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I was just musing about sexual liberation. As I recollect, it only lasted a decade.

In the 1960s it was still considered very taboo to have sex before marriage or extra-marital affairs. I was a teenager at the time and thought sexual attitudes were horribly repressive on something which was a natural response between people.

In the 70s the lid came off and we grew our hair, went barefoot in the flowers and practiced free love with joy. I took the fullest advantage and enjoyed the lovefest very much. (I will spare you the salacious details).....

In the 80s we were terrorised with AIDS scares daily in the media. It was relentless and miserable. We were constantly warned that when we make love to someone we are also making love to everyone they had made love to, by proxy, so to speak. I divorced my husband early in that decade because I was unwilling to risk his bisexual preferences. Notably, I was not the only one who opted for the single and celibate but safe option.

Thereafter seems to have been one long deluge of fear porn related to sex. I so pity the younger generations who missed the decade of free love. They are bombarded with anything that may quell their instincts and direct them into isolation.

Yuval Noah Harari, homosexual darling and supposed genius adviser to Klaus Schwab, suggests that "the useless" should be controlled using drugs and computer games...... I have no doubt that this is happening and soon we will be witnessing a generation which remains virgin for its entire, short and lonely life.

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Hey wanted to let you know I pinned this.

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Jun 17, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Much appreciated AMD xx

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Jun 17, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Just to offer a counterpoint for thought:

Can you really have complex sexual experiences with more than one partner or perhaps a few (serially?) After some point, doesn't it just become superficial to go from one partner to another to another to another? How different is that from the superficiality we are all seeing (scanning headlines, and basing vaccine knowledge based on google or CDC recs?)

Perhaps boundaries (like advocating sex within the context of marriage) offer a sacred space for truly complex sexual experiences and deep connection, grown over many years and decades of truly knowing one's partner at an incredibly deep level?

We should not repress natural responses. that is definitely counter productive...but perhaps its appropriate to channel them? Take the case of food - we know eating whenever and whatever we want is not a good idea. Best experiences of eating is eating healthy, organic food, with mindfulness, at appropriate times, etc. Similarly, why not have some boundaries around sex?

Is porn addictions and the weird virtual 'sex' we see today run counter to 'sexual liberation' or is it the unfortunate outgrowth of that movement? Superficiality taken to the extreme? No rules except what you want? No need to consider what a partner may want, and what his or her needs maybe.

Perhaps only by dealing with inconveniences, and with protective boundaries (that often feel inconvenient), is true growth possible, and, along with it, truly complex sexual experiences and love.

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Jun 17, 2022·edited Jun 17, 2022Author

There are a few people who can, but in my experience most people who think they are able to cannot and go from partner to partner because they have an inability to form (or fear of forming) a connection with another and developing intimacy. Because they cannot engage with the fundamentally important part of the experience, they instead hop around from place to place looking for another dopamine spike to give them the fulfillment they crave.

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In family therapy we promote the concept, differentiation - the relational/psychological capacity to be both separate and connected simultaneously. In a broken world in which the relational capacities of our humans is declining, fewer people are achieving differentiation, thus they are incapable of the mature sexual fulfillment MD is recommending. Prior to 1970, many family therapy researchers including Murray Bowen, predicted the decline of civilization in this way. They were swept away by the feminists and later the postmodernists during the cultural revolution.

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I am so glad I am not you.

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This reminded me of "rites of passage" ceremonies in tribal - and even more recent - culture. Where - for the man, at least, there are teachings, a initiation, to couple responsibility with intimacy. Sadly, the woman is left to the wedding night, wide eyed and virgin. How to address this discrepancy?

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Jun 21, 2022·edited Jun 21, 2022

Well said, Sithara! Thank you for such a well thought, wonderful, eloquent post!

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I’m afraid you’re correct. So many young people have known nothing else for their entire lives.

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Yes.

Fauci wanted folks to be afraid to fuck.

Also, he it we turned making love as my mom called it into having bsex and merely fucking.

No wonder now we are mostly at a loss for intimacy if not masked and fucked.

Another classic comment to brilliant work of AMwD

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Fauci, wife aside, is probably a eunuch. Only eunuchs would allow themselves to be used in such manner as he is, the dupe. No balls, that’s why power over such a huge bonus is about the only thing I imagine giving him a hard on.

