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I'm Gay and You're Not:

Understanding Homosexuality Fears

OCD Takes Many Forms

Straight versus Gay people who have anxiety

Before such treatment, HOCD is all terror and rant. I am now going to type two imaginary rants. The first will be by a straight male who has HOCD. The second will be by an gay male who is in the closet but has no HOCD. Can you see the difference?

EXAMPLE
Diagnostic Puzzle

STRAIGHT MALE HOCD SUFFERER:

I know that I am gay, but I have only ever gotten hard with girls. This must be because I am in the closet, and I know that I'll suddenly get hard with guys once I come out. But the thought of being with another guy makes me sick. Damn, gay stuff is so disgusting! I'd never want some naked guy to touch me that way. But my mind tells me that this is what I want, and that I'll be O.K. with it once I come out because I am gay. But I'm not gay! But my mind tells me I am. Dammit, why won't my mind shut up? I do all this checking by looking at gay porn, and I still don't know what I am. But I just want to look at hot women instead. I have never been attracted to guys, but I know I am a gay guy. This anxiety is killing me. I can't even hear the word gay without becoming anxious.

GAY MALE IN THE CLOSET WITH NO HOCD:

I know that I am gay, and I have only ever gotten hard with guys. I am in the closet because I am afraid people will reject me, yet I have always wanted with everything in me to fall in love with another man who loves me back. That would be so beautiful. I was taught that gay stuff was disgusting, but when I think of being held by a man I get butterflies in my stomach. When I see a guy I like, it just feels right. The only anxiety I feel is over what others think of gays and how I think I'll be treated by straight people in power if they find out about me. I don't feel any anxiety when I think about how lucky gay guys who are out of the closet must be, and I wish I could be like them.

The second rant is what I would have said many years ago. The first rant is what I hear on the board. When I saw rants like the first one last November, I knew that I was not dealing with gay folks at all.

Source:
I'm Gay and You're Not:
Understanding Homosexuality Fears
OCD Takes Many Forms
http://www.brainphysics.com/yourenotgay2.php

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But Why Fear Being Gay?

Like any monster, mythical or otherwise, OCD strikes when a person is vulnerable, and it only stands to reason that an OCD sufferer who stresses over the opposite sex for whatever reason (a break up, an abusive partner, no dates, too many poor dates, and so on) might get hit with HOCD. Still, I know OCD folks with poor self-image and terrible track records on dating who have gotten HOCD, and others in the same situation who have not. The random element is also a factor here.

TREATMENT

Now that we are clear about what HOCD does, we need to talk about how it works once it hits. I am neither a health care professional nor a person with any skill in science; for this reason, my explanation is going to be in simple laymen terms. Imagine a parent whose child has not returned home at the appointed hour. The parent then hears about a fatal accident nearby, and he or she goes into panic mode full of what-ifs and dread. Worry for that child takes over all rational thought, and reason does little to quell the parent's anxiety. Suddenly, the child walks through the door unharmed or calls to apologize for being late. The parent may or may not start yelling or simply hug the child in relief, but his or her fears are immediately put to rest.

Not so the OCD sufferer. We are in that very state of panic 24/7, and it continues even after we have proof that our fear is unwarranted. Catastrophic thoughts gets stuck in our malfunctioning brains, and illogical thinking makes us find ways to keep 'proving' the worst and disputing evidence to the contrary. OCD sufferers who fear contamination from walls not cleaned a 'special' way, for example, act illogically--but to them the fear feels real. I know that I was being ludicrous when I spent the better part of my waking hours expecting to die in agony, along with all my loved ones, because of an imagined natural disaster that was on its way. It felt so real at the time; now I cannot imagine what I was thinking.

