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THE HYGEINE OF MARRIAGE: LEARNING A NEW LANGUAGE
ALMOST any of us can recall the sense of shame we felt on the first occasion of being questioned by a physician about parts or functions of the body which we had previously regarded as unmentionable. Even though we realized that the ordeal was unavoidable, we could not help being momentarily shocked at such an invasion of our private lives, and it was often with no little embarrassment that we struggled to express ourselves in answering the doctor's questions. The only words we knew belonged to the realm of the obscene. They had always served as a medium for indecent jokes and not as a means of conveying important information about the human body. So, when we found ourselves for the first time really needing to express certain ideas, we were at a loss to find appropriate words. Fortunately, the physician usually came to our rescue and provided us with enough vocabulary to enable him to save our lives.
If we were blessed with a large enough number and variety of ailments, we came in time to be almost as articulate and free of embarrassment as the doctor himself in mentioning the unmentionable. We then found a real satisfaction in being able to deal with the facts of life objectively and dispassionately, like a scientist. Instead of feeling that such conversation was indecent, we found in it a higher and more wholesome sort of decency than we had previously known. Obscenity lost its flavor. Jokes, which when analyzed proved to be nothing more than uttering or almost uttering some forbidden words, became pointless when we had grown accustomed to using other words of precisely the same meaning in a matter-of-fact, unsalacious way. In fact, we saw that the moral taboo which had been placed on all words relating to excretion and sex was itself responsible for the existence of most of what we called obscenity. We saw that without irrational social inhibitions, most obscenity would disappear.
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NATURAL MENS HEALTH
There are many differences between men and women, and one of the areas in which this is most obvious is in the way they deal with health issues. Most men are impatient with illness, especially their own. They don't have time to be slowed down by bad health and want to resolve problems quickly.
What I have also observed about men, both as clients and as friends, is that it often takes a little time for them to change unhealthy lifestyle habits. I think part of the reason for this is that it takes them a while to admit to having a problem. On the other hand, once they accept that there is a health issue that needs to be dealt with and decide to make a change, they can become quite obsessive. On the whole, men are very driven by goals and once they're on a roll, there is no stopping them.
In my private practice, I have treated many men but I have noticed a particular upsurge of interest in men's health over the last five years. Certainly, when I first began my practice in the mid-80s, the vast majority of my clients were women and children. It wasn't until the 90s that the husbands of the women I treated started being sent to me - some willingly and some reluctantly! These men were not 'new age' men. They were from all walks of life: businessmen, tradesmen, athletes, lawyers - even a few doctors! Many of these men had already been down the orthodox medicine path and come away very disillusioned. So often they had been told 'You must lose weight' or 'You need to cut down your stress', but they were never given any advice on how to do this.
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