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He has talked about Hillary Clinton in a way that makes me think he has a hard-on for her.

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I remember that email!

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Jun 17, 2022·edited Jun 17, 2022

Please spell his name correctly: "Evil Horrory" :P...

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And Kalouse callous swab and Satanthony Fauci.

Is Noah horrarri the horrible having a bend over for callous kkalousy louse?

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lol - I stand corrected!

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In the retro-culture we would accept that the world is wrong - not just off track but fundamentally wrong. All of the dominant, driving narratives about health and happiness are wrong, thus society itself is wrong. Cultural secession, then separation and recreation are necessary. Here is some inspiration from anonymous, that excellent writer:

We are living in difficult times.

In the face of utter destruction and despair:

Some choose to join the ‘winning team’; These are normies and collaborators. Their participation, whether active or passive, facilitates destruction.

Others choose to die on the battlefield; These are martyrs and combatants of the dead-end culture wars.

A third group chooses to create; These are the people who survived and reinvented society after every destructive crisis in history. They are why we are still here today. They give to Caesar what is Caesar’s…and nothing more. They create life–children, plants, and animals–and foster an environment to support it both physically and spiritually. They create community–the bedrock of human achievement. And they create human dignity, which is essential to escaping this life with your soul intact. Anonymous

Living a Good Life Church

A Different Kind of Church

www.livingagoodlifechurch.org

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Good post, though I'm not a fan of the plug at the end.

Personally, I'm not ready to give up on the Church, though I find the need to pray for clarity for and from Rome at least daily.

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i missed that decade too. my experience was being molested as a child, and being pressured to not be a prude as a teen/young woman by men who thought that ''free'' sex was their due :(

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Liked, because I have never met a man that didn't think '"free' sex was their due."

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:)))

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To be fair, that sort of man has always been around. They are not necessarily a product of the sexually liberated 70s - more the result of generational sexual repression distorting their natural drives and instincts. I too experienced those guys but I never permitted them to damage my own sexuality or to limit my ability to find genuine intimacy and lifelong friends of the opposite sex.

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the being molested at 8 kind of set me up in a bad way.

actually, strictly speaking , the reaction of some adults making me feel guilty did the most damage.

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I am so very sorry that you were raped as a child, Sabalina! I can't even fathom how awful that was (and is) for you!

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Unfortunately it's quite common (you can read up on the adverse childhood experiences studies to know more about how common this is and the lifelong effects it creates)

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not physically raped, but also, the way i was made to feel guilty was the worst.

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I have never understood this, the way adults have the gall to blame their own sexual divergences on children, by which I mean people before reproductive age.

It's bad enough that adults abdicate their normal protective roles towards the young, but to allow society to make the young feel *responsible* for that abdication is beyond my understanding. I don't know you, but I feel outraged on your behalf.

I do think that making sex a category of evil, or of original sin, is part of how we got to sex without caring, or with false caring. I guess that would be a *much* longer comment, so I'll leave it there.

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thank you!

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Was it really "free love"? I think we are continuing to pay a great price for that unraveling of morality, also known as the sexual revolution.

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It is immoral to place restrictions on natural instincts!

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We have plenty of other natural instincts that we place restrictions on all the time...eating, drinking, going to the bathroom....why is sex considered such an outlier in this regard?

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I think you need to look up instincts. What you are describing there are all survival functions!

in·​stinct | \ ˈin-ˌstiŋ(k)t \

Definition of instinct (Entry 1 of 2)

1: a natural or inherent aptitude, impulse, or capacity

2a: a largely inheritable and unalterable tendency of an organism to make a complex and specific response to environmental stimuli without involving reason.

b: behaviour that is mediated by reactions below the conscious level.

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Desires are not instincts.

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That could be said about desire for bed-hopping multi-partner lifestyles as well, that it's an aberration from an instinct.

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Well-said overall.

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"I was just musing about sexual liberation."

"Musing" or "moaning"?

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If I were moaning, Barry, you would know it. I enjoy a good moan, don't get me wrong, but I tend to moan about geo-politics and war rather than natural stuff like sex.