HOCD works the same way: Heterosexual sufferers feel that the gay thoughts are real even though, in their hearts, they know that they are straight. Since HOCD depends on terror and illogic, no amount of reassurance works for long. The sufferer has to let go of the thoughts with a "Yeah, whatever" attitude and, above all, not react to them emotionally. When OCD sufferers freak out, they strengthen the hold OCD has on them. Behavior therapy (whether initiated by professional behavior therapists or the sufferers themselves) is the way out of the OCD trap. Medication, which need not always be permanent, can be a godsend since it speeds up results and helps sufferers control their symptoms.

source:
http://www.brainphysics.com/yourenotgay.php

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I am Mark. I am gay man with obsessive compulsive disorder.

I turned 40 a week ago, and I have been out of the closet for almost two decades. In that time, I have helped other truly gay people come out of the closet. If I thought for a minute that even one of the straight HOCD sufferers on the board was gay, I would do the same for him or her. Yet, while I have done my best to help many on the board, I have helped no one come out of the closet.

The Mental Agony

As of this writing I have been bombarded by threads, private messages, e-mail, and instant messages by straight folks terrified that they are gay (and a very small number of gay and bisexual folks terrified that they, too, are not their real sexual orientation). My initial assessment of HOCD stands firm: Whatever HOCD tells the sufferer is a lie. I have had the wonderful experience of talking to people who had initially talked to me in HOCD mode but have since gone on medication and undergone behavior therapy; they now tell me that they are clearly heterosexual and don't know what they were thinking before. Yeah, well, I could have told them that. In fact, I did.

The only part of my initial assessment that has changed is my realization that HOCD is far more common in the OCD population than most people think. I don't think most OCD sufferers get it; I know I have never had it (although I could have gotten it and shudder at the thought). Nevertheless, it is sufficiently widespread to warrant more specialists in the field, more media exposure, and more understanding among therapists relatives, friends, and, especially, gay people who give the wrong advice. Before November 2004, I would have given the wrong advice, too.

So why do some OCD sufferers get HOCD when others do not? Who knows? Why did I have terrors about earthquakes and research them for close to two years when I never had, say, Harm OCD? Again, who knows? To a large degree, I believe, the mental daggers our OCD sends us are random. To a small degree, I also believe, they have something to do with what we fear most. In Harry Potter language, OCD has the same power as a Dementor: It fills us with our most unhappy thoughts and saps all happiness out of us. It is what a Boggart becomes, a manifestation of our worst fears. Of course, Harry learned to defeat Dementors and Boggarts.

Source:
Article Title:
I'm Gay and You're Not:
Understanding Homosexuality Fears
Am I Gay? Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Takes Many Forms
Website: http://www.brainphysics.com/yourenotgay.php
Accessed: April 06, 2009

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The Rules

Hello there! My name is Mark, and I am a gay male with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). I am writing for the benefit of heterosexual folks who hope to use this article to understand their fears about being gay (also known as gay OCD or HOCD). No worries, my friend: If you are trying to understand yourself or someone close to you who has HOCD, you are reading the right article.

Rule one: If you say you are heterosexual, then you are. Period.

Rule two: There are no other rules.

Thank you for taking the time to read and obey the rules. I am a teacher in my real life, and I always spell out the rules early on.

Now that we are coming at this from the same mindset, please bear with me as I walk you through HOCD.

What is Homosexual OCD?

In November 2004, real-life stress was playing havoc with my emotions and OCD. I had been off medication and out of therapy for years, and I needed a place where I could talk about personal issues. Searching under OCD and gay, I discovered the old BrainPhysics discussion board and decided to post. I thought I was joining a board full of gay people with OCD. Only ten minutes after I had started reading the most recent posts, however, I realized that something was wrong: The folks with gay fears were clearly not gay. It took another five minutes for me to figure out what HOCD was and why so many people had gay obsessions. "Well, duh!" I thought. "This is an OCD board. Of course they have false obsessions."

Before my own OCD was treated, I had suffered for years with obsessions about natural disasters, religion, my health, and being rejected. What I saw in the HOCD obsessions mirrored the anxiety, checking, illogical thinking, and broken record quality of everything I had experienced. HOCD felt real to its sufferers just as my own obsessions had felt real to me. Again, duh! OCD always feels real. If it did not, it would not be OCD. It plays with your mind, making you believe lies and doubt truth.

