Gender: Myths and RealitiesIf there was a vote of the founding fathers of male sexual myths, some no brainers would surely make the list: porn legend John Holmes, whose penis Yule-log-size casts a shadow over the disease remains subject anxiety. The same is true, great Wilt Chamberlain in the NBA, whose claim to have slept with 20,000 women seeking monastic is Don Juan.
And then there's sex myths provider of Walt Disney.
"I think Walt Disney created a lot of myths," says Seth Prosterman, PhD, a clinical sexologist and therapist licensed practice marriage and family in San Francisco. "In the Disney movies, people fall in love and walk towards the sun setting, and you get that intimacy is a myth Bearing in mind that once you fall in love and sexuality is natural and following it. "
In fact, Prosterman said: "Sex is something you learn over a lifetime."
If sex is a continuing education, many of us are struggling to recover course credits. And in a region that the tarnished by the ego, feeding the myth and fear that advertising, to know the facts about sex can be difficult. What is the average size of male penis?How long are the last men for most sex? Men can have multiple orgasms? The G spot exists, and if so, how do I find it?
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Penis Size: The Ugly Truth
"Dramatically increase penis length and width previously thought impossible!" reads a website for the review of penis enlargement.(A researcher at the laboratory intends to pay a coating of chemicals on his own penis mad and shouting "Eureka!" And calling the Guinness Book.) Almost anyone with an email account by the deluge of spam has been growth miracle if patches and pills, and the resistance of sexual myths that can explain the persistence of such advertising.
"Match of masculinity and power with penis size," said Ira Sharlip, MD, clinical professor of urology at the University of California at San Francisco and president of the International Society for Sexual Medicine. "Of course, there really is no relationship. "However, Sharlip said," all "of his patients want to increase the size of your penis.
The idea that bigger is better ", not just total mythology," says Seth Prosterman, couples who have counseler since 1984 and finds that some women prefer to work with a bigger penis - ". Fit wise "But I must add, or aesthetic." For the vast majority of partners, penis size does not matter "
So what, exactly, constitutes a big penis? Let's whip some facts:
The average penis size is five to six inches. That's an erect penis.The average flaccid male organ about three inches and a half.If you had an anxiety setbacks before reading the "right" classification, we consider it a metaphor for the danger of jumping to conclusions about the size of the penis - or the primacy of the penis completely.
"The idea that the penis is the most important part of your body behind so many sexual problems of men," says Cory Silverberg, a sexual health educator and founding member of Come As You Are, an education store Toronto-based sex. "One of the biggest myths of sex for men is the idea that we are our penis, and that's what counts in terms of gender."
"It's a myth that the use of the penis is the main source of pleasure to a woman," says Ian Kerner, Ph.D., a sex and relationship counselor in New York whose book She Comes First offers a guide to "the female orgasm The production and inspiration through oral techniques." In his book, Kerner cites a study of the relationship of women to reach orgasm about 25% of the time during sex , 81% over the period of the road for oral sex.
OK, OK, size is not important. But how can I increase my penis size?
Despite the facts, the roar of penis enlargement marketing seems to be stronger than. ("Realize total and absolute power and domination in bed with your partner, your penis size and sexual performance found," shouted the announcement of the review of penis enlargement.) Men continue pursuit the legendary, the mammoth size of the members.
Silverberg says that male clients in his shop, and advice, I keep asking penis pump, including the ability to stretch, she says, is a "myth" but added that some men who used the ratio of satisfaction, that way I explain this phenomenon: "I spend more time paying attention to the genitals is likely to increase our sexual health."
Just the facts on the G-Spot
If the sexual myths have such power over men's minds about their own anatomy, have more influence with respect to the bodies of female partners "- the great debate, particularly the G-spot.
The name of a German physician Ernst Grafenberg who first wrote about an erogenous zone of the anterior vaginal wall at the point G, 1982, was popularized by the book of the street ... The G-spot.This behind the pubic area is often the trigger of credits vaginal (vs. clitoral) orgasm, and even a catalyst for female ejaculation.
At the same time, the G-spot is commonly derided as perpetuating the myth installed by Sigmund Freud - is the clitoral orgasm is a "minor" form of vaginal orgasm completion, which requires penetration of the penis. As a summary of Ian Kerner, "according to Freud, no two ways about it: If a woman could not be satisfied by penetrative sex, there must be something wrong with it
