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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content.Laura DeNooyer is our guest on the show this week, her first time with us. We discuss her new book, A Hundred Magical Reasons, including why she has long been fascinated with L. Frank Baum, what her research was like for the book, and the importance of teachers in encouraging their students' dreams. Related to that, patrons will hear a little more about her teaching career. A Hundred Magical Reasons by Laura DeNooyerMost fairy tales have happy endings, but is it too late for this one? After all, Mrs. Charlotte Rose Gordon, the disgruntled town recluse, is eighty-eight and has grown weary of fighting the dragons of her past—including the desire to clear her husband's name of a 1918 crime.Dragons of a different kind pursue Carrie Kruisselbrink.During 1980, the summer of her private rebellion, Carrie defies parental expectations and pursues her café dream. While waiting for funding, she takes a job with Mrs. Gordon.As Mrs. Gordon unfolds the story of her oppressive childhood and delightful friendship with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author, L. Frank Baum, Carrie never expects to encounter her own fears and soul-searching.In this modern-day fairy tale that weaves between 1980 and the early 1900s, Mr. Baum's influence impacts each woman's personal quests on a hero's journey neither anticipates. Can Carrie and Mrs. Gordon find common ground in battling their respective dragons?Get your copy of A Hundred Magical Reasons by Laura DeNooyer.Laura DeNooyer thrives on creativity and encouraging it in others. A Calvin College graduate, she is a teacher, wife, parent of four adult children, and an award-winning author of heart-warming historical and contemporary fiction. Her novels are perfect for fans of Patti Callahan Henry, Erin Bartels, or Heidi Chiavaroli. When she's not writing, you'll find her reading, walking, drinking tea with friends, or taking a road trip. "Ask Me Anything": What Do You Want From God?Welcome to Ask Me Anything, the podcast where we give you biblical answers to...Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

