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Dear Carol, I hope that you will relay some information on a suppressed veteran's issue that has become a suppressed public health issue. The young woman from Oakland who has body rashes, hives with white centers, acne, itchy skin and no doubt fatigue, short term memory loss and terrible joint pains [see Queen of Hearts 3/2/01] probably has something known as Mycoplasma Incognitus, a low-grade bio-war mycotoxin used on our troops by the Iraqis during the Gulf War and sold to Iraq and thirteen other countries by Tanax Biosystems of Houston, Texas (where it was first bioengineered) and by 82 other companies, all of which are being sued by a lawyer named Spagnoletti from Houston. On February 9, 1994 a Sen. Riegle spoke on the use of chemical and biological warfare agents in the Gulf War, on the communicability of the disease and of the public health risk. I know. I have had it for 8 1/2 years. I contracted it as an STD. I have been fighting it for almost three years with long-term antibiotic therapy using such medicines as doxycycline and minocycline. I have a had *a lot* of problems. I hope that you will do the politically incorrect thing and relay this information to the young woman because if left untreated she will suffer heart problems in a few years and kidney failure within seven years. Even if you don't want to recognize this problem because it casts aspersions on the sacrosanctimoniousness of your immaculate government social engineering apparatus, I hope you will relay this info to save this girl's life or at least her kidneys and to block at least one vector of the disease being spread. She can call American Gulf War Veteran's Association at (800) 231-7631 or log onto www.gulfwarvets.com or call Dr. Nicholson at (714) 903-2900 (www.immed.org) or contact the Immunosciences Lab at (800) 950-4686. This is a very real problem, not science fiction, not "right wing conspiracy theory," not "anti-government hate," blah blah. Give her the info. --Infected in Oakland Dear Infected, *My* "immaculate government social engineering apparatus"? *Au contraire!* I assure you that the fact that your letter hasn't been printed for the last two months has only to do with misplaced mail that the *Express* finally forwarded me, not because I quail at being "politically incorrect" or am a pawn of the vast government conspiracy. And even if I were I would have printed your letter anyway, just to see whether it could help get the term "sacrosanctimoniousness" into the lexicons of the future. Sometimes you just need a ten-dollar word to describe an issue like this. Various strains of Mycoplasma have been implicated lately in several disease states, not just the pneumonia that we associate most closely with it. I've written about Dr. Garth Nicholson's research, and his surmise that Mycoplasma was used during the Gulf War, in this space before. I should, indeed, have thought to ask the original writer whether she or her partner were Gulf vets. Hopefully this info will be of use to her and to other readers. And now, as promised last month, the first installment of the East Bay Masturbation Files:
"What the East Bay is doing when it puts its hands in its pants" -- I love it! Though I've only discovered anal play in the last three years or so (I'm 40 now), I've jumped right on it, so to speak. I must say that I wish I knew about the pleasures of the male multiple orgasm when I was younger. Even though mine was a journey of self-discovery, I still feel cheated of all those years of incomplete self-pleasure. But then if someone told me I'd be playing with plugs, vibes and swallowing my own spunk, I would most certainly have considered it an assault on my sense of self. In my experience swallowing my cum after ejaculation does not feel as draining as the shameful kleenex wipe of my youth. I was raised with the "steal Dad's *Playboy*mags" education in masturbation. In my thirties I realized masturbation to ejaculation was physically a drain, and just plain didn't feel "complete" as an orgasm. I never had a partner that satisfied me orally. But I read so much porn that I decided one day to swallow my cum myself. I loved it, and though I questioned my identity I reasoned that since I wasn't fatigued as usual then it was a good thing. Years ago, I read a column where other straight boys were doing it, which was a fun validation. But anal play is so taboo even now in regards to male masturbation education. Some of the benefits I've found: multiple orgasm; relaxed sphincter and an equivalent relaxed demeanor (i.e., the meaning of the anal retentive personality is clear); a softer, more diffuse sexuality that is not so female dependent. I think men need a redefinition involving orgasm as ejaculation. It has started. It was never mentioned when I was growing up. I think the book _The Multi-Orgasmic Male_ is a milestone. Even though I identify myself as bi-poly (as opposed to bipolar), I am in a hetero marriage and am a father. My self-pleasuring does not involve my wife by her choice and conservativeness. But I do think that male sexuality as it is promoted in this culture is unhealthy. Masturbation can be a radical act in redefining men's relationship to their bodies and to women. Boys, anal play and male multiples are happening! Get on board, or get it on, bored. First off, swallow your own cum, het-boys! You can't expect her to, if you don't, too! Then slide one in the back door! Explore! More, more, more. --Fiddle-Dee-Dee |
