is a sex freak or not. Im actually legitimately interested in this... since it would help save me a lot of time in not calling girls back. - June 19, 2009 at 12:54 AM
I've never had sex before... but I just know I'm going to be a great love maker.
However, what does one consider "good" or "bad" sex... or good or bad anything? That's subjective.
I've mentioned before that a certain celebrity who's sex tape got leaked totally turned me off after watching her. She was (seemingly) TERRIBLE in bed... but she's still high on most guy's demand list, and she has plenty of experience obviously. The guy still enjoyed the hell out of her though...
R. - June 19, 2009 at 1:05 AM
- Justin Carnahan said...
To Dan,
When you're with someone and kissing or making love, it isn't the techniques that they know. It's much more like dance than it is Street Fighter; you have to feel the rhythm of the moment more than you need to know all the moves. You don't have to sleep with someone to know if they have rhythm or not. ;-) - June 19, 2009 at 1:50 AM
- GoneSavage said...
I can make a pretty good guess early on based on vibe. The fun part is then finding out if my guess was right.
If you're including intimacy and foreplay, well, you should know beyond a doubt at that point. - June 19, 2009 at 4:19 AM
- GoneSavage said...
"If you have a method for figuring out which women are looking for sex that night, I'll be down for that too."
That's easy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTVY0yqXpzs - June 19, 2009 at 4:23 AM
- Erika said...
Hmmm... I am quite intrigued by this ... it seems like an area ripe for inquiry.
I'm intrigued by Jason Miller's comment.
I'm very curious now how "open" people are being with each other before they have sex ...
I'm also wondering if some guys are screening out sexually compatible girls as long-term mates ...
This actually makes me think it'd be a great exercise for some guys deliberately not to have sex and to explore this frontier and become more present with what they are learning about a girl during the conversation and foreplay ...
This seems like a very good topic for more articles ...
But seriously guys, are you present enough to notice things like:
- how it feels in your body being with her
- how she breathes, how she talks
- how she expresses her preferences
- how your bodies fit together
- how she touches you, and you touch her
- the "rhythm" of it all, as Justin points out
- whether she's open to being adventurous or not
Are you asking questions to learn more about her and see if she vibes with you and your style?
This is all very intriguing ... - June 19, 2009 at 8:04 AM
- Erika said...
"What I mean by that is you'll never know whether you were right or not with the guys you chose not to have sex with."
Yeah, I don't see how this fits in here at all. I'm talking about commitment. I don't give a rat's ass whether the guys I chose not to have sex with (who number in the hundreds if not thousands) would have been good in bed.
Similarly, if a man is deciding whether to commit to one woman, all he needs to know is whether he "feels it" with this one woman.
Now if he is shut off from his feelings and intuition, he has no business committing in the first place. He needs to get that issue solved first. - June 19, 2009 at 8:15 AM
I'm sure I have not always been the most present when screening a woman, but I don't think your list of things to notice is very useful when it comes to actually enjoying sex with a particular woman.
- how it feels in your body being with her
- how she breathes, how she talks
- how she expresses her preferences
- how your bodies fit together
- how she touches you, and you touch her
- the "rhythm" of it all, as Justin points out
- whether she's open to being adventurous or not
Whether these criteria are met or not, you still have to contend with things like sexual style, range and preferences. I'm one of those guys who needs a connection to enjoy sex fully, otherwise it's just two people getting off. I don't have a problem with two people just getting off, but what I experience very often is that the woman has a different agenda or style IN BED than I do. And when we don't click, the sex is just OK or even bad. To me, that's annoying.
In fact, that's partly why I'm on the track to find "the one". I just don't see how going for quantity can be sexually satisfying when I'm so often disappointed by the sex itself. If I consistently came across women who were good sex partners for me, I might feel differently.
Recently I rebounded with a woman and honestly, I believe at the time all your above criteria were met, but when we got into bed, her insistence on HER rhythm and HER position so she could get off was completely annoying. I'd lead her to something else, she'd be able to sync up with me for a minute and then it was right back to her habit. She was trying to accommodate me, but her subconscious mind wouldn't let her. Literally it was as if she was trying to screw some above mounted dildo as quickly as possible as if I wasn't there.
I've had other girlfriends who refused oral sex or refused certain positions once we were farther into the relationship. Two long term girlfriends refused to seek out birth control while I used a condom for years. We always got tested for STDs anyway so that was never the issue. So really, I think I'm not choosing well. I need help. - June 19, 2009 at 9:50 AM
- Dan_Brodribb said...
I'm having a hard time picking a side on this particular issue. I agree with Erika NOW, but I wonder if I'd felt the same way a few years ago, when I had almost no experience.
In any case, I'd agree with Erika that you don't need an exceptionally high number of partners to be good in bed. You just need enough to start to get a feel for what works and doesn't for you. And that's less about the number of horses than it is minutes in the saddle.
I don't know if this will help you Jason, but I don't spend a lot of time worrying about how good my partner is. For that matter, I try not to worry about being 'good' myself. 'Good' is a judgement, and I'm not into judgements.
What I focus on instead is discovering what pleases my partner in the moment and helping her find what feels good for me.
It's not an Olympic event. It's more important to me that she has a good time than I score points with the judges as being good.
It's a lot less pressure on both of us and tends to lead to a better time.
So rather than looking for better sexual partners, it might be more helpful to focus on having a better time with the one(s) you do have.
Best of Luck
db - June 19, 2009 at 11:48 AM
- GoneSavage said...
Great commentary here. I'm reminded of several things.
1. One reason that I'm fascinated with sex is because sexual experience is so subjective. Sex with me might be merely 'great' for one woman and an absolutely over-the-top unforgettably fantastic and filthy experience for another. To me, good sex is based primarily on only two things. First, you need excitement, enthusiasm and passion from your lover. And second, you have to have confidence in your own sexual ability. It's one thing to love sex. But it's another thing to believe that you are really good at it.