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There is some truth to the "terrified of girls" notion, but it's also a handy excuse. Introverts do have a shyness and fear they must overcome, but for every male there is a corresponding female. Extroverts have less fear but still need to be aware of being pushy. My council was for my kids to be aware of their peers and try to understand them, try to see something in their peers of attraction. Every 'plain jane' has a quality and he needs to find out what that quality might be. If he is shy, he likely can't compete with Miss Popular and her stable; still he can compliment her about something, who knows what my happen.

Life IS a great adventure to be shared with others.

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Such excellent advice!

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Yes, it seems many of them are. FOMO appears to afflict girls more than boys.

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Boys are afflicted by FOMO in respect of computer games more than girls.... so it all amounts to the same problem ultimately surely? Both sexes are glued to their Smart devices.

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My son is 50 years old. He said all girls were sluts when he was a teenager but that did not prevent him from getting trapped by one who proceeded to churn out four babies, one after the other until she found some other mug to provide for her. She faked an assault, got my son arrested and finally busted/thrown out of his home, because the judge believed her EVEN THOUGH she turned up in court with the new boyfriend who gallantly ran to help her when she feigned a faint while giving evidence!

I see from both your comments here that the mind controlling social experiments to isolate us from one another are successful and that saddens me a lot.

We are being manipulated, generation upon generation. It is time to switch off the tell-lie-visions, radios and social media platforms. Time to take control of our lives and figure out what kind of relationships suit us as individuals.

I don't favour marriage, been there twice and got badly hurt.

I don't favour promiscuity because love and intimacy are not really on that agenda.

I am 70 years old now and wise to the programming we have endured but when I try to pass my knowledge onto younger people I see that "Yeah, right Boomer" look on their arrogant and ignorant faces. Maybe the only thing that we need to restore in society is respect for each other? I don't know, but if I were young now, I know that I would find it very hard to trust any guy who generalises like your son does and is probably addicted to computer games while he complains about the behaviour of the girls he knows.

The youngsters don't know that they are steered towards isolation and loneliness any more than we realised that the 70s craze for sex, drugs and rock n roll was going to break up our families and emotionally confuse our kids.

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I believe it's possible to have healthy relationships, it just takes a lot of self work and being clear in what you are looking for with a partner.

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Sexuality is not something that exists only at binary extremes.

Celibacy and licentiousness are extremes. Both are very harmful.

Somewhere between those two lies a healthy balance which I have striven to attain all my life.

I have neither denied nor obsessed about sexuality.

I have opted to enjoy it and share it with people I love without attaching provisos or demands or any shade of guilt.

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I see you here and on nother SubStacks, you are about the same age as my parents and I NEVER think you have a traditional Boomer mind set.

Don't stop with your advice because those who are taking it in usually won't need to reply as opposed to those who reply with "yeah Boomer".

I was trying to explain this to a friend of mine who was one of the only WPC / WDCs in our area back in the 1970s.

She was saying that she felt that she was obstructed from doing a lot of good because of the toxic structure of the police in our area back then.

I said you don't know the good that you did and most likely you never will.

Same goes for you Frances.

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Thanks a lot for that wonderful vote of confidence! Much appreciated xx

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The Powers That Be don't want you to have true friends. That kind of friendship, along with good relationships in your extended family, are threats to their power.

I was told that the author of _Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ said in an interview that the best thing you can do to help the world is, when someone gives you a load of shit, don't pass it on (my friend's words, not Pirsig's).

Harder than it sounds, but I believe it's worth the attempt.

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By being the worst, laziest and untrustworthy mother ever seen! My son was afraid to leave her alone with the first, then the 2nd was born disabled, the third swiftly followed and he had his hands full looking after them all while she messed about on Facebook during the final supposedly difficult pregnancy. It was less than a couple of months after the final birth that she disappeared one morning, leaving my son caring for all 4 kids. Suddenly, there he was with the baby in a body sling and the others playing all around his feet when the cops turned up to arrest him! She had reported him for assault and he was instantly homeless - it was the coldest night in February and I had to drive across the country to pick him up before he froze on the streets.

We are talking about one mighty scheming, selfish bitch here. My son never saw his kids again. Can you imagine what that has done to him?

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I am so very sorry your son fell prey to such a person's machinations. I'm even more sorry that he was unable to get custody of the children!

However, I don't see how this should be an indictment against marriage/monogamy in general.

