The 4-Hour Body_ An Uncommon Guide to Ra - Timothy Ferriss [100]
End of Chapter Notes
1. C’mon, people. I’m a professional.
2. How do you legally get eager test subjects? That’s a topic for another book.
3. Short answer: yes. But if you don’t have a stamina problem, this often aggravates the woman and robs her of the psychic payoff of bringing you to orgasm. Not a fan. If you want to extend your stamina, I recommend breathing and better positioning.
4. Ladies, this is answered in the sidebar and resources of the next chapter.
5. Not his real name. I’ve immortalized his cat’s name in the tradition of porn name creation: childhood pet’s name + the street you grew up on.
6. Giselle is a composite of several subjects from here forward.
7. Recommended by Nina and dozens of other sex educators. Giselle found this book a bit too over-the-top due to rather creepy illustrations and a group sex description in the beginning. She preferred I Love Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide by Dorian Solot, later given to her by an enthusiastically orgasmic female friend.
8. In doggy style, if you wish to expand your repetoire later, the woman would want to keep her hips as low as possible.
THE 15-MINUTE FEMALE ORGASM
Part Deux
Parental Guidance Suggested:
If graphic illustrations of female anatomy bother you, you might want to skip this chapter. For real. It’s vajayjay galore.
There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men think, “I know what I’m doing. Just show me somebody naked.”
—Jerry Seinfeld
Stupid Animals
Below is a composite scene that repeats itself millions of times per night around the world:
Man finally gets to go downtown and fumbles to get his hand where it counts.
Man starts random up-and-down or circular motion, hoping to God he can hit the spot and not act surprised.
Woman moans and man thinks he’s doing well.
Woman stops moaning.
Man shifts technique or goes into hyperdrive, and woman asks him to slow down a bit.
Man slows down, and exactly five seconds of mild positive response later, nothing.
Man feels like a dog trying to open a door with no thumbs.
If he’s out to beat the clitoris, dead or alive, as most men are, woman gently stops his increasingly erratic attack after 10 minutes.
Best case, they move on to something the man can understand, like penis in vagina.
He’s a stupid animal, folks. Have mercy.
Clitoral Confusion
The clitoris looks something like an Imperial Guard from Star Wars.
It’s also much larger than most people realize. The clitoral glans, what most refer to as the “clit,” extends back and splits into an upside-down V. Those legs, the clitoral crura, are concealed behind the labia minora. Some researchers believe that “g-spot” stimulation is actually stimulation of the crura and that all orgasms originate from stimulation of the clitoris.
Other researchers, mostly male, disagree.
This is nothing new. Men have been arguing about the clitoris for 2,500 years.
It all (seemingly) started in 1559. Realdo Colombo of the University of Padua in Italy announced the discovery of the clitoris and planted his flag: “Since no one has discerned these projections and their workings, if it is permissible to give names to things discovered by me, it should be called the love or sweetness of Venus.” Gabriele Falloppio, Realdo’s successor and later of Fallopian tube fame, refuted his claim, as did Italians, Danes, and every Y chromosome in between.
Hippocrates actually had Realdo beat by more than 1,300 years, but the clitoris seems to periodically go into hiding, often for decades at a time. Is it real? Is it an illusion? Is it alive? Is it dead? No one knew until it made a sudden reappearance,