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This week on the blog, a podcast interview with the writer of a great new book, “London After Midnight: The Lost Film,” a book about the classic lost Lon Chaney film.LINKS A Free Film Book for You: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/cq23xyyt12Another Free Film Book: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/x3jn3emga6Fast, Cheap Film Website: https://www.fastcheapfilm.com/Daniel's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/p/London-After-Midnight-The-Lost-Film-100075993768254/Buy the Book “London After Midnight: The Lost Film”: https://www.amazon.com/London-After-Midnight-Lost-Film/dp/1399939890Eli Marks Website: https://www.elimarksmysteries.com/Albert's Bridge Books Website: https://www.albertsbridgebooks.com/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/BehindthePageTheEliMarksPodcastTRANSCRIPTJohn: So, Daniel, when did you first become aware of London After Midnight? Daniel: I was about seven years old when I first stumbled into Lon Chaney through my love of all things Universal horror, and just that whole plethora of characters and actors that you just knew by name, but hadn't necessarily seen away from the many still photographs of Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And the Phantom was the one to really spark my interest. But this was prior to eBay. I couldn't see the film of Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera for a year. So, I kind of had the ultimate build to books and documentaries, just teasing me, teasing me all the time. And when I eventually did watch a few documentaries, the one thing that they all had in common was the name Lon Chaney. I just thought I need to learn more about this character Lon Chaney, because he just found someone of superhuman proportions just who have done all of these crazy diverse characters. And, that's where London After Midnight eventually peeked out at me and, occupied a separate interest as all the Chaney characterizations do.John: So how did you get into the Universal films? Were you watching them on VHS? Were they on tv? Did the DVDs happen by then?Daniel: I was still in the VHS days. My dad is a real big fan of all this as well. So he first saw Bela Lugosi's Dracula, on TV when he was a kid. And prior to me being born he had amassed a huge VHS collection and a lot of those had Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Hull, Claude Rains, Vincent Price, what have you.And a lot of them were dedicated to Universal horrors. And as a young curious kid, my eyes eventually crossed these beautiful cases and I really wanted to watch them. I think my first one I ever watched was The Mummy's Tomb or Curse of the Mummy. And it's just grown ever since, really.John: You're starting at the lesser end of the Universal monsters. It's like someone's starting the Marx Brothers at The Big Store and going, "oh, these are great. I wonder if there's anything better?" Jim: Well, I kinda like the fact that you have come by this fascination, honestly, as my father would say. You sort of inherited the family business, if you will. The book is great. The book is just great. And I'll be honest, I had no, except for recording the novel that John wrote, I really had no frame of reference for London after Midnight.John: Well, Jim, were you a monster guy? Were you a Universal Monster kid?Jim: Oh yeah. I mean, I had all the models. I love all of that, and certainly knew about Lon Chaney as the Phantom of the Opera, as The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I knew he was the man with a thousand faces. I knew he, when he died, he wrote JR. on his makeup kit and gave it to his kid. So, I knew stuff. But London after Midnight I didn't know at all, except for the sort of iconic makeup and that image, which I was familiar with. What was the inspiration for you in terms of writing this book?Daniel: Like you say, I really had no immediate go-to reference for London after Midnight, away from one or two images in a book. Really clearly they were very impactful images of Chaney, skulking around the old haunted mansion with Edna Tichenor by his side with the lantern, the eyes, the teeth, the cloak, the top hat, the webs, everything. Pretty much everything that embodies a good atmospheric horror movie, but obviously we couldn't see it.So that is all its fangs had deepened itself into my bloodstream at that point, just like, why is it lost? Why can't I see it? And again, the term lost film was an alien concept to me at a young age. I've always been a very curious child. Anything that I don't know or understand that much, even things I do understand that well, I always have to try to find out more, 'cause I just can't accept that it's like a bookend process. It begins and then it ends. And that was the thing with London after Midnight. Everything I found in books or in little interviews, they were just all a bit too brief. And I just thought there has to be a deeper history here, as there are with many of the greatest movies of all time. But same with the movies that are more obscure. There is a full history there somewhere because, 'cause a film takes months to a year to complete.It was definitely a good challenge for me. When we first had our first home computer, it was one of those very few early subjects I was typing in like crazy to try to find out everything that I could. And, that all incubated in my little filing cabinet, which I was able to call upon years later.Some things which were redundant, some things which I had the only links to that I had printed off in advance quite, sensibly so, but then there were certain things that just had lots of question marks to me. Like, what year did the film perish? How did it perish? The people who saw the film originally?And unlike a lot of Chaney films, which have been covered in immense detail, London after Midnight, considering it's the most famous of all lost films, still for me, had major holes in it that I just, really wanted to know the answers to. A lot of those answers, eventually, I found, even people who knew and institutions that knew information to key events like famous MGM Fire, they were hard pressed to connect anything up, in regards to the film. It was like a jigsaw puzzle. I had all these amazing facts. However, none of them kind of made sense with each other.My favorite thing is researching and finding the outcomes to these things. So that's originally what spiraled me into the storm of crafting this, initial dissertation that I set myself, which eventually became so large. I had to do it as a book despite, I'd always wanted to do a book as a kid.When you see people that you idolize for some reason, you just want to write a book on them. Despite, there had been several books on Lon Chaney. But I just always knew from my childhood that I always wanted to contribute a printed volume either on Chaney or a particular film, and London after Midnight seemed to present the opportunity to me.I really just didn't want it to be a rehash of everything that we had seen before or read before in other accounts or in the Famous Monsters of Filmland Magazine, but just with a new cover. So, I thought I would only do a book if I could really contribute a fresh new perspective on the subject, which I hope hopefully did.John: Oh, you absolutely did. And this is an exhaustive book and a little exhausting. There's a ton of stuff in here. You mentioned Famous Monster of the Filmland, which is where I first saw that image. There's at least one cover of the magazine that used that image. And Forrest Ackerman had some good photos and would use them whenever he could and also would compare them to Mark the Vampire, the remake, partially because I think Carol Borland was still alive and he could interview her. And he talked about that remake quite a bit. But that iconic image that he put on the cover and whenever he could in the magazine-- Jim and I were talking before you came on, Daniel, about in my mind when you think of Lon Chaney, there's three images that come to mind: Phantom of the Opera, Quasimoto, and this one. And I think this one, the Man in the Beaver hat probably is the most iconic of his makeups, because, 'cause it is, it's somehow it got adopted into the culture as this is what you go to when it's a creepy guy walking around. And that's the one that everyone remembers. Do you have any idea, specifically what his process was for making that look, because it, it is I think ultimately a fairly simple design. It's just really clever.Daniel: Yes, it probably does fall into the category of his more simplistic makeups. But, again, Chaney did a lot of things simplistic-- today --were never seen back then in say, 1927. Particularly in the Phantom of the Opera's case in 1925, in which a lot of that makeup today would be done through CG, in terms of trying to eliminate the nose or to make your lips move to express dialogue. Chaney was very fortunate to have lived in the pantomime era, where he didn't have to rely on how his voice would sound, trying to talk through those dentures, in which case the makeup would probably have to have been more tamed to allow audio recorded dialogue to properly come through.But with regards to the beaver hat makeup, he had thin wires that fitted around his eyes to give it a more hypnotic stare. The teeth, which he had constructed by a personal dentist, eventually had a wire attached to the very top that held the corners of his mouth, opening to a nice curved, fixated, almost joker like grin.You can imagine with the monocles around his eyes, he was thankful there probably wasn't that much wind on a closed set, because he probably couldn't have closed his eyes that many times. But a lot of these things become spoken about and detailed over time with mythic status. That he had to have his eyes operated on to achieve the constant widening of his eyelids. Or the teeth -- he could only wear the teeth for certain periods of time before accidentally biting his tongue or his lips, et cetera. But Chaney certainly wasn't a sadist, with himself, with his makeups. He was very professional. Although he did go through undoubtedly a lot of discomfort, especially probably the most, explicit case would be for the Hunchback of Notre Dame, in which his whole body is crooked down into a stooped position.But, with London After Midnight, I do highly suspect that the inspiration for that makeup in general came from the Dracula novel. And because MGM had not acquired the rights to the Dracula novel, unlike how Universal acquired the rights of the Hunchback or, more importantly, Phantom of the Opera, by which point Gaston Leroux was still alive.It was just a loose adaptation of Dracula. But nevertheless, when you read the description of Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel, he does bear a similarity to Chaney's vampire, in which it's the long hair, a mouth full of sharp teeth, a ghastly pale palor and just dressed all in black and carries around a lantern.Whereas Bela Lugosi takes extraordinary leaps and turns away from the Stoker novel. But it must have definitely had an impact at the time, enough for MGM to over-market the image of Chaney's vampire, which only appears in the film for probably just under four minutes, compared to his detective disguise, which is the real main character of the film.Although the thing we all wanna see is Cheney moving about as the vampire and what facial expressions he pulled. It's just something that we just want to see because it's Lon Chaney.John: Right. And it makes you wonder if he had lived and had gotten to play Dracula, he kind of boxed himself into a corner, then if he'd already used the look from the book, you wonder what he would've come up with, if Lugosi hadn't done it, and if Chaney had had been our first Dracula.Jim: You know, the other thing that I think of strictly like through my actor filter is here's a guy who -- take Hunchback or Phantom or even this thing -- whatever process he went through to put that makeup on, you know, was hours of work, I'm sure. Hunchback several hours of work to get to that, that he did himself, and then they'd film all day.So, on top of, I mean, I just think that that's like, wow, when you think about today where somebody might go into a makeup chair and have two or three people working on them to get the look they want. Even if it took a few hours, that person is just sitting there getting the makeup done. He's doing all of this, and then turns in a full day, uh, in front of the cameras, which to me is like, wow, that's incredible.Daniel: Definitely, it's like two jobs in one. I imagine for an actor it must be really grueling in adapting to a makeup, especially if it's a heavy makeup where it covers the whole of your head or crushes down your nose, changes your lips, the fumes of chemicals going into your eyes.But then by the end of it, I imagine you are quite exhausted from just your head adapting to that. But then you have to go out and act as well. With Chaney, I suppose he could be more of a perfectionist than take as much time as he wanted within reason. And then once he came to the grueling end of it all, he's actually gotta go out and act countless takes. Probably repair a lot of the makeup as well after, after a couple of takes, certainly with things like the Hunchback or the Phantom of the Opera.John: And, you know, it's not only is he doing the makeup and acting, but in, you know, not so much in London After Midnight, but in Phantom of the Opera, he is quite athletic. When the phantom moves, he really moves. He's not stooped. He's got a lot of energy to him and he's got a makeup on that, unlike the Quasimoto makeup, what he's attempting to do with the phantom is, reductive. He's trying to take things away from his face.Daniel: Mm-hmm.John: And he's using all the tricks he knows and lighting to make that happen, but that means he's gotta hit particular marks for the light to hit it just right. And for you to see that his face is as, you know, skull-like as he made it. When you see him, you know, in London After Midnight as the professor inspector character, he has got a normal full man's face. It's a real face. Much like his son, he had a kind of a full face and what he was able to do with a phantom and take all that away, and be as physical as he was, is just phenomenal. I mean, he was a really, besides the makeup, he was a really good actor.Daniel: Oh, definitely. Jim: I agree with that completely. I kind of in what I watched, I wonder if he was the makeup artist, but not the actor and he did exactly the same makeup on somebody else. And so we had the same image. If those things would've resonated with us the way they do today. I think it had everything to do with who he was and his abilities in addition to the incredible makeup. He was just a tremendous performer.Daniel: Absolutely. He was a true multitasker. In his early days of theater, he was not only an actor, but he was a choreographer. He had a lot of jobs behind the scenes as well. Even when he had become a star in his own time, he would still help actors find the character within them. like Norma Sheera, et cetera. People who were kind of new to the movie making scene and the directors didn't really have that much patience with young actors or actresses. Whereas Chaney, because of his clout in the industry, no one really interfered with Chaney's authority on set. But he would really help actors find the character, find the emotion, 'cause it was just all about how well you translate it over for the audience, as opposed to the actor feeling a certain way that convinces themselves that they're the character. Chaney always tried to get the emotions across to the audience. Patsy Ruth Miller, who played Esemerelda in in the Hunchback, said that Chaney directed the film more than the director actually did.The director was actually even suggested by Chaney. So, Chaney really had his hands everywhere in the making of a film. And Patsy Ruth Miller said the thing that she learned from him was that it's the actress's job to make the audience feel how the character's meant to be feeling, and not necessarily the actor to feel what they should be feeling based on the script and the settings and everything.So I think, that's why Chaney in particular stands out, among all of the actors of his time.John: I think he would've transitioned really well into sound. I think, he had everything necessary to make that transition.Jim: There's one sound picture with him in it, isn't there, doesn't he? Doesn't he play a ventriloquist? John: I believe so.Daniel: Yes, it was a remake of The Unholy Three that he had made in 1925 as Echo the ventriloquist, and the gangster. And yes, by the time MGM had decided to pursue talkies -- also, funny enough, they were one of the last studios to transition to, just because they were the most, one, probably the most dominant studio in all of Hollywood, that they didn't feel the pressure to compete with the burgeoning talkie revolution.So they could afford to take their time, they could release a talkie, but then they could release several silent films and the revenue would still be amazing for the studio. Whereas other studios probably had to conform really quick just because they didn't have the star system, that MGM shamelessly flaunted. And several Chaney films had been transitioned to sound at this point with or without Chaney. But for Chaney himself, because he himself was the special effect, it was guaranteed to be a winner even if it had been an original story that isn't as remembered today strictly because people get to hear the thing that's been denied them for all this time, which is Chaney's voice. And he would've transitioned very easily to talkies is because he had a very rich, deep voice, which, coming from theater, he had to have had, in terms of doing dialogue. He wasn't someone like a lot of younger actors who had started out predominantly in feature films who could only pantomime lines. Chaney actually knew how to deliver dialogue, so it did feel natural and it didn't feel read off the page.And he does about five voices in The Unholy Three. So MGM was truly trying to market, his voice for everything that they could. As Mrs. O'Grady, his natural voice, he imitates a parrot and a girl. And yeah, he really would've flourished in the sound era. Jim: Yeah. John: Any surprises, as it sounds like you were researching this for virtually your whole life, but were there any surprises that you came across, as you really dug in about the film?Daniel: With regards to London after Midnight, the main surprise was undoubtedly the -- probably the star chapter of the whole thing -- which is the nitrate frames from an actual destroyed print of the film itself, which sounds crazy to even being able to say it. But, yeah the nitrate frames themselves presented a quandary of questions that just sent me into a whole nother research mode trying to find out where these impossible images came from, who they belonged to, why they even existed, why they specifically existed.Because, looking for something that, you know, you are told doesn't exist. And then to find it, you kind of think someone is watching over you, planting this stuff as though it's the ultimate tease. To find a foreign movie poster for London After Midnight would be one thing, but to find actual pieces of the lost film itself. It was certainly the most out of body experience I've ever had. Just to find something that I set out to find, but then you find it and you still can't believe that you've actually found it.John: How did you find it?Daniel: I had connections with a few foreign archives who would befriend me and took to my enthusiasm with the silent era, and specifically Chaney and all the stars connected to Chaney films.And, quite early on I was told that there were a few photo albums that had various snippets of silent films from Chaney. They didn't really go into what titles these were, 'cause they were just all a jumble. All I knew is that they came from (garbled) widow. And he had acquired prints of the whole films from various, I suppose, junk stores in Spain.But not being a projectionist, he just purely took them at the face value that he just taken the images and snipping them up and putting them in photo albums, like how you would just do with photographs. And then the rest of the material was sadly discarded by fire. So, all we were left with were these snipped relics, survivors almost to several Chaney lost films. Some of them not lost, but there were films like The Phantom of the Opera in there, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mockery, The Unknown. But then there were several lost films such as London After Midnight, the Big City, Thunder. And All the Brothers were Valiant, which are mainly other than Thunder are all totally complete lost films.So, to find this little treasure trove, it was just finding out what the images meant and connecting them up, trying to put them in some sort of chronological scholarly order. Grueling, but it was very fun at the same time. And because I had identified myself with all of these surviving production stills from the film -- a lot of them, which formed the basis of the 2002 reconstruction by Turner Classic Movies -- it didn't take me too long to identify what scenes these surviving nitrate frames were from. But there were several frames which had sets that I recognized and costumes that I recognized, but in the photographic stills, they don't occupy the same space at the same time. So, it's like the two separate elements had crossed over. So that left me with a scholarly, question of what I was looking at. I was able to go back and, sort of rectify certain wrongs that have been accepted throughout the sixties as being the original, say, opening to London after Midnight. So I've, been able to disprove a few things that have made the film, I suppose, a bit more puzzling to audiences. Some audiences didn't really get what the plot was to begin with. So, it was nice to actually put a bit more order to the madness finally.John: At what point did you come across the original treatment and the script?Daniel: The treatment and the script, they came from a private collector who had bought them at auction a number of years ago who I was able to thankfully contact, and they still had the two documents in question. I had learned through Philip J Riley's previous books on London after Midnight that he had the two latter drafts of the script, the second edition and the third draft edition.And, again, the question of why and where. I just always wondered where that first draft of the script was, hoping it would contain new scenes, and open new questions for me and to study. And once I've managed to find those two documents, they did present a lot of new, perspectives and material that added to the fuller plot of the original hypnotist scenario, as opposed to the shortened, time efficient London After Midnight film that was ultimately delivered to audiences. So again, it helped to put a little bit more order to the madness.Jim: You found an actual piece of the film that you were able to, somebody got images from it? And then you found the scripts? But the images are terrific and they're all in your book. They came from what exactly?Daniel: The just below 20 images of the film came from originally a distribution print, a Spanish distribution print, from about 1928. Originally, they were on 35 millimeter indicating that they were from the studio and as is with a lot of silent films that have been found in foreign archives.Normally when a film is done with its distribution, it would have to be returned to the original studio to be destroyed, except for the original negative and a studio print, because there is no reason why a studio would need to keep the thousands of prints when they have the pristine copy in their vault. But, in a lot of smaller theater cases, in order to save money on the postage of the shipping, they would just basically declare that they had destroyed the film on the studio's behalf. There was no record system with this stuff and that's how a lot of these films ended up in the basements of old theaters, which are eventually when they closed, the assets were sold off to collectors or traveling showmen. And eventually these films found their ways into archives or again, private collections. Some of which people know what they have.A lot of times they don't know what they have because they're more obsessed with, naturally, more dedicated to preserving the films of their own culture that was shown at the time, as opposed to a foreign American title, which they probably assume they already have a copy of. But it's how a lot of these films get found.And, with the London After Midnight, example, there were the images that I found spanned the entire seven reels, because they came from different points in the film. It wasn't a single strip of film, of a particular scene. Having thankfully the main source that we have for London After Midnight is the cutting continuity, which is the actual film edited down shot for shot, length for length.And it describes, briefly, although descriptive enough, what is actually in each and every single shot of the film. And comparing the single frame images from the film with this document, I was able to identify at what point these frames came from during the film, which again spanned the entire seven reels, indicating that a complete seven reel version of the film had gotten out under the studio system at one point.As is the case, I'm assuming, 'cause these came from the same collection, I'm assuming it was the same with the other lost Chaney films that again, sadly only survive in snippet form.John: It's like somebody was a collector and his wife said, "well, we don't have room for all this. Just take the frames you like and we'll get rid of the rest of it." So, you mentioned in passing the 2002 reconstruction that Turner Classic Movies did using the existing stills. I don't know if they were working from any of the scripts or not. That was the version I originally saw when I was working on writing, those portions of The Misers Dream that mentioned London After Midnight. Based on what you know now, how close is that reconstruction and where do you think they got it right and where'd they get it wrong?Daniel: The 2002, reconstruction, while a very commendable production, it does stray from the original edited film script. Again, the problem that they clearly faced on that production is that there were not enough photographed scenes to convey all the photographed scenes from the film. So what they eventually fell into the trap of doing was having to reuse the same photograph to sometimes convey two separate scenes, sometimes flipping the image to appear on the opposite side of the camera. And, because of the certain lack of stills in certain scenes cases, they had to rewrite them.And sometimes a visual scene had to have been replaced with an inter-title card, merely describing what had happened or describing a certain period in time, as opposed to showing a photograph of what we're meant to be seeing as opposed to just reading. So, they did the best with what they had.But since then, there have been several more images crop up in private collections or in the archives. So, unless a version of the film gets found, it's certainly an endeavor that could be revisited, I think, and either do a new visual reconstruction of sort, or attempt some sort remake of the film even.Jim: That's an idea. John: They certainly have the materials to do that. I've got an odd question. There's one famous image, a still image from the film, showing Chaney as Professor Burke, and he is reaching out to the man in the beaver hat whose back is to us. Is that a promo photo? Spoiler alert, Burke is playing the vampire in the movie. He admits that that's him. So, he never would've met the character. What is the story behind that photo?Daniel: There are actually three photographs depicting that, those characters that you described. There are the two photographs which show Chaney in the Balfor mansion seemingly directing a cloaked, top hatted figure with long hair, with its back towards us. And then there is another photograph of Chaney in the man in the beaver hat disguise with a seemingly twin right beside him outside of a door.Basically the scenes in the film in which Chaney appear to the Hamlin residents, the people who are being preyed upon by the alleged vampires, the scenes where Chaney and the vampire need to coexist in the same space or either appear to be in the same vicinity to affect other characters while at the same time interrogating others, Chaney's character of Burke employs a series of assistants to either dress up as vampires or at certain times dress up as his version of the vampire to parade around and pretend that they are the man in the beaver hat. Those particular shots, though, the vampire was always, photographed from behind rather than the front.The very famous scene, which was the scene that got first got me interested in London After Midnight, in which the maidm played by Polly Moran is in the chair shrieking at Chaney's winged self, hovering over her. It was unfortunate to me to realize that that was actually a flashback scene told from the maid's perspective.And by the end of the film, the maid is revealed to be an informant of Burke, a secret detective also. So, it's really a strong suspension of disbelief has to be employed because the whole scene of Chaney chasing the maid through the house and appearing under the door, that was clearly just the MGMs marketing at work just to show Chaney off in a bizarre makeup with a fantastic costume.Whereas he is predominantly the detective and the scenes where he's not needed to hypnotize a character in the full vampire makeup, he just employs an assistant who parades around in the house as him, all the times with his back turned so that the audience can't latch on as to who the character actually is, 'cause it must have posed quite a fun confusion that how can Chaney be a detective in this room where the maid has just ran from the Vampire, which is also Chaney?John: Yeah, and it doesn't help that the plot is fairly convoluted anyway, and then you add that layer. So, do you think we'll ever see a copy of it? Do you think it's in a basement somewhere?Daniel: I've always personally believed that the film does exist. Not personally out of just an unfounded fanboy wish, but just based on the evidence and examples of other films that have been found throughout time. Metropolis being probably the most prominent case. But, at one point there was nothing on London After Midnight and now there is just short of 20 frames for the film. So, if that can exist currently now in the year 2023, what makes us think that more footage can't be found by, say, 2030? I think with fans, there's such a high expectation that if it's not found in their own lifetime or in their own convenience space of time, it must not exist. There's still a lot of silent lost treasures that just have not been found at all that do exist though. So, with London After Midnight, from a purely realistic standpoint, I've always theorized myself that the film probably does exist in an archive somewhere, but it would probably be a very abridged, foreign condensed version, as opposed to a pristine 35-millimeter print that someone had ripped to safety stock because they knew in the future the film would become the most coveted of all lost films. So, I do believe it does exist. The whole theory of it existing in a private collection and someone's waiting to claim the newfound copyright on it, I think after December of last year, I think it's finally put that theory to rest. I don't think a collector consciously knows they have a copy of it. So, I think it's lost until found personally, but probably within an archive.Jim: Lost until found. That's a great title for a book. I like that a lot. What do you think of the remake, Mark of the Vampire and in your opinion, what does it tell us about, London After Midnight?Daniel: Well, Mark of the Vampire came about again, part of the Sound Revolution. It was one of those because it was Chaney and Todd Browning's most successful film for the studio. And Browning was currently, being held on a tight leash by MGM because of his shocking disaster film Freaks, I suppose they were a little bit nervous about giving him the reign to do what he wanted again. So, looking through their backlog of smash silent hits, London After Midnight seemed the most logical choice to remake, just simply because it was their most, successful collaboration. Had it have been The Unholy Three, I'm sure? Oh no, we already had The Unholy Three, but had it have been another Browning Chaney collaboration, it might have been The Unknown, otherwise. So, I suppose that's why London After Midnight was selected and eventually turned into Mark of the Vampire. The story does not stray too much from London After Midnight, although they seem to complicate it a little bit more by taking the Burke vampire character and turning it this time into three characters played by three different actors, all of which happened to be in cahoots with one another in trying to solve an old murder mystery.It's very atmospherical. You can definitely tell it's got Todd Browning signature on it. It's more pondering with this one why they just did not opt to make a legit, supernatural film, rather than go in the pseudo vampire arena that they pursued in 1927. Where audiences had by now become accustomed to the supernatural with Dracula and Frankenstein in 1931, which no longer relied on a detective trying to find out a certain mystery and has to disguise themselves as a monster.The monster was actually now a real thing in the movies. So I think if Bela Lugosi had been given the chance to have played a real Count Mora as a real vampire, I think it would've been slightly better received as opposed to a dated approach that was clearly now not the fashionable thing to do.I suppose again, because Browning was treading a very thin line with MGM, I suppose he couldn't really stray too far from the original source material. But I find it a very atmospherical film, although I think the story works better as a silent film than it does as a sound film, because there's a lot of silent scenes in that film, away from owls, hooting and armadillos scurrying about and winds. But I do think, based on things like The Cat and The Canary from 1927 and The Last Warning, I just think that detective sleuth with horror overtones serves better to the silent world than it does the sound world away from the legit, supernatural.John: So, if Chaney hadn't died, do you think he would have played Dracula? Do you think he would've been in Freaks? Would Freaks have been more normalized because it had a big name in it like that?Daniel: It would've been interesting if Chaney had played in Freaks. I think because Todd Browning used the kinds of individuals that he used for Freaks, maybe Chaney would've, for a change, had been the most outta place.John: Mm-hmm.Daniel: I do think he might have played Dracula. I think Universal would've had a hell of a time trying to get him over because he had just signed a new contract with MGM, whereas Todd Browning had transferred over to Universal by 1930 and really wanted to make Dracula for many years and probably discussed it with Chaney as far back as 1920.But certainly MGM would not have permitted Chaney to have gone over to Universal, even for a temporary period, without probably demanding a large piece of the action, in a financial sense, because Universal had acquired the rights to Dracula at this point. And, based on the stage play that had, come out on Broadway, it was probably assured that it was going to be a giant moneymaker, based on the success of the Dracula play.But because of Cheney's, status as a, I suppose retrospectively now, as a horror actor, he was probably the first person to be considered for that role by Carl Laemmle, senior and Junior for that matter. And Chaney gone by 1930, it did pose a puzzle as to who could take over these kinds of roles.Chaney was probably the only one to really successfully do it and make the monster an actual box office ingredient more than any other actor at that time, as he did with. Phantom, Blind Bargain and London After Midnight. So, I think to have pursued Chaney for a legit, supernatural film would've had enormous possibilities for Browning and Chaney himself.You can kind of see a trend, a trilogy forming, with Browning, from London After Midnight, in which he incorporates things he used in Dracula in London After Midnight. So, he kind of had this imagery quite early on. So, to go from – despite it's not in that order -- but to have London After Midnight, Mark of the Vampire, and he also did Dracula, he clearly was obsessed with the story. And I think Chaney was probably the, best actor for someone like Browning who complimented his way of thinking and approach to things like silence. As opposed to needing dialogue all the time, loud commotions. So, I think they dovetailed each other quite well, and that's why their ten year director actor relationship was as groundbreaking as it was.Jim: If the film does surface, if we find the film, what do you think people, how are they gonna react to the movie when they see it? What do you think? What's gonna be the reaction if it does surface?Daniel: Well, the lure of London After Midnight, the power in the film is its lost status rather than its widespread availability. I think it could never live up to the expectation that we've built up in our heads over the past 40 to 60 years. It was truly people, fans like Forrest J Ackerman that introduced and reignited the interest in Chaney's career by the late fifties and 1960s. That's when London After Midnight started to make the rounds in rumor, the rumors of a potential print existing, despite the film had not long been destroyed at that point. So, it was always a big mystery. There were always people who wanted to see the film, but with no access to home video, or et cetera, the only way you could probably see the film would've been at the studio who held everything. And, by the time the TV was coming out, a lot of silent films didn't make it to TV. So again, it has just germinated in people's heads probably in a better form than what they actually remembered. But, the true reality of London After Midnight is one more closer to the ground than it is in it's people are probably expecting to see something very supernatural on par with Dracula, whereas it's more so a Sherlock Holmes story with mild horrorish overtones to it that you can kind of see better examples of later on in Dracula in 1930 and in Mark of the Vampire.It's a film purely, I think for Lon Chaney fans. For myself, having read everything I can on the film, everything I've seen on the film, I personally love silent, detective stories, all with a touch of horror. So, I personally would know what I am going in to see. I'm not going in to see Chaney battling a Van Helsing like figure and turn to dust at the very end or turning to a bat. I'm going to see a detective melodrama that happens to have what looks like a vampire. So, it certainly couldn't live up to the expectations in people's minds and it's probably the only film to have had the greatest cheapest, marketing in history, I would think. It's one of those films, if it was discovered, you really would not have to do much marketing to promote it.It's one of those that in every fanzine, magazine, documentary referenced in pop. It has really marketed itself into becoming what I always call the mascot of the genre. There are other more important lost films that have been lost to us. The main one again, which has been found in its more complete form, was Metropolis, which is a better movie.But unlike Metropolis, London After Midnight has a lot more famous ingredients to it. It has a very famous director. It has a very famous actor whose process was legendary even during then. And it's actually the only film in which he actually has his make-up case make a cameo appearance by the very end. And it goes on the thing that everyone in every culture loves, which is the vampirism, the dark tales and folklore. So, when you say it, it just gets your imagination going. Whereas I think if you are watching it, it's probably you'll be looking over the projector to see if something even better is going to happen.The film had its mixed reactions when it originally came out. People liked it because it gave them that cheap thrill of being a very atmospherical, haunted house with the creepy figures of Chaney walking across those dusty hallways. But then the more important story is a murder mystery.It's not Dracula, but it has its own things going for it. I always kind of harken it back to the search for the Lochness Monster or Bigfoot. It has more power in your mind than it does in an aquarium or in a zoo. Hearing someone say that they think they saw something moving around in Lochness, but there's no photographic evidence, you just have the oral story, that is much more tangible in a way than actually seeing it in an aquarium where you can take it for granted. And it's the same with London After Midnight, and I think that's why a lot of hoaxster and pranksters tend to say that they have seen London After Midnight more than any other lost film.Jim: For a film that I would say the majority of the world does not have any frame of reference, and I'm using myself as the sort of blueprint for that, no frame of reference for this film. That image is iconic in a way that has been, I mean, it at first glance could be Jack the Ripper. I was talking to John before we started the podcast, once I locked in on that image, then I started to think, oh, the ghosts in Disney's Haunted Mansion, there's a couple of ghosts that have elements of that. I mean, it was so perfectly done, even though we don't, I bet you nine out ten people don't know the title London After Midnight, but I bet you seven outta ten people know this image.Daniel: Definitely, it has certainly made its mark on pop culture, again, I think because I think it's such a beautiful, simplistic design. Everything from the simplistically [garbled] to the bulging eyes and the very nice top hat as well, which is in itself today considered a very odd accessory for a grotesque, vampire character.But it's one of those things that has really carried over. It's influenced what the movies and artists. It was one of the influences for the Babadook creation for that particular monster. It was an influence on the Black Phone. It's just a perfect frame of reference for movie makers and sculptors and artists to keep taking from.John: Yep. It's, it'll live long beyond us. Daniel, one last question. I read somewhere or heard somewhere. You're next gonna tackle James Whale, is that correct? Daniel: James Whale is a subject, again, coming from, I happen to come from the exact same town that he was born and raised in, in Dudley, England. So, it's always been a subject close to home for me, which is quite convenient because I love his movies. So, I'm hoping to eventually, hopefully plan a documentary feature on him, based on a lot of family material in the surrounding areas that I was able to hunt down, and forgotten histories about him and just put it together in some form, hopefully in the future.John: That would be fantastic, and we'll have you back at that point.Jim: So, let's pretend for a minute that the audience is me, and they'd have absolutely no idea who James Whale is or what he's done. Just for a minute, let's pretend.John: Pretend that you don't know that?Jim: Yeah.Daniel: James Whale is the most known for his work for directing Frankenstein with Boris Karloff in 1931. But he also directed probably some of the most important horror films that have ever existed in the history of motion pictures. The Old Dark House, which can be cited with its very atmospherical, and black comedy tones, The Invisible Man with Claude Rains and Gloria Stewart in 1933. And, the most important one, which is probably the grand jewel in the whole of the Universal Monsters Empire, which is Bride of Frankenstein in 1935, which is the ultimate, example of everything that he had studied, everything that he'd learned with regards to cinema and comedy, life and death, and just making a very delicious cocktail of a movie in all of its black comedy, horrific, forms that we're still asking questions about today. One of his first films that he did was for Howard Hughes Hell's Angels, in which -- because he'd coming over from theater -- when again, films in America were taken off with the sound revolution. They all of a sudden needed British directors to translate English dialogue better than the actors could convey.So, James Whale was one of many to be taken over to America when he had a hit play called Journeys End, which became the most successful war play at that point. And he did his own film adaptation of Journeys End. He also did a really remarkable film called Showboat, which is another very iconic film.And again, someone with James Whale's horror credentials, you just think, how could someone who directed Frankenstein directed Showboat? But, clearly a very, very talented director who clearly could not be pigeonholed at the time as a strictly horror director, despite it is the horror films in which he is remembered for, understandably so, just because they contain his very individualistic wit and humor and his outlooks on life and politics. And being an openly gay director at the time, he really was a force unto himself. He was a very modern man even then.