2. Perhaps this is what some guys are caught up on... There is just no way to determine a person's sexual dynamic based on judgements of appearance, but there are plenty of ways to make a guesstimate through communication. One of the most amazing things about sex is discovering what makes a woman unique... What you look like naked and what you feel like physically. Discovering where you are soft and where are you firm. Discovering your enthusiasm and technique for certain things. Learning how you connect with my energy and how your style meshes with my own.
3. I also have a healthy appreciation and curiosity for the beautiful reality of REAL girls: What your body look like when you're naked (tits, ass, curves, birth marks, everything), what you body physically feel like (firmness, smoothness, overall proportions), what specific unique parts of you look and feel like (hair, breasts, legs, mouth), your style in bed and what your technique is like for certain things (kissing, oral, fucking). This is my appreciation for subtlety and nuance in sexual communication. Similarly, there is as much detectable subtlety and variation with non-sexual communication (or really I should say non-explicit communication) because it is sill sexually charged. Guys, foreplay is not a means to an end -- to me -- it is a philosophy of life. And foreplay begins on the opener.
4. Never forget the power of touch in deciding compatibility. If seeing is believing, touching is knowing. Your fingertips and your body sensations will tell you if she's going to be a good lover. Most of the community teaches you 'kino game' so you can establish physical comfort as if to somehow win her over. It's the whole idea of 'doing a tactic' to produce a response. They teach you 'do this' to get this result. My approach is different. First, you are sharing physical contact which is critically important. Second, you are receiving valuable feedback about her level of sexual comfort and enthusiasm. Take the highly publicized 'Trust Test' for example. Guys see it as something to do to win her over. Not the case with me -- this is something I would use to sexually screen. It is a compatibility test. Something like that is not a 'routine' it is a screening test to weed out the ones that are not trusting/sexually compatible. Important distiction.
GoneSavage - June 19, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- SMoKeLioN said...
"I've never had sex before... but I just know I'm going to be a great love maker. "
lmao - June 19, 2009 at 5:48 PM
SMoKeLioN you feelin insecure about something laughing? cuz I sure as hell am not. I appreciate it ;-)
R. - June 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM
- Entropy4 said...
I call BS too. I've been with enough women to have a good sample size, and I'm still consistently surprised by the inconsistency of the sex.
- There are the obvious situations of the women who you have great vibes and connections with but that simply doesn't translate over sexually. Any guy who's been with more than 10 women has probably experienced this.
- Then there are those girls where you have NO vibe or connection with, yet the sex is just mindblowing. This happens as well, but is rarer than above.
- You've got the shy girls with little to no sexual vibe who turn out to be monsters in the sack (American Pie style)
- And you get girls who are extremely flirty and sexual in their every day lives but are hardly enthused in bed.
And this doesn't even get into giver/taker dynamics, dominant/submissive, fetishes, etc.
And THAT doesn't even get into the issue of longevity. Does the sex evolve with the relationship or does it quickly become stagnant? You can't even know that until you've slept with the same woman for at least a few months.
So I call bullshit. - June 19, 2009 at 7:27 PM
- Erika said...
Wow, now that's wild. I could totally feel your energy right before that comment came in ...
- June 19, 2009 at 7:44 PM
- Erika said...
But I still say bullshit. I've never yet had a relationship die because the sex died. The last serious relationship I had, the guy said it was the best sex he'd ever had, right up until the end. He was experienced, and that was before I discovered all this amazing tantra stuff. The commitment needs to be there for it to endure. Otherwise it's just too easy for one person or the other to bail when there are issues.
- June 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM
- Nelia said...
+1 for bullshit.
I've made some mistakes (pre-marriage) in this arena. My evolving indicators hardly ever predicted performance accurately. - June 19, 2009 at 8:02 PM
- GoneSavage said...
I'm not sure what people are calling bullshit against.
That some people just know that they are going to have great sex before they do it?
I think this may just come down to the difference between guys that see sex as conquest and guys that see sex as a way of deepening and continuing connection.
Even when I think of the flirty and sexual girls that I've been with (like exotic dancers) in cases where the sex has turned out to be disappointing, it is because I saw the sex as conquest.
I hooked up with a Cirque Du Soleil contortionist -- I thought the sex was going to be filthy wild and in unimaginable positions-- and then she just laid there like a dead fish. Horrible. But in all honesty, this was a girl that I pursued and seduced as conquest. I wanted that particular experience first hand -- and got it, as disappointing as it was.
The shy girl being wild in bed stereotype rings true for me. I think it's a division of introversion and extroversion that is not looked at enough in our community.
I'm naturally introverted. Guys that I coach find this surprising because I fake extroversion well and can pull same night from high energy environments. But as an introvert, I will crash heavily after a few nights of this.
As an introvert, I have amazing sexual connections with introverted women. Women that are intellectual, articulate, and who love the intensity of language. Women that are reserved to the approaches of most men, I take great pride in awakening sexually. And I'm never disappointed.
Taking pride in satisfying a woman is of prime importance to my own sexual satisfaction. This is recognition of an enlightened self interest. She has the same attitude about me. Mutual pursuit. Mutual gratification. Win-win.
And here's the truth about sexual compatibility and personal energy. I heard someone once say that introverts need to hook up long term with extroverts to "balance" each other and "compliment" each other.
This is not a complimentary .energy exchange at all. What you get here is compromising energy, not complimentary energy. This is the law of averages in action. The extrovert becomes less extroverted, and the introvert becomes less introverted. They become more similar, but conflict and resentment ensues.
Introverts need introverts and extroverts need extroverts. It's not a judgment. It's a fact. It is of great importance that a couple is in sync when it comes to personal energy – after all – a lot of relationship time is spent *doing things.* This is a big relationship concern: How much time is spent together... working... with friends... and alone? Do we spend weekday time together? What plans happen on weekend nights? And what about Sunday morning?