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I did not intend it to be an indictment. He wasn't married and she wasn't monogamous. Just facts in answer to a question.

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You make three classic mistakes:

1) You presume I am an American. I am a Brit.

2) You, like your son, generalise and blame the boomer generation for the actions of their governments which do not serve or obey the desires of the people anywhere on earth.

3) You seem to have missed the point I was making entirely. The social conditioning we have all been subjected to comes from think tanks like the Tavistock Institute and the Crown Corporation which dictates to all 5-Eyes countries how they will legislate.

I bet you vote believing that suffrage is beyond corruption!

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A kind response, well said.

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That's amazing. I never knew that!

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If you are aware that voting is ineffective then why do you blame boomers for all the ills in the world? Our votes never counted for much either! We certainly did not approve of much that our governments were or are doing, any more than you do!

Blaming is part of the social conditioning that Bernays advocated to drive wedges between generations..... he never invented propaganda but he certainly helped it to become effective.

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Interestingly, “abstinence” was not listed as a recommendation for men with monkeypox who are considering having sex, while infected, with other men.

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Jun 17, 2022·edited Jun 17, 2022Author

Yeah it's insate...Honest question, do you think this was an appropriate article to send out to subscribers? I went back and forth on it for a while.

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Jun 17, 2022·edited Jun 17, 2022

It wasn’t appropriate (and that’s putting it mildly) for the ‘authorities’ to put it out there. However, it *was* appropriate (and very important) for you to share it, and discuss it. We need to know what they’re up to.

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Agreed. I ran across the CDC's posters about dental dams. This article isn't even a patch on that, so to speak.

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I liked it very much that you warned the reader in advance what to expect. Thank you!

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I was really torn on sending this out

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Jun 17, 2022·edited Jun 17, 2022

I really hadn’t considered certain aspects that you brought out. So, I think it was a wonderful subject to discuss!!!

Also, many a young man got sucked into porn (no pun intended) to the detriment of normal sexual relations with women and wives. Very sad their brains got conditioned in ways that led to these issues. Being young men especially, they were perhaps more vulnerable to this occurring. You prob know much more than I on this subject and hope you will be revealing more to us soon!

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I realized after I wrote this I completely forgot to mention how this whole thing was also representative of how Doctors treat patients (so I added that in.

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You did the right thing.

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Jun 18, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Quite OK and seen in other SubStacks. The import of the post relates to the appeal of our common humanity - brothers and sisters including those who wish to be both. I find in my now single state yearning for that touch that was always there, until it wasn't. I get some solace in helping others as I can given my personal issues. No matter how pitiful I might feel I do know of others in much worse circumstances. But we go on and try our best.

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Jun 18, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

It was provocative - I mean thought provoking. :)

Interesting tangent and these official recommendations were all new to me.

I appreciate all your work.

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If we are all adults here, then it’s as legit a topic as any other, though maybe not as frequently discussed, so it’s a service to bring it up.

Interesting how polarization seems inversely proportional to the recent temporal average of social contact. I don’t mean sex here.

It’s also a shame that there are several years of youth for whom physical contact has been stigmatized and linked to mortal fear. I wonder how that will play out with their growth and mental health.

The lockdown harms and hypochondrial hyperbole is separate from the harms from years of big tech and anti-social “social media” that is, I feel, an existential threat to the fabric of our American society, having come a long way from the ideals of the internet into a perversion of mob rule, group think, cancel culture, and devigorating perverse content.

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Yup.

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I work at an residential treatment facility for troubled teens. Mask-wearing has been rare, even early on in the pandemic. Despite their underlying problems, being protected from the collective COVID manias gives them an advantage over "normal" kids.

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I believe you, and I think it would be very interesting to study this longitudinally. Of course, the answer I'd expect would be one that the PTB don't want to hear, so funding for that study might be difficult to come by.

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"perversion" - We do need to learn some new skills to avoid that trap.

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I did not find it inappropriate at all. I found the observations about pornography especially illuminating.

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They didn't mind making everyone lock down in recent years though!!! A privileged class of ppl I guess!!!

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It was quite sad that most of the people who supported lockdowns were the ones who economically benefitted from them. I was in a very small number of people who's support/opposition was opposite to my economic interests.