Barkley summer semester course for those who flunked human sexuality 101. By zachattack163 and adapted for this platform. Listen to the ► Podcast At Steamy Stories. Alexis walks the short distance from student parking, to the Health Sciences building. It's late in June and the campus is almost a ghost town. She‘s glad of that, because she doesn't want anyone to know she's having to make up a course in order to enroll in fall classes and begin her sophomore year. Why had her fundamentalist mother's repressed sexuality become her damn disability! At least now that she's living with her aunt & uncle, in this college town; she can start learning, and unlearning.  But remedial human sexuality? Why the heck is that class so hard to comprehend? Maybe if she was a slut, then she'd at least have some familiarity and practice? The virgin college student wants her secret kept that way. She walks into the designated room. It's a lecture bowl with seating for 100, but less than a dozen students are in the room. She sees them scattered in the first two rows, down near the front. “Good afternoon students.” The male & female professors soon greeted the freshmen. The small assortment of students sat in the lecture bowl, mostly fidgeting and looking at the unusual furniture in a lecture bowl. The male professor pressed a button near the chalk board, which remotely locked the doors. Then he began handing out the syllabus as the female professor wrote some names on the board. “My name is Doctor Phoebe Garza, PhD. Our other instructor is Doctor Antonio Garza, my husband of 7 years.” “Let's be honest about why you're here. For whatever reasons, you didn't attain the required human sexuality credit during your first two semesters. In order to enroll for fall classes, you'll need to pass this in the summer session.” The pit of the lecture bowl room was reset without the customary classroom tables, lectern, and common furnishings. Instead, the instructional aids included; a chaise lounge, a Leather sofa, and a sturdy oak table and several cushioned desk chairs aligning the side walls, below the chalkboard. The middle of the pit also had what looks like a 12x12 purple wrestling mat. On the front floor row of the student seating, on the pit floor, the usual chairs & tables were replaced by four upholstered sofas in a semi-circle, with large plush bath blankets covering the seat cushions. The unique layout of the lecture ‘bowl' auditorium used for this class. “To help you, we reviewed your academic records and with the help of guidance counselors, we determined that kinetic learning might be a more effective mode for several of you.” Phoebe Garza said, in a relaxed conversational tone. Her Summer outfit and sandals only added to the informality. “That is why you were given this opportunity to fulfill your requisite credit with this alternative class. But If you don't get your Human Sexuality credit through this class, you can retake the standard one oh one course early next month.” In the same way we employ lab sessions for many of our science classes, we're going to add that component to this particular experimental course offering. Many of you probably had learning experiences where the textbook words came to life, only after you put the theories to practice in a science lab. So, the two of us studied some clinical papers from an Amsterdam university, and we collaborated to develop this teaching concept. But instead of using lab animals to study behavioral concepts, All of us will become the lab specimens for this attempt to bring all of you academically, back up to the rest of the upcoming sophomore class.” Mrs. Garza continued; ”It's not often that I get to teach with my husband. He is a research scientist. He rarely teaches a college class to undergrads. But this class is also part of an ongoing research, so we're all going to learn a lot, this summer session. “Now class today we are going to begin our Human Sexuality introduction,” said Mrs. Garza, the very attractive human sexuality professor. She was sitting next to her husband on the rectangular sturdy table in front of the chalkboard, leaning back on her hands. A beautiful woman, she exuded warm sensuality. Mr. Garza now stood & lectured the 12 students for the first time, still having a slight accent of his Barcelona upbringing. His polo shirt, khaki trousers, & Birkenstock sandals presented an unspoken message of informality from the professor. “Now, before you joined this class, you were required to sign a form, that doesn't allow you to tell anyone what happens, in this class. So, has everyone brought in their signed forms and medical documents to class, today?” asked Mr. Garza. “Please hold yours up when you have it.” All the students nodded their heads to show that they had their forms. Mr. Garza began retrieving the forms from the students.  "Well that's good" said Mrs. Garza, “Now, the reason we asked you to get those forms and documents signed; is because this is to prove that you have passed your eighteenth birthday; and because this is going to be a very different kind of human sexuality class from the kinds of classes you have been in before, you all have been checked in the last 2 weeks for an STD or other communicable disease. Am I correct, everyone?” Mrs. Garza looked each student and waited for an affirmation from each of them. Then she continued; “ All females are successfully using birth control in a daily pill form for 6 weeks or more. Am I correct, ladies?” Each of the 6 females affirmed this fact, one by one. “And lastly, your documents say that you all assume your responsibilities in this class, and understand your risks. Does anyone have a question or concern about those risks and responsibilities? None? Okay, let's begin.” Session One "Class, we want you all to be very comfortable in the lab. Sexuality on a college campus does have risks. For this class we have taken great effort to protect you from those possibilities. This is the safest environment we can provide you, but you have to trust each other. You start by respecting and caring for each other and showing sensitivity to everyone taking this class with you.” “Usually, labs require special protective gear. But for our labs, the opposite is true. And we want you all to become comfortable with your sexuality and we feel that the best way for all of you to do this is with full participation in the class,” said Mr. Garza. “No outsider is allowed to visit or audit this class. All electronics you carry in with you, need to be stored in the plastic tub below the chalkboard. It's not a matter of me not trusting you. It's Phoebe and I protecting you from being recorded or otherwise exposed and deprived of your privacy. by imposing the same rules on everyone, including Phoebe and myself. Not even the chancellor or the regents. This class is designed with the 12 of you in mind. But you need to be fully involved, immersed. Without full participation, you will not pass this class. Is everyone clear on this?” Everyone nodded. Antonio turned to Phoebe to finish the orientation. Phoebe stepped toward the middle sofas which were just on the other side of the partition wall from the elevated lecture seating chairs; then resumed; “We've said a lot about trust and respect. It's for this reason. In order for everyone to fully participate we are going to require everyone participating in the class to remain naked at all times while lessons are in session,” Mrs. Garza told the students. The class all began to talk at once protesting the fact that they were going to have to be naked in class.  “Now calm down class. I know all of you may be temporarily uncomfortable with being naked in front of your fellow classmates, but believe me, this will help you become more comfortable with your sexuality,” said Mr. Garza “ “And to make all of you feel more comfortable,” Mrs. Garza added. Antonio and I will also be staying naked for the duration of the lessons, also.” With that both Mr. and Mrs. Garza began taking off all of their clothes.  The students stopped their clamoring when they saw Phoebe Garza's swaying breasts swing free of her purple lace bra. About the same time, Antonio Garza's black thong briefs made a grand appearance as his trousers fell to the floor. Phoebe slipped out of her purple lace panties and sat back down on the wooden table. She even spread her lags to show off the ‘landing strip' of her pussy. When Antonio slid his thong down and stepped out of them, he hooked the waistband with a thumb, then stretched the thong with the other hand. He aimed at Mrs. Garza and shot her in the boobs, This playfulness helped the students relax and even elicited a few chuckles.   Once they had finished undressing they stood before the class completely naked and needless to say every eye in the classroom was focused on the two naked professors in front of them, or at least on certain parts of them. Every male student's eyes were focused on Mrs. Garza' large 36DD breasts, while all of the female students were focused on Mr. Garza's large swaying penis hanging between his legs which was about seven inches long even in its somewhat flaccid state. Both of the professors had trimmed their pubic bushes, but were not completely bald. “Now as you can see we are perfectly comfortable with our nudity, and we want you to be as comfortable with your nudity as we are with ours,” Mrs. Garza told the students, as she held up her matching undies and her hubby's thong up in the air. “When you've removed all your clothing, leave it there and come into the pit & sit on the sofas, so we can begin the lessons.” “Now get those clothes off. Come on let's get a move on,” Mr. Garza stood & ordered the students. That ‘broke the ice' and a few guys started stripping down. Erika and Bethany both joined in the communal disrobing. This was quickly followed by the rest of the students beginning to remove all of their clothing. Some of the students struggled with taking off their last items because they continued to pay attention to their naked teachers at the front of the classroom. Devon was struggling because of his social disabilities. Female social interaction typically terrifies him. He's been working on the problem ever since he dropped out of the 2nd semester human sexuality class, last February. Last winter, just talking about genitals with classmates was too much for him. Devon saw Bruce step past him, buck naked in all his glory. Bruce looks like a Greek wrestler. Bruce found a seat on the end sofa and sat. Devon then saw Bethany at the other side of the room get up. Her massive boobs swayed as she descended the steps into the pit. She sat at the end of one of the two center sofas. the other girls seemed to follow in a group, taking up the center sofas. Bruce & Bethany are both very accomplished college athletes. Their daily routines include plenty of nakedness in the athletic showers & locker rooms. But for Alexis and the other ladies, it took them a lot of courage.  It's not that Alexis didn't want to comply. She was determined to make up for 18 years of shame & suppression of many things her mother condemned. Going to movies, Dancing, rock music, etcetera. But this coed nakedness was her boldest act of defiance against her mother's extreme ways. Devon's apprehensions and distractions  were not helping matters. Once the last gal, Alexis, was descending to the pit; Devon made his  grand appearance. The girls all dropped their jaws and watched Devon's 10 inch rod spring back and forth horizontally and he took the last available seat at the end of the end sofa. Devon thought he was really smart by walking around the back of the sofa, but as he rounded the far end, he emerged in full frontal exposition for the whole class to appreciate. He waved to everyone, but not with his hands. His cock exuberantly waved to a watching classroom. Now all of the students were naked in the pit of the lecture bowl, most of the students were shyly covering their genitals. A few of the girls regretted their choice of seating. They all felt like their tits were on display. They guys were on the sofas at each end of the oval-shaped pit., and able to watch the professors while perusing the six sets of tits on the middle 2 sofas. Erika, although, loved the attention. Her buxom curves were a source of sexual pride. While the two petite ladies, Alexis and Elizabeth, on either end of her sofa, had their arms crossed over their bosoms, She had her arms crossed under her D cup rack. She even hiked up her arms to hoist her natural tits higher! “All right; Let's all give our classmates some all applause for joining us in bravely disrobing.” Antonio said as he and Phoebe began clapping. The students sheepishly joined in.  This was followed by some relaxed breathing and less nervousness, generally. “Now that all of you are naked we are going to go over the first thing that happens to begin the sexual cycle; arousal,” said Mr. Garza. “Who can tell me what the signs of arousal are in a man?” Mrs. Garza asked the class. Devon, a slightly nerdy looking student raised his hand, having already revealed what looked like an impressive erection he was trying to hide under his hand. “Yes Devon?” Mrs. Garza said. “Well the most obvious signs of arousal in a man is, that his penis will become hard and erect, which is known as an erection,” recited Devon; “another sign of arousal in a man is that his testicles will swell as they prepare to release semen.” “Yes, excellent! That is correct, Devon,” said Mrs. Garza.  Bethany gave him a thumbs up. Devon smiled, then rolled his eyes in a ‘ah shucks admission.  “Now, there are many different ways to get a man aroused and cause him to have an erection. The first and most obvious way, which I'm sure many of you young men are experiencing, is seeing a naked woman.” Mr Garza stated. Phoebe ignored the signals between the students. “I'm sure that since I took off my clothes many of you began to have an erection, which was only increased when your fellow female classmates also took off their clothes; so you should not be ashamed about having an erection right now.” “Ladies, you should not be offended, either.” Phoebe emphasized. “It is a compliment of your sexuality. It doesn't mean a man is anything other than normal & healthy. Be proud that you're appealing! I am! A man's physiology responds to his 5 senses. He gets erect without making a decision to. It comes  naturally from what his 5 senses absorb, and how much of you he absorbs. Antonio added; “As you can see I am also beginning to produce an erection from seeing my wife and all these lovely young ladies naked,” said Mr. Garza as he stood up off the table, which prompted many of the female students to look at his hardening penis, which was now pointed almost straight out and had increased in both length and thickness. “Ah, did you say ‘beginning to'? Honney, your pole's been waving to get our attention for the past 10 minutes. Am I right, girls?” Nervous giggles were heard from the 6 blushing young women. “Point taken,” Antonio conceded. “We will discuss other ways you can cause arousal, but for now could someone tell me about what arousal looks like, in a woman,” Mr. Garza asked.  Michelle, a brunette girl of average height raised her right hand, while she continued to use her left hand to try and cover her full C-cup breasts. “Yes Michelle,” said Mr. Garza. “Well when a women gets aroused, her nipples get hard and erect, and um, sometimes; her breasts swell so that they appear fuller. Oh, uh, and her vagina begins to get wet, and hot, and sticky,” Michelle said nervously. “That is correct, Michelle,” said Mrs. Garza “I'm sure many of you young ladies are beginning to feel several of these sensations. Now, women also get aroused by seeing a naked man, particularly if he is sporting an erection, but it usually takes slightly more to get a woman aroused. Women need more intimate sensations to become fully aroused, such as kissing and caressing from their partner.” “We are now going to begin the rest of our discussion about how men and women become more aroused,” said Mr. Garza. “I notice many of you are subconsciously fidgeting. Part of our discussion about arousal will involve talking about masturbation, so if any of you feel the need, we would encourage you to masturbate during this discussion. We placed a box of tissues on each sofa. Please grab a few and pass the box to those by you.” As the students each grabbed a wad of tissues, Phoebe continued; “You may need them. If that makes any of you feel uncomfortable, change your attitude. It's important that none of you do or say anything which hampers another student's learning experience.” “Now the completion of arousal and the sexual cycle is when you experience an orgasm,” said Mrs. Garza. “For men, this results in the ejaculation of semen from the penis. I'm sure most of you young men have experienced this sensation, through masturbation for instance. But it is even better if you have a partner bring you to orgasm. I am now going to demonstrate this to all of you, while using my husband as an example.” Then Mrs. Garza approached her husband, who was sitting with his legs dangling off the end of the table; and began to make out with him. She gave his a slow, wet kiss while caressing his chest, ass, and thighs. After she had kissed him for a while she reached down and grabbed his penis with one hand, which was now fully erect.  As she stopped kissing her husband for a moment she turned back to the class and said, “Now, I am going to stroke my husband's penis, which is commonly known as a hand job.” Mr. Garza reclined, resting on his elbows. The girls were entranced.   “Now girls, you want to make sure the man is feeling pleasure from this and it is not too dry and causing painful friction on his tender skin” Mrs. Garza continued to stroke her husband's penis while the students, especially the female students, stared intently at her pleasuring her husband's ‘flagpole'. A young girl named Erika, began shaking a bit from an orgasm as she had one hand between her legs and the other hand pleasuring one of her nipples on her large D-cup breasts. Mr. Garza began to moan louder as his wife slowly and firmly stroked his penis. “Now students, you will notice that Mr. Garza is moaning louder this means that he is probably close to having an orgasm. Ladies, another thing you should notice is that a man's testicles will keep drawing closer to his body. This is another indication that the man is about to cum. Now Mr. Garza should cum soon so I especially want you ladies to pay attention so you know what happens when a man ejaculates.” As Mrs. Garza stroked a bit faster, she used her thumb to rub the underside of Mr. Garza's tip. Soon he began breathing and moaning very loudly and suddenly began ejaculating, having a very good orgasm, with tree shots of semen blasting into the air and falling on his torso.. Mrs. Garza continued steady stroking her husband's penis until his orgasm was completed. As Mr. Garza laid down on the table to relax, Mrs. Garza again addressed the class. “Now you have seen what happens when a man has an orgasm. Ladies, one thing for you to know is that if you are giving a man a hand job you want to make sure you continue stroking his penis until his orgasm is complete. You don't want to stop right as he starts ejaculating, because that will cause his orgasm to stop sooner, and you want to make sure you give him as good of an orgasm as you can. Any questions class?” Alexis a shy, short girl with nice B-cup breasts and long nipples raised her hand. “Yes Alexis?” Mrs. Garza asked. “What was that white stuff coming out of his penis?” Alexis obviously had next to zero information on human sexuality. She just couldn't comprehend the male anatomy from the textbooks, last fall. So what happened to Mr. Garza totally confounded her. “That is a very good question, Alexis. That is called semen. When a man is having sex with you and he ejaculates inside your vagina, his semen carries sperm to your eggs, and may cause you to become pregnant. For those of you ladies who have never experienced having a man ejaculate inside you it is an amazing feeling and you will all experience it in this course.” Now Alexis was starting to understand the textbooks! Her fundamentalist private school didn't teach sex ed, and her mother told her that sex is nasty. Perhaps that's why her father left the marriage when Alexis was just 2, and she never knew him? Mrs. Garza looked back at her husband. “Honey, are you ready to continue with the lesson?” Mrs. Garza asked her husband, who just sat up and cleaned up. “Yes, I am ready to continue now,” Mr. Garza replied. He stepped down and tossed the tissues in the trash can. “Now we are going to show what happens when a woman has an orgasm.” Mrs. Garza climbed on the end of the table and laid back. .Her husband came over behind the table, facing the students, and caressed her legs. “Now boys, before you begin directly pleasuring a women's vagina. You can start by kissing a woman's neck and once you do that for a while. You can move down to her breasts. Now each woman is different so make sure that you pay attention to her signals to see whether she is enjoying what you are doing. Women are much more aroused by touch than by visuals. I know that my wife's breasts are very sensitive and she loves it when I pay attention to her breasts. What I like to do is kiss around the edge of my wife's breasts and slowly make my way to her nipples. This usually drives her crazy.” “Oh babe stop just talking about it and get over here and kiss me,” his wife said in anticipation. Mr. Garza then leaned over and began kissing his wife while reaching one hand over and down to fondle her far breast. It was drooping naturally over her ribs, in full view of the students. The nipple rose to a considerable height, in a stiff erection.. He continued to kiss his and eventually broke apart from her lips to start kissing her neck. He continued kissing his way down her body making his way toward her breasts. He started kissing the near breast while groping the other and Mrs. Garza started moaning louder. He then began paying more attention to her nipples, which only increased her arousal. The students started becoming even more excited as they watched their teacher pleasure his wife. The arousal became too much for a couple of the boys and they began ejaculating into their tissues. Bethany grabbed the tissue box and stuffed a large wad between her thighs. Then she resumed her own nipple stimulation, while vicariously experiencing the demonstration she was watching.. Mr. Garza turned back around to address the class. “Now class I am about to show you what is commonly known as fingering a woman. I'm sure several of you young women know what this is like and so I especially want the young men to pay attention so they know what they are doing with a woman. Now the first thing you want to do is make sure the woman has a very wet vagina. You do this by rubbing your finger along the lips of a woman's vagina.” He then demonstrated this on his wife, which brought about a very happy moan from her. “Now once you have determined that the woman is properly aroused you can insert your finger inside of her. You usually want to start with only one finger but you can add more fingers depending on what the woman wants. Her vagina opens wider after she is aroused.” He then inserted his fingers inside his wife and began pleasuring her. “Now in order to make sure a woman reaches orgasm you want to keep paying attention to what she likes. The best way to know if a woman has reached her orgasm is that you will feel her vaginal muscles gripping your finger or if you are having sex you will feel them gripping your penis. This is an amazing thing to feel especially if it happens while you are ejaculating.” Mrs. Garza then began experiencing an orgasm and her legs shook with pleasure. This final sexual display was too much for the rest of the ladies as most of them began having orgasms of their own, including Erika arriving at her second orgasm of the class time. Class Dismissed As his wife began coming down from her orgasm Mr. Garza addressed the class one last time. “Now I want you all to think about what you learned today and if you are comfortable enough you can put some of what you learned into practice. However, our class time is up, so you can all get dressed and we'll call it a day. Our next session will be longer than today was. Please pay attention to good grooming and hygiene.” As the students began dressing, Mr. Garza added one last instruction; “Remember that we want you all to feel safe and respected. if anyone is found to have disclosed any information to anyone outside this classroom, including who is enrolled; You'll be removed from the group and given an F for the course. This class is a success only if you feel safe, respected, & encouraged by everyone. We intend to honor that trust. Is everyone okay with that?” The students, especially several ladies; were in no hurry to get up. When they did, they all dumped several wads of tissue in the trash can under the end table which was between the middle sofas. It was very quiet in the room as the students dressed. In the last hour, they had experienced a mind-blowing session of instruction and demonstrations. The professors talked quietly about the session while sitting on the table. They stayed naked and deep in conversation. After all the students had all dressed, Mrs. Garza allowed them to open the doors to leave. After the 12 students left the classroom, Antonio relocked the doors & walked over to his gorgeous wife who was still naked, sitting with her bare ass on the end of the wooden table. "Well that was an interesting lesson. I think I'm really going to enjoy this class,” he told his wife as he pushed a lock of her hair behind her ears and began to kiss her. She spread her legs for him. “Yeah I bet you loved having all those beautiful, young, naked girls staring at your big cock while they pleasured themselves as I stroked you, especially that one girl with the big tits that had an orgasm while I was stroking you,” his wife responded as he began to kiss down her neck. She also reached down to find that his penis was getting hard again. “Really, I was too engrossed in you pleasuring to be aware of their pleasures. But yes, it was fantastic to see those young women naked. I'm sure you enjoyed seeing all those young men stroking their cocks as they stared at your big breasts.” To emphasize his point he then leaned in and started kissing and fondling his wife's large breasts. She continued to pull on his hard cock as she responded. “Yes several of them do have very nice cocks. That nerdy kid, Devon, looked like he was packing some serious meat, and did you see the big head on that one kid's cock? You know how much I love a big cock head,” as she rubbed her thumb over her husband's large cock head. “Well then I guess it's a good thing I can provide that for you. Are you ready for it?” Antonio asked, as he rubbed his finger across her slit, feeling how moist she was for him. “God yes! Fuck me now, please!"  He reached down and grabbed his very hard cock and pushed it into his wife. "Oh yes; your pussy feels so good, baby; I love how it grabs my cock.” “That's because your cock is so big. I love how deep it goes inside me,” she moaned in response as he continued to thrust into her. “I can feel your cock pulsating inside of me. Are you still thinking about those sexy, beautiful, young girls, babe?” “I might be,” he responded with a twinkle in his eye and grin on his face, “like you're not thinking about those young men and their hard young cocks?” “Okay, you're right. Watching them stroke their young cocks earlier, turned me on so much. I'm still so turned on that I think I'm going to come very soon.” “Good baby, because I'm about to shoot another huge load into your pussy,” he moaned into her ear as he continued thrusting into her while groping her huge breasts. “Oh god, yes! Make me feel that big dick spurting deep inside me. Oh god, I'm cumming!” Phoebe squealed as she wrapped her arms and legs around her Antonio, as she pushed him deeper inside of her as she had another very powerful orgasm. He also began to moan louder, as he emptied his balls deep inside his wife. He held her tightly and stayed deeply thrusted within her for a few silent minutes.  When they both began to calm down from their mutual orgasms. Antonio looked deep into his wife's eyes, and brushed her hair as his dick began to soften inside of her. “Yes this is definitely going to be a great summer,” he said to her. She looked back up at him and simply said, “Oh yeah! And we get paid to teach this class! Session Two Bethany was the last to arrive, but she was still early. She took more time this morning to wax her mound, and she had to do it a second time, because her dyslexia led to misunderstanding the package instructions. She hopes none of her cycling teammates and dorm sisters find out she's in this course. She told them she took a part time job, working for a professor in the health sciences building. She's rather active, sexually, but doesn't do well learning from textbooks. She relies on her study groups in these ‘book-learning' classes. She knows human sexuality very well, but often does very poorly on written tests. All the students gradually proceeded to enter the classroom once the door was unlocked. When all were present, Professor Phoebe Garza pressed the remote door lock, and the students were instructed to remove their garments up in the riser seats, then come down to the pit (a k a main floor), and find a seat on one of the four upholstered sofas facing the front. The professors also stripped and left their items behind the burgundy leather sofa, in the corner of the pit.  Mr. Garza commented to his fellow professor, that no one dropped the class, and they all showed positive signs of eagerness to get the most out of the class. The two professors were standing at the front of the classroom, completely naked. The students all undressed and left all personal items in the student desks, then came down to sit in the sofas, until all their classmates were seated on a sofa, ready to begin. There was a marked improvement in the students' appearance, today. Several students had much less pubic hair. The gals all had paid more attention to grooming, cosmetics, and hair accessories. Some wore earrings or short necklaces. The guys were all clean, shaven, and smelled great. A couple guys even sported gold chains.  The gals smelled fresh and flowery. No one came late, and  were waiting at the door even before the professors had the classroom unlocked. The professors noted the good hygiene and were glad they didn't need to address the topic further. Mrs. Garza addressed the class, "Now class, for today our lesson will focus on oral sex. Now who can tell me what it means to have oral sex?” Bethany raised her hand, leaving her spectacular breasts exposed for all the boys in the classroom to see. “Well, oral sex is when you use your mouth to pleasure your partner,” she said as she started to touch her pussy a bit. “That's correct, Bethany. Now oral sex is commonly known by different names. For instance when a woman is giving a man oral sex it is commonly known as a blowjob or the latin word fellatio,” said Mr. Garza ,whose cock was already starting to get hard from seeing his attractive young students naked and the talk of oral sex. “Also when a man gives oral sex to a woman it is commonly referred to as eating pussy or the latin word cunnilingus,” Mrs. Garza told the class. To be continued. By zachattack163 for Literotica