I would later learn that truly gay people may also get HOCD, but that they falsely fear that they are heterosexual. Bisexuals with HOCD have the false fear that they are attracted to only one sex, usually the one they are not currently involved with. These facts alone should help straight HOCD folks to see that they are indeed straight. HOCD is an illness, and who but a gay HOCD sufferer would fear being straight, the thing society prizes? Just as HOCD obsessing over being straight = gay in reality, HOCD obsessing over being gay = straight in reality. Straight folks with HOCD know deep down that they are not gay. But I am getting ahead of myself.

Obsessive thoughts of being homosexual that cause fear in person who is straight.

I turned 40 a week ago, and I have been out of the closet for almost two decades. In that time, I have helped other truly gay people come out of the closet. If I thought for a minute that even one of the straight HOCD sufferers on the board was gay, I would do the same for him or her. Yet, while I have done my best to help many on the board, I have helped no one come out of the closet.

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Kim Sharma (TOI photo)

Actress Kim Sharma tells about food and lot more that can arouse a woman for sex?

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HOW TO INCREASE SEXUAL DESIRE IN WOMEN _ Kim Sharma's version

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Actress Kim Sharma has some ideas to share with people about the food that increase sexual desire in woman. URVASHI ASHAR has the write up done with comments from
Tanushree Poddar, author of You Are What you Eat
Click here to read Dr. Ashok Koparday's: Medical Information on

MEDICINE FOR WOMEN TO INCREASE SEX DESIRE

Actress Kim Sharma's
LIST OF APHRODISIACS

• kesar-badam ka doodh = Milk with saffron and almond,
• Oyster meat,
• cocoa,
• wine,
• honey,
• chocolate,
• vanilla,
• truffles,
• raspberries and
• strawberries
• scent of the food
• there’s a lot that you can do for yourself and your partner
• sexy dress,
• a great perfume,
• romantic music,
• scented candles,
• beautiful flowers,
• wine,
• strawberries covered with chocolate,
• oyster soup,
• tossed salad,
• garlic chicken parmesan,
• dessert wine followed by
• beautifully presented dessert,
• lick those luscious fingers.
  Tanushree Poddar, author of You Are What you Eat
  
• 
  China the bird’s nest soup,>
• Arabs consider the camel’s hump
  
• What does the leading Sexologist Dr. Ashok Koparday
  say about BEST aphrodisiac?

The article below is posted verbatim from

THE TIMES OF INDIA
Sex on a platter
13 Mar 2009, 0800 hrs IST, URVASHI ASHAR , TNN

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Rewind. Way back in the age of Greek Gods and Goddesses, the ‘Venus’ of the Romans or the Goddess of Love and Sensuality was
Aphrodite.

That’s how foods that enhance sexual pleasure got their name — Aphrodisiacs. According to mythology, the Goddess of Love herself considered the amorous sparrows sacred, which is why sparrows were added to brews... However for the sexual desire to take flight, sparrows seem passé. The pills are in. But not many know that some herbs, veggies, fruits, nuts and grains can do the job for you, too.

Actress Kim Sharma, tells us, “The concept of aphrodisiacs isn’t new. It has been existent since time immemorial. And let’s not talk about western fads that have been ‘adopted’ by us. On the contrary, aphrodisiac foods have always been a part of Indian tradition and customs, and the recipes are being passed on gradually to the next generation. It’s another story that we aren’t aware about the ‘aphrodisiacal qualities’ about these things.”
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The actress further explains, “What do you think your grandmother or your mother-in-law is doing when she walks into your room with kesar-badam ka doodh? Well, she is doing more than just being nice to you. Milk with saffron and almond is aphrodisiacal and meant to up the libido. It’s a custom that has been followed over the years... The ‘love potions’ or the need to consume such foods may have arisen from the importance given to procreation then. To father a child was the mission of man; to take the race forward. It was a religious issue then and the potency of both the male and the female was of utmost importance.”

