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Dear Sexologist Why is My Sex Drive Low?
{{You mention that you ejaculate fast. The time that men take to ejaculate can vary depending on the situation (around 5 minutes is apparently average).
When it is not possible to delay the ejaculation it may cause a problem in your relationship.}}
Due to the differences between men and women, many men choose to learn to delay their orgasm in order to try to give more penetrative pleasure to female partners.
Whilst a low dose anti-depressant (SSRI) can help as one of the side effects of these drugs is to delay orgasm, the benefits will stop as soon as you stop taking the medication.So it is a short term aid. Perhaps you could learn to delay your ejaculation.?
The best way to learn this would be through masturbation where you learn recognise your physical signs of excitement (e.g. heightening sensation, a sensation in your testicles, heart rate) and at which point you need to ease off before it’s too late (i.e. when the ‘twitching’ begins, it’s probably too late).
One way to help with this would be to try scoring your excitement on a scale of 0-10, with 8 being the point at which there’s no turning back. When you get to about 5 or 6/10 you need to start using delaying strategies.
For example: slowing or changing the rhythm of the friction, trying to take some deep and slow breaths, and try tensing your pelvic floor muscles as if you are trying to stop the flow of urine.
Once your arousal has reduced somewhat (e.g. to about 3 or 4/10), you can resume stimulation and repeat this process several times before allowing ejaculation to take place.
A trusted partner could be a great help by coaching you through this, asking where you are on the scale, and encouraging you to use the strategies suggested.
You stimulate yourself for the first few practice rounds (i.e. over days or weeks) and then once you have had some success, perhaps your partner could stimulate you, but she must slow down as and when you says to do so.
Once you’ve gained confidence like this, you could move onto trying this intravaginally.
This is likely to be much more difficult because of the sensations (warmth, moist) of the vagina so you should maybe slow your arousal down earlier than 5 or 6/10 to begin with.
The best position to learn this would be with your partner on top so that you can focus all of your attention on your sensations, but you must remember to direct your partner to slow, stop, or start again as you need.
It’s really important that these are ‘exercises’ though, and not ‘sexual acts’ as normal, otherwise you will feel more pressure to perform and your partner may feel frustrated – neither of these will help you with this learning process.
Sincerely,
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Libyan Parliament ‘Suspended’ – Army
{{A Libyan colonel claiming to speak on behalf of the army declared on Sunday that parliament had been suspended.
“We, members of the army and revolutionaries [former rebels], announce the suspension of the General National Congress,” said Mokhtar Fernana, reading out a statement broadcast on two private television channels.}}
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Cancer Cured By Measles Vaccine
{{The trial, which took place in the US, involved injecting two sufferers with a dose of the measles vaccine 10 000 times stronger than that used for normal vaccination. }}
One of the sufferers experienced a total remission with all of her tumours vanishing.
The other experienced a remission but her cancer soon returned, indicating the treatment might not work for all sufferers.
The mechanism underlying the cure involves the injected virus latching on to the cancerous cells, particularly those found in tumours.
The virus then destroys these cells, causing the tumours to disappear. Myeloma, however, is not restricted to tumours as it infects the bone marrow as well.
The measles treatment completely cleared the bone marrow of any cancerous cells, meaning the patient was essentially cancer-free.
This came after the patient had exhausted every other treatment option available, including radiation and chemotherapy.
Adding another kind of treatment to those currently available should increase the number of cases that can be successfully treated, boosting survival rates.
Multiple Myeloma kills over 70 000 people a year worldwide with a 5-year survival rate of only around 45%, making it one of the deadlier forms of cancer in the world today.
Treating cancer with other diseases has been trialled several times before, with mixed success. The problem lies in the fact that cancer is such a diverse illness.
No single disease can be used to treat every cancer, meaning scientists have to spend time determining which disease is best suited to the targeted cancer.
Because it led to complete remission, this is the most successful trial to date.
Obviously, results from two patients do not constitute significant evidence, but it is a cause for optimism.
The Mayo Clinic plans to build on this discovery with a large-scale trial that will be launched by the end of the year.
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New Zealand Cat Brings Drugs Home
{{Police in southern New Zealand were left scratching their heads after a cat in the city of Dunedin deposited a five-gram bag of cannabis at its owner’s house, a local newspaper reported on Monday.}}
Dunedin Police Sergeant Reece Munro said a local woman had phoned the police station on Sunday evening to report that her cat had left a “bag of drugs” on the doorstep, according to the Otago Daily Times.
“You hear of cats bringing dead birds and rats home, but I’ve never seen anything like this before,” he told the newspaper.
Sergeant Munro said the origins of the cannabis, which had a street value of about $86, remained a mystery and investigations were continuing.
On the possibility of adding a feline drug-detecting division to the police force, Sergeant Munro said “this might be something police could explore in the future.”
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Arrest of Sudan’s ex-PM ‘Undermines Crisis Talks’
{{The arrest of Sudan’s former prime minister and leading opposition figure Sadiq al-Mahdi undermines talks aimed at finding a way out of the country’s multiple crises, observers said on Sunday}}.
Mahdi was arrested for alleged treason by agents of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) from his home on Saturday night, officials of his Umma Party said.