Barkley summer semester course for those who flunked human sexuality 101. By zachattack163 and adapted for this platform. Listen to the ► Podcast At Steamy Stories. Alexis walks the short distance from student parking, to the Health Sciences building. It's late in June and the campus is almost a ghost town. She‘s glad of that, because she doesn't want anyone to know she's having to make up a course in order to enroll in fall classes and begin her sophomore year. Why had her fundamentalist mother's repressed sexuality become her damn disability! At least now that she's living with her aunt & uncle, in this college town; she can start learning, and unlearning.  But remedial human sexuality? Why the heck is that class so hard to comprehend? Maybe if she was a slut, then she'd at least have some familiarity and practice? The virgin college student wants her secret kept that way. She walks into the designated room. It's a lecture bowl with seating for 100, but less than a dozen students are in the room. She sees them scattered in the first two rows, down near the front. “Good afternoon students.” The male & female professors soon greeted the freshmen. The small assortment of students sat in the lecture bowl, mostly fidgeting and looking at the unusual furniture in a lecture bowl. The male professor pressed a button near the chalk board, which remotely locked the doors. Then he began handing out the syllabus as the female professor wrote some names on the board. “My name is Doctor Phoebe Garza, PhD. Our other instructor is Doctor Antonio Garza, my husband of 7 years.” “Let's be honest about why you're here. For whatever reasons, you didn't attain the required human sexuality credit during your first two semesters. In order to enroll for fall classes, you'll need to pass this in the summer session.” The pit of the lecture bowl room was reset without the customary classroom tables, lectern, and common furnishings. Instead, the instructional aids included; a chaise lounge, a Leather sofa, and a sturdy oak table and several cushioned desk chairs aligning the side walls, below the chalkboard. The middle of the pit also had what looks like a 12x12 purple wrestling mat. On the front floor row of the student seating, on the pit floor, the usual chairs & tables were replaced by four upholstered sofas in a semi-circle, with large plush bath blankets covering the seat cushions. The unique layout of the lecture ‘bowl' auditorium used for this class. “To help you, we reviewed your academic records and with the help of guidance counselors, we determined that kinetic learning might be a more effective mode for several of you.” Phoebe Garza said, in a relaxed conversational tone. Her Summer outfit and sandals only added to the informality. “That is why you were given this opportunity to fulfill your requisite credit with this alternative class. But If you don't get your Human Sexuality credit through this class, you can retake the standard one oh one course early next month.” In the same way we employ lab sessions for many of our science classes, we're going to add that component to this particular experimental course offering. Many of you probably had learning experiences where the textbook words came to life, only after you put the theories to practice in a science lab. So, the two of us studied some clinical papers from an Amsterdam university, and we collaborated to develop this teaching concept. But instead of using lab animals to study behavioral concepts, All of us will become the lab specimens for this attempt to bring all of you academically, back up to the rest of the upcoming sophomore class.” Mrs. Garza continued; ”It's not often that I get to teach with my husband. He is a research scientist. He rarely teaches a college class to undergrads. But this class is also part of an ongoing research, so we're all going to learn a lot, this summer session. “Now class today we are going to begin our Human Sexuality introduction,” said Mrs. Garza, the very attractive human sexuality professor. She was sitting next to her husband on the rectangular sturdy table in front of the chalkboard, leaning back on her hands. A beautiful woman, she exuded warm sensuality. Mr. Garza now stood & lectured the 12 students for the first time, still having a slight accent of his Barcelona upbringing. His polo shirt, khaki trousers, & Birkenstock sandals presented an unspoken message of informality from the professor. “Now, before you joined this class, you were required to sign a form, that doesn't allow you to tell anyone what happens, in this class. So, has everyone brought in their signed forms and medical documents to class, today?” asked Mr. Garza. “Please hold yours up when you have it.” All the students nodded their heads to show that they had their forms. Mr. Garza began retrieving the forms from the students.  "Well that's good" said Mrs. Garza, “Now, the reason we asked you to get those forms and documents signed; is because this is to prove that you have passed your eighteenth birthday; and because this is going to be a very different kind of human sexuality class from the kinds of classes you have been in before, you all have been checked in the last 2 weeks for an STD or other communicable disease. Am I correct, everyone?” Mrs. Garza looked each student and waited for an affirmation from each of them. Then she continued; “ All females are successfully using birth control in a daily pill form for 6 weeks or more. Am I correct, ladies?” Each of the 6 females affirmed this fact, one by one. “And lastly, your documents say that you all assume your responsibilities in this class, and understand your risks. Does anyone have a question or concern about those risks and responsibilities? None? Okay, let's begin.” Session One "Class, we want you all to be very comfortable in the lab. Sexuality on a college campus does have risks. For this class we have taken great effort to protect you from those possibilities. This is the safest environment we can provide you, but you have to trust each other. You start by respecting and caring for each other and showing sensitivity to everyone taking this class with you.” “Usually, labs require special protective gear. But for our labs, the opposite is true. And we want you all to become comfortable with your sexuality and we feel that the best way for all of you to do this is with full participation in the class,” said Mr. Garza. “No outsider is allowed to visit or audit this class. All electronics you carry in with you, need to be stored in the plastic tub below the chalkboard. It's not a matter of me not trusting you. It's Phoebe and I protecting you from being recorded or otherwise exposed and deprived of your privacy. by imposing the same rules on everyone, including Phoebe and myself. Not even the chancellor or the regents. This class is designed with the 12 of you in mind. But you need to be fully involved, immersed. Without full participation, you will not pass this class. Is everyone clear on this?” Everyone nodded. Antonio turned to Phoebe to finish the orientation. Phoebe stepped toward the middle sofas which were just on the other side of the partition wall from the elevated lecture seating chairs; then resumed; “We've said a lot about trust and respect. It's for this reason. In order for everyone to fully participate we are going to require everyone participating in the class to remain naked at all times while lessons are in session,” Mrs. Garza told the students. The class all began to talk at once protesting the fact that they were going to have to be naked in class.  “Now calm down class. I know all of you may be temporarily uncomfortable with being naked in front of your fellow classmates, but believe me, this will help you become more comfortable with your sexuality,” said Mr. Garza “ “And to make all of you feel more comfortable,” Mrs. Garza added. Antonio and I will also be staying naked for the duration of the lessons, also.” With that both Mr. and Mrs. Garza began taking off all of their clothes.  The students stopped their clamoring when they saw Phoebe Garza's swaying breasts swing free of her purple lace bra. About the same time, Antonio Garza's black thong briefs made a grand appearance as his trousers fell to the floor. Phoebe slipped out of her purple lace panties and sat back down on the wooden table. She even spread her lags to show off the ‘landing strip' of her pussy. When Antonio slid his thong down and stepped out of them, he hooked the waistband with a thumb, then stretched the thong with the other hand. He aimed at Mrs. Garza and shot her in the boobs, This playfulness helped the students relax and even elicited a few chuckles.   Once they had finished undressing they stood before the class completely naked and needless to say every eye in the classroom was focused on the two naked professors in front of them, or at least on certain parts of them. Every male student's eyes were focused on Mrs. Garza' large 36DD breasts, while all of the female students were focused on Mr. Garza's large swaying penis hanging between his legs which was about seven inches long even in its somewhat flaccid state. Both of the professors had trimmed their pubic bushes, but were not completely bald. “Now as you can see we are perfectly comfortable with our nudity, and we want you to be as comfortable with your nudity as we are with ours,” Mrs. Garza told the students, as she held up her matching undies and her hubby's thong up in the air. “When you've removed all your clothing, leave it there and come into the pit & sit on the sofas, so we can begin the lessons.” “Now get those clothes off. Come on let's get a move on,” Mr. Garza stood & ordered the students. That ‘broke the ice' and a few guys started stripping down. Erika and Bethany both joined in the communal disrobing. This was quickly followed by the rest of the students beginning to remove all of their clothing. Some of the students struggled with taking off their last items because they continued to pay attention to their naked teachers at the front of the classroom. Devon was struggling because of his social disabilities. Female social interaction typically terrifies him. He's been working on the problem ever since he dropped out of the 2nd semester human sexuality class, last February. Last winter, just talking about genitals with classmates was too much for him. Devon saw Bruce step past him, buck naked in all his glory. Bruce looks like a Greek wrestler. Bruce found a seat on the end sofa and sat. Devon then saw Bethany at the other side of the room get up. Her massive boobs swayed as she descended the steps into the pit. She sat at the end of one of the two center sofas. the other girls seemed to follow in a group, taking up the center sofas. Bruce & Bethany are both very accomplished college athletes. Their daily routines include plenty of nakedness in the athletic showers & locker rooms. But for Alexis and the other ladies, it took them a lot of courage.  It's not that Alexis didn't want to comply. She was determined to make up for 18 years of shame & suppression of many things her mother condemned. Going to movies, Dancing, rock music, etcetera. But this coed nakedness was her boldest act of defiance against her mother's extreme ways. Devon's apprehensions and distractions  were not helping matters. Once the last gal, Alexis, was descending to the pit; Devon made his  grand appearance. The girls all dropped their jaws and watched Devon's 10 inch rod spring back and forth horizontally and he took the last available seat at the end of the end sofa. Devon thought he was really smart by walking around the back of the sofa, but as he rounded the far end, he emerged in full frontal exposition for the whole class to appreciate. He waved to everyone, but not with his hands. His cock exuberantly waved to a watching classroom. Now all of the students were naked in the pit of the lecture bowl, most of the students were shyly covering their genitals. A few of the girls regretted their choice of seating. They all felt like their tits were on display. They guys were on the sofas at each end of the oval-shaped pit., and able to watch the professors while perusing the six sets of tits on the middle 2 sofas. Erika, although, loved the attention. Her buxom curves were a source of sexual pride. While the two petite ladies, Alexis and Elizabeth, on either end of her sofa, had their arms crossed over their bosoms, She had her arms crossed under her D cup rack. She even hiked up her arms to hoist her natural tits higher! “All right; Let's all give our classmates some all applause for joining us in bravely disrobing.” Antonio said as he and Phoebe began clapping. The students sheepishly joined in.  This was followed by some relaxed breathing and less nervousness, generally. “Now that all of you are naked we are going to go over the first thing that happens to begin the sexual cycle; arousal,” said Mr. Garza. “Who can tell me what the signs of arousal are in a man?” Mrs. Garza asked the class. Devon, a slightly nerdy looking student raised his hand, having already revealed what looked like an impressive erection he was trying to hide under his hand. “Yes Devon?” Mrs. Garza said. “Well the most obvious signs of arousal in a man is, that his penis will become hard and erect, which is known as an erection,” recited Devon; “another sign of arousal in a man is that his testicles will swell as they prepare to release semen.” “Yes, excellent! That is correct, Devon,” said Mrs. Garza.  Bethany gave him a thumbs up. Devon smiled, then rolled his eyes in a ‘ah shucks admission.  “Now, there are many different ways to get a man aroused and cause him to have an erection. The first and most obvious way, which I'm sure many of you young men are experiencing, is seeing a naked woman.” Mr Garza stated. Phoebe ignored the signals between the students. “I'm sure that since I took off my clothes many of you began to have an erection, which was only increased when your fellow female classmates also took off their clothes; so you should not be ashamed about having an erection right now.” “Ladies, you should not be offended, either.” Phoebe emphasized. “It is a compliment of your sexuality. It doesn't mean a man is anything other than normal & healthy. Be proud that you're appealing! I am! A man's physiology responds to his 5 senses. He gets erect without making a decision to. It comes  naturally from what his 5 senses absorb, and how much of you he absorbs. Antonio added; “As you can see I am also beginning to produce an erection from seeing my wife and all these lovely young ladies naked,” said Mr. Garza as he stood up off the table, which prompted many of the female students to look at his hardening penis, which was now pointed almost straight out and had increased in both length and thickness. “Ah, did you say ‘beginning to'? Honney, your pole's been waving to get our attention for the past 10 minutes. Am I right, girls?” Nervous giggles were heard from the 6 blushing young women. “Point taken,” Antonio conceded. “We will discuss other ways you can cause arousal, but for now could someone tell me about what arousal looks like, in a woman,” Mr. Garza asked.  Michelle, a brunette girl of average height raised her right hand, while she continued to use her left hand to try and cover her full C-cup breasts. “Yes Michelle,” said Mr. Garza. “Well when a women gets aroused, her nipples get hard and erect, and um, sometimes; her breasts swell so that they appear fuller. Oh, uh, and her vagina begins to get wet, and hot, and sticky,” Michelle said nervously. “That is correct, Michelle,” said Mrs. Garza “I'm sure many of you young ladies are beginning to feel several of these sensations. Now, women also get aroused by seeing a naked man, particularly if he is sporting an erection, but it usually takes slightly more to get a woman aroused. Women need more intimate sensations to become fully aroused, such as kissing and caressing from their partner.” “We are now going to begin the rest of our discussion about how men and women become more aroused,” said Mr. Garza. “I notice many of you are subconsciously fidgeting. Part of our discussion about arousal will involve talking about masturbation, so if any of you feel the need, we would encourage you to masturbate during this discussion. We placed a box of tissues on each sofa. Please grab a few and pass the box to those by you.” As the students each grabbed a wad of tissues, Phoebe continued; “You may need them. If that makes any of you feel uncomfortable, change your attitude. It's important that none of you do or say anything which hampers another student's learning experience.” “Now the completion of arousal and the sexual cycle is when you experience an orgasm,” said Mrs. Garza. “For men, this results in the ejaculation of semen from the penis. I'm sure most of you young men have experienced this sensation, through masturbation for instance. But it is even better if you have a partner bring you to orgasm. I am now going to demonstrate this to all of you, while using my husband as an example.” Then Mrs. Garza approached her husband, who was sitting with his legs dangling off the end of the table; and began to make out with him. She gave his a slow, wet kiss while caressing his chest, ass, and thighs. After she had kissed him for a while she reached down and grabbed his penis with one hand, which was now fully erect.  As she stopped kissing her husband for a moment she turned back to the class and said, “Now, I am going to stroke my husband's penis, which is commonly known as a hand job.” Mr. Garza reclined, resting on his elbows. The girls were entranced.   “Now girls, you want to make sure the man is feeling pleasure from this and it is not too dry and causing painful friction on his tender skin” Mrs. Garza continued to stroke her husband's penis while the students, especially the female students, stared intently at her pleasuring her husband's ‘flagpole'. A young girl named Erika, began shaking a bit from an orgasm as she had one hand between her legs and the other hand pleasuring one of her nipples on her large D-cup breasts. Mr. Garza began to moan louder as his wife slowly and firmly stroked his penis. “Now students, you will notice that Mr. Garza is moaning louder this means that he is probably close to having an orgasm. Ladies, another thing you should notice is that a man's testicles will keep drawing closer to his body. This is another indication that the man is about to cum. Now Mr. Garza should cum soon so I especially want you ladies to pay attention so you know what happens when a man ejaculates.” As Mrs. Garza stroked a bit faster, she used her thumb to rub the underside of Mr. Garza's tip. Soon he began breathing and moaning very loudly and suddenly began ejaculating, having a very good orgasm, with tree shots of semen blasting into the air and falling on his torso.. Mrs. Garza continued steady stroking her husband's penis until his orgasm was completed. As Mr. Garza laid down on the table to relax, Mrs. Garza again addressed the class. “Now you have seen what happens when a man has an orgasm. Ladies, one thing for you to know is that if you are giving a man a hand job you want to make sure you continue stroking his penis until his orgasm is complete. You don't want to stop right as he starts ejaculating, because that will cause his orgasm to stop sooner, and you want to make sure you give him as good of an orgasm as you can. Any questions class?” Alexis a shy, short girl with nice B-cup breasts and long nipples raised her hand. “Yes Alexis?” Mrs. Garza asked. “What was that white stuff coming out of his penis?” Alexis obviously had next to zero information on human sexuality. She just couldn't comprehend the male anatomy from the textbooks, last fall. So what happened to Mr. Garza totally confounded her. “That is a very good question, Alexis. That is called semen. When a man is having sex with you and he ejaculates inside your vagina, his semen carries sperm to your eggs, and may cause you to become pregnant. For those of you ladies who have never experienced having a man ejaculate inside you it is an amazing feeling and you will all experience it in this course.” Now Alexis was starting to understand the textbooks! Her fundamentalist private school didn't teach sex ed, and her mother told her that sex is nasty. Perhaps that's why her father left the marriage when Alexis was just 2, and she never knew him? Mrs. Garza looked back at her husband. “Honey, are you ready to continue with the lesson?” Mrs. Garza asked her husband, who just sat up and cleaned up. “Yes, I am ready to continue now,” Mr. Garza replied. He stepped down and tossed the tissues in the trash can. “Now we are going to show what happens when a woman has an orgasm.” Mrs. Garza climbed on the end of the table and laid back. .Her husband came over behind the table, facing the students, and caressed her legs. “Now boys, before you begin directly pleasuring a women's vagina. You can start by kissing a woman's neck and once you do that for a while. You can move down to her breasts. Now each woman is different so make sure that you pay attention to her signals to see whether she is enjoying what you are doing. Women are much more aroused by touch than by visuals. I know that my wife's breasts are very sensitive and she loves it when I pay attention to her breasts. What I like to do is kiss around the edge of my wife's breasts and slowly make my way to her nipples. This usually drives her crazy.” “Oh babe stop just talking about it and get over here and kiss me,” his wife said in anticipation. Mr. Garza then leaned over and began kissing his wife while reaching one hand over and down to fondle her far breast. It was drooping naturally over her ribs, in full view of the students. The nipple rose to a considerable height, in a stiff erection.. He continued to kiss his and eventually broke apart from her lips to start kissing her neck. He continued kissing his way down her body making his way toward her breasts. He started kissing the near breast while groping the other and Mrs. Garza started moaning louder. He then began paying more attention to her nipples, which only increased her arousal. The students started becoming even more excited as they watched their teacher pleasure his wife. The arousal became too much for a couple of the boys and they began ejaculating into their tissues. Bethany grabbed the tissue box and stuffed a large wad between her thighs. Then she resumed her own nipple stimulation, while vicariously experiencing the demonstration she was watching.. Mr. Garza turned back around to address the class. “Now class I am about to show you what is commonly known as fingering a woman. I'm sure several of you young women know what this is like and so I especially want the young men to pay attention so they know what they are doing with a woman. Now the first thing you want to do is make sure the woman has a very wet vagina. You do this by rubbing your finger along the lips of a woman's vagina.” He then demonstrated this on his wife, which brought about a very happy moan from her. “Now once you have determined that the woman is properly aroused you can insert your finger inside of her. You usually want to start with only one finger but you can add more fingers depending on what the woman wants. Her vagina opens wider after she is aroused.” He then inserted his fingers inside his wife and began pleasuring her. “Now in order to make sure a woman reaches orgasm you want to keep paying attention to what she likes. The best way to know if a woman has reached her orgasm is that you will feel her vaginal muscles gripping your finger or if you are having sex you will feel them gripping your penis. This is an amazing thing to feel especially if it happens while you are ejaculating.” Mrs. Garza then began experiencing an orgasm and her legs shook with pleasure. This final sexual display was too much for the rest of the ladies as most of them began having orgasms of their own, including Erika arriving at her second orgasm of the class time. Class Dismissed As his wife began coming down from her orgasm Mr. Garza addressed the class one last time. “Now I want you all to think about what you learned today and if you are comfortable enough you can put some of what you learned into practice. However, our class time is up, so you can all get dressed and we'll call it a day. Our next session will be longer than today was. Please pay attention to good grooming and hygiene.” As the students began dressing, Mr. Garza added one last instruction; “Remember that we want you all to feel safe and respected. if anyone is found to have disclosed any information to anyone outside this classroom, including who is enrolled; You'll be removed from the group and given an F for the course. This class is a success only if you feel safe, respected, & encouraged by everyone. We intend to honor that trust. Is everyone okay with that?” The students, especially several ladies; were in no hurry to get up. When they did, they all dumped several wads of tissue in the trash can under the end table which was between the middle sofas. It was very quiet in the room as the students dressed. In the last hour, they had experienced a mind-blowing session of instruction and demonstrations. The professors talked quietly about the session while sitting on the table. They stayed naked and deep in conversation. After all the students had all dressed, Mrs. Garza allowed them to open the doors to leave. After the 12 students left the classroom, Antonio relocked the doors & walked over to his gorgeous wife who was still naked, sitting with her bare ass on the end of the wooden table. "Well that was an interesting lesson. I think I'm really going to enjoy this class,” he told his wife as he pushed a lock of her hair behind her ears and began to kiss her. She spread her legs for him. “Yeah I bet you loved having all those beautiful, young, naked girls staring at your big cock while they pleasured themselves as I stroked you, especially that one girl with the big tits that had an orgasm while I was stroking you,” his wife responded as he began to kiss down her neck. She also reached down to find that his penis was getting hard again. “Really, I was too engrossed in you pleasuring to be aware of their pleasures. But yes, it was fantastic to see those young women naked. I'm sure you enjoyed seeing all those young men stroking their cocks as they stared at your big breasts.” To emphasize his point he then leaned in and started kissing and fondling his wife's large breasts. She continued to pull on his hard cock as she responded. “Yes several of them do have very nice cocks. That nerdy kid, Devon, looked like he was packing some serious meat, and did you see the big head on that one kid's cock? You know how much I love a big cock head,” as she rubbed her thumb over her husband's large cock head. “Well then I guess it's a good thing I can provide that for you. Are you ready for it?” Antonio asked, as he rubbed his finger across her slit, feeling how moist she was for him. “God yes! Fuck me now, please!"  He reached down and grabbed his very hard cock and pushed it into his wife. "Oh yes; your pussy feels so good, baby; I love how it grabs my cock.” “That's because your cock is so big. I love how deep it goes inside me,” she moaned in response as he continued to thrust into her. “I can feel your cock pulsating inside of me. Are you still thinking about those sexy, beautiful, young girls, babe?” “I might be,” he responded with a twinkle in his eye and grin on his face, “like you're not thinking about those young men and their hard young cocks?” “Okay, you're right. Watching them stroke their young cocks earlier, turned me on so much. I'm still so turned on that I think I'm going to come very soon.” “Good baby, because I'm about to shoot another huge load into your pussy,” he moaned into her ear as he continued thrusting into her while groping her huge breasts. “Oh god, yes! Make me feel that big dick spurting deep inside me. Oh god, I'm cumming!” Phoebe squealed as she wrapped her arms and legs around her Antonio, as she pushed him deeper inside of her as she had another very powerful orgasm. He also began to moan louder, as he emptied his balls deep inside his wife. He held her tightly and stayed deeply thrusted within her for a few silent minutes.  When they both began to calm down from their mutual orgasms. Antonio looked deep into his wife's eyes, and brushed her hair as his dick began to soften inside of her. “Yes this is definitely going to be a great summer,” he said to her. She looked back up at him and simply said, “Oh yeah! And we get paid to teach this class! Session Two Bethany was the last to arrive, but she was still early. She took more time this morning to wax her mound, and she had to do it a second time, because her dyslexia led to misunderstanding the package instructions. She hopes none of her cycling teammates and dorm sisters find out she's in this course. She told them she took a part time job, working for a professor in the health sciences building. She's rather active, sexually, but doesn't do well learning from textbooks. She relies on her study groups in these ‘book-learning' classes. She knows human sexuality very well, but often does very poorly on written tests. All the students gradually proceeded to enter the classroom once the door was unlocked. When all were present, Professor Phoebe Garza pressed the remote door lock, and the students were instructed to remove their garments up in the riser seats, then come down to the pit (a k a main floor), and find a seat on one of the four upholstered sofas facing the front. The professors also stripped and left their items behind the burgundy leather sofa, in the corner of the pit.  Mr. Garza commented to his fellow professor, that no one dropped the class, and they all showed positive signs of eagerness to get the most out of the class. The two professors were standing at the front of the classroom, completely naked. The students all undressed and left all personal items in the student desks, then came down to sit in the sofas, until all their classmates were seated on a sofa, ready to begin. There was a marked improvement in the students' appearance, today. Several students had much less pubic hair. The gals all had paid more attention to grooming, cosmetics, and hair accessories. Some wore earrings or short necklaces. The guys were all clean, shaven, and smelled great. A couple guys even sported gold chains.  The gals smelled fresh and flowery. No one came late, and  were waiting at the door even before the professors had the classroom unlocked. The professors noted the good hygiene and were glad they didn't need to address the topic further. Mrs. Garza addressed the class, "Now class, for today our lesson will focus on oral sex. Now who can tell me what it means to have oral sex?” Bethany raised her hand, leaving her spectacular breasts exposed for all the boys in the classroom to see. “Well, oral sex is when you use your mouth to pleasure your partner,” she said as she started to touch her pussy a bit. “That's correct, Bethany. Now oral sex is commonly known by different names. For instance when a woman is giving a man oral sex it is commonly known as a blowjob or the latin word fellatio,” said Mr. Garza ,whose cock was already starting to get hard from seeing his attractive young students naked and the talk of oral sex. “Also when a man gives oral sex to a woman it is commonly referred to as eating pussy or the latin word cunnilingus,” Mrs. Garza told the class. To be continued. By zachattack163 for Literotica

