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To: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick.sex,alt.sex.wizards,alt.religion.sexuality,alt.magick.tantra From: nagasiva@luckymojo.com (nagasiva yronwode) Subject: Kegels, PC Muscle, and Anal Sphincter Muscles (was Re: Keleg question) Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 19:05:01 GMT 50001107 Vom Mercury abandons retrograde motion! garyboombaats@aol.com (GaryBoomBaats): > In performing Kelegs on the PC muscle are the anal muscles soposed > to also contract? I was wondering if this is correct or if I havnt > correctly isolated the PC muscle. Does anyone know? I think that they are related (more associated with pissing and its stoppage than with anus) and separating their contractions is both tricky and perhaps unnecessary. I consulted the Gehennom Goo at http://www.luckymojo.com/magi/goo.html and searched on "Sexuality", eventually coming up with the Sexuality Library at http://www.sexuality.org/ and, searching on "kegel", was led to the alt.sex.wizards FAQ at http://www.sexuality.org/l/sex/wizards.html within it I found this text: c2-2. What are Kegel exercises? How can one increase the force of ejaculation? From: sesharp@happy.colorado.edu Message-ID: <1991Oct5.231811.1@happy.colorado.edu> Date: 6 Oct 91 05:18:11 GMT Kegel exercises (pronounced "Kay-gill", in case you ever actually have a conversation about them) were invented to give women better bladder control. They have a number of useful advantages in sex. In women, they can help tighten the vagina, particularly after childbirth. The muscles can also be used deliberately during intercourse to stimulate her partner. They have a variety of uses for men. As I already mentioned, they strengthen the muscles used in seminal retention, making that technique more effective. They can make ejaculation more powerful. This may increase male enjoyment somewhat and female enjoyment if she is sensitive to it. Deliberate twitches during intercourse are also useful for males. Knowing how to force relaxation of the muscles can help maintain control and prevent premature ejaculation, as well as relieving the muscle cramps that can occur from too many ejaculations in succession. For females: My recollection of the exercise regimen taken from the older ESO book is as follows. First you have to identify the PC muscles and get them under conscious control. Starting and stopping urination is one method. Inserting a finger into the vagina to feel the contractions or watching the movement of the erect penis is another. Once it is under control, there are three kinds of exercises. The first is to clench the muscle and hold it for two seconds before releasing it. The second is to bear down as though constipated, using the abdominal muscles to force the PC muscles to relax. I find that alternating reps of these two works well. The third exercise is a fast twitch of the muscle, with repetitions as close together as possible, similar to orgasmic contractions. An initial set of exercises consists of 10 repetitions of each exercise. Five sets should be performed in a day. As strength improves, the number of repetitions in a set is increased. Around 30 repetitions in a set is suggested as a good number for retaining good muscle tone. The exercises are unobtrusive and can be performed almost anywhere. For males: Kegel exercises might indeed help with [increasing the force of ejaculation]. Here is how they are performed by males. First you have to learn to consciously control the muscles. One way of doing this is to use them to stop and start urination repeatedly. When you have an erection, contracting them causes it to move, making them easy to identify. Once you have the muscles identified, there are three types of exercises to do: 1. try contracting the muscles and holding them that way for a slow count of ten. You may not be able to last that long at first, but that is why you are exercising. 2. force them to relax by bearing down as though you were constipated and trying to force a bowel movement. 3. twitch (contract and release) the muscles as fast as you can ten times in a row. I find that it works well to alternate each of the first type with one of the second type. I don't recall how many of these are recommended. Something like ten of each to start, eventually working up to a hundred. In addition to the possibility of increasing the force of ejaculation, these may increase the number of contractions and the total enjoyment. The same muscles can also be used to reduce the amount of semen in an ejaculation by contracting them as hard as possible during it. This leaves a less than satisfied feeling, usually accompanied by an urgent desire for another orgasm 10 to 20 minutes later. This can be useful if your partner wants more sex than you do. Supposedly, increasing the strength of the muscles can increase this effect to allow quite a few orgasms in a row. