Title On Sex, Health, and ESP

Author Mae West

Year Published 1975

Kind of Book Humor/Sexuality/New Age/Nutrition

How strongly I recommend it 8/10 

My Impressions This book is out of print and costs $800. Luckily for me it was available at the NY public library in a vault above the Metropolitan Opera house in Manhattan. I don't know why I was so hell bent on getting ahold of it and reading it (I think it was recommended by someone on a podcast) but I'm glad I did. It contained some wise and funny lines. The experience was positive. I had to read it in the library, because it was not available for checkout, so I felt like I was back in grade school— reading dirty books in the library and giggling…

Date Read Sep 2019

Practical Takeaways

  • When you are about to enter a situation when you'll have to use either your mental or physical powers to their fullest capacity, cut down on your sex life

  • Channel your sex drive into your work

  • When thoughts of sex become obsessive, reaching into other parts of life, it means you you've gone overboard on holding back-and it's time to give in.

  • Select a household or personal chore you've been putting off. Get naked and arouse/stimulate yourself. Stop before orgasming, put your clothes back on and use the built up energy to fuel you to tackle the chore

  • (for men) Never boast about your sexual abilities (nothing turns a girl off faster)

  • Never boast about a sexual relationship with another woman to the woman you're with

  • Give a girl your best [in the sack]

  • Leave on a near indirect lamp (during sex)

  • Have girl use a rubber over her finger to give you a prostate massage

  • Exercise your PC muscles regularly

  • Only enter into marriage after a lot of thought and consideration

  • Protect the sex in your marriage

  • If you get out of the sexual habit in marriage, make a determined effort to get back in the habit

  • Never take your troubles to bed with you

  • Use your bed for sex and sleep only

  • Establish the bed-room as a no-man's land where fights, bickering, and arguments cannot occur

  • Try having separate beds and separate bathrooms in your marriage

  • Always make sex a special event, no matter how often it occurs

  • Never talk about other sexual relationships with your mate. (Man or Woman)

  • Take your time in bed

  • Learn from experience

  • Never make the same mistake twice

  • Don't marry someone you cheated on your partner with (or who cheated on their partner with you)

  • (for men)Go after the women you want

  • Avoid greasy fried foods before sex

  • Positive thinkin' and no drinkin'

  • Stop thinking about aging (the more you think about ageing, the older you look and feel)

  • Take care of yourself long before it becomes necessary

  • Eat natural foods

  • Make up for one big meal with two subsequent little ones

  • Avoid foods with too many spices

  • Avoid fried foods

  • Eat a piece of fresh fruit as a snack if you are hungry between meals

  • Take your time eating

  • Always eat a green vegetable at dinner

  • Be happy with your surroundings

  • Stay away from anything and anyone unpleasant

  • Do Colonics daily

  • Stop worrying

  • Keep a happy state of mind

  • Don't allow your mind to dwell on destructive thoughts

  • Go to bed with your stomach quite empty

  • Exercise in the open air

  • Don't share your bed with a partner (you won't sleep as well)

  • Get the best bed and bedding you can buy

  • Sleep on a firm mattress

  • If you are under undue stress increase your vitamin intake

  • Don't bottle up your negative emotions and anger. Let them out

  • Practice diaphragmatic breathing lying down on your back and make your breath as slow as you can

  • Slow your breathing doing

  • Don't smoke pot

  • Use condoms

  • Get checked for STDs

  • Read the labels on food before you buy. If there is junk in the label don't buy it

  • Avoid refined sugar

  • Avoid coffee and tea (bad for your nerves)

  • Don't eat meat more than 3xs a week

  • Don't eat eggs more than 3xs a week

  • Make 3/5 of your diet fruits and vegetables

  • Avoid salt

  • Avoid eating more than 2 kinds of food at a meal

  • Make super the unimportant meal of the day

  • Never hurt anyone

  • Help those you can

  • Keep cool and collect

  • Always save a lover for a rainy day…and another one in case it doesn't

 

Big Ideas

  • If you dream about sex a lot it means you're not having sex enough

  • You can harness your sexually energy to do others things (like work)

  • A man who takes his time in bed will never have a problem finding women to sleep with

  • The true nature of a woman is not a lady

  • A lady is an imitation of what women really are

  • An intelligent woman is one who hides her intelligence from men

Because

  • Men are not attracted to intelligent woman

  • If a woman keeps a man guessing too long he will lose interest in her and move on to another woman

  • Worry impacts health negatively

  • Worry makes people look old

  • Worry makes people appear old

  • The more you think about ageing the older you'll look

  • The more you think about ageing the older you'll feel

  • All women have a "bad nature"(ie. are sexual/promiscuous

  • There is no such thing as a good girl turned bad

  • Women are turned off when men boast about their sexual abilities

  • Men are turned off when they find out how many men their woman has been with

  • If you talk about other sexual relationships with your partner they will bring it up down the road when you are having a fight (maybe next week, maybe in 10 years later)

 

Memorable Quotes

"A hard man is good to find." Pg18

 

"On the subject of etiquette, let me say that a lady may let her hair down as long as the gentleman stands up."

 

"A lady is just an imitation of the real thing."

 

"I know the difference between a good man and a bad one, but I haven't decided which I like better." pg159

 

Unknown Terms

The law of compensation: The law of the Universe which states "You can't get something for nothing"

Clairvoyance: The ability to sense something about an object or situation without the use of the five senses

Mental Telepathy: the process of reading another person's thoughts