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Jun 17, 2022·edited Jun 17, 2022

Ive read lockdowns were part of the plan to get rid of small-mid size businesses too. Global big companies got all the business & profits. That you didn’t participate in lockdown bs, you stood true to your principles of right or wrong and what you believed. These days, that is a treasure for us to hold onto if we can and feel good about. They can take a lot away from us, but not everything!! If we don’t have our principles and integrity, how much worth is the rest of what we have?

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Whether that was the "plan" or not, that's what happened.

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I wonder how many people learned that lesson, and will remember it as they vote, or as they participate in conversations about who represents them.

It may not matter, as I haven't seen that issue coming up much in online (Big-Tech-mediated) conversations. Which, the more I think about it, seems a big invisible elephant -- many people worked for businesses that were destroyed, wouldn't that be a story many people would be interested in reading about?

If economic disaster results from a public-private partnership, and no Trusted News Initiative covers it, was anybody's life affected?

H'mm.

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Wonderful article, Doctor, thank you. As a psychotherapist, I, too, have been very concerned about the lack of true intimacy our society seems to be experiencing. Instead of close friendships and physical contact (whether a simple hug or actual sex), we now have computers taking up more and more of our time. Add to that TV, lockdowns and fear of catching a contagious disease and you have a recipe for suicide, drug use, alcoholism and other addictions. Oh wait, those number are already skyrocketing...

Then there is the divisiveness that has come between Democrats and Republicans, blue vs. red states, etc. We used to have polite discourse between the parties but that is a thing of the distant past now. I'm 67 y.o. and experiencing isolation due to old age retirement (all social activities centers for seniors have been suspended in the small city I live in) and am feeling the depression myself. I don't know where any of this is going but I do know it sure as heck is not healthy!

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Thank you for your comments. I slightly revised the article to how it relates to the practice of medicine after I sent it out, so if you have time to re-read it, please do.

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Dec 13, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Thank you for letting me know about the revision, will be sure to check it out!

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Similar situation but in a larger city. I am fortunate in retaining a reasonable number of friends. I tend to an ex who is confined to a nursing home now and even in that circumstance a certain isolation remains somewhat associated with mental decline.

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That's so kind of you

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Jun 20, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

She was kind first! I think we do what we would like for ourselves. As you and many others do.

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I think most of these people are sick both physically and mentally because they have become distant from a healthy environment and healthy fresh food. That is why they so easily fall for these magical injections, pills, and porn.

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That's a good point I forgot and added in.

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Excellent addition!

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It’s certainly a major factor.

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"A pill for every ill."

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Pretty sick advice from the CDC et al.

Could some of this "social distancing" be part of the depopulation agenda? Last time I looked, you cannot make babies without actually touching someone (or a test tube).

I commented recently on a Steve Kirsch Substack article about the importance of face-to-face communication in breaking this mass formation. Human touch, human voice, human eye contact, human facial expressions: all crucial to being -- well -- human!

Comment link: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-covid-death-data-from-massachusetts/comment/7189822

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Yup, that's essentially the message I'm pushing. I realized I completely forgot to mention how this relates to medicine so I slightly edited it to reflect it.

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Telemedicine, while it has some great benefits, literally takes the personal touch out of the equation.

Thank you for all that you are doing! Reading your articles has been a great education from both a historical and a right-now perspective.

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Oh dear I completely forgot telemedicine too.

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No worries! You always inspire new thoughts. That's what this whole exchange is all about. Sharing ideas and building upon them. During this whole mess, the give and take has been a "Forgotten Side of Medicine." Thank you for bringing it back!

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Whether or not it’s part of a depopulation agenda seems kinda moot to me. Whatever their motivation...they’ve absolutely no business dictating our sex life. Dang, I despise these people.

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I agree, it’s moot … unless … by exposing their motivations, we get a few more people to think — DANG, I despise these people :-)

As for me, I’m too numbed by the evil to despise anyone now. I can only hope justice will prevail and remove the evil ones from our lives. Something that might work while we await justice: IGNORE these people and REFUSE to listen to or act upon their lies. It’s high time to role-reverse and de-platform THEM!

In the meantime, we must actively help as many people as we can. It’s a race against time.