Again, I am talking long term compatibility here. Introverts will eventually clash with extroverts. Type A will eventually clash with Type B. High Energy will eventually clash with Laid Back Energy.
Similarly, it could just be that people who believe that they can tell there is going to be lasting sexual chemistry before they have sex will find people who also believe that there is going to be lasting sexual chemistry before they have sex.
People who don't believe will attract people who don't believe.
And that's fine. There is no judgment. There is no BS to call.
GoneSavage - June 19, 2009 at 9:22 PM
What a bunch of us are calling BS is that the assertion that the ability to know how others are in bed is a general trait of humanity in general
You have it.
Erika has it.
I don't, Entropy doesn't, and neither do most other men.
I do agree that most women THINK they know what someone will be like in bed, such as if they dance well, or if they can cook, or do push-ups with their dick, or some other bizarre correlations science has not yet discovered.
Even David Shade on his site said most men assume if a woman is goodlooking that she'll be good in the sack.
Anyway, consider yourself blessed you have the gift.
--Dan the Man - June 20, 2009 at 12:03 AM
- Entropy4 said...
Still disagree. And GS, I think you're straw-manning our points by implying you can only feel this way if you're only going for conquests.
In my experience the emotional connection is something that is quite separated from physical and psychological factors of sexual compatibility. I've been madly in love with women where we simply haven't synced up sexually at all. It's less common than the opposite, but it's happened. It doesn't ruin the relationship or anything, but it certainly doesn't help things either.
Emotional connection isn't a "cure all" for situations like this. Rather, it makes what would normally be bad sex just enjoyable in another way because you love and care about this person so much. But in the end, both you and her are compromising for each other on some level and if that emotional connection ever slips, the sex life is doomed.
Contrast this to a relationship where you're synced up completely physically, psychologically AND emotionally in the sack, if that emotional connection slips, having some insano sex can quickly bring the passion back to a strained relationship.
In the end, I think saying you can KNOW how good the sex with a girl is going to be before you have it is about as reasonable as saying you know how well she cooks before ever having a bite of dinner with her. There's no way to be 100% certain, ever. And no matter how present you are, how much you feel her vibe, or how genuine you are emotionally, you can't predict the future, you can't change this.
I don't care how in love with a woman I am, if she wants to tie me up with diapers and spank me with a dildo every night, then we're never going to have good sex. Ever. End of story. - June 20, 2009 at 4:13 AM
- GoneSavage said...
"Anyway, consider yourself blessed you have the gift."
I am also asserting that it is a learned skill...
1) Have confidence in your own sexual ability
2) Value connection over conquest
3) Pay attention to feedback she is giving you, especially through touch
4) Pursue women on your own level of introversion / extroversion
5) Slow down if you want to actually increase chemistry and sexual tension
I'm also an advocate of having casual sex with clear mutually agreed upon intentions, in which case you just go for it.
After all, sex is a lot like pizza. Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good. - June 20, 2009 at 4:41 AM
- Erika said...
Lol :-)
Ok, first off, Gone Savage, thank you for being there for me in the middle of the night. Your voice is very soothing. I appreciate it.
Second, if a girl's fantasy is to tie you up with diapers and spank you with a dildo, I hope you've already found that out BEFORE going to bed with her, or at least during the foreplay ...
Third, I don't necessarily agree that introversion/extroversion needs to be matched. I'm an INFJ who can play both sides of that line pretty comfortably.
Fourth, I do agree with GS very much that this is something anyone can learn and have access to. The sex starts with the connection. If the connection is there -- a particular flavor of connection -- then the sex is going to be good.
Like GS, I can usually tell this WAY before the bedroom. For f*ck's sake, I can usually tell by the way a guy WRITES whether we are going to be sexually compatible. I don't even need to meet him first most of the time to know.
But I most definitely know after we have spent some time in bed playing. We talk ahead of time about what we've tried, what we like, what we don't like. We find out whether there is chemistry and laughter. We find out whether our heart chakras are merging together.
Seriously ... After he and I have done everything else, why do I need his cock to penetrate me to know whether we match up? - June 20, 2009 at 9:01 AM
"Seriously ... After he and I have done everything else, why do I need his cock to penetrate me to know whether we match up?"
well if you have done everything else except penetration then you have already done sex.
sex is not just penis in vagina.
If you really want to be abstinent then giving handjobs and blowjobs should not be on the menu. - June 20, 2009 at 10:50 AM
"If you have a method for figuring out which women are looking for sex that night, I'll be down for that too."
That's easy:
well not that easy, as there are a lot of kinky freaks who present themselves as wholesome (they look conservative...but deep down they are kinky).
I would rather consider a women to be a kinky freak and be wrong about it than to consider a women wholesome only to find out that she used to go to sex parties and have orgies. - June 20, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- Erika said...
I'm not even talking about handjobs and blowjobs.
But whatever the truth is for you, it's different for me on this one.
When I have actual penetrative intercourse with a guy, a level of connection and attachment develops that does NOT happen with the rest of it.
Honestly, I think it has to do with chakra merging. My Reiki healer can tell whether I've had actual intercourse. For example, when I came back from Burning Man, she could tell (without my telling her) that Savoy and I had not had intercourse because those chakras were not merged. We had a lot of merging of head and heart, but not merging of the chakra associated with sex.
There's something about actual intercourse that is different for me, emotionally and spiritually. - June 20, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- Allison M. Saad said...
I just want to point out that the "like attracts like" theory is certainly at work in your situation. You complain of rarely having a satisfying sex partner, I wonder if any of them found you satisfying? You mention a particular experience with a woman who was insisting on "HER rhythm and HER position" and that you would lead her to something else while she would try to accomodate it would go back to her way...did you consider that her side of the story could have been exactly the same? If you were both only concerned with your own orgasm and not trying to please the other, wouldn't it make sense that neither person is satisfied in the end?