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- also there I found Dr. Jack Morin's presentation, "Clinical Aspects of Anal Sexuality," at http://www.sexuality.org/morin98.html , which indicated that ...there [are] two anal sphincter muscles: the internal sphincter, which is on the inside, and the external sphincter, which is on the outside. Now, it's important to know this distinction for anyone who's going to be an anal explorer. Because the external sphincter is under central nervous system control, most of us (unless we're totally out of touch with the area) just by tuning in and sort of deciding to release can learn to relax the external sphincter quite easily. The internal sphincter is controlled by the autonomic nervous system, so you may be able to relax the external sphincter and not be able to relax the internal one. It also seems to be the internal sphincter that stores up tension and stress on a cumulative basis; the anus often becomes what I call a tension zone - very similar to those of us who get the neck and shoulder thing, or the back thing, or the stomach thing, or wherever our tension zone may be. That mainly shows up in the internal sphincter. It really is the chronic internal sphincter tension that is a major, major cause of hemorrhoids, which we'll talk about later. You can see by this drawing that the external sphincter does have layers to it, and kind of wraps around the internal sphincter; they're very closely linked together. You can't see it in this drawing, but you sort of can see it in the tiny drawings of the male and female pelvis here, where in a very schematic way it shows how the external sphincter is connected to the PC muscle, the pubococcygeus, the one we exercise in Kegel exercises. It's directly connected. And so if these muscles are tense, then what is it doing to our ability to enjoy orgasm when all those muscles that are supposed to let go are chronically constricted? With the next illustration, I want to get you oriented here with the rectum, because if there's going to be intercourse or insertion of objects or a hand or whatever, then we're getting into the rectum. This lower left-hand drawing shows the relationship of things. There's the descending colon, then there's that S-shaped sigmoid colon just up above the rectum, and then the anal opening. You can also see in this drawing on the bottom right something that's very important - a muscle called the pubo-rectal sling. It anchors to the pubic bone on one side, goes around and wraps behind the back of the rectum, and comes back and anchors on the pubic bone in the front and the other side. It supports the rectum, and its other function is that it's responsible for the majority of our ability to hold back having a bowel movement even if we need to. It's not mainly the sphincters that do that job; it's mainly the job of the pubo-rectal sling, but the pubo-rectal sling can also become chronically tense, and you can imagine by looking at this drawing how, when it contracts, it sort of squishes the rectum. This, I'm convinced, is a very significant cause of constipation as well as not being able to enjoy the insertion of objects into the rectum. If you go to the next drawing, you can see another crucial thing to keep in mind and communicate to anyone who talks to you about this stuff: that the rectum is not a straight tube. It's not the same in everyone - obviously, everyone's a little different on everything - but generally it takes two major curves along its length. You can see in this next drawing that if you insert an object or a penis in the wrong angle it will run into the wall just before the first rectal curve, and you're going to get a lot of pain. Some people try anal sex experimentally without learning about it first; when I have a chance to talk to them and ask them to focus a bit, they'll identify the pain of trying to go through the constricted sphincters (and that's pretty excruciating), but some will say that after they learn how to relax the sphincters they still feel a pain deeper inside - and that's it. That's what it is in almost every case, and this problem is exaggerated when you have excess tension in that pubo-rectal sling. You also need to be aware that the rectum is not normally a storage area for feces; they're stored in the colon just above the rectum. When pressure builds up there's another sphincter leading into the rectum (at the top) that opens up, and then the feces start to descend and create the full feeling that signals us it's time to go poop. If it's not convenient for us to go poop we'll contract that pubo-rectal sling, and to some extent the sphincter muscles as well. After bowel movements (depending on the consistency of the feces and other factors) there is sometimes some leftover feces in the rectum, but it's not a storage area for it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- so my initial perception of there being more than one muscle involved appears to be correct. there is an interior and an exterior sphincter on the ass, and the exterior sphincter is connected to the the pubococcygeus (or 'PC') muscle. when I've exercized this muscle-set (I haven't done anything too disciplined) I've contracted the anal sphincters simultaneously. I think it is valuable not only to learn how to CONTRACT them but also how to RELAX them. due to social standards about elimination and what I agree with Dr. Jack Morin above are anal taboos, many of us carry tension in our anal sphincters. this seems to be true about many orafices (wry mouths being an oral example). learning how to relax generally includes learning how to relax all bodily muscles including those which serve us well in keeping our community free from disease. however, I have noticed a difference in the urinary and defecatory sphincters, and think that they can be separated by those interested in so doing (I've heard testimony to this effect and my limited experience bears it out). nagasiva -- FREE HOODOO CATALOGUE! send street address to: catalogue@luckymojo.com mailto:nagasiva@luckymojo.com ; http://www.luckymojo.com/nagasiva.html ; mailto:boboroshi@satanservice.org ; http://www.satanservice.org/ emailed replies may be posted; cc replies if response desired
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