Some of the most common foods with aphrodisiacal characteristics are chocolate, ginger, ginseng, saffron, cardamom, garlic, pineapple, pomegranate, pine seeds, mustard, basil, dates, cherries, figs... “Oyster meat is supposed to be very rich in aphrodisiacal elements,” adds Kim, “And then there’s of course cocoa. You know, in some parts of the world, like Mexico, earlier prostitutes were paid in cocoa beans. Interesting na?”

TESTOSTERONE IS USED TO INCREASE SEXUAL DESIRE IN WOMEN. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON USE OF TESTOSTERONE CLICK HERE.Dr. Ashok Koparday

According to Tanushree Poddar,

author of You Are What you Eat,

aphrodisiac foods are found all over the world, and every culture has their respective beliefs in the union of the male and female. While in China the bird’s nest soup is recommended to cure impotency, Arabs consider the camel’s hump to be the panacea of sexual inadequacy.

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Most foods reminiscent of the male or female sex organ are automatically considered to be those that boost the sexual drive — bananas, carrots, sea urchins, seeds, nuts, asparagus... “But augmenting sexual desire is not only about boring healthy things, it can be made interesting with wine, honey, chocolate, vanilla, truffles, raspberries and strawberries,” suggests Kim,

“Sometimes it’s the scent of the food that does the trick for you. And also more often than not there’s a lot that you can do for yourself and your partner ensuring a perfect end to a perfect date.”


Sensuous Sharma proposes, “A sexy dress, a great perfume, romantic music, scented candles, beautiful flowers, wine, strawberries covered with chocolate, oyster soup, tossed salad, garlic chicken parmesan, dessert wine followed by beautifully presented dessert. And yes, drop the fork and knife, and lick those luscious fingers... it’s ahem!”

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Article Title Sex on a platter-Reviews-Food-Lifestyle-The Times of India

Newspaper: THE TIMES OF INDIA

Date: 13 Mar 2009,

Time: 0800 hrs IST,

Written by: URVASHI ASHAR , TNN

Accessed on March 11, 2009

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DO NOT CONSIDER THAT THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE written by URVASHI ASHAR as appeared in people's favorite newspaper THE TIMES OF INDIA IS VALIDATED BY DR. ASHOK KOPARDAY.

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HOW TO INCREASE WOMAN'S SEXUAL DESIRE

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Can Sildenafil prevent heart attacks?

Uses of Viagra are two
1. Maintenance of Erection
2. Pulmonary Hypertension
The third use may be taking Sildenafil regularly to prevent hormonal damage to heart.
Can taking Sildenafil regularly be treatment for Heart Failure, Hypertrophy, Hypertension?

Dr. David Kass' Research Team will be starting clinical trial to see if Sildenafil can be effective in patients with heart failure.

Research study suggests: Viagra© taken regularly not only protects heart (studies done in mice) from stress due to hormones and hypertension, but improves heart function.

In the words of Lead Researcher, Dr. David Kass, Professor of Medicine at John Hopkins:
"If you gave a drug like Viagra not just acutely, but chronically, you might be able to improve heart function and reduce the chronic stress response in patients with hypertrophy."

Viagra alters heart function when it is stimulated by hormonal stress

RESEARCH PREVIEW


Thursday, July 24, 2008

Viagra May Treat Heart Failure

The report appears in the Oct. 24 online edition of Circulation.

"Unlike what was previously thought, drugs like Viagra can in fact alter heart function," said lead researcher Dr. David Kass, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. "It alters it particularly when the heart is stimulated by hormones."

1. Dr. David Kass, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. Lead researcher

2. Rakesh C. Kukreja, a professor of medicine (opines; not a research team member)

Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center.
Can be useful in the treatment of hypertension, hypertrophy, heart failure

By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=55034

MONDAY, Oct. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Viagra ©, famous for improving men's sexual function, also appears to reduce the effects of hormonal stress on the heart by 50 percent, claims a report by researchers at Johns Hopkins University.