It isn't your "screening" ability that is missing, it is your attitude that needs to change. When you become more concerned with the woman's pleasure than your own, you will enjoy sex much more. And since like attracts like you will start to attract women who are more concerned with your pleasure than their own and then --BAM--the magic happens and both partners are satisfied.
The secret to knowing whether someone else will be a good lover lies with knowing that YOU are a good lover--Erika is obviously comfortable with her own sexuality and knows how to please a man as well as what pleases her, as do the other posters who claim to "know" if someone will be good.
The other secret is that a couple can learn to please one another as long as both of them have the desire to do so--that is the key. - June 20, 2009 at 1:18 PM
I can't tell until it is happening. There are lots of hints, like generally how warm his skin is, and how magnetized are our sex zones to each other's.
So far it's come down mostly to how he knows how to move and what spot is he reaching most of the time.
So no, cannot tell really. Fun to guess though... - June 20, 2009 at 1:45 PM
- Erika said...
Allison and Daria, thanks for chiming in.
Allison, yeah, that resonates with what I wanted to say to Jason M. It sounds like they are mirroring each other, each coming to bed with an "agenda."
Meanwhile, all my objections and belly-aching aside, please don't get me wrong here. The feminine (yes, I'm generalizing for a moment) longs to be filled up, with cock, with a baby inside her, with the fullness of life.
My desire to be penetrated by a man, over and over again, is very intense. - June 20, 2009 at 2:31 PM
I very much appreciate your feedback. With very little information I can see how you reached the conclusion you did. The example I gave was at the micro level. And I do agree that the two of us were very self-involved at the time and not doing a great job of pleasing each other.
I do believe most of my significant girlfriends were satisfied, but honestly, I never asked for feedback. And maybe that's the point. A woman can act or appear to be satisfied, but might not actually demonstrate or ask for what she wants. But there has always been a trend of my not getting my needs met, as I explained earlier. I'm sure that's related to my own inner state and what I was attracting.
I'm not convinced that being concerned the woman's pleasure more than my own will get me what I want, but I will try it on and see what happens. The truth of the matter I've always been attentive to my partner's pleasure, but I believe you're asking me to take it much farther past the point of comfort for me. For me personally, I risk running into being co-dependent in that situation which is where I don't want to go. But I will set my mind in that mode and run around with it to see what happens.
Thanks again. - June 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM
"When you become more concerned with the woman's pleasure than your own, you will enjoy sex much more."
I do not think that this is 100% true. of course he should take her input into concern and pay attention to her verbal and most importantly non-verbal reaction, but a people-pleaser in bed is not sexy at all.
just imagine the guy "did you get an orgasm?" "where do you want to be touched, tell me how to please you,I dont care about my orgasm, I just want to please you...please like me...I'll dance.." imagine all that pressure to please and be pleased. - June 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM
- GoneSavage said...
"When you become more concerned with the woman's pleasure than your own, you will enjoy sex much more."
This is an important distinction of the 'like attracts like' principal. The above is true in LTR situations -- you both are seeking long-term connection and devotion.
If you are on the path of having mutually satisfying casual sex -- it is better to focus on your own immedite gratification. After all, like attracts like, and that is exactly what your partner is doing.
I've experienced what I call "sexual supplication." No one in the community talks about this - guys don't even listen to me because they see this as such a 'quality problem.'
"Dude, you're getting laid, I'm not -- shut up." ;-)
But basically I would hook up with girls same night and try really hard to be the best lover they've ever had. To make you cum harder and more times than ever before, for example. I wanted the recognition as being the best she'd ever had -- she just wanted a casual, fun fling. I created pressure by putting all my attention on her pleasure.
Pressure is the enemy of pleasure.
Often we'd go all night, and sometimes neither of us would actually get off.
It wasn't particularly enjoyable. Our expectations weren't matched.
Then I got more into 'going for self' with casual sex. I became more directive, more assertive, got really skilled at dirty talk, never insisted on getting her off, but instead described the sequence of things she needed to do to get me off.
Bingo. More orgasm and more fun, all around. I could go all night anyway because of natural stamina and incredible cock control, but I took away the pressure and expectation. The less it seemed like I cared about her pleasure, the more likely we were to have fun... and repeat the experience.
So, concerning yourself with the woman's pleasure is just one of those insidious things that inhibit the enjoyment of casual sex. Like projecting future adventures. It's an advanced form of supplication.
"The secret to knowing whether someone else will be a good lover lies with knowing that YOU are a good lover."
Yes. I say this as well, and it is true with either path. The distinction I am making is that you have to release your validation-seeking need to be confirmed as a good lover. That is what we call outcome dependence.
And it's not sexy.
GoneSavage - June 20, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- GoneSavage said...
"There's no way to be 100% certain, ever. And no matter how present you are, how much you feel her vibe, or how genuine you are emotionally, you can't predict the future, you can't change this."
Thank you for your persistence here. I feel a sense of premonition when I read this. Thank you. - June 20, 2009 at 6:19 PM
- Erika said...
"There's no way to be 100% certain, ever. And no matter how present you are, how much you feel her vibe, or how genuine you are emotionally, you can't predict the future, you can't change this."
With all due respect to Entropy, let me explain why I still think this is BS.
I hear Entropy saying that, in truth, you never know whether the sex will continue to be good. Even if you've been having sex with a girl for a year, it could change tomorrow. So he's not just saying, I would need to sleep with a girl once before I could commit to her.
Whereas what I'm saying is that, once you have that certain spark and connection with someone, which I have ALWAYS been able to predict, 100% of the time, then the quality of the sex will vary only with the quality of the emotional connection.
Let's take a hypothetical situation. Say Entropy and I have amazing sex in Los Angeles. But then we end up in an unworkable "two primary girls" situation where a lot of my emotional needs are not being met. If we don't do something to get me back to emotional equilibrium, then I would predict that the sex would suffer.
Doesn't mean we don't still have the same spark we had from the get-go. It means that the spark cannot be fully expressed under those emotional circumstances.
