I agree completely, but it's tricky - they have assumed much of this responsibility by trying to exert control. Once they exert some control, they start to be responsible for exerting more control. My employer isn't responsible for my drinking because they make no efforts to stop or control it.

Um. I think perhaps you have misunderstood my comment. Or perhaps have jumped to some conclusions.

Thank you for this. This is a very well-presented article that explains why I (and others) are so frustrated with the nutrition information available. I think of myself as fairly capable of reading research reports (it's part of my job, after all), but I have found it nearly impossible to figure anything out about…

I agree that universities take the whole in loco parentis thing far too seriously. But that seems to be what students and parents want - the all-encompassing, 'sense of belonging' approach that makes it feel more like a family. This is a logical consequence of that kind of approach. We have made the universities…

I think that it is really hard to know what the real purpose of college/university is these days. The only things that are unambiguous are (1) making money for the institution and (2) keeping unemployment down by taking people out of the job market for a few more years.

Yes, I couldn't agree more. Puberty. In the absence of any stronger evidence that the greater availability of porn is the issue (and there is none in this research, and I have seen none generally), why would they look beyond puberty, without taking puberty itself into account? This is frankly beyond bizarre.

So if the best way you have to upload video you have on a DVD (?) is to record your television with your phone, could you at least rest your elbow on a table while you're doing it?

Lube makes everything better, it's true. And really, I would think that anything more than ten/fifteen minutes or so of actual continuous thrusting would just get boring...

Yes, everybody involved knows, and yes, it probably does alter things - but we haven't come up with a better way of doing it. The numbers tend to match with more anecdotal reports, so it's probably fairly accurate. The knowledge of the timing seems to speed things up for some people and slow it down for others.

Squeeze, stop and start, learning to identify the 'point of no return' feeling, exposure to the feelings associated with premature ejaculation (as in the emotional response - embarrassment, often), different positions, learning not to try to have intercourse with the first erection - that is, that erections can come…

The real issue is that, for treatment purposes, we are usually timing men with premature ejaculation (so we can measure progress - people are very, very bad at estimating how long intercourse lasted in the absence of clocks). So these are men who are already worried about orgasming too quickly, and now we have a…

The studies that are done on this are not (except for some very, very early work - as in 50+ years ago) done in the lab at all. The receptive partner does the timing, sometimes with a stopwatch, sometimes with a clock placed somewhere s/he can see it. This does still skew the numbers, but there isn't really another…

Two minutes of continuous thrusting. That doesn't include other activities, or major position changes. 40 minutes of continuous thrusting would be fairly unusual - I would be concerned about chafing...

Yes. At least in clinical treatment, it is a stopwatch. Occasionally, I will suggest moving a clock somewhere the receptive partner for that particular activity can see it. It is not romantic, and certainly tends to alter the mood. I've found, though, that some people are quite at marking the time without getting…

Sure, and thanks for asking. I would start reading with a (relatively) recent review of literature on the treatment of adult ADHD: Weiss, M., Safren, S. A., Solanto, M. V., Hechtman, L., Rostain, A. L., Ramsay, J. R., & Murray, C. (2008). Research forum on psychological treatment of adults with ADHD. Journal of…

As I said, there is pretty strong evidence that ADHD has a strong genetic component. I'm not sure what you mean by 'chemical imbalance,' so I can't really speak to that part. There is interesting work on brain anatomy differences, but that work is still at its early stages.

I'm a psychologist, not a psychiatrist, and yes, I treat ADHD. The evidence around treatment effectiveness is not particularly complicated or in dispute, however, regardless of my qualifications. Certainly, I do not presume to tell my clients that they should not seek medication, but I do inform them that the…

I'm glad medication works for you. It is often not necessary for people with ADHD. The evidence says that therapy is at least equally effective, and doesn't have the same kind of side effects.

"Chemical imbalances" are probably related to some mental health issues, but not all. ADHD seems to have a pretty strong physical if not genetic or epigenetic component, but that doesn't mean that medication is the only or even best treatment. Therapy can be extremely effective for ADHD, for both adults and…

Worse than that. The study (singular) referenced in the first link is almost useless, and isn't supported by pretty much any of the research published in actual sex journals.