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To be fair, various entities have been dictating people's sex life forever. Think churches. Think repressive social mores in the past. Etc.

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Thank you. Regarding the idea that we all share an inner essence that is the same: Agree there has been an intentional attack on our innate connection to each other as human-spiritual beings via perpetual divisive issues, (perhaps culminating with the covid psyop and jab). This happened at the same time they pushed the devaluation of the individual and individual rights. So 'sameness' was ironically elevated as a virtue but only in terms of agreeing to scripted "common good" messaging (get the jab, send $ to Ukraine, hate Trump, acknowledge you're a racist, have a trans over for dinner, etc.) that amounts to behaving like a robot, rather than the shared qualities of our humanity, which we used to cherish. (freedom of expression, choice and voice for instance.) Importantly, at the same time, ideas of individuals being self-determining, self-referencing, and sovereign were now framed as selfish and dangerous.

The main split (which we are living in, as if there are parallel realities) : Humans VS transhumans or soon-to-be-robots. The push with pornography was preparation - I noticed it really ramped up in the 90's in terms of normalizing it in popular shows (the subliminal being, everyone watches porn) was key to dehumanizing us and breaking down real relationships. Everything that makes us human they've been gutting. How well these lies are holding, how long they've now held, tells us they did a pretty good job.

Still, while a much smaller group, we do see humans rising, and that group will carry and carve out the future world. I suspect there will be far fewer in it, but we'll know what's up and will create something better. We've been sleeping, they took over (I'm also not sure the Globalists are actually all human, doubt they are) and now we're waking up.

I know I've never been so in touch with my humanity and what that means; these times are forging us and the process requires we both clarify and ground what it means to be human. That's obviously not just happening for me. So we have a large group of humans who are out of touch with that, susceptible to hypnosis and walking unwittingly into the metaverse, and another group simultaneously strengthening in who they are, sharpening and determining a new path forward that elevates human life. Much will be shed in the process. Remarkable times.

(We don't need as many of us either, because we are more powerful in essence, and in truth. We know what we stand for.)

In the end, humans win.

So appreciate your work and voice.

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Jun 17, 2022·edited Jun 17, 2022Author

That's my hope too. I wish I could pin 2 comments (yours as well).

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I think an important note in regards to entertainment (tv shows, movies, etc..) is not just the normalisation of sexual content but also of violence. I don't watch a lot of TV (find it tedious, I'd rather cook or read) but I'll happen upon something someone else is watching and I'm always stunned, not only by the horrific violence on some of these shows but also by either the lack of reaction or of the enjoyment that viewers seem to derive from it.

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Short attention spans require stronger stimuli to engage them.

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Right. T V was the first cell phoney

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At least TV you can have a conversation with a friend or family member while watching it, you can even do other things while watching it, if you're on social media or a personal screen everyone is just off on their own little world. But TV is still obviously largely a purveyor of a very controlled message/belief system.

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I must disagree with the first part of your sentiments and agree with the second.

In my experience

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Fair enough. You may be right, maybe I’m just relieved to have anything remotely passing for conversation after watching ppl stare at their phones in silence all day lol.

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Jun 18, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

"In the end, humans win."

From your lips, to God's ears.

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Jun 18, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

I cannot read that, too vomit inducing.

I did try.

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Jun 18, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

If only people wanted to connect the dots.

Wherever you look some kind of not normal sex is coming out. Now they are using even a flue.

A morally perverted society is easier to enslave. Push their ego and selfishness up, destroy maternity, family, friendship, even the couple ‘s contact.

And you will have Huxley’s dystopia. Well, this time even worse with the jabs and the crazy half human half machine of their crazy prophet.

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I think we are looking at a synthesis of Huxley and Orwells vision.

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Jun 17, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

I wonder how much the writer got paid for writing this funny thing??

You could basically keep the same text for the monkeypox recommendations? LOL!!

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I wonder too.

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No matter what it was paid, it was too much.

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Jun 17, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

I was just made aware of a website called “Real Not Rare” on which there are many stories shared from people who have suffered vaccine injuries. Very interesting…and sad. Check it out and share!

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This is my own version of the website:

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/adverse-reactions-to-covid-vaccines

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I very much appreciate your work in documenting and sharing what you’re witnessing! I wish there were many more doctors like you. I am a midwestern RN :) in an orthopedic surgery center and have come in contact with MANY patients (and coworkers!) who have had complications post-Covid shot…and sadly, very few make the connection.

