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Do women pretend to enjoy sex?

Even women without an medical issue need time for their body to catch up to the mental readiness. What you see in most porn is totally incorrect. If all is okay, 15-30 minutes of foreplay (on the rest of her body, touch is a huge thing) is best before any actual sexual action. There are some good Youtube channels that cover how to prepare a woman's body, with the key elements being lots of touching all over, and not rushing into it. The human female body has to be convinced it is safe and secure, even if you feel turned on, but once the parts are relaxed, sex is not painful at all.

That being said, a lot of the other comments seem to pinpoint one direction to talk to a doctor about. If even your own touching hurts, something isn't right. But once you figure that out, teach your partner to help you get both mentally and physically ready and take time to enjoy it.

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It was just a kid's toy, you know.

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Paper and skin can stop alpha particles. Glass, plastic, or a little bit of metal can stop beta. It's gamma that will get you, often because of what the gamma does through the material, knocking off new particles as it exits.

The uranium in one of these kits probably had the same potency as the radium pendants you can buy now. It's fine as long as it stays in its container and never gets inside your body.

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I asked ChatGPT for the rarest types of prompts it has encountered. These are interesting I might build off of them.

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That can be an effective tool, if done correctly. It sounds like you're on the right path. Use the LLM as a mirror to your own speculations and guide the discussion to the finer details. You are in a way talking to yourself much like someone would be writing in a journal, however it's more organized and faster. Just be wary of the hallucinations. I've found modifying the system prompt for replies to be short and direct unless asked to go into detail along with a short summary of your overall goals to be helpful in keeping it on track. Also regularly summarize the current session once it gets long and start a new one with the summary to avoid context wandering.

I also found Claude was better for me than Gemini and ChatGPT, but it could depend on the subject (I'm doing fiction).

One example for the detail work is something I did recently. Hammering out the technology and physics aspects of the novel's universe. We went back and forth, played with ideas, until I had a much better picture of what I want it to be like. And I had to steer Claude away a few times from diverting to other things, even with my system prompt to stay on topic. It's just what LLMs do.

At some point step away from the LLM and finish the writing yourself. It's okay to use it even for revision work, but at that point have it develop lists and suggestions for you to work with, not write the text. You'll avoid a lot of headaches later trying to "humanize" it.

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Femality is stored in the nipples

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I dived in a bit, and I will concede that sexual use is not the main reason, since they evolved from primates and previous species in order to produce milk. But all other species don't have them constantly enlarged. Studies show that there are many factors at play, such as providing more area of touch for the human infant and perhaps a more constant source of food since human infants take longer to mature. But they did develop the use for sexual signalling too when we became upright, if for nothing else than for showing sexual maturity. The human brain has probably evolved along with those changes to select which characteristics evolved more pronounced.

So they have multiple uses. The very fact that they are a subconscious trigger for the male has to mean something.

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Dennis Muren setting up X-Wing miniatures for the original Star Wars.

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Back then it was probably a lot easier to make more models, and the quality would be better with a single shot. Some of the original footage has blocky areas where the merging wasn't perfect. Didn't matter back then, it was far better than most anything else, but three model shots plus a background would have been ugly. Original Star Trek footage also has some of that.

Or to put it another way, we couldn't have faked the Moon footage because the technology to fake it wasn't created yet. It was easier to just build a big rocket and go.