That's why the commitment element is so important to me BEFORE sex. Frankly, I'm not worried about the sex. I know that if the emotional connection is good, the sex is going to be good. But emotionally the way that I feel safe enough to be fully sexually expressive with a man is if we have an intention of commitment to each other. Because then I know that even if we go through some emotional lows, we have both committed not to bail. We are going to stay with the energy until things are amazing again.
And if sex can, as Entropy says, be part of what brings a strained relationship back to a good place, I'm all for that. I don't doubt that at all. It's just that for me, all of that happens within the container of commitment.
Personally, for me, the sex will then be BETTER because I feel free to be fully myself. - June 20, 2009 at 7:12 PM
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I think the scenario you describe is taking the theory to extremes. I have probably been on both sides of that scenario, but you sort of have to visit both sides to get to the right place... The scenario I am talking about is where both people are equally interested in pleasing each other and being pleased. Of course this doesn't happen all the time and it can't really.
For the record, I am not a one-night-stand type of person, never have been. I have had many relationships prior to being married for the better part of the past 15 years and having 8 children. The only casual sex I had before I was married was with "friends with benefits" who were usually ex-boyfriends.
That being said, I can definitely tell you that the BEST sex is with a committed partner with whom you have taken the time to get to know in bed. Telling each other your needs is a good place to start. Getting to that comfort zone where you can really be yourself is key. - June 20, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Pressure is the enemy of pleasure. "
so true, this is why the first time I'm with a women I accept that it is not gonna be the best because the best sex comes with time, comfort and knowing one another. the first time you are just fumbling and discovring each others so the first I dont focus on her orgasm nor mine, I just want to enjoy it with no expectations or rush.
anyways, I accept that Erika does have a valid statement, I m an immigrant in canada and in my home country, people wait before having sex and they have more solid relationships (albeit there could be other factors)
however, women hold the key to their legs...it'S not the guys who are "forcing" women to spread those legs, but most of the women I meet between 18-25, are NOT looking for something serious (even ifthey say so cuz it's the PC thing to say)....they are the ones who happily open their legs before the 3rd date and usually discard the guy if he doesn't try to sleep with them. Erika you have a good point, but you better tell the ladies to shut their legs, not the men not to poke them with their thingy! - June 21, 2009 at 6:56 AM
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I really don't get the point out of this whole discussion. There's a man, there's a woman, both are attracted to each other. Then why the hell shouldn't they have sex with each other? Is there anything bad in it? Of course, no.
That's only natural ;-) - June 29, 2009 at 10:12 PM
This is mind boggling. Do you even know what you're saying? Basically you're saying the guy needs to get several dozen notches under his belt so he'll have enough correlational experience to tell whether you'll be a good lay, and this knowledge qualifies him to commit to you before having sex with you.
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Indeed. They don't seem to understand that a scientific theory can be valid without being able to explain every last data point the second it comes up.
All we have here is competing explanations for something, and the failure to have a 100% consensus as to its cause doesn't disprove the overall theory.
Sort of like our models for physics were valid despite our failure to find the higgs boson for quite some time. Sort of like general and special relativity held true even though they couldn't explain observations better explained by quantum mechanics. Sort of like evolution holds true even though the skeleton record is incomplete, and hence, there have been some disagreements as to which trees various pre-homo-sapien species belonged - nobody said, "well, clearly, if we can't agree we were wrong all along about everything". Instead, they argued it out and developed further theory/data until a consensus was reached.
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Quite a few years ago I held much the same opinion when President Clinton was in office and first lady Hillary Clinton led the charge to nationalize health care.
Then and now I fully object. As working Californians and consumers, my family and I, like many others in the working class, certainly pay more than our fair share in taxes and insurance premiums.
We go to the gas pumps in California and the price really ratchets up to allow for funding to go to mental health, tobacco cessation and other programs.
While I could support a gasoline tax that actually repairs the highway infrastructure, I don't feel nonsmokers or non-mental health patients should foot the bill for others through a gasoline tax.
Our monthly contributions to the Franchise Tax Board get divvied up with a share going to support the medically uninsured in the social service system, the same for federal taxes. Federal contributions go to Social Security and Medicare, programs for seniors.
Now, please don't get me wrong. I am a senior and do support those programs and the dollars I contribute. My point is only about the many ways in which working Americans already contribute to the cost of insurance.
On top of the state and federal contributions, personal deductions are also made from our wages to cover the cost of our family health care insurance premiums.
My question back then still rings true today: Just how many people are we supposed to purchase health care for?
Tax or penalty by definition doesn't alleviate the true concern. Where the original plan was to penalize those without insurance, learning the Internal Revenue Service will be assessing those charges does not let me sleep easy at night.
Now instead of just worrying about how much Obamacare is likely to cost my family, I have to worry about the IRS being given permission to delve even further into my life and the personal lives of all Americans.
Naïve would be the person who believes any government agency could actually identify those not purchasing insurance without serious scrutiny into every facet of a private life.
While I have never been one to buy into the "Big Brother" conspiracy theory, this totally smacks of intrusiveness.
And, while we are on the topic of this horrendous task, are we foolish enough to believe the current number of individuals employed by the IRS can take on this task on top of their other duties?
I think not … stand back folks, the government is about to swell again. More employees means more retirement packages, more federal health insurance and who knows what other kinds of benefits.
If I'm not mistaken, those employees and benefits are funded by American tax dollars, or should I say, by the red ink with which they print the federal budget.
Common sense says if you are deep in debt, you certainly can't afford to hire anyone else to do the job. Maybe the plan is to pay those employees from the collected taxes. What if that doesn't work? I'm afraid of where they will go next to get the money and how that will, unfortunately, impact each and every one of us.
I'm equally concerned about errors being made. Look at the gargantuan size of the current no-fly list compiled by the government. A 6-month-old baby, really? And I want these folks looking at my wages and assessing taxes?