Barkley summer semester course for those who flunked human sexuality 101. By zachattack163 and adapted for this platform. Listen to the ► Podcast At Steamy Stories. Alexis walks the short distance from student parking, to the Health Sciences building. It's late in June and the campus is almost a ghost town. She‘s glad of that, because she doesn't want anyone to know she's having to make up a course in order to enroll in fall classes and begin her sophomore year. Why had her fundamentalist mother's repressed sexuality become her damn disability! At least now that she's living with her aunt & uncle, in this college town; she can start learning, and unlearning.  But remedial human sexuality? Why the heck is that class so hard to comprehend? Maybe if she was a slut, then she'd at least have some familiarity and practice? The virgin college student wants her secret kept that way. She walks into the designated room. It's a lecture bowl with seating for 100, but less than a dozen students are in the room. She sees them scattered in the first two rows, down near the front. “Good afternoon students.” The male & female professors soon greeted the freshmen. The small assortment of students sat in the lecture bowl, mostly fidgeting and looking at the unusual furniture in a lecture bowl. The male professor pressed a button near the chalk board, which remotely locked the doors. Then he began handing out the syllabus as the female professor wrote some names on the board. “My name is Doctor Phoebe Garza, PhD. Our other instructor is Doctor Antonio Garza, my husband of 7 years.” “Let's be honest about why you're here. For whatever reasons, you didn't attain the required human sexuality credit during your first two semesters. In order to enroll for fall classes, you'll need to pass this in the summer session.” The pit of the lecture bowl room was reset without the customary classroom tables, lectern, and common furnishings. Instead, the instructional aids included; a chaise lounge, a Leather sofa, and a sturdy oak table and several cushioned desk chairs aligning the side walls, below the chalkboard. The middle of the pit also had what looks like a 12x12 purple wrestling mat. On the front floor row of the student seating, on the pit floor, the usual chairs & tables were replaced by four upholstered sofas in a semi-circle, with large plush bath blankets covering the seat cushions. The unique layout of the lecture ‘bowl' auditorium used for this class. “To help you, we reviewed your academic records and with the help of guidance counselors, we determined that kinetic learning might be a more effective mode for several of you.” Phoebe Garza said, in a relaxed conversational tone. Her Summer outfit and sandals only added to the informality. “That is why you were given this opportunity to fulfill your requisite credit with this alternative class. But If you don't get your Human Sexuality credit through this class, you can retake the standard one oh one course early next month.” In the same way we employ lab sessions for many of our science classes, we're going to add that component to this particular experimental course offering. Many of you probably had learning experiences where the textbook words came to life, only after you put the theories to practice in a science lab. So, the two of us studied some clinical papers from an Amsterdam university, and we collaborated to develop this teaching concept. But instead of using lab animals to study behavioral concepts, All of us will become the lab specimens for this attempt to bring all of you academically, back up to the rest of the upcoming sophomore class.” Mrs. Garza continued; ”It's not often that I get to teach with my husband. He is a research scientist. He rarely teaches a college class to undergrads. But this class is also part of an ongoing research, so we're all going to learn a lot, this summer session. “Now class today we are going to begin our Human Sexuality introduction,” said Mrs. Garza, the very attractive human sexuality professor. She was sitting next to her husband on the rectangular sturdy table in front of the chalkboard, leaning back on her hands. A beautiful woman, she exuded warm sensuality. Mr. Garza now stood & lectured the 12 students for the first time, still having a slight accent of his Barcelona upbringing. His polo shirt, khaki trousers, & Birkenstock sandals presented an unspoken message of informality from the professor. “Now, before you joined this class, you were required to sign a form, that doesn't allow you to tell anyone what happens, in this class. So, has everyone brought in their signed forms and medical documents to class, today?” asked Mr. Garza. “Please hold yours up when you have it.” All the students nodded their heads to show that they had their forms. Mr. Garza began retrieving the forms from the students.  "Well that's good" said Mrs. Garza, “Now, the reason we asked you to get those forms and documents signed; is because this is to prove that you have passed your eighteenth birthday; and because this is going to be a very different kind of human sexuality class from the kinds of classes you have been in before, you all have been checked in the last 2 weeks for an STD or other communicable disease. Am I correct, everyone?” Mrs. Garza looked each student and waited for an affirmation from each of them. Then she continued; “ All females are successfully using birth control in a daily pill form for 6 weeks or more. Am I correct, ladies?” Each of the 6 females affirmed this fact, one by one. “And lastly, your documents say that you all assume your responsibilities in this class, and understand your risks. Does anyone have a question or concern about those risks and responsibilities? None? Okay, let's begin.” Session One "Class, we want you all to be very comfortable in the lab. Sexuality on a college campus does have risks. For this class we have taken great effort to protect you from those possibilities. This is the safest environment we can provide you, but you have to trust each other. You start by respecting and caring for each other and showing sensitivity to everyone taking this class with you.” “Usually, labs require special protective gear. But for our labs, the opposite is true. And we want you all to become comfortable with your sexuality and we feel that the best way for all of you to do this is with full participation in the class,” said Mr. Garza. “No outsider is allowed to visit or audit this class. All electronics you carry in with you, need to be stored in the plastic tub below the chalkboard. It's not a matter of me not trusting you. It's Phoebe and I protecting you from being recorded or otherwise exposed and deprived of your privacy. by imposing the same rules on everyone, including Phoebe and myself. Not even the chancellor or the regents. This class is designed with the 12 of you in mind. But you need to be fully involved, immersed. Without full participation, you will not pass this class. Is everyone clear on this?” Everyone nodded. Antonio turned to Phoebe to finish the orientation. Phoebe stepped toward the middle sofas which were just on the other side of the partition wall from the elevated lecture seating chairs; then resumed; “We've said a lot about trust and respect. It's for this reason. In order for everyone to fully participate we are going to require everyone participating in the class to remain naked at all times while lessons are in session,” Mrs. Garza told the students. The class all began to talk at once protesting the fact that they were going to have to be naked in class.  “Now calm down class. I know all of you may be temporarily uncomfortable with being naked in front of your fellow classmates, but believe me, this will help you become more comfortable with your sexuality,” said Mr. Garza “ “And to make all of you feel more comfortable,” Mrs. Garza added. Antonio and I will also be staying naked for the duration of the lessons, also.” With that both Mr. and Mrs. Garza began taking off all of their clothes.  The students stopped their clamoring when they saw Phoebe Garza's swaying breasts swing free of her purple lace bra. About the same time, Antonio Garza's black thong briefs made a grand appearance as his trousers fell to the floor. Phoebe slipped out of her purple lace panties and sat back down on the wooden table. She even spread her lags to show off the ‘landing strip' of her pussy. When Antonio slid his thong down and stepped out of them, he hooked the waistband with a thumb, then stretched the thong with the other hand. He aimed at Mrs. Garza and shot her in the boobs, This playfulness helped the students relax and even elicited a few chuckles.   Once they had finished undressing they stood before the class completely naked and needless to say every eye in the classroom was focused on the two naked professors in front of them, or at least on certain parts of them. Every male student's eyes were focused on Mrs. Garza' large 36DD breasts, while all of the female students were focused on Mr. Garza's large swaying penis hanging between his legs which was about seven inches long even in its somewhat flaccid state. Both of the professors had trimmed their pubic bushes, but were not completely bald. “Now as you can see we are perfectly comfortable with our nudity, and we want you to be as comfortable with your nudity as we are with ours,” Mrs. Garza told the students, as she held up her matching undies and her hubby's thong up in the air. “When you've removed all your clothing, leave it there and come into the pit & sit on the sofas, so we can begin the lessons.” “Now get those clothes off. Come on let's get a move on,” Mr. Garza stood & ordered the students. That ‘broke the ice' and a few guys started stripping down. Erika and Bethany both joined in the communal disrobing. This was quickly followed by the rest of the students beginning to remove all of their clothing. Some of the students struggled with taking off their last items because they continued to pay attention to their naked teachers at the front of the classroom. Devon was struggling because of his social disabilities. Female social interaction typically terrifies him. He's been working on the problem ever since he dropped out of the 2nd semester human sexuality class, last February. Last winter, just talking about genitals with classmates was too much for him. Devon saw Bruce step past him, buck naked in all his glory. Bruce looks like a Greek wrestler. Bruce found a seat on the end sofa and sat. Devon then saw Bethany at the other side of the room get up. Her massive boobs swayed as she descended the steps into the pit. She sat at the end of one of the two center sofas. the other girls seemed to follow in a group, taking up the center sofas. Bruce & Bethany are both very accomplished college athletes. Their daily routines include plenty of nakedness in the athletic showers & locker rooms. But for Alexis and the other ladies, it took them a lot of courage.  It's not that Alexis didn't want to comply. She was determined to make up for 18 years of shame & suppression of many things her mother condemned. Going to movies, Dancing, rock music, etcetera. But this coed nakedness was her boldest act of defiance against her mother's extreme ways. Devon's apprehensions and distractions  were not helping matters. Once the last gal, Alexis, was descending to the pit; Devon made his  grand appearance. The girls all dropped their jaws and watched Devon's 10 inch rod spring back and forth horizontally and he took the last available seat at the end of the end sofa. Devon thought he was really smart by walking around the back of the sofa, but as he rounded the far end, he emerged in full frontal exposition for the whole class to appreciate. He waved to everyone, but not with his hands. His cock exuberantly waved to a watching classroom. Now all of the students were naked in the pit of the lecture bowl, most of the students were shyly covering their genitals. A few of the girls regretted their choice of seating. They all felt like their tits were on display. They guys were on the sofas at each end of the oval-shaped pit., and able to watch the professors while perusing the six sets of tits on the middle 2 sofas. Erika, although, loved the attention. Her buxom curves were a source of sexual pride. While the two petite ladies, Alexis and Elizabeth, on either end of her sofa, had their arms crossed over their bosoms, She had her arms crossed under her D cup rack. She even hiked up her arms to hoist her natural tits higher! “All right; Let's all give our classmates some all applause for joining us in bravely disrobing.” Antonio said as he and Phoebe began clapping. The students sheepishly joined in.  This was followed by some relaxed breathing and less nervousness, generally. “Now that all of you are naked we are going to go over the first thing that happens to begin the sexual cycle; arousal,” said Mr. Garza. “Who can tell me what the signs of arousal are in a man?” Mrs. Garza asked the class. Devon, a slightly nerdy looking student raised his hand, having already revealed what looked like an impressive erection he was trying to hide under his hand. “Yes Devon?” Mrs. Garza said. “Well the most obvious signs of arousal in a man is, that his penis will become hard and erect, which is known as an erection,” recited Devon; “another sign of arousal in a man is that his testicles will swell as they prepare to release semen.” “Yes, excellent! That is correct, Devon,” said Mrs. Garza.  Bethany gave him a thumbs up. Devon smiled, then rolled his eyes in a ‘ah shucks admission.  “Now, there are many different ways to get a man aroused and cause him to have an erection. The first and most obvious way, which I'm sure many of you young men are experiencing, is seeing a naked woman.” Mr Garza stated. Phoebe ignored the signals between the students. “I'm sure that since I took off my clothes many of you began to have an erection, which was only increased when your fellow female classmates also took off their clothes; so you should not be ashamed about having an erection right now.” “Ladies, you should not be offended, either.” Phoebe emphasized. “It is a compliment of your sexuality. It doesn't mean a man is anything other than normal & healthy. Be proud that you're appealing! I am! A man's physiology responds to his 5 senses. He gets erect without making a decision to. It comes  naturally from what his 5 senses absorb, and how much of you he absorbs. Antonio added; “As you can see I am also beginning to produce an erection from seeing my wife and all these lovely young ladies naked,” said Mr. Garza as he stood up off the table, which prompted many of the female students to look at his hardening penis, which was now pointed almost straight out and had increased in both length and thickness. “Ah, did you say ‘beginning to'? Honney, your pole's been waving to get our attention for the past 10 minutes. Am I right, girls?” Nervous giggles were heard from the 6 blushing young women. “Point taken,” Antonio conceded. “We will discuss other ways you can cause arousal, but for now could someone tell me about what arousal looks like, in a woman,” Mr. Garza asked.  Michelle, a brunette girl of average height raised her right hand, while she continued to use her left hand to try and cover her full C-cup breasts. “Yes Michelle,” said Mr. Garza. “Well when a women gets aroused, her nipples get hard and erect, and um, sometimes; her breasts swell so that they appear fuller. Oh, uh, and her vagina begins to get wet, and hot, and sticky,” Michelle said nervously. “That is correct, Michelle,” said Mrs. Garza “I'm sure many of you young ladies are beginning to feel several of these sensations. Now, women also get aroused by seeing a naked man, particularly if he is sporting an erection, but it usually takes slightly more to get a woman aroused. Women need more intimate sensations to become fully aroused, such as kissing and caressing from their partner.” “We are now going to begin the rest of our discussion about how men and women become more aroused,” said Mr. Garza. “I notice many of you are subconsciously fidgeting. Part of our discussion about arousal will involve talking about masturbation, so if any of you feel the need, we would encourage you to masturbate during this discussion. We placed a box of tissues on each sofa. Please grab a few and pass the box to those by you.” As the students each grabbed a wad of tissues, Phoebe continued; “You may need them. If that makes any of you feel uncomfortable, change your attitude. It's important that none of you do or say anything which hampers another student's learning experience.” “Now the completion of arousal and the sexual cycle is when you experience an orgasm,” said Mrs. Garza. “For men, this results in the ejaculation of semen from the penis. I'm sure most of you young men have experienced this sensation, through masturbation for instance. But it is even better if you have a partner bring you to orgasm. I am now going to demonstrate this to all of you, while using my husband as an example.” Then Mrs. Garza approached her husband, who was sitting with his legs dangling off the end of the table; and began to make out with him. She gave his a slow, wet kiss while caressing his chest, ass, and thighs. After she had kissed him for a while she reached down and grabbed his penis with one hand, which was now fully erect.  As she stopped kissing her husband for a moment she turned back to the class and said, “Now, I am going to stroke my husband's penis, which is commonly known as a hand job.” Mr. Garza reclined, resting on his elbows. The girls were entranced.   “Now girls, you want to make sure the man is feeling pleasure from this and it is not too dry and causing painful friction on his tender skin” Mrs. Garza continued to stroke her husband's penis while the students, especially the female students, stared intently at her pleasuring her husband's ‘flagpole'. A young girl named Erika, began shaking a bit from an orgasm as she had one hand between her legs and the other hand pleasuring one of her nipples on her large D-cup breasts. Mr. Garza began to moan louder as his wife slowly and firmly stroked his penis. “Now students, you will notice that Mr. Garza is moaning louder this means that he is probably close to having an orgasm. Ladies, another thing you should notice is that a man's testicles will keep drawing closer to his body. This is another indication that the man is about to cum. Now Mr. Garza should cum soon so I especially want you ladies to pay attention so you know what happens when a man ejaculates.” As Mrs. Garza stroked a bit faster, she used her thumb to rub the underside of Mr. Garza's tip. Soon he began breathing and moaning very loudly and suddenly began ejaculating, having a very good orgasm, with tree shots of semen blasting into the air and falling on his torso.. Mrs. Garza continued steady stroking her husband's penis until his orgasm was completed. As Mr. Garza laid down on the table to relax, Mrs. Garza again addressed the class. “Now you have seen what happens when a man has an orgasm. Ladies, one thing for you to know is that if you are giving a man a hand job you want to make sure you continue stroking his penis until his orgasm is complete. You don't want to stop right as he starts ejaculating, because that will cause his orgasm to stop sooner, and you want to make sure you give him as good of an orgasm as you can. Any questions class?” Alexis a shy, short girl with nice B-cup breasts and long nipples raised her hand. “Yes Alexis?” Mrs. Garza asked. “What was that white stuff coming out of his penis?” Alexis obviously had next to zero information on human sexuality. She just couldn't comprehend the male anatomy from the textbooks, last fall. So what happened to Mr. Garza totally confounded her. “That is a very good question, Alexis. That is called semen. When a man is having sex with you and he ejaculates inside your vagina, his semen carries sperm to your eggs, and may cause you to become pregnant. For those of you ladies who have never experienced having a man ejaculate inside you it is an amazing feeling and you will all experience it in this course.” Now Alexis was starting to understand the textbooks! Her fundamentalist private school didn't teach sex ed, and her mother told her that sex is nasty. Perhaps that's why her father left the marriage when Alexis was just 2, and she never knew him? Mrs. Garza looked back at her husband. “Honey, are you ready to continue with the lesson?” Mrs. Garza asked her husband, who just sat up and cleaned up. “Yes, I am ready to continue now,” Mr. Garza replied. He stepped down and tossed the tissues in the trash can. “Now we are going to show what happens when a woman has an orgasm.” Mrs. Garza climbed on the end of the table and laid back. .Her husband came over behind the table, facing the students, and caressed her legs. “Now boys, before you begin directly pleasuring a women's vagina. You can start by kissing a woman's neck and once you do that for a while. You can move down to her breasts. Now each woman is different so make sure that you pay attention to her signals to see whether she is enjoying what you are doing. Women are much more aroused by touch than by visuals. I know that my wife's breasts are very sensitive and she loves it when I pay attention to her breasts. What I like to do is kiss around the edge of my wife's breasts and slowly make my way to her nipples. This usually drives her crazy.” “Oh babe stop just talking about it and get over here and kiss me,” his wife said in anticipation. Mr. Garza then leaned over and began kissing his wife while reaching one hand over and down to fondle her far breast. It was drooping naturally over her ribs, in full view of the students. The nipple rose to a considerable height, in a stiff erection.. He continued to kiss his and eventually broke apart from her lips to start kissing her neck. He continued kissing his way down her body making his way toward her breasts. He started kissing the near breast while groping the other and Mrs. Garza started moaning louder. He then began paying more attention to her nipples, which only increased her arousal. The students started becoming even more excited as they watched their teacher pleasure his wife. The arousal became too much for a couple of the boys and they began ejaculating into their tissues. Bethany grabbed the tissue box and stuffed a large wad between her thighs. Then she resumed her own nipple stimulation, while vicariously experiencing the demonstration she was watching.. Mr. Garza turned back around to address the class. “Now class I am about to show you what is commonly known as fingering a woman. I'm sure several of you young women know what this is like and so I especially want the young men to pay attention so they know what they are doing with a woman. Now the first thing you want to do is make sure the woman has a very wet vagina. You do this by rubbing your finger along the lips of a woman's vagina.” He then demonstrated this on his wife, which brought about a very happy moan from her. “Now once you have determined that the woman is properly aroused you can insert your finger inside of her. You usually want to start with only one finger but you can add more fingers depending on what the woman wants. Her vagina opens wider after she is aroused.” He then inserted his fingers inside his wife and began pleasuring her. “Now in order to make sure a woman reaches orgasm you want to keep paying attention to what she likes. The best way to know if a woman has reached her orgasm is that you will feel her vaginal muscles gripping your finger or if you are having sex you will feel them gripping your penis. This is an amazing thing to feel especially if it happens while you are ejaculating.” Mrs. Garza then began experiencing an orgasm and her legs shook with pleasure. This final sexual display was too much for the rest of the ladies as most of them began having orgasms of their own, including Erika arriving at her second orgasm of the class time. Class Dismissed As his wife began coming down from her orgasm Mr. Garza addressed the class one last time. “Now I want you all to think about what you learned today and if you are comfortable enough you can put some of what you learned into practice. However, our class time is up, so you can all get dressed and we'll call it a day. Our next session will be longer than today was. Please pay attention to good grooming and hygiene.” As the students began dressing, Mr. Garza added one last instruction; “Remember that we want you all to feel safe and respected. if anyone is found to have disclosed any information to anyone outside this classroom, including who is enrolled; You'll be removed from the group and given an F for the course. This class is a success only if you feel safe, respected, & encouraged by everyone. We intend to honor that trust. Is everyone okay with that?” The students, especially several ladies; were in no hurry to get up. When they did, they all dumped several wads of tissue in the trash can under the end table which was between the middle sofas. It was very quiet in the room as the students dressed. In the last hour, they had experienced a mind-blowing session of instruction and demonstrations. The professors talked quietly about the session while sitting on the table. They stayed naked and deep in conversation. After all the students had all dressed, Mrs. Garza allowed them to open the doors to leave. After the 12 students left the classroom, Antonio relocked the doors & walked over to his gorgeous wife who was still naked, sitting with her bare ass on the end of the wooden table. "Well that was an interesting lesson. I think I'm really going to enjoy this class,” he told his wife as he pushed a lock of her hair behind her ears and began to kiss her. She spread her legs for him. “Yeah I bet you loved having all those beautiful, young, naked girls staring at your big cock while they pleasured themselves as I stroked you, especially that one girl with the big tits that had an orgasm while I was stroking you,” his wife responded as he began to kiss down her neck. She also reached down to find that his penis was getting hard again. “Really, I was too engrossed in you pleasuring to be aware of their pleasures. But yes, it was fantastic to see those young women naked. I'm sure you enjoyed seeing all those young men stroking their cocks as they stared at your big breasts.” To emphasize his point he then leaned in and started kissing and fondling his wife's large breasts. She continued to pull on his hard cock as she responded. “Yes several of them do have very nice cocks. That nerdy kid, Devon, looked like he was packing some serious meat, and did you see the big head on that one kid's cock? You know how much I love a big cock head,” as she rubbed her thumb over her husband's large cock head. “Well then I guess it's a good thing I can provide that for you. Are you ready for it?” Antonio asked, as he rubbed his finger across her slit, feeling how moist she was for him. “God yes! Fuck me now, please!"  He reached down and grabbed his very hard cock and pushed it into his wife. "Oh yes; your pussy feels so good, baby; I love how it grabs my cock.” “That's because your cock is so big. I love how deep it goes inside me,” she moaned in response as he continued to thrust into her. “I can feel your cock pulsating inside of me. Are you still thinking about those sexy, beautiful, young girls, babe?” “I might be,” he responded with a twinkle in his eye and grin on his face, “like you're not thinking about those young men and their hard young cocks?” “Okay, you're right. Watching them stroke their young cocks earlier, turned me on so much. I'm still so turned on that I think I'm going to come very soon.” “Good baby, because I'm about to shoot another huge load into your pussy,” he moaned into her ear as he continued thrusting into her while groping her huge breasts. “Oh god, yes! Make me feel that big dick spurting deep inside me. Oh god, I'm cumming!” Phoebe squealed as she wrapped her arms and legs around her Antonio, as she pushed him deeper inside of her as she had another very powerful orgasm. He also began to moan louder, as he emptied his balls deep inside his wife. He held her tightly and stayed deeply thrusted within her for a few silent minutes.  When they both began to calm down from their mutual orgasms. Antonio looked deep into his wife's eyes, and brushed her hair as his dick began to soften inside of her. “Yes this is definitely going to be a great summer,” he said to her. She looked back up at him and simply said, “Oh yeah! And we get paid to teach this class! Session Two Bethany was the last to arrive, but she was still early. She took more time this morning to wax her mound, and she had to do it a second time, because her dyslexia led to misunderstanding the package instructions. She hopes none of her cycling teammates and dorm sisters find out she's in this course. She told them she took a part time job, working for a professor in the health sciences building. She's rather active, sexually, but doesn't do well learning from textbooks. She relies on her study groups in these ‘book-learning' classes. She knows human sexuality very well, but often does very poorly on written tests. All the students gradually proceeded to enter the classroom once the door was unlocked. When all were present, Professor Phoebe Garza pressed the remote door lock, and the students were instructed to remove their garments up in the riser seats, then come down to the pit (a k a main floor), and find a seat on one of the four upholstered sofas facing the front. The professors also stripped and left their items behind the burgundy leather sofa, in the corner of the pit.  Mr. Garza commented to his fellow professor, that no one dropped the class, and they all showed positive signs of eagerness to get the most out of the class. The two professors were standing at the front of the classroom, completely naked. The students all undressed and left all personal items in the student desks, then came down to sit in the sofas, until all their classmates were seated on a sofa, ready to begin. There was a marked improvement in the students' appearance, today. Several students had much less pubic hair. The gals all had paid more attention to grooming, cosmetics, and hair accessories. Some wore earrings or short necklaces. The guys were all clean, shaven, and smelled great. A couple guys even sported gold chains.  The gals smelled fresh and flowery. No one came late, and  were waiting at the door even before the professors had the classroom unlocked. The professors noted the good hygiene and were glad they didn't need to address the topic further. Mrs. Garza addressed the class, "Now class, for today our lesson will focus on oral sex. Now who can tell me what it means to have oral sex?” Bethany raised her hand, leaving her spectacular breasts exposed for all the boys in the classroom to see. “Well, oral sex is when you use your mouth to pleasure your partner,” she said as she started to touch her pussy a bit. “That's correct, Bethany. Now oral sex is commonly known by different names. For instance when a woman is giving a man oral sex it is commonly known as a blowjob or the latin word fellatio,” said Mr. Garza ,whose cock was already starting to get hard from seeing his attractive young students naked and the talk of oral sex. “Also when a man gives oral sex to a woman it is commonly referred to as eating pussy or the latin word cunnilingus,” Mrs. Garza told the class. To be continued. By zachattack163 for Literotica