Prosecutors questioned him on Sunday at the Khartoum-area Kober Prison where he is being held, Umma’s secretary general Sara Najdallah, told reporters.
The arrest came after Mahdi reportedly accused a counter-insurgency unit, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), of rape and other abuses of civilians in Darfur.
“We are deeply concerned. This isn’t the way to do national dialogue,” a British embassy spokesman said.
Magdi El Gizouli, a fellow at the Rift Valley Institute, said Mahdi’s detention reflects a power play by elements of the state security service who “don’t care” about the impact on the dialogue initiated by President Omar al-Bashir.
“The political system in Sudan is the rule of the military and the security,” Gizouli told reporters
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Serena Wins Another Rome Masters Title
{{World number one Serena Williams warmed up for the French Open by cruising to her second straight Rome Masters title on Sunday with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Sara Errani of Italy.}}
Errani had been looking to become the first Italian winner of the women’s event in 29 years.
But with six previous defeats to her American rival, her bid was always going to be difficult and was hampered after she picked up a thigh injury at the end of the first set.
Despite plenty of support from a partisan crowd on Central Court, Errani was overwhelmed by the power of the 32-year-old Florida resident.
Williams broke Errani in the second game of the first set and although the 10th seed came back to break in the seventh game, she failed to hold serve in the next, allowing the American to serve out for the set.
Errani appeared to have injured her leg when she failed to go for a Williams return which allowed the defending French Open champion to break for a 5-3 lead.
Shortly after, the Italian called for the physio.
She had strapping applied to the top of her thigh, however it did little to reignite her bid to become the first Italian woman since Raffaella Reggi in 1985 win the Italian Open.
Williams continued her domination in a completely one-sided second set to claim a deserved straight sets win in 1hr 12min.
It was all too much for Errani who broke down in tears at courtside
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Sudan Woman Faces Death for Apostasy
{{A Sudanese court has sentenced a woman to hang for apostasy – the abandonment of her religious faith – after she married a Christian man.}}
Amnesty International condemned the sentence, handed down by a judge in Khartoum, as “appalling and abhorrent”.
Local media report the sentence on the woman, who is pregnant, would not be carried out for two years after she had given birth.
Sudan has a majority Muslim population, which is governed by Islamic law.
“We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death,” the judge told the woman, media reported.
Western embassies and rights groups had urged Sudan to respect the right of the pregnant woman to choose her religion.
The judge also sentenced the woman to 100 lashes after convicting her of adultery – because her marriage to a Christian man was not valid under Islamic law.
This will reportedly be carried out when she has recovered from giving birth.
Earlier in the hearing, an Islamic cleric spoke with her in a caged dock for about 30 minutes, media reports.
Then she calmly told the judge: “I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy.”
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Suicide Car Bomb Kills 5 in Nigeria’s Kano
A suicide car bomber killed five people on a street of popular bars and restaurants in the northern Nigerian city of Kano on Sunday evening, in an area mostly inhabited by southern Christians, police said.
Kano police spokesman Musa Majiya said the bomber struck Gold Coast Street in the Sabon Gari or “foreign quarter” of the North’s biggest city.
“I heard a loud blast. And there was a lot of smoke. Soldiers came in to cordon off the place and ambulances were rushing people to hospital,” witness Abdul Dafar, who lives a block away from the blast, said, adding that he had seen four dead bodies in the aftermath.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but blame is likely to fall on violent Islamist group Boko Haram, whose struggle against the Nigerian state has killed thousands over the last five years.
The militants also operate in neighboring Niger, Cameroon and Chad, and President Goodluck Jonathan described them as West Africa’s al-Qaeda on Saturday in Paris, where regional leaders met France’s President Francois Hollande to discuss how to tackle the growing threat posed by the group.
The Islamists grabbed world headlines with abduction of more than 200 school girls a month ago from a remote village in the northeast. Britain, the United States and France have pledged to help rescue them.
Boko Haram has frequently attacked Sabon Gari, whose liquor stores are also a cause of friction with Kano’s Islamic police. The area has for decades housed ethnic Igbo traders from the South, who are predominantly Christian.
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ADB Grants loan of US$1 billion for Angola’s Energy Sector
{{The African Development Bank (ADB) has granted a US$1bn loan to Angola for the West African country’s Angola Power Sector Reform Support Programme}}
The ADB is supporting the Angolan government in reforming the electricity sector by providing funding and the technological knowledge required, alongside other partners, it said in a statement.
The Programme to Support Reform of the Angolan Energy Sector has three components – restructuring the energy sector and improving its regulatory framework, promoting private investment in the sector and increasing transparency and efficiency of public financial management.
“To support execution of the programme the bank will provide technical assistance and support for training, carry out a wide-ranging diagnosis of public financial management and draw up a plan of action to overcome constraints on improving management of public finance,” said Isaac Lobe Ndoumbe the director of the economic, financial and governmental reform department of the ADB.
With this support the ADB hopes to drive greater operational efficiency, competitiveness and sustainability of the electricity sector and to boost transparency and efficiency of public finance.
In the same statement, the ADB’s representative in Angola, Septime Martin, said that the current Plan of Action for Energy and Hydro Efficiency in Angola requires investment of US$23bn between 2013 and 2017.