Viagra © (sildenafil) works by helping genital blood vessels expand to maintain an erection, but more recently, it has also been used as a treatment for pulmonary hypertension. However, the drug has been thought to have no direct effect on the heart.

"Unlike what was previously thought, drugs like Viagra can in fact alter heart function," said lead researcher Dr. David Kass, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins. "It alters it particularly when the heart is stimulated by hormones."

The report appears in the Oct. 24 online edition of Circulation.

Earlier research by Kass's team found that Viagra blocked the short-term effects of hormonal stress in the hearts of mice. They also found that, in mice, Viagra prevented and reversed the long-term cardiac effects of chronic high blood pressure.

In addition, Kass' group found that, in mice, Viagra reversed the negative effects on heart muscle weakened by heart failure and enlargement, a condition called hypertrophy.

"Viagra © puts a brake on the effect of dobutamine,"

David Kass noted that his group is starting a clinical trial to see if Viagra can be effective in patients with heart failure.

Rakesh C. Kukreja opines:
"This research may lead to the development of a new use of the drug in the treatment of diseases such as hypertension, hypertrophy and heart failure, where beta-adrenergic activity is enhanced following neurohormonal stimulation," said Rakesh C. Kukreja, a professor of medicine, physiology, biochemistry and emergency medicine and the Eric Lipman chair of cardiology at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center.

"These studies are complementary to the expanding new role of Viagra © and other relatively safe PDE-5A inhibitors as powerful cardioprotectants," he added.


SOURCES:
David Kass, M.D., professor, medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore;
Rakesh C. Kukreja, Ph.D, professor, medicine, physiology, biochemistry and emergency medicine,
Eric Lipman chair of cardiology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond;
Hrayr S. Karagueuzian, Ph.D., senior research scientist, Division of Cardiology, Cedars-Siani Medical Center, Los Angeles;

Oct. 24, 2005, Circulation online
Copyright © 2005 ScoutNews LLC. All rights reserved.

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Amazing changes happen so that sexuality is fully expressed as child grows to become adult.

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The clearest explanation for the failure of any marriage[4]


is that two people are incompatible; that is, one is male and the other female. Anna Quindlen
[3]

º MEN º WOMEN ºMEN WOMEN º PEOPLE º LIFE º LOVE

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Men

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."

"Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account."

"Men become old, but they never become good."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”

"I delight in men over seventy, they always offer one the devotion of a lifetime. "
-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"How many men there are in modern life who would like to see their past burning to white ashes before them!"
-- “An Ideal Husband”

"A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”

"Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors and all the bachelors live like married men."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

"I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”

Women

"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”

"Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
-- “The Sphinx Without a Secret”

"It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”

"I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!"
-- “An Ideal Husband”

"I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in such very small change."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

"I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

"I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to."
-- “Lady Windermere's Fan”
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Men Women

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[5]

1. Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
2. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
3. Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
4. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
5. If we men married the woman we deserve, we should have a very tedious time of it.
6. In married life three is company and two is none.
7. A man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
8. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
9. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
10. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
11. A woman will flirt with anyone in the world, so long as other women are looking on.
12. She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
13. A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

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People

"People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."
-- Letter from Paris, dated May 1900

"The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner of later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature."
-- “The Decay of Lying”

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
-- “The Soul of Man Under Socialism”

"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification."
-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”

"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

Born:16th October 1854, Died: on 30th November 30, 1900.
Full Name: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie
Parents: His mother Jane was a poet, while his father, Sir William Wilde, was prominent Irish surgeon. Both parents were prolific authors so it was no surprise that he inherited such literary talent.
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Life

"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."
-- “Vera, of The Nihilists”

"The Book of Life begins with a man and woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"Life is never fair...And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
-- “An Ideal Husband”