Friends, we're so excited to be joined by Mrs. Brown today, you've heard us mention her many times over the years! She has developed a successful and innovative program that teaches reading and other academic skills to learners ages three to adult. We learned about her passion and gift for teaching individuals with Down syndrome in 2018 and had her on the show during our first season. Today, she's back to talk about her program, “So Happy To Learn,” to share memorable teaching moments, give us tips and strategies for every learner, and so much more! We know we're headed into summer breaks and vacations, today our episode is packed with tips for summer learning and lifelong learners. As Mrs. Brown says, “Learning is continual!” --- SHOW NOTES Learn more about Mrs. Brown's So Happy To Learn At Home program Check out our last episode with Mrs. Brown in 2018!: 12. Education - So Happy to Learn with Mrs. Terry Brown JOIN THE MOVEMENT Join us in celebrating and supporting The Lucky Few Podcast! For just $0.99, $4.99, or $9.99 a month, you can help us continue shouting worth and shifting narratives for people with Down syndrome. Your support makes a difference in our ability to create meaningful content, enable us to cover production costs, and explore additional opportunities to expand our resources. Become an essential part of The Lucky Few movement today!  DISCOUNT CODE Friends, grab your narrative shifting gear over on The Lucky Few Merch Shop and use code LUCKY for 21% off! HELP US SHIFT THE NARRATIVE Interested in partnering with The Lucky Few Podcast as a sponsor? Email hello@theluckyfewpodcast.com for more information! LET'S CHAT Email hello@theluckyfewpodcast.com with your questions and Good News for future episodes. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theluckyfewpod/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theluckyfewpod/support