While I truly want to remain positive about the state of the economy and recovery of the America I once knew, I can't help but think Obamacare has committed the foul and the working class will, in its stead, be sent to the penalty box.
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So what do you think?Canada's top court will not hear the appeals of two American army deserters whose requests for refugee status were denied.
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the cases of Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey, who each deserted to Canada in 2004 after learning they were to be deployed to Iraq.
The high court, as usual, gave no reasons for its refusal.
The men both applied for refugee status in 2004.
The Immigration and Refugee Board rejected their claims in 2005. Both the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal have also refused to review the cases.
Hinzman is believed to be the first American soldier to have fled to Canada because of the Iraq war, but dozens more may be in the country.
He enlisted in the U.S. army as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division and deserted in 2004 to avoid going to Iraq. He fled to Canada with his wife and preschool-age son.
Now living in Toronto and working as a bike courier, Hinzman faces a court martial and a possible five-year prison sentence if he returns to the U.S.
In response to the ruling, the War Resisters Support Campaign said the federal government should act to allow deserters to take refuge in Canada. The group is planning to hold a demonstration in Toronto on Thursday night.
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A release issued by the group on Thursday said a June 2007 poll by Strategic Communications showed 64.6 per cent of respondents in Ontario believe war resisters should be allowed to stay in Canada. The poll had an error margin of four per cent, 19 times out of 20.
During his three-day hearing before the immigration board, Hinzman said he sought refugee status because he opposed the war in Iraq on moral grounds and thought the U.S. invasion violated international human rights standards.
An immigration panel in March 2005 denied Hinzman political asylum, saying he failed to convince them he would be persecuted if he returned to the U.S. The board also denied asylum to Hinzman's wife and son.
The Immigration and Refugee Board members said the U.S. is a democratic country and would provide Hinzman with a fair trial.
Most Canadians usually have no issues with US Deserters and them coming across to our borders. It was a huge situation back in the Vietnam era where we let in thousands of dodgers/deserters:
Canada and the Vietnam War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
So do you feel these people should have the right to apply for staying in Canada, or should they be sent back to the US to face court martial in something they have no faith or belief in?A large number of draft dodgers, young American men facing conscription for the Vietnam War, decided to flee to Canada rather than serve in the American armed forces. These young men became concentrated in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. They were at first assisted by the Student Union for Peace Action, a campus-based Canadian anti-war group with connections to Students for a Democratic Society in the United States. Canadian immigration policy at the time made it easy for immigrants from all countries to obtain legal status in Canada. By late 1967, dodgers were being assisted primarily by several locally based anti-draft groups (over twenty of them), such as the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme. As a counselor for the Programme, Mark Satin wrote the Manual for Draft-Age Immigrants to Canada, in 1968. It sold over 100,000 copies in eight editions.
Following the draft-dodgers, deserters from the American forces also made their way to Canada. There was pressure from the United States and Canada to have them arrested, or at least stopped at the border. In May 1969 the Canadian government ceased its active discrimination against deserters, after facing extensive criticism.
The influx of these young men, who in many cases were well educated and politically leftist, affected Canada's academic and cultural institutions, and Canadian society at large. These new arrivals tended to balance the "brain drain" that Canada had experienced. While some draft dodgers returned to the United States after they were pardoned by Jimmy Carter in 1977, roughly half of them stayed in Canada. The deserters have not been pardoned and may still face pro forma arrest and release, as the case of Allen Abney demonstrated in March 2006.
Estimates of how many Americans settled in Canada to avoid service vary greatly. Canadian immigration statistics show that 20,000 to 30,000 draft-eligible American men came to Canada as immigrants during the Vietnam era; estimates of the total number of American citizens who moved to Canada due to their opposition to the war range from 50,000 to 125,000 This exodus was "the largest politically motivated migration from the United States since the United Empire Loyalists moved north to oppose the American Revolution." Major communities of war resisters formed in the Slocan Valley and on Baldwin Street in Toronto.
I hear many hear say that if you don't like what's going on... to leave.... so these guys are trying to leave, only to be sent back.
I think the big loophole here that's a difference between now and Vietnam, is there isn't a Draft factor in place.
Personally, if they don't feel they should die for something they don't believe in, then they have a right to reject participation, and if heading to Canada is their answer, so be it. My opinion is you join up to the military to serve for your country and defend the people.... but this current situation is void of all of this.


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Rain is ordered to find a mate immediately or else. Desperate, she takes off and literally runs into alpha wolf shifter Jet and his beta mate Garrett from a rival wolf shifter pack. Hearing her predicament and having met her once before, Jet steps up, promising to mate her.
Jet's actions set into motion a series of brutal events and leaves Garrett questioning himself about their relationship and he looks to Rain with a skeptical eye. Out to expose Rain, Garrett strives to find proof she carries the blame for murders that take the two packs to the brink of outright war.
Jet works to keep peace in his household and between their packs. He needs to convince Garrett that Rain's innocent, and keep his hands off the beautiful woman who makes his inner wolf growl with need, while striving to become the bonded threesome nature intended.
Can they come together as bonded mates in time to help save their packs? Will Garrett be able to finally see the truth about Rain before it's too late?
CONTENT ADVISORY: This book contains MF, MFM, and MM sexual situations.
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Slinking on her belly, Rain crept closer and closer to her target. Twigs poked into her sensitive stomach as the damp earth crusted on her clothing. Mud lodged under her short nails as she dug in for purchase on the slippery slope, all the while careful to be silent as she moved in upwind of her destination. A shiver coursed through her as a stiff wind blew across her wet clothing. Steeling her resolve, she slid another few inches, not taking her eyes from the goal just another scoot or two ahead.
The new Spring Hill alpha pair would be officially taking the throne as mates any minute now. Though they happened to belong to a rival pack, she dared not miss the historic event. Her curiosity and nosey nature demanded she watch the ceremony, even from a distance as an uninvited guest. Whispered rumors abounded about the individuals stepping up to the coveted position, and Rain couldn't wait to lay eyes on such famous and popular shifters. The fact her controlling alpha father would flip if she actually attended only sweetened the deal in her opinion, enough to convince her to attempt the risk.