"You must not find symbols in everything you see. It makes life impossible."
-- “Salome”

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
-- “The Duchess of Padua”

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
-- “Lord Arthur Savile's Crime”

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"Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
-- “An Ideal Husband”

"A kiss may ruin a human life."
-- “A Woman of No Importance”

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

"Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”

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[1]The Official Website
The Official Web Site of Oscar Wilde
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[3]Timeless Relationship Wisdom
http://historyofwit.blogspot.com/2005/04/timeless-relationship-wisdom.html
posted by Dorion Sagan

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Steve Jobs himself tells 3 inspiring stories (Stanford university 2005) (TIME 14.33 Miss your date, cancel your shooting, but do not miss Steve Jobs.)

To read the transcript click here


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L-arginine and ED

Erectile dysfunction [1] and

Treatment with L-arginine

Is L-arginine
1. Effective [3]in
Treatment of Erectile Dysfunctions ?

2. Mechanism of Action of L-arginine

Is L-arginine Effective

Early studies have shown that arginine supplements may help treat erectile dysfunction (ED) in men with low nitrate levels in their blood or urine. A combination of L-arginine, glutamate, and yohimbine hydrochloride has been used to treat ED - states Medline Plus. However, because a combination product was used, and yohimbine hydrochloride is an FDA-approved therapy for this condition, the effects of arginine alone are unknown. More research is needed with arginine alone.

Mechanism of Action

L-arginine is Precursor to nitric oxide (NO), [2] a key component of endothelial-derived relaxing factor, an endogenous messenger molecule involved in a variety of endothelium-dependent physiological effects in the cardiovascular system
L-arginine is a protein amino acid present in the proteins of all life forms. It is classified as a semi-essential or conditionally essential amino acid. This means that under normal circumstances the body can synthesize sufficient L-arginine to meet physiological demands.

What are the natural dietary sources of L-arginine?
How safe is L-arginine?


Sources

[1]medlineplus
This information is derived from evidence based professional level monograph edited and peer-reviewed by contributors to the Natural Standard Research Collaboration (www.naturalstandard.com):
Title
Arginine (L-arginine)
February 01, 2008.
[2]L arginine club natural
no date title Arginine dosage and other topics
L Arginine Club Natural 1 Tablet750 mg
accessed February 13, 2009

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Specially Forwarded as Gift from
a dear Friend in University of Arizona

Steve Jobs Tells 3 Inspiring Stories

Thank you. I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.


Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife, except that when I popped out, they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, "We've got an unexpected baby boy. Do you want him?" They said, "Of course." My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college.

This was the start in my life. And seventeen years later, I did go to college, but I naïvely chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, and no idea of how college was going to help me figure it out, and here I was, spending all the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back, it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out, I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms. I returned Coke bottles for the five-cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example.
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer was beautifully hand-calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me, and we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts, and since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them.

If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class and personals computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do.

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college, but it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards, so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever--because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference.

My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was twenty. We worked hard and in ten years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4,000 employees. We'd just released our finest creation, the Macintosh, a year earlier, and I'd just turned thirty, and then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so, things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge, and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our board of directors sided with him, and so at thirty, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the Valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me. I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I'd been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods in my life. During the next five years I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world's first computer-animated feature film, "Toy Story," and is now the most successful animation studio in the world.

In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT and I returned to Apple and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance, and Lorene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful-tasting medicine but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life's going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love, and that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work, and the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking, and don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it, and like any great relationship it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don't settle.

