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So... I never heard of this...

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=7191766&page=4

Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome

For those who have never experienced persistent sexual arousal syndrome, or PSAS, its symptoms may seem more like a godsend or a dirty joke than a debilitating condition.

However, for the women who experience PSAS -- which causes them to live perpetually at the brink of orgasm -- the condition is a nightmarish curse. And up until 2001, it was a curse that didn't even have a name.

"I thought I was alone in this," Heather Dearmon, a 34-year-old South Carolina woman who experiences PSAS, told ABC News' "Primetime." "And this is after seeing every kind of doctor imaginable -- gynecologist, psychologist, psychiatrist -- you know, everything. And none had ever heard of anything."

Relief from the condition is often as elusive as sympathy. The sensations, which are not brought about by fantasies or other sexual thoughts, are often only partially relieved through orgasm. For some women, even sex does not help quell their arousal, and on occasion can even make the sensations worse.

Dr. Irwin Goldstein, a professor of surgery at U.C. San Diego and the head of the Sexual Health Program at Alvarado Hospital, studies the condition and says understanding of it is spare, even within the medical community.

"Every lecture I give on this, there's always smirks in the audience: 'Oh, I wish my wife was like this.' These are professional physicians," Goldstein said. "And I said, 'No, no, you're, you don't really want this. You do not want your wife to have this, please.'"

Indeed, the mortifying nature of PSAS leads Goldstein to believe that perhaps thousands of women suffer from the condition without seeking a doctor's help.

"To me this is a sickness," Dearmon said. "This is not, it's not something we've chosen. ... I would rather never have another orgasm in my life for the rest of my life than to have this problem."

Ok, ladies of NSG, anyone suffer from this? What's it like, and can I come over later?

EDIT: Odd, I thought for sure I had capitalized the title, like an acronym should be.

Even my editing the title doesn't seem to help.

Now then... I wish I had this... my husband would probably enjoy it more than I would :D

Funny, every girl I've been with seems to be affected by this syndrome.. but none have complained of any "suffering"..

Even my editing the title doesn't seem to help.

Now then... I wish I had this... my husband would probably enjoy it more than I would :D

Umm, can you switch the title to "Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome"? I don't want to look like an idiot, any more than necessary.

Umm, can you switch the title to "Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome"? I don't want to look like an idiot, any more than necessary.

I suppose I could...

I suppose I could...

Thanks hon. :D

So... I never heard of this...

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=7191766&page=4

Ok, ladies of NSG, anyone suffer from this? What's it like, and can I come over later?
*prepares buckets of cold water*
EDIT: Odd, I thought for sure I had capitalized the title, like an acronym should be.
Yeah, Jolt doesn't like that.

Dr. Irwin Goldstein, a professor of surgery at U.C. San Diego and the head of the Sexual Health Program at Alvarado Hospital, studies the condition

i bet he does. zing.;)

This must be a female-only condition, because another term for it would be "Being a Guy".

i bet he does. zing.;)
"I want you to relax and remain calm. And most important of all - do not, I repeat, do not under any circumstances think about sex or what arouses you..."

*ponders*
Me pregunto si yo sufro de esta condición...

:$

This must be a female-only condition, because another term for it would be "Being a Guy".

Your definition of maleness is ... strange. Men are perpetually erect to a physically painful extent, continually just this side of orgasm? It's news to me.

Lucky ladies.

*ponders*
Me pregunto si yo sufro de esta condición...

:$

You might do, if you have these symptoms.

You might do, if you have these symptoms.

*shurgs*
I'm not sure.

*shurgs*
I'm not sure.

How on earth can you not be ure?

Your definition of maleness is ... strange. Men are perpetually erect to a physically painful extent, continually just this side of orgasm? It's news to me.

Priapism?

How on earth can you not be ure?

You missed the joke by a mile. <_<

You missed the joke by a mile. <_<

There was a joke!? Where?
Half of it was in Spannish

EDIT: I thought you continentals used metric mersurments

There was a joke!? Where?
Half of it was in Spanish

EDIT: I thought you continentals used metric mersurments

We do, and we also know how to digest the information so you Americans don't choke.

My threads are always amazing.

We do, and we also know how to digest the information so you Americans don't choke.
American!? How dare you!?


What was the joke?

Sounds like if you have this, you don't want to have it, so no. Not my problem at all.

American!? How dare you!?


What was the joke?

RoI, you're kind of getting on my nerves. You don't need to know the joke. It wasn't meant for you. Forget I even made it.

Your definition of maleness is ... strange. Men are perpetually erect to a physically painful extent, continually just this side of orgasm? It's news to me.

Buddy: The male body needs sex at all times! It's a living hell!
- Just one of the guys. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089393/)

:p

So... I never heard of this...

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=7191766&page=4

Ok, ladies of NSG, anyone suffer from this? What's it like, and can I come over later?

I almost wish this on the sad idiots who read the description of what it's like & still think it's a good thing to have...but i'm not sick like they are.

