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THE CAROLINA JOURNAL
Thursday. October 22. 1970
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THE DOCTOR’S BAG
By Dr. Arnold Werner, M. D.
Copyright 1970 by College Press Service
Address letters to Dr. Arnold Werner,
Box 974, E. Lansing. Michigan 4S823.
QUESTION: Can going bra-less hasten the time when breasts begin to
sag? Or cause them to sag more?
ANSWER: Breasts have very little connective tissue and are dependent
on underlying muscles to carry their weight. The organ
itself is primarily fatty tissue and, incidentally, small
breasts contain the same amount of milk producing
glands as large breasts. It is considered inadvisable for
women with large breasts to go around continually
without bras, especially if engaging in physical activity,
as stretching of the skin and weakening of supportive
structures can occur. According to one source,
horse-back riding can particularly wicked.
Women are especially cautioned to wear good
supportive brassieres during pregnancy when breasts
enlarge. Similar breast enlargement can occur when
women take birth control pills, so the same warning
should apply. Women with smaller breasts and good
muscle support should have little to fear in going
bra-less. A friend's wife suggests the following test: Place
a pencil under the breast parallel to the chest wall at the
point where the breast joins the chest. Let go of the
pencil. If the pencil does not ball, going bra-less is not
recommended. If the pencil falls, the choice is yours.
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QUESTION: I am engaged and have had sex. My problem is that even
after several times, there is still pain in the vaginal area.
Also, I am not able to have an orgasm. My fiance is able
to reach a climax even though I cannot. Though I love
my fiance, I do not enjoy intercourse but feel I should
engage in such activities for his sake. Is there any
explanation for the repeated pain and the inability to
reach a climax? I would appreciate an immediate reply
as I am extremely concerned!
ANSWER: Unlike the man, who must be sexually excited in order to
have an erection and participate in intercourse, the
woman can physically participate in intercourse
regardless of her state of excitement. Your indication
that you do not enjoy intercourse leads me to believe
that you are probably not very sexually excited during
relations. Tenseness and a lack of vaginal secretions can
easily result in a painful experience when a woman
attempts sexual intercourse without excitement. Orgasm
becomes impossible. Painful intercourse and lack of
climax can also result when excitement is present, but
poor technique and haste before relations begin,
prevents adequate physiological and emotional
preparation for orgasm.
The technical part of your question was easy to
answer, but the real issue is how to deal with your
relationship with your fiance. You might consider
sharing your feelings and concerns about intercourse
with him. It takes quite a while for most people to feel
at ease and enjoy sexual relations. Many couples find
that sexual relations are most satisfactory for both when
it is mutually desired and the emotional and physical
aspects of a relationship are fully understood.
Many unmarried couples engage in sexual intercourse,
others prefer not to. The key to a successful relationship
in this area depends more upon mutual understanding
than it does on what is donw or not done. "Sexual
Expression in Marriage" by Donald W. Hastins, M.D.,
Bantam Books, provides an excellent discussion of
sexual technique. Ira Reiss's "Premarital Sexual
Standards in America," Free Press, paperback, provides
interesting reading along a different line.
QUESTION: I am almost 19 years of age and have not experienced
nocturnal emission ("Wet dream"). Is there something
wrong with me?
ANSWER: Wet dreams are must less common or completely absent in a
man who masturbates regularly or is having regular
sexual intercourse. Since almost all men past early
adolescence are doing one or the other or both, I assume
you fall into this group. Ninety nine percent of men
can't be wrong I
(Ed. Note: Four sample "Doctor's Bag” columns have been
run to evaluate your reaction to them. In general, the
response has been favorable and we are purchasing
syndication rights from CPS for the rest of the year. The
Doctor’s Bag column will resume when we complete
arrangements, presumably in a few weeks.)
The Murray Louis Dance Company will perform at Central Piedmont Community College
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 23 & 24.
CPCC schedules dancers
An avant-guard modern dance
company, Murray Louis Dance
Company, will be in Charlotte this
weekend. Under the joint
sponsorship of the North Carolina
Arts Council, the National
Endowment Fund, UNCC, and
CPCC, the troupe will offer a
mixed program: Lecture-
demonstration, 8 p.m., Friday,
October 23; Master class, 2 p.m..
Saturday, October 24; and a
Performance of Mod Dance at 8
p.m. oh Saturday evening.
All activities will be hold in
CPCC’s Learning Resources
Center Autitorium and are free on
a first-come, first-served basis.
The group performed to
standing-room only at Duke
University this past weekend and
have played London, New York,
Canada, and many college
campuses on their current tour.
Clive Barnes, N.Y. TIMES
critic, has said of the lead, Murray
Louis: “A brilliant dancer...a
theatricality, a coldly dada sense
of the ridiculous, and a crystal
briglit imagination.”
Theological
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by malette poole
October’s version of
everybodies favorite scag rag (the
one with the twin skin, Clyde) has
not only a great (as usual) lay out
of skin, but some great fiction,
and an opportunity that will not
come about again for a year. The
fiction, and I’m not so sure that it
is, is a couple of pages past the
fold-out. It speaks rather lightly
of the giant chicken-eating frog.
The giant chicken-eating frog is
but one of those ficticious animals
being slowly killed off by our
stagnant reading habits and
polluted minds.
Here is a story that deals with
ecology and our economy,
poverty in South America, and its
causes. It gives all your sex freaks
out there something new to think
about, and a new approach to
child desertion. Something for
everybody. Read it. If you are
able to get past the fold-out, that
is. Or if you can keep from being
embarressed by having the book
in your possession.
The opportunity 1 was speaking
of is a chance to get the two late
greats that we lost these last three
weeks into the hall of fame.
Voting for the Playboy Jazz and
Pop Hall of Fame is in the
October issue.
Wlien’s the last time you guy’s
got past the centerfold. Wlien’s
the last time you girls picked up a
Playboy without feeling
self-conscious. Well, it’s about
time...
Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin
deserve the recognition. They
probably will not get it if it is not
done this time around.
ading
People have an affinity for
forgetting the hours of pleasure
they got being entertained by
greats after they haven’t had a
song out for a while, and nobody
can record from the hereafter.
Think about it, and do something
for a change. Don’t just talk about
it. That doesn’t accomplish a
thing...
Due to unforseen
delays in several of the
major projects of the
STA, the State of the
STA address was
postponed and will be
rescheduled at a later
date.
Alan Hickok
STA President
According to the UNCC
Campus Chaplain, Quent
Perreault, Dr. John Durham, Ph.D
Oxford, a former editor,
professor, and dean and now with
Southeastern Seminary, will be
on-campus on October 28.
Dr. Durham will hold an
informal discussion to answer any
questions a UNCC student might
raise concerning the modern
seminary’s role in contemporary
life.
Persons willing to listen,
debate, or criticize the role of Dr.
Durham and his efforts are invited
to the discussion. Time and place
of the meeting will be announced
later.
Southeastern Theology
Semianry, located in Wake Forest,
N.C., is a progressive and
open-minded institution with the
goal of relating to real issues,
according to Perreault, and he
added: “If you care about what’s
going on and what’s going
happen in the community 0‘
tomorrow—BE THERE!”
IKERLOckerburgerI