So, as always, I was reading about interesting sex things online, and I stumbled upon this page, which describes the male multiple orgasm.

Basically, it's possible for men to have multiple orgasms without ejaculating, although controlling the ejaculation part does take some practice. What I found most interesting, though, is this: "Ancient Taoist texts provide the earliest instruction on how men can experience multiple orgasms." Also, there apparently is a more recent book by a Taoist called The Multi-Orgasmic Man, which I now absolutely want to read. Taoists are officially so cool! .

Haha. But yeah, back to the whole multiple orgasm thing. I also found a "brief" description of how a man can work to achieve multiple orgasms. Here is the link to that page (though I'm also including the text here for your reading pleasure, of course, lol)...

1. Breathing and male multiple orgasms.
   If you haven’t already learned about using your breath to explore your body, you may want to brush up on the importance of breathing for sexual exploration. For the exercises below you should be breathing deeply and focus on how your breathing changes as you go through sexual response, get turned on, build your sexual excitement, and experience climax, orgasm, and ejaculation.
2. Your PC muscle and male multiple orgasms.
   Your PC muscle is the one you use to stop the flow of urine when you pee. Your PC muscle is also involved in the experience of orgasm and learning to use it helps in developing multi-orgasmic capacity. Find your PC muscle, and make sure you know what it feels like to squeeze and release it (called Kegel exercises). If you've never done them before, learn about how do male Kegel exercises.
3. Discover your “point of no return”.
   This is the moment during sexual excitement after which ejaculation is inevitable. The best way to identify this is to masturbate and pay close attention just as you are about to ejaculate. Just prior to ejaculating you may notice a tingling feeling, which is the sign that you are about to hit your point of no return. Knowing what this feels like will help you know when to pull back from an orgasm. Identifying this point is also important in learning to control ejaculation.
4. Before you learn something new, take some time to understand your baseline.
   The work here is simple and fun: pleasure yourself (masturbate) as you would regularly, and pay close attention.
   • What things do you do to get turned on?
   • What happens to your body and your breathing as you become even more stimulated?
   • What does it feel like just before an orgasm? Just before you ejaculate?
   • What happens to your body after orgasm?
5. Practice when alone, and when you have time to focus.
   Learning to distinguish your orgasm from ejaculation takes time and a keen attention. Don’t do these exercises when you have to rush off to work, or make dinner for your family. I would also recommend doing these exercises on your own at first. If you have someone else there, part of your attention will be on them.
6. Relax and tune into your body.
   This process is all about awareness. As you begin the exercise get relaxed, you may want to get naked also, and try to tune into how your body feels in the moment. Run your hands up and down your body, and really feel your body. You can touch your genitals and any other part of your body that turns you on, but don’t start masturbating right away.
7. Masturbate slowly, paying attention to changes in your body.
   Now you can masturbate however you like to, but pay attention to the energy in your body.
   • Are some parts of your body much warmer than others?
   • Does the warm energy move up (or down) your body, or stay in one place?
   • As you get closer to a climax how does the energy in your body change? Don’t bring yourself to orgasm or ejaculate yet.
8. Start and stop your stimulation, play with the point of no return.
   If you feel yourself reaching the point of no return stop the stimulation and take some deep breaths. Once you’ve pulled back from the point you can begin to stimulate yourself again. Do this at least twice. Do this to get a more detailed sense of what your point of no return is like, and discover how you can control when you cross that point.
9. Use your PC muscle to pull back from the point of no return.
   As you feel yourself coming closer to climax stop the stimulation as you have in the past, but this time squeeze your PC muscle and hold it for a few seconds. Notice how this feels. This is the technique you can use to prevent yourself from ejaculating and create the opportunity to have several orgasms in a row.
10. Use your breath to increase the orgasmic energy flow.
    Having multiple orgasms is not just about using your PC muscle, it’s also about allowing the energy that usually flows out of you at the point of orgasm, to flow elsewhere in your body. When you’re nearing the point of orgasm, notice the build up of energy (heat) in the lower part of your body, and begin to do deep breathing while visualizing the energy up towards your chest and head.
11. Let yourself go, see where it takes you.
    The final stage of this exercise is to let yourself have an orgasm, while using the techniques learned above including breath, awareness, and squeezing your PC muscle. The first time you try this, let yourself orgasm, but squeeze your PC muscle just as you feel yourself going “over the top”. It might not work the first time, but the worst that happens is that you’ve had an orgasm and you have to try again.
12. Use your breath, PC muscle, and awareness to orgasm without ejaculating. As you practice the last step above, you may find that you can get to the point of no return, pass it, and experience a tingly orgasm without ejaculating. Don’t expect the orgasm to feel the same as an orgasm you have with ejaculating. Non-ejaculatory orgasms feel different, but they can be very pleasurable.

So a lot of times people ask, "At what age are you going to let your kids wear make-up?"

Often this sparks discussion about whether kids are becoming too grown-up too soon, or whether we're telling children they're just not pretty enough by making them think they need make-up, and so on.

Well, here's my question.


Legs, armpits, eyebrows - all those great things grow hair that we just itch to remove (at least to some extent). It's not just done for the sake of being more clean and comfortable (though, obviously, that is a part of it). Hair removal, just like make-up, has had an aesthetic appeal for thousands of years. I used to be seriously obsessed with Cleopatra, and I believe I recall reading that she shaved her armpits... and that of course she wore lots of kohl (black eye make-up stuff).

I digress. My point is that shaving is much like wearing make-up: something done because it's the social norm, because it is beautiful... and yes, at times it's done even for sexual enticement. But no one seems to have a problem with letting a 12-year-old shave if they're going to be wearing shorts for gym class at school as part of their uniform.

(Well, almost no one. My mom wouldn't let me shave - not because she wanted me to have hairy legs, but because at the time, she thought shaving was really bad because of ingrown hairs, and so she insisted I wax. Which, at the time, I wasn't so keen on doing. So of course I get teased mercilessly for hairy legs back in 6th grade... And I couldn't not wear the uniform; being responsible about that was part of the grade, and besides, it did make playing games and running track and whatever a lot more comfortable. Anyway... I really should stop going off on tangents like this...)

Even though shaving is also done for hygienic purposes in regards to armpits (and genital areas), it's not necessary in many other places. Just like make-up, supposedly, isn't necessary - we have to preserve our natural beauty, of course. Bear legs and all.

Right?

Really?

I think I'd rather keep shaving, thanks.