Reuniting - July 2008 Newsletter

July, 2008

Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome

Gary and I were interested to discover that there is a very active forum on a popular science site in the UK called "Naked Scientists" about Post Orgasmic Illness Syndrome, known as "POIS." These men (and a few women) suffer debilitating symptoms after orgasm, such as exhaustion, insomnia, flu-like symptoms, brain fog, anxiety, depression, weakness, indigestion and so forth. It tends to last for a few days until around two weeks. Doctors haven’t come up with any solutions, but do suggest that dopamine and prolactin are possibly implicated.

We wonder if it could be on the same spectrum with the milder - and often unrecognized - symptoms we think are natural to many, if not not most, lovers after sexual satiation, such as irritability, general malaise, anxiety, emotional over-reactions, and so forth.

The forum is extremely busy. Here they collected 90 cases from various sufferers.

Visit the POIS forum

Have A Laugh at the Gender Gap

Visit July's Humor Page

Letters from the Trenches

About two years ago I stumbled upon quite an entirely different experience (an experience that I am slowly becoming more and more able to repeat). It first occurred while I was lying in bed thinking/ feeling erotic things and fantasies and just lying quite still and relaxed and holding my erection as opposed to rubbing my hand over it. Then I began to feel a strange but extremely pleasurable detached kind of sensation (beginning in my penis but spreading over my body). It first felt as if my erection was made of wood (numb and solid perhaps?) and was reaching far out from my body (as if I were holding it a few feet above my stomach). Then quite suddenly the strangest and most pleasurable hot wavy melting sensation flooded all over me. ...Have any other men experienced anything similar?

Post from "Reuniting" blogger

PEACE BETWEEN THE SHEETS News

Adam Elenbaas' interview of Marnia has been chosen for publication in Viking/Penguin's upcoming book "Towards 2012: New Perspecitives for New Times." If you missed the interview, you can read it here.

Message from female Courtly Companion:

I've been communicating with my courtly companion for the past few days and am enjoying the dialogue we've been having. It is a healing experience. Thank you for setting this up. I'm very grateful. I didn't realise how much I actually needed connection like this.

Want your own Courtly Companion?

Bonding Magic

I’ve always wondered why the Ecstatic Exchanges can create such powerful shifts for couples…and yet why it is so easy for stagnation to creep back into an intimate relationship. Recently I stumbled upon an insight that furnishes an answer to both questions. ...

Entire article

Anwylyd

One of our bloggers shared a poem about sacred sex. It's title means "Beloved" in Welsh.

Link to poem

Home
Misc.

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of the science behind human mating patterns and addiction, and the relevance of parallels revealed in various spiritual traditions. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. Any information you receive via this site or the forum is not professional advice and is provided solely for educational and informational purposes. Thanks for sharing your experiences and insights, as this is a group effort. Please know that anything you share at this site may be included in future materials, although extreme care will be taken to insure that no details that would identify you personally will be included.
Reuniting is powered by Drupal.

Validate XHTML or CSS.

Books & More

Navigation

User login

Google search

Syndicate