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Thank you. Would you be open to sharing the general patterns of injury you've observed? I tried to document and log what I had personally come across. Also have you had patients come in with any time of tendon or ligament rupture post vaccination?

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I haven’t been documenting my observations (I really should start), but what I’ve seen most is clots. I’ve noticed a significant increase in patients who have a recent personal or family history of clots (especially PEs) as we do a risk assessments on every surgical patient (unfortunately the assessment doesn’t include whether they’ve taken the Covid jabs). I’ve also had so many more patients than ever share stories about people they know who who’ve had heart attacks, strokes, etc. It’s incredible what patients share, and they often don’t realize the significance.

I’ve also seen many unusual issues with my coworkers; rapid HR, uncontrolled BP, shingles, petechiae, normally well-controlled Crohn’s flare

up, neuro symptoms…I could go on and on. And a few of them seemingly now catch every bug that comes their way. This is in a group of just 12 RNs and 1 CNA!

We surely do have patients come in with ligament rupture, but I can’t say I’ve noticed an increase. I’ll have to pay closer attention to that!

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Why are you noticing is virtually identical to what I found in my sample size (I wrote a long log of all the adverse events I came across). What I'm really nervous about, is that it seems that there was some type of one to two year time delay in the negative effects of the mRNA vaccination showing up, because a lot of the same issues (blood clots etc.) Oh now happening in a way higher volume, and most of my friends are used to give me cases that I would write down have said that they stopped keeping track because now too many are happening.

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I'm just a chiropractor, but I can't tell you how many calf/achilles "strains," strokes, clots, ALS, MS, and miscellaneous, odd symptoms I have come across. No one has made connections to the injections.

I was talking to a retired chiropractor who told me that her father and uncle both died from the kind of COVID that "gives you clots, rather than flu like symptoms." Of course they were injected and boosted.

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They share, because they need someone to listen.

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You are writing here about the core of my own values and beliefs (about the centrality of embodied, physical experience to being human), and articulating it far better than I usually do. I cannot tell you how much I value the stellar quality of the analysis in your SubStack and the quality of your writing. Thank you.

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Thank you very much for your kind words! I have very limited experience writing so I am glad these attempts are being well received

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Jul 7, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Canada government advises using glory holes. No joke. "Use barriers, like walls (e.g., glory holes), that allow for sexual contact but prevent close face-to-face contact." http://www.bccdc.ca/health-info/diseases-conditions/covid-19/prevention-risks/covid-19-and-sex?fbclid=IwAR2CuIvgCi8ioYmcam9UpUFm4672wZsYk1E43rHbEgRJKhzcoH5UTv6nGRo and https://archive.vn/tBn9c

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I recently wrote a piece that required much editing-out of anger and rhetoric. My sadness remains. My goal is a discussion that leaves aside tribal politics, and juxtaposes the pre-WW2 Warsaw Ghetto “quarantine” with the Good German situation in the western world right now. Thank you for your inspiration, a quote from which is included:

https://lifeisapalindrome.substack.com/p/who-will-stand-up-for-you

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Jun 18, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Brilliant again. MD is conveying essentialist ideas not seen elsewhere.

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Jun 18, 2022Liked by A Midwestern Doctor

Amazing / gobsmacked. I don’t even know what virtual sex, if it’s like ‘zoom drinks’ then it’s crap . When the booze shops were kept open as essential, I knew it wasn’t about health.

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Alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs to withdraw from suddenly.

Heroin you might feel like death but you won't die.

Unsupervised withdrawal from alcohol can be very dangerous and often in rehab people will be managed with benzos even when heroin addicts go cold turkey.

Seeing how keen TPTB were to avoid seeing patients, I thought that this is why the off-licenes stayed open.

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Interesting. I did not know. I just assumed that in part , denying alcohol to the masses might have led to civil unrest

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Sooooo.... Covid is so deadly but you still desire sex. Okaaaaay then. And monkeypox... I'm speechless...except, well, monkeys do it all the time right?

Do the writers of these things have ANY freaking idea how utterly stupid they sound? SMH

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That's the point!

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