had a dream last night i was an armed security guard and got into a point blank gunfight with a guy. i shot him, but it didn’t put him down in one hit – just “microstaggered” him, in gamer parlance. that kept him from shooting me, but he was still trying, so i shot him again and again. he didn’t die, but at last he gave up.
i called the post “shooting blanks” after a common slang term for impotence. this is because the usual freudian assumption is that if a penis hoster dreams of having an ineffectual weapon, they are fearing the day their virility fails.
now i don’t love the diminishing of my sexual powers. they were far too much until i was about twenty-two, then they were ok until around forty, now they’re pathetic. why did it have to be a high speed burn? i’d take being massively less horny as a child in exchange for more years of ok as an adult. but it doesn’t matter that much. there are things i value above the humpty dance.
besides, there are other obvious interpretations. this could be from feeling powerless against evil in my daily life. i doubt that is relevant in this case because while i thought of my foe as dangerous, i did not feel he was evil. we just happened to be on opposite sides.
this could be from the mind just seeking details, like the way awareness of teeth leads to dreams of teeth falling out. i was aware of a gun in my hand so i dreamed it sucked. it’s just easier to imagine failure and deterioration than to imagine superlatives. i remember examining the gun after the fight and seeing the barrel was comically skinny, haha…
that would be a funny dream, the inverse. gun too powerful. i only wanted to wing him, to disarm him, but my massive load of white-hot lead dissolved half his torso and made his blood flash to steam. sexy? 🤮
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Psychosexual, sure. Quite the massive load, there. 😉
I’d happily give up my libido forever. Commit that energy to the arts or something more productive or enlightening. My GP, however, is of the opinion that non-use over time is dangerous for those with a prostate. And thus we forge on.
Dennis K has your GP given you any evidence that abstinence has an effect on the prostate? I ask because it sounds like complete bunkum.
I should perhaps clarify, I do not have a prostate, but my husband does, an oddly shaped one which along with his oddly shaped tubes and balls* causes the occasional medical problem^, but his GP has never suggested that abstinence would be bad for them nor that any sex would be good for them.
* we know this because of a extensive scanning
^ mainly infections with the occasional cyst thrown in for variety
Jazzlet – I don’t have stats to hand, but my readings some years ago indicated that serious prostate problems occur more frequently among those who use their tackle all the time and those who never or very rarely do so.
And I’d thought the phrase “shooting blanks” applied mostly to those of us with vasectomies…
i’ve heard that all genital havers should keep them in some amount of use for health reasons, but i don’t know how widespread or well-founded the ideas are either.
pierce – frequent use causing probs for prostates? what kind of use? not sure how the prostate is involved in bonedown situations except passively. based on where it sits, just holding your piss might have an effect on it.
Jazzlet —
“Complete bunkum” or not, here’s what WebMD says about it. I don’t think anything’s written in stone. Either way, I ain’t too stressed about it.
nothing’s written in stone except my hardening prostate, hey-o!
When I read “penis hosters” I immediately thought of Bluehost.
Further comments about abstinence’s effect on the prostate is making me think of Bluehost again for no particular reason. I’m sorry, I had to get this off my chest and this thread is the only place where it would remotely make any sense.
Bébé Mélange @ # 7: what kind of use?
Ejaculatory (not the kind advertised on PZ’s banner).
pierce – i found that out from dennis’s link. the more u know!
behold – i got that from crowd patter in a live butthole surfers recording i can find no references to online at the moment. hat tip to gibby haynes.
Hmmmn “Ejaculation doesn’t seem to protect against the most deadly or advanced types of prostate cancer. Experts don’t know why.” Given that most men will die with, not of, prostate cancer this detail seems to be rather important.