In a remarkable display of resilience and determination, Sally Winchell, a vibrant woman in her 60s, has emerged victorious as Mrs. Senior Pennsylvania (back in September), showcasing that age is no barrier to achieving one's dreams. Sally's inspiring journey to the crown not only celebrates her beauty and poise but also emphasizes the importance of maintaining a healthy and active lifestyle, especially in the golden years. Sally's commitment to fitness has played a pivotal role in her success, challenging the stereotypes associated with aging. In an era where societal expectations often dictate limitations for seniors, Sally stands as a testament to the adage that it's never too late to prioritize health and well-being. With grace and determination, Sally has become a beacon for others in their 60s and beyond, proving that age is just a number. Her victory serves as an inspiration, encouraging seniors to adopt a proactive approach to their health and embrace the benefits of staying physically active. Sally's dedication to fitness not only enhances her own quality of life but also sends a powerful message to seniors nationwide: vitality knows no age limit. As Mrs. Senior Pennsylvania, Sally Winchell continues to promote the idea that the later years can be a time of renewed energy, strength, and purpose. Through her journey, she encourages individuals in their 60s and older to break free from societal expectations and embark on a fitness journey that promises not only physical well-being but also a sense of empowerment and accomplishment. Sally Winchell's story is a reminder that the path to a healthier and more fulfilling life is open to all, regardless of age.Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As Mrs. Lion wrote in her post, “Delayed Punishment,” she didn't spank me and gave me a pass on the coffeemaker setup. It was a busy, stressful day for me. I have been working to reduce the cost of our cloud computing. I had a bunch of credits that I The post Spanking Is In My Immediate Future appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