We do, and we also know how to digest the information so you Americans don't choke.

Um, Kent's in England.

Um, Kent's in England.

I forgot RoI is from Kent.

*shurgs*
I'm not sure.

we need to do extensive testing... when can I come over to administer these tests. :D

Men are perpetually erect to a physically painful extent, continually just this side of orgasm?
They are if they work in my office. Damn uni students...

I almost wish this on the sad idiots who read the description of what it's like & still think it's a good thing to have...but i'm not sick like they are.

Yeah while the sexual connotations of the condition apparently make it easy to joke around about it the reality is that ease of jocularity probably make the conditions hell for the people suffering from it

Like it is not bad enough alone but the constant stream of off hand jokes every single if you were ever brave enough to bring it up in public must be hell

even my editing the title doesn't seem to help.

Now then... I wish i had this... My husband would probably enjoy it more than i would :d


lol!

we need to do extensive testing... when can I come over to administer these tests. :D

That's for my Keeper to do, JuNii-kun.:wink:

That's for my Keeper to do, JuNii-kun.:wink:

I hope I find a GF like you.

Fun, Sexy, and Faithful. ;)

I hope I find a GF like you.

Fun, Sexy, and Faithful. ;)

You flatter me.:$

Wow, that sounds horrible. I'm very glad I don't have that.

Wow, that sounds horrible. I'm very glad I don't have that.

It's nice to see someone else is seriously responding to this. :D

This sounds like an awful and debilitating condition. I imagine it is made all the worse by society's cavalier reaction to it.

So this "condition" involves being persistently aroused and not always being satisfied by just having an orgasm (and this sometimes making the situation worse).

Well, I would say that I experience a number of the symptoms (which is an inconvenience when I'm trying to do something productive and non-sexual) but I can't say that I complain about the not being satisfied by an orgasm... I mean, sometimes this just leads to wanting more... but this can only go on so long before I get sleepy and this takes care of the rest.

Um, Kent's in England.

There is a Kent in Ohio too.

I've heard about this from plenty of sources--they even featured it on Grey's Anatomy. From everything I've heard, it's an extremely uncomfortable, embarrassing and disabling condition, despite all the jokes about how "great" such a disorder must be.

So this "condition" involves being persistently aroused and not always being satisfied by just having an orgasm (and this sometimes making the situation worse).

Well, I would say that I experience a number of the symptoms (which is an inconvenience when I'm trying to do something productive and non-sexual) but I can't say that I complain about the not being satisfied by an orgasm... I mean, sometimes this just leads to wanting more... but this can only go on so long before I get sleepy and this takes care of the rest.

That's really not the extent of it at all. These women can have many orgasms a day, but the sexual tension is never released, and it can become painful. This isn't "gosh I've been horny all day", it's being so sexually stimulated that they can't work or be out in public. Or sleep.

Actually sounds really nasty and torturous. I can see why its easy to joke about but it would have to be a terrible thing to endure.

Your definition of maleness is ... strange. Men are perpetually erect to a physically painful extent, continually just this side of orgasm? It's news to me.

It's called priapism.

There is a Kent in Ohio too.

Nah, I live in the real Kent.

You flatter me.:$

Nah, I think he's being honest.

RoI, you're kind of getting on my nerves. You don't need to know the joke. It wasn't meant for you. Forget I even made it.

Sozzles.

It's just when ya get told that you've missed a joke by a mile, ya feel pretty thick, so I just wanted to know what it was.

Besides, I should be the one that's pissed off. WTF gave you the idea that I was a yank?

So... I never heard of this...

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=7191766&page=4



Ok, ladies of NSG, anyone suffer from this? What's it like, and can I come over later?

EDIT: Odd, I thought for sure I had capitalized the title, like an acronym should be.
This reminds me of that yawning orgasm drug WYTYG and i were working on.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clomipramine
Anafranil!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,957,00.html

So this "condition" involves being persistently aroused and not always being satisfied by just having an orgasm (and this sometimes making the situation worse).

Well, I would say that I experience a number of the symptoms (which is an inconvenience when I'm trying to do something productive and non-sexual) but I can't say that I complain about the not being satisfied by an orgasm... I mean, sometimes this just leads to wanting more... but this can only go on so long before I get sleepy and this takes care of the rest.
Sleepy?
:(

*shurgs*
I'm not sure.Field trip!
*packs bags*
http://home16.inet.tele.dk/cobra/ferrets/cf_ferrets_01.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clomipramine


Ten out of 12 patients presenting with manifest clomipramine overdose survived with appropriate treatment. These 10 patients took clomipramine doses of up to 5 grams. The 2 patients who died ingested 5.75 and 7 grams, respectively. Outside the US one patient died who took only 0.75 grams. Lethal doses may be lower, if other drugs have been taken in an overdose, too, particular central nervous depressants

I don't think it's wise to tell people( especially as this is an antidepressant) how much the need to take to die.