My third story is about death. When I was 17 I read a quote that went something like "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself, "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "no" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important thing I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life, because almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctors' code for "prepare to die." It means to try and tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next ten years to tell them, in just a few months. It means to make sure that everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope, the doctor started crying, because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and, thankfully, I am fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept. No one wants to die, even people who want to go to Heaven don't want to die to get there, and yet, death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It's life's change agent; it clears out the old to make way for the new. right now, the new is you. But someday, not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it's quite true. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalogue, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stuart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late Sixties, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and Polaroid cameras. it was sort of like Google in paperback form thirty-five years before Google came along. I was idealistic, overflowing with neat tools and great notions. Stuart and his team put out several issues of the The Whole Earth Catalogue, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-Seventies and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath were the words, "Stay hungry, stay foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. "Stay hungry, stay foolish." And I have always wished that for myself, and now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Thank you all, very much.

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l-arginine-libido-treatment-diet

Nutritional Supplement in treatment of Erectile Dysfunction and Male Libido.

Diet Supplements
for
Increasing Sexual Desire and Erection in Men

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE

"Early studies have shown that arginine supplements may help treat erectile dysfunction (ED) in men with low nitrate levels in their blood or urine."- reports MedlinePlus in [1] discussion on patient and arginine.

What does Arginine do?

L-arginine (also called as Arginine) is believed to
(A) increase sexual desire, thus making it a libido enhancer. L-arginine is widely used as treatment for male libido as sexual enhancer.
Now it is being used as supplement in
(B) Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction too.

MEN SEXUAL HEALTH

Research Study

A combination of L-arginine, glutamate, and yohimbine hydrochloride has been used to treat ED. However, because a combination product was used, and yohimbine hydrochloride is an FDA-approved therapy for this condition, the effects of arginine alone are unknown. More research is needed with arginine alone.

Availability

L-arginine is sold as L Arginine Club Natural [3]where 1 Tablet contains 750 mg L-Arginine

L-Arginine is available in India as Enlalarge ™ [5].
Enlalarge ™ is a softgel® containing 500 mg of L-Arginine.
Enlalarge ™ is made by UniversalMedicare in technical collaboration with GELLTEC INC. USA

WOMEN SEXUAL HEALTH

L-arginine is not used for increasing female libido (libido = sexual desire) .

NATURAL (HERBAL) TREATMENT / NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS

What L-Arginine is not:

L-Arginine is not multivitamin. It is a one of the supplementary amino acid (amino acids make protein, not vitamin)

What is Arginine:

Arginine is a conditionally essential amino acid, meaning most of the time it can be manufactured by the human body, and does not need to be obtained directly through the diet. [4] However, this does not produce sufficient arginine, and some must still be consumed through diet by individuals who have poor nutrition or certain physical conditions.

HERBAL TREATMENT
Male sexual enhancement

L-arginine increases male libido and helps in treatment of Erectile Dysfunction.
L-arginine, the sexual enhancer for men, is herbal treatment or diet supplement now becoming popular as medicine used as add on for cure of Erectile Dysfunction.

We would like to know diet supplement that contains L-Arginine so that we may as well eat L-Arginine. What are the Diet/Food supplements to give men this sexual enhancer by healthy diet/food.

Foods Containing Arginine
Vegetarian

walnut=Akrod
almonds =Badam,
peanuts = Shengdane,
cashew nuts =Kaju,
raisins =Manukay,
brown rice=polish n kelele tandul,
chocholate,
coconut =khobra,
Cereals = Dhanya,
Oats =Nachani,
Corn =Kanis,
Wheat and wheat flour =Gahu va ghavachay peeth,
Cooked Soyabeans =Shijawalele soyaben
Dairy Products = Dudh wa Dudhapasun banavilele sarva padharth,


Non-vegetarian

Sea Fish = Samudratlay Masay,
Lobster= Khekada,
chicken,
meat =Mutton

FOODS CONTAINING ARGININE

Dietary Supplement of Arginine [1] [2] [4]

(This information is based on a professional level monograph edited and peer-reviewed)

*Walnuts, filberts (hazelnuts), pecans, Brazil nuts, sesame and sunflower seeds, brown rice, raisins, coconut, gelatin, buckwheat, almonds, barley, cashews, cereals, chicken, chocolate, corn, dairy products, meats, oats, peanuts.[1]