You won't be surprised to learn that Mrs. Lion made a point of spanking me as soon as I got out of the shower. I was not in the mood for a beating (Am I ever?). Mrs. Lion wasn't interested in my mood. That's also no surprise. As Mrs. Lion The post My Spanking Conundrum appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

You won't be surprised to learn that Mrs. Lion made a point of spanking me as soon as I got out of the shower. I was not in the mood for a beating (Am I ever?). Mrs. Lion wasn't interested in my mood. That's also no surprise. As Mrs. Lion The post My Spanking Conundrum appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

About Dr. Elizabeth Barlow, LICSWDr. Barlow founded InKind Mind Inc with the vision that everyone should have access to quality, convenient mental health services. She has devoted her career to creating a world in which everyone experiences the highest quality of mental health services, regardless of their background or financial situation. Elizabeth is a military spouse and first generation college grad, As Mrs. Mississippi United States, she is committed to helping others find the courage to speak out about their mental health and break the stigma. To help and learn more about mental health and how to donate/volunteer, visit:https://www.inkindmind.org/Support the showSupport our show my creating a review and sharing to your friends. https://podcasts.apple.com/BeautyCallPodcast https://www.iheart.com/BeautyCallPodcast https://podcasts.google.com/BeautyCallPodcasthttps://music.amazon.com/podcasts/067daae4-e305-4f16-be98-a36b6cf54df6/beauty-call-podcast-beauty-inside-and-out?refMarker=nullPlease support me by subscribing and sharing with friends and family! Love you all!

GDP Script/ Top Stories for Sunday July 16 Publish Date: Friday July 14 From the Henssler Financial Studio Welcome to the Gwinnett Daily Post Podcast Today is Sunday July 16th , and happy 55th birthday to actor Will Ferrell ****Ferrell****   I'm Bruce Jenkins and here are your top stories presented by Mall of Georgia Chrysler Dodge Jeep 1. Lawrenceville-area mother shot, killed her daughter during altercation 2. Start of eligibility ‘redetermination' knocks almost 100,000 Georgians off Medicaid 3. And a Lawrenceville resident named Mrs. Georgia America     All of this and more is coming up on the Gwinnett Daily Post podcast.   Break 1 : Slappey   Story 1. shot   A 47-year-old woman from Lawrenceville died after being shot during an altercation with her mother on Wednesday night. The incident took place at a home on Spanish Moss Court, and the cause of the fight is still being investigated. The mother, who has not been identified, has not been charged with any crimes at this time. The case remains active until the autopsy results are obtained. Police responded to a report of a shooting at the residence and discovered the body of the victim, Treva Murray. Witnesses stated that an altercation occurred, leading to the shooting. Authorities are urging anyone with information to contact the police or Crime Stoppers....…..read more on this at gwinnettdailypost.com     STORY 2: medicaid   Since the expiration of the federal public health emergency in April, nearly 100,000 people in Georgia have lost their Medicaid coverage, according to the Department of Community Health. The federal government had prohibited the disenrollment of Medicaid recipients for three years during the pandemic. Georgia began reassessing eligibility for Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids in June, resulting in 95,578 individuals losing coverage, while 64,423 were renewed. The majority lost coverage due to procedural termination caused by a lack of information. The state aims to complete the redetermination process for all Medicaid enrollees by May 2024 and has implemented an information campaign to assist recipients……read more about this at gwinnettdailypost.com   Story 3: Wilson Lawrenceville resident MarKeshia Wilson won the Mrs. Gwinnett County competition and then became Mrs. Georgia America on June 25th. Wilson, an amateur bodybuilder and mother of two, focused on promoting maternal health in her platform. She owns DoulaMePlease and is associated with the Atlanta Doula Collective and Gwinnett County NAACP. Wilson expressed her admiration for Tyler Perry and how he influenced her community service efforts. As Mrs. Georgia America, Wilson will receive a prize package, including an all-expense-paid trip to compete at the national pageant in Las Vegas. She is seeking sponsors for the national competition and interested parties can contact her for more information. We'll be right back   Break 2: M.O.G. - Tom Wages - Obits   Story 4: reforms   Congressional Republicans, including U.S. Rep. Barry Loudermilk, introduced the American Confidence in Elections Act, a proposed election reform bill modeled after Georgia's controversial legislation from two years ago. The bill aims to tighten voter ID requirements, prohibit non-U.S. citizens from voting, and end private funding of election administration. Republicans framed their bill as a conservative approach to election integrity and criticized the Democrats' John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act as a federal takeover of voting. The Republican bill would incentivize states to adopt the proposed reforms and potentially withhold federal funds for non-compliance. Democrats argued against the GOP bill, stating that there was no widespread voter fraud in Georgia and criticizing the previous election reform measure for its limitations on drop boxes and challenges to voters. The hearing coincided with the second anniversary of Major League Baseball's decision to move the All-Star Game from Atlanta in response to the passage of Georgia's Senate Bill 202.   Story 5: art   The Hudgens Center for the Arts in Duluth has been running the smART Honors Scholarship Program for Gwinnett's young artists since 2004. This year, 19 high school juniors from various Gwinnett County public high schools participated in the program. The program, free to nominated students, provides intensive arts education and supplies all art materials. Students attend Saturday morning art sessions and work with professional artists to develop their skills and create a body of work. The program aims to enhance problem-solving, critical thinking, and creative skills while fostering leadership, confidence, discipline, and work ethic. The current exhibition showcases the artwork of the Class of 2023 and runs until July 29 at the Hudgens Center.   Story 6: recession   According to the Metro Atlanta Chamber's chief economist, the economy could experience a mild recession by the end of the year. However, it is still possible to avoid one. Major banks have been predicting a recession, but the exact timing is uncertain. Economic forecasters suggest that the scale of the recession would not be as severe as the Great Recession. Factors that could contribute to a recession include rising interest rates and the resumption of student loan payments. Georgia is better positioned to weather a recession compared to other states due to sustained job growth. The state's strong economy, job creation, and business-friendly environment contribute to its resilience.   We'll be back in a moment   Break 3: ESOG – Ingles 9- Ag Pro 30   Story 7: aaron   The Atlanta Braves will honor the late Hank Aaron during Hank Aaron Week, which will take place from July 25-30. The week will feature community-building initiatives and culminate in celebrations at Truist Park during the Braves' game against the Milwaukee Brewers on July 28. Additionally, the Hank Aaron Invitational showcase game will be held on July 30, featuring the top 200 high school-aged players from across the United States. The Braves will pay tribute to Aaron's impact as a player, executive, and entrepreneur with special pre-game and in-game content. Proceeds from the Atlanta Braves Foundation's 50/50 Raffle during the weekend series will support the Henry Louis Aaron Fund, promoting diversity in baseball. Story 8: All Star   Atlanta is being considered as a potential host for the 2025 All-Star Game, according to MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred. This comes after the city lost the opportunity to host the 2021 game due to controversy surrounding Georgia's voting laws. Truist Park, is being considered as a potential venue for the 2025 game. Other sites under consideration include Wrigley Field in Chicago and Fenway Park in Boston. Atlanta has previously hosted the All-Star Game in 1972 and 2000. The 2022 game will be hosted by the Texas Rangers, and the 2026 game will coincide with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia.   Story 9: Wilkins   Isaiah Wilkins, a Greater Atlanta Christian graduate, has been promoted to assistant coach of the University of Virginia men's basketball program. Wilkins previously served as a graduate assistant at Virginia for the past two seasons. As a player, he had a successful career at Virginia, helping the team achieve multiple accomplishments, including ACC titles and NCAA tournament appearances. He was recognized as the ACC Defensive Player of the Year in 2018. After college, Wilkins played professionally in Europe and New Zealand, as well as in the NBA G League. He has been involved in player development, scouting, recruiting, and video analysis during his time on the coaching staff. Wilkins holds an undergraduate degree from UVA and recently completed his master's degree in higher education.   We'll have final thoughts after this   Break 4: Lawrenceville - Henssler 60 Thanks again for listening to today's Gwinnett Daily Post podcast. Giving you important news about our community and telling great stories are what we do. Did you know over 50% of Americans listen to podcasts weekly? Make sure you join us for our next episode and be sure to share this podcast on social media with your friends and family. Add us to your Alexa Flash Briefing or your Google Home Briefing and be sure to like, follow, and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Get more news about our community at GwinnettDailyPost.com   www.henssler.com  www.ingles-markets.com  www.psponline.com  www.mallofgeorgiachryslerdodgejeep.com  www.wagesfuneralhome.com  www.esogrepair.com  www.downtownlawrencevillega.com  www.fernbankmuseum.org See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"While You Slept" -- Episode 7 -- As Mrs. Honeybee always says; all superheroes need their super-rest, so we let our defenses down for the night. We kick back, relax, and fall asleep on the roof, under a blanket of stars….only to be rudely awaken in the early morning hours by something sinister. We come face-to-face with a technological advancement of epic proportions, that wasn't made by Mr. Honeybee. Fast-moving clouds pour rain down on us like we've never experienced in the Honeybee Neighborhood before.We tried to radio Mr. Honeybee…and tried again…but our calls go unanswered.https://EJmissions.comCaptain EJ - over and out.

As Mrs. Maisel takes her final bow, the Bagels review the finale episode and the series as a whole: its highlights and misses, unanswered questions, and a robust number of listener comments and questions. Go watch the season 5 finale, and then join us for the conversation.Connect with us on socials!Twitter: @estherk, @ebenmoche and @TheBagelReportInstagram: @estherkustanowitz, @ebenmoche and @tbrthepod Email us at: thebagelreport@gmail.comLinks:https://decider.com/2023/04/14/the-marvelous-mrs-maisels-season-5-time-jumps-explained-timeline-in-order/amp/The incredible “one shot” https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cs7Oh0kAGJ6/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==Kevin Pollak is doing a Maisel rewatch podcast so The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel truly never ends! https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cs8rjZGL7zZ/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

As Mrs. Lion wrote yesterday, we got a new car. The old one was just turning seven. I normally don't hold on to cars that long, but it was trouble-free, and we both liked it–a 2017 Rav4 hybrid. We had talked about replacing it, and since we liked our Rav4, The post My New (Not Sex) Toy appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

As Mrs. Lion wrote yesterday, we got a new car. The old one was just turning seven. I normally don't hold on to cars that long, but it was trouble-free, and we both liked it–a 2017 Rav4 hybrid. We had talked about replacing it, and since we liked our Rav4, The post My New (Not Sex) Toy appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

As Mrs. Lion wrote yesterday (“Sore Butt, Burning Ass and a Nice Blow Job“), I got 570 swats during the Giants game. We are up to ten swats per point and ten swats if the Giants quarterback is sacked. Mrs. Lion made the change I suggested (“Whew! I Could Have The post Football On TV Is A Contact Sport For Me (Ouch!) appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

As Mrs. Lion wrote yesterday (“Sore Butt, Burning Ass and a Nice Blow Job“), I got 570 swats during the Giants game. We are up to ten swats per point and ten swats if the Giants quarterback is sacked. Mrs. Lion made the change I suggested (“Whew! I Could Have The post Football On TV Is A Contact Sport For Me (Ouch!) appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

As Mrs. Lion wrote yesterday (“Sore Butt, Burning Ass and a Nice Blow Job“), I got 570 swats during the Giants game. We are up to ten swats per point and ten swats if the Giants quarterback is sacked. Mrs. Lion made the change I suggested (“Whew! I Could Have The post Football On TV Is A Contact Sport For Me (Ouch!) appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

Looking for productivity hacks to help you prepare for your next pageant? It's so easy for us to get distracted by so many things in our day to day life while we try to prepare to win our next pageant. Sometimes it feels impossible to stay productive during pageant prep. In this episode, I sat down with Sandi Glandt, Mrs. International, and she spilled her 3 productivity hacks to get you started with being more productive with your pageant prep!   Sandi Glandt is a high performance productivity coach, wife, mom, best selling author and tv host. Using realistic time management strategies, she helps modern working women manage everything on their plate to be present and intentional with the most important aspects of their life. Using her Best Selling Book- Slay Your Day: How to Get More Done, become Ultra Productive and Unlock your Full Potential, she helps women go from overwhelm and burnout to balance. As Mrs. International 2022, Sandi promotes her platform Slay Your Day globally to share her S3 Framework to help men and women step out of burnout. She is also advocating for Mental Health bringing awareness to the stressors and risks that are present in work/ life balance. Discovering that the first step in treatment of stress and anxiety was medication, Sandi made it her mission to help others take back control of their life without having to sacrifice their careers, families or resort to prescription medication. Sandi is happily married to husband Jarrod Glandt and together they have two incredible sons, Jacob and Jordan. They reside in Hollywood, Florida where they love to enjoy days at the beach, the water park and enjoying time together in their backyard.   Grab Sandi's “Big Money Making Moves” Training here : https://www.sandraglandt.com/   Follow Sandi on Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/sandiglandt/   Subscribe: Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | YouTube  Connect with Alycia Darby: Join the Free Pageant Course Visit WinAPageant.com Follow Alycia on Instagram  #winapageant #pageantry #pageant #AlyciaDarby #pageanttipstowin. #pageanttipsforbeginners #pageanttips #pageanttraining #pageantinterview #onstagequestion #pageantq&a  Watch it on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/pdCRdSZrC4o  ©2022 Zimnoch Enterprise, LLC | All Rights Reserved | Win A Pageant®

Addison Caruso was a young high-school student when his mother introduced him to the power of voting. As Mrs. Caruso knocked on doors to help elect former President Barack Obama, Addison accompanied her and became an intern for President Obama's campaign when he ran for re-