I don't think it's wise to tell people( especially as this is an antidepressant) how much the need to take to die.
It's doubly unfortunate that most commercials for common use depressants these days include in their litany of potential side effects suicidal thoughts and urges. Further worse to have to say something along the lines of, "then this may not be the right prescription for you".

It's doubly unfortunate that most commercials for common use depressants these days include in their litany of potential side effects suicidal thoughts and urges. Further worse to have to say something along the lines of, "then this may not be the right prescription for you".

Lulz.

I've never seen an advert for antidepressants.


They don't work anyway, the just make you tired(really very tired).

Neuropsychopharmacology is notably rather hit-and-miss, so that drugs that work well on one person may have adverse effects upon close relatives. Generally some of them will work better than others - some will work well, some will have little or no noticeable effect, and some will produce too many side effects to be worthwhile. If you're having no noticeable results on whatever you're taking, you may wish to talk to your GP or clinical psychologist about switching to something else.

Neuropsychopharmacology is notably rather hit-and-miss, so that drugs that work well on one person may have adverse effects upon close relatives. Generally some of them will work better than others - some will work well, some will have little or no noticeable effect, and some will produce too many side effects to be worthwhile. If you're having no noticeable results on whatever you're taking, you may wish to talk to your GP or clinical psychologist about switching to something else.

Neuropsychopharmacology is bullocks. The only was to get out of depression is to consciously make the decision to change. It takes a while but...



P.S Are you a doctor?

That's really not the extent of it at all. These women can have many orgasms a day, but the sexual tension is never released, and it can become painful. This isn't "gosh I've been horny all day", it's being so sexually stimulated that they can't work or be out in public. Or sleep.

Ah, I guess this would be shitty.

...also for me it's rarely "gosh, I've been horny all day" since this is common. It's more the "gosh, I've been horny all month" that gets to me.

WTF gave you the idea that I was a yank?

Is there some sort of problem with being a yank, tea-guzzler?

It's doubly unfortunate that most commercials for common use depressants these days include in their litany of potential side effects suicidal thoughts and urges. Further worse to have to say something along the lines of, "then this may not be the right prescription for you".

Still beats the commercial for the asthma medication that has a potential side effect of Asthma related death. o.O It really must have sucked for whoever was hired to whip up the commercial for that.

Is there some sort of problem with being a yank, tea-guzzler?

Many problems, war monger.

P.S Are you a doctor?

are you?

are you?

No are you?

I wasn't asking maliciously or anything. I wondered if he/she was a doctor by the way that the talked about that stuff.

Field trip!
*packs bags*
http://home16.inet.tele.dk/cobra/ferrets/cf_ferrets_01.jpg

:D
I'll bring the sandwiches!

Neuropsychopharmacology is bullocks. The only was to get out of depression is to consciously make the decision to change. It takes a while but...



P.S Are you a doctor?

This why we make people go to school to be doctors. So they don't say ridiculous things like this that end up with depressed people committing suicide.

Ok, ladies of NSG, anyone suffer from this?
No I don't suffer from this but I can imagine what it might be like. Sometimes during my period when all the muscles are tight it does kind of feel like arousal.

PS I was hoping this would be about men who have erections all day without even realizing it

This why we make people go to school to be doctors. So they don't say ridiculous things like this that end up with depressed people committing suicide.

Huh? What did I say that would make someone kill themselves?

There is a Kent in Ohio too.

There's also a London in Colorado and a Paris in Texas, but generally on here when people say they're from those cities they're talking about the ones in England and France.

That's really not the extent of it at all. These women can have many orgasms a day, but the sexual tension is never released, and it can become painful. This isn't "gosh I've been horny all day", it's being so sexually stimulated that they can't work or be out in public. Or sleep.

And that's why they need some sort of treatment. This really is a horrible affliction.

Though it lends itself to far too many jokes, even about treatment...no one few people really bother to take the time to understand it or think about it.

Many problems, war monger.

Tea drinking is something pretty common among the entire British population. War-starting is up to one man, the president, not the entire American population.

:D
I'll bring the sandwiches!
You say "sandwich", and it reminds me of Jhan for some reason .... hmmm.
Jelly, must have jelly. :)

Still beats the commercial for the asthma medication that has a potential side effect of Asthma related death. o.O It really must have sucked for whoever was hired to whip up the commercial for that.They must be covering all their bases. Basically, spend and hope for the best.
Shaol, they should just jump the shark and start giving Colbert's Cheating Death symptoms.

Huh? What did I say that would make someone kill themselves?

"The only way to get out of depression is to make the decision to change"? Dismissing antidepressants as "bollocks"? I find it hard to believe you have any experience with or knowledge of either antidepressants or depression itself.

You say "sandwich", and it reminds me of Jhan for some reason .... hmmm.
Jelly, must have jelly. :)

And which flavours do you like? It begets the question, you know. Some jellies are... of disreputable nature and acquired tastes. :p