A jagged rock tore into her inner thigh, sending a sharp sting straight to her brain. This would be so much easier if I could just shift, damn it.
Most wolf shifters could fully embrace their wolf side by the time they reached her age of eighteen. Much to her chagrin and her parents' dismay, she still hadn't been able to perform the big change. Not from lack of trying, either.
Stuck in human form, she stubbornly clung to her plan of seeing the alpha pair take their rightful place, vowing not to miss the event for anything. Ignoring the discomfort, she nudged forward. Finally, she reached the pinnacle of the hill overlooking the ceremonial amphitheatre of the Spring Hill Pack.
Dozens of people gathered around, all in human form. Some sat on rock benches, others stood. A baby cried out, only to be shushed by his mother as she swaddled him and began to sway back and forth on her feet. An elderly silver-haired man stepped out onto the flattened stage area, looked over the crowd, then gestured to his right. A man with short dark hair walked out, tall and graceful. Black slacks covered his long legs, matching with what appeared to be a black silk shirt, the color shimmering under the amphitheatre lights. A smaller-framed woman followed, her waist-long black hair pulled into a thick braid, contrasting with the long white flowing dress that fluttered around her knees. She smiled at the man and intertwined her fingers with his.
That must be the new pair. In truth, they made a handsome couple. Young, attractive, and obviously happy. Yet, Rain didn't believe for an instant they were less than lethal if the situation called for downright brutality. The mark of a powerful leader.
Alphas achieved the top spot through birthright and/or sheer aggressiveness. Just because you happened to be a child of an alpha pair didn't automatically give you the authority to rule or the ability to keep your alpha position throughout life. The title had to be earned, fought for, and held with a stern command. Another reason she would never hold the same position as her ancestors. She preferred to avoid bloodshed whenever possible, and the thought of watching her back at all times for a potential challenge to her rule didn't set well. Call her selfish, but she wanted a life all her own, not one tied to the beck and call of a hundred others.
A smile crossed her face as she stared at the happy alphas, followed by a frown of confusion as another man stepped forward to take the female's free hand. He also dressed in solid black, his light blond hair stark against the darkness. Turning as a unit, they stood together before the old man.
Not a pair. A threesome. The fact only slightly surprised her since some packs had accepted and embraced threesomes as ideal. However, never before had she heard of three people holding the title of pack alphas, a traditionally held position for a single alpha male and his alpha female mate. Maybe, just maybe, traditions were slowly changing in the Spring Hill Pack. If so, her family might follow suit. A blessing in her opinion to leave the stingy, snobbish times behind and step into the present with renewed gusto for life.
"Who the hell are you?"
Rain tensed and gasped as her heart sped like a race horse sprinting for the finish after a particularly long and hard run. Swiveling around, she found a man staring at her, arms crossed over his chest as a severe frown marred his handsome face. A square chin promised stubbornness as black eyes sparked in the dim light. Jet black hair fell rakishly over his forehead while longer locks tickled the collar of his matching shirt.
The man has a flair for black. Big time.
None of her senses alerted her to another's presence. Granted, she'd been distracted with the people below, but her advanced hearing and sense of smell should have detected an approaching person yards away, which meant this man excelled at the stalk.
Slowly and carefully, she sat up, then stood, making no quick movements that might set off the already snippy man. A wolf shifter if her nose proved correct. Just like herself. Only harder, sexier, and more than likely proficient with shifting.
Taking a moment to dust off her jeans, she watched his gaze wander down her body and back once more.
"I'm Rain." The whisper came across almost breathless as she took in his large build, firm muscles, and sheer physical power. Intelligence showed in his eyes as did a bit of crankiness by the downturned lips. While harsh, his expression didn't speak of cruelty or craziness. Instead, he appeared stern and concerned.
"Rain. From where?" His baritone voice carried no farther than her advanced hearing ears and sent a thrill wafting through her.
She might have been raised with wolf shifters who harbored a reputation for oozing sexiness just from a grin, chuckle, or from a confident strut, but this one took the cake. Sure, he frightened her to some degree with his obvious power and displeasure. He could snap her in half like a stick if he so desired. Yet, she'd never seen a man quite like him. Her heart pitter-pattered, breathing hitched, and her stomach knotted as she apprised the most gorgeous man she'd had the pleasure to look upon in her rather young life.
"From around here." She waved her hand.
His eyes narrowed for an instant. Leaning in, he sniffed once. Stepped decidedly into her personal space, then sniffed once more, this time at her neck.
Rain held completely still, hardly daring to breathe. Everything about this man shouted dominant male and one not to be trifled with. If she resisted his inquisitive gesture, he'd only ensure she complied one way or another. Running would only prick his instincts to chase, ending with her most likely caught in a few quick bounds. Fisting her hands, she stoked her courage in order to avoid showing the fear presently washing through her in hard waves. He could tear out her throat from this distance, yet she banked on her first impression. He might be one grumpy bastard, but he wouldn't kill an innocent without sufficient cause. Spying on a mating ceremony hopefully didn't warrant such extreme punishment.
"Wolf shifter." He mumbled against her ear as he nuzzled the area for a greater scent. "Young." Another sniff. "And virginal."
How embarrassing.
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Comparing files with BeeDiff
Vive la Différence
BeeDiff compares two files and quickly displays the differences in a convenient desktop GUI interface.
Programmers often work with patches that contain the differences between two files. Linux has always had text-based tools for file comparison, such as the classic Unix diff utility. BeeDiff is a comparison tool with a graphic edge: You can compare files from a handy desktop interface, and color-coded changes appear.
BeeDiff [1] is not available as a prebuilt package with the current versions of Ubuntu and Debian, but it is included with openSUSE.
