I awake early. Sometimes I get up as early as 3:30 AM. We are currently in France. Jet lag in the past has been a real problem, not so much travelling west to east. When we do that we usually arrive on an overnight flight and are sleep-deprived that day. But, we power through as best we can so that we stay awake as late as possible and then try to hit the ground running the following day. Usually after the arrival day and one complete day, we are acclimated.
I often wonder how presidents and business executives handle air travel to Europe, Asia and other places. They usually appear fresh no matter where they are. I know they can sleep in luxury aboard their aircraft, but who can just fall asleep at will and switch to a European or Asian schedule? Not me, for sure.
Anyway, on this trip I’ve been getting up at 3:30 just like at home. I think that happened due to overseas trips because while going there is a relatively easy adjustment, coming back is not. I recall after returning from Europe that it would take a couple of weeks to get back on US time, with early awkenings and a perpetual groggy feeling.
So anyway, this morning I was up at that ridiculous hour and reading, but I have been tired. I read a paragraph on the mysterious female orgasm, and thought it would make an interesting blog post. We had other things to do, but I just sat down to locate the passage to cite it and could not find it!
Have you ever experienced this, that while reading you nod off, but your mind carries on as if you are still engaged? You still think you’re reading, but crazy stuff. But it seems real, and the memory can carry on for a while too. And then you realize you dreamed that you read it.
Is it just me? For instance, did I read that NASA is at it again, faking a moon shot? That’s absurd, right? Wait a minute. That’s real. I just got done reading a piece by Paul Bennett at the Mathis site about Artemis, and they really are at it again. I did not dream it.
Then I sat back to read a bit more of Media Sexploitation by Wilson Bryan Key, and came across the following paragraph:
Male sexual superiority may be one of the basic mythologies of Western civilization. Consider that virtually any average female is physically capable of at least a dozen orgasms every 24 hours. She can repeat this performance three or four times weekly without ill effects. To bury the myth even deeper, each woman is easily capable, physiologically and emotionally, of servicing the sexual tensions of at least half a dozen men. So why has the mythology of male sexual superiority been sustained by the economic, political, social, and religious institutions of the Western societies? And what of the American woman who depends on the media for her orientation towards life? (Page 19)
I didn’t dream it! That’s a real passage.
I read this book decades ago, and remember parts of it, like room deorodrizers merely “chloroforming” our sense of smell, and not really dealing with odors. I remember that, but I do not remember reading that most women can achieve a dozen orgasms in one day!! That seems like useful information, but I blacked it out. Why would I do that?
Maybe Artemis was real. Maybe Petra has been right all these years. We really did land on the Moon! I’ve got to learn to distinguish real events, real information, from dreams. A dozen orgasms. Really? That’s one small step for a woman, one giant leap for mankind …
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