*The natural sources of arginine are brown rice, nuts, popcorn, raisins, and whole-wheat products. [2]

* Animal sources: dairy products (e.g. cottage cheese, ricotta, milk, yogurt, whey protein drinks), beef, pork (e.g. bacon, ham), poultry (e.g. chicken and turkey light meat), wild game (e.g. pheasant, quail), seafood (e.g. halibut, lobster, salmon, shrimp, snails, tuna in water)[4]

* Vegetable sources: wheat germ and flour, buckwheat, granola, oatmeal, nuts (coconut, pecans, cashews, walnuts, almonds, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, pinenuts, peanuts), seeds (pumpkin, sesame, sunflower), chick peas, cooked soybeans


Source

[1] MedlinePlus

February 01, 2008.

This information is based on a professional level monograph

[2]
L-Arginine

Title L-Arginiine

Url http://www.l-arginine.net/

Copyright © 2003 www.l-arginine.net, All rights reserved.

Statement contained within this web site have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration.

These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

[3]
Title: Arginine dosage and other topics

URL: http://www.yohimbebark.net/arginine.html

Date: No date
[4] Wikipedia
[5] L-Arginine 500mg ™
Enlalarge ™
customercare@universalmedicare.com
contact ccustomer care tel no 022 66478484

prostate-gland

Prostate Cancer is 2nd only to skin cancer

Men Sexual Health

Prostate

• what is prostate
• prostate cancer
• benign hyperplasia of Prostate
• Causes and Symptoms
• Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer
• Screening
• Tumor Markers
• Treatment Options

what is prostate?
Along with the testicles and the seminal vesicles, the prostate secretes the fluid that makes up semen. The prostate is about the size of a walnut and lies just behind the urinary bladder.

Prostate cancer is a disease in which cells of the prostate become abnormal and start to grow uncontrollably, forming tumors.[g]

Cancerous cells within the prostate itself are generally not deadly on their own.

Most common sites for prostate cancer to metastasize are the seminal vesicles, the lymph nodes, the lungs, and various bones around the hips and the pelvic region. The effects of these new tumors are what can cause death.


Second only to skin cancer, the American Cancer Society estimates that in 2000 at least 180,400 new cases of prostate cancer were diagnosed. Of this number, the disease will cause at least 31,900 deaths. Although prostate cancer is often very slow growing, it can be aggressive, especially in younger men. Given its slow growing nature, many men with the disease die of other causes rather than from the cancer itself.

Prostate cancer affects African-American men twice as often as white men
— Lata Cherath; Michelle Johnson, MS, JD
Early prostate cancer

It was reported in April 2007 that a new blood test for early prostate cancer antigen-2 (EPCA-2) is being researched that may alert men if they have prostate cancer and how aggressive it will be.[a][b]

One herbal compound that was under investigation by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)a mixture of eight herbs adapted from traditional Chinese medicine.Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined that samples of the product were contaminated with undeclared prescription drug ingredients. PC-SPES was withdrawn from the American market in late 2002.


PSA levels may increase after ejaculation. Men are recommended to abstain from sexual intercourse or masturbation for 48 hours before the test. PSA levels may also increase after prostate manipulation following the digital rectal exam


Tumor markers [tumor markers tumor marker levels sometimes help to determine the extent of cancer.]

Monitoring cancer treatment is the most common use of tumor markers.
. PCA3 mRNA is expressed almost exclusively by prostate cells and has been shown to be highly over-expressed in prostate cancer cells. PCA3 is not a replacement for PSA but an additional tool to help decide if, in men suspected of having prostate cancer, a biopsy is really needed. The higher the expression of PCA3 in urine, the greater the likelihood of a positive biopsy, i.e. the presence of cancer cells in the prostate. Company Diagnocure has an exclusive worldwide license for all diagnostic and therapeutic applications related to PCA3
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[d]
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source
http://www.answers.com/topic/prostate-cancer#cite_note-pmid17437801-79