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marathon is life,a poem for running the Athens marathon on nov13/2016

Marathon Is Life

Run a marathon my friend

Life is marathon

Run like a bull in clouds

Galloping gently

Breathing hard

Traveling faraway

Far ….impossibly far

Far enough for a hug

And for this Spartan pain

What matters really

Marathon is life

Go slow run easy

Run your passion
Run for love

No gold no silver

Like a bull in love

Floating lightly

On cotton fields

Pawing clawing

Climbing up haltingly

That’s why we run my man

This authentic marathon

Broken laughing bones

Cheers or no cheers

 Roars from within

Or never heard roars

Running alone

Finish or no finish

That’s life my friend

                 Does A Bull Make Love For Pleasure Or Pain Relief?

        Why does a bull engage in sex?  And or what influence - beside testosterone - is important for a great ape to make love?

    Perhaps these questions are relevant to understand rape - a common sexual behavior- in the animal kingdom and to explain diverse scientific evidence which also suggest bulls , horses and apes routinely rape their female partners .

   Of psychological importance, neither an aroused bull nor a cow in heat, seems to be driven to make love by romantic urges. Or we can say that in the animal kingdom  “pleasure seeking” does not seem to matter in sexual relations.

   The crucial force? Pain and  an urgent desire for relief from suffering.  

   This observation could easily be confirmed by studying sex in many animals as diverse as cattle and horses or pigs and chimpanzees etc.

    Today, thanks to science, we know that mammalian voluntary body functions (bowel movement, urination , eating ) are  prompted by some bodily  discomfort. Hence , it seems natural for sexual acts as well to be elicited by pain.

 Yes, pain - from swollen genitals  - is probably the single most important motivator for animal sexual behavior. I suppose, It will be difficult not to empathize with a bull in pain – an unhappy bull with swollen testicles – desperate to find a soft harbor for his limb on fire.

   A horny bull is an angry bull. And it is true that In general anger and stress fuel aggression. Furthermore , on our planet  big fish eat small fish and power rules . Thus, the natural laws  do seem to promote rape as routine behavior for bulls, horses, big apes etc .

  A curious student of science may ask. How about the females of our animal kingdom?

   Science suggests cows horses and apes do seek sexual encounters mediated by their own physiology and evolution.  However, two observations about mammalian sex are worthy of  emphasis . A male and not a female determines the timing and a female never rapes.

                           Human Assisted Animal Rape

                                          Human assisted animal rape:watch the rope

       For many students of psychology human assisted animal rape should

 be of interest.  In breeding horses, cattle etc. human assisted rape has been a standard operating procedure  and has been popular  on tv  and U Tube  animal shows . Some images could be very unnerving as they almost always capture images of an immobilized cow or a horse during involuntary mating.  Just imagine watching a frantic violent horse resisting -  biting and kicking-  her rape , only to be subdued  by men in the breeding business .

What can animal sexual behavior teach us about human sexual responses ?

  The lessons are many ,worthy of further scientific inquiry but  AREbeyond the limited focus of this brief report.

biology of sex part 3

                   Biology Of Human Sexuality

                 Libido  Erection  Lubrication   Ejaculation   Orgasm                               

Men               T           T+NS+V                                    T+NS+V             T+NS                                          

Women          T                                  E+P                                          T+NS                                           

   Siesta   K  Saleri , oil painting

   

T: Testosterone  

E: Estrogen

P: Progesterone

NS: Nervous system

V: Vascular system

OBSERVATIONS :

§  Libido=Testosterone

§  Testosterone is the predominant influence of libido consistent with the dramatic differences between sexual behavior of men and women greatly magnified after 50.

A 100 year old impotent man –with minimal testosterone  may enjoy orgasm.