If you can't find BeeDiff in your distribution's repository, you can always download a binary from the website [2]. At the command line, type tar xvfz beediff_1.7_i586.tar.gz or run your archive manager to unpack the beediff directory with the files. To launch the program, enter beediff at the command line.
On our Ubuntu 8.04 lab system with the Gnome desktop, BeeDiff depends on the libqtgui4 package, which triggered some more dependencies.
Also, the initial launch took longer than expected. The program window (Figure 1) is neat and tidy, with two text boxes, an icon bar, and a status line that contains four counters.
Alternatives to BeeDiff
Because comparing files is part of the developer's daily grind many programs with varying functional scope can compare files. Purists will prefer command-line tools like diff. If you also use Windows and Mac OS X to work on files, the tkdiff [3] GUI is preferable to BeeDiff. KDiff3 [4], Meld [5], or Diffuse [6] have more functions than BeeDiff. Most editors and office packages now offer similar functionality.
The BeeDiff interface is fairly self-explanatory. If needed, System | Configure takes you to the basic settings (Figure 2), including upper/lower-case tolerance, tabs, blank lines and spaces, and the font and font color for changes. In most cases, the defaults should be fine.
Comparing Files
To compare files, open the files by clicking the … button above the text windows. It makes sense to load the original file in the left-hand window and the file you want to compare it to in the right-hand window. The tool automatically numbers the lines, but you can disable this in System | Numeration.
Figure 3 shows you a comparison between two text files. The left-hand text window contains the original file, test1.txt, and the right-hand window has a modified version called test2.txt. The status bar tells you that there are a total of 26 differences, including 9 changes, 8 additions, and 9 deletions. Red highlighting indicates line deletions, green indicates changes within a line, and blue shows line insertions. Changes to individual words are highlighted in yellow.
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Well, I just received a note from the principal saying that this year's bake sale can't include any foods with gluten because many kids are supposedly allergic or sensitive to it.
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Spicy not your thing? You can always fall back on freaky flavors like popcorn, fruit loops and birthday cake. (Jezebel)
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Michaella McCollum and Melissa Reid have been charged with drug trafficking in Peru and Labour will blame "chaos" at the Department for Work and Pensions for extra bills of £1.4 billion to the taxpayer
Airport women 'formally charged'
Two women arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle cocaine worth £1.5 million out of Peru have been formally charged, prosecutors have said.
Michaella McCollum, 20, from Dungannon, Co Tyrone, and Melissa Reid, 20, from Glasgow, face a maximum prison sentence of 15 years if convicted, the prosecutor's office in Callao, near Lima added.
The pair have spent the last two weeks in custody over the drug trafficking allegations but are expected to be transferred to prison to await trial.
Labour slams IDS welfare 'failure'
Labour will today blame "chaos" at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for extra bills of £1.4 billion to the taxpayer.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne will highlight low take-up rates for youth contracts, the costs of implementing universal credit, problems in the delivery of work capability assessments by contractor Atos and rising fraud, in a speech to mentoring charity Chance UK.
Additional costs in implementing the so-called bedroom tax and the work programme will also be targeted by the former Treasury minister, who claims the bills will be run up over the course of the current five-year Parliament.
Murderer in 'whole life' appeal
A multiple murderer has become the first Briton to launch an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights over a "whole life" tariff handed down by English judges.
Arthur Hutchinson, jailed for stabbing a wealthy couple to death after breaking into their home on the night of their daughter's wedding, then killing one of their sons and repeatedly raping another wedding guest, has launched the appeal to Strasbourg after the court ruled last month it was "inhuman and degrading" for prisoners to face death in jail.
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Heart problems remain the most common defect at birth and figures suggest a round 6% of these babies will die before their first birthday.
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The operator of the plant said about 300 tons of contaminated water has leaked from one of hundreds of steel tanks around the wrecked Fukushima Dai-ichi plant.
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Announcing Trac5: A New Path to Peace
Saturday, September 25th, 2010A team of friends have paused to take inventory of the remarkable success in a peacekeeping model we call "Trac5." Along with the other traditional tracks of engagement it contributed to the rapprochement with Libya, deployment of UN Peacekeeping Forces in Darfur, release of 20 Korean Christian missionaries taken hostage by the Taliban, and recently the release of two girls charged with apostasy for "converting to Christianity" in Iran.
Our model is spiritually and relationally focused, grounded in the example of Jesus and fueled by stunning linguistic breakthroughs in the Semitic Holy Books. It is designed to mobilize and organically network emerging, spiritually-grounded "people movements" in over 100 countries, enabling them to support their leaders in incorporating Trac5 peacemaking values, and empowering the peaceful majority to undermine radicals bent on destruction.
Most constituents of the Abrahamic faiths believe that there is little hope of forging peace between Muslims, Christians and Jews. Many see fundamental common ground as a fantasy, with any apparent progress being at best temporary and historically unsustainable.
In this context, Trac5 stands out as a unique, tested approach to conflict resolution, particularly in the religious context. Traditional politicals strategies have failed to sufficiently address the root causes of human conflict, centered in enmity and alienation in the human heart. If and when such factors are considered, these approaches rarely incorporate a spiritual solution such as forgiveness. Trac5 utilizes education, engagement and resources to bring people together — not just conceptually but relationally — to pursue peace, keying on breakthrough insights from the Semitic holy books.
Trac5 can significantly reduce the negative impact of conflict on a region or people, beginning by personally engaging key leaders. Trac5 then assists in further bridge-building, development, and education after the relationship begins. One critical outcome of this process is the systematic undermining of militant ideologies, which threaten both East and West.
Finding faith-based common ground raises the level of understanding and gives people a place to breathe, and to respect each other. People weary of fear tactics and hate-mongering yearn for viable alternatives and spiritually-grounded solutions. Propaganda and zealotry are undermined when people experience authentic, faith-based bridging relationships and gather around creative, proactive solutions to shared challenges.
To learn more about Trac5, please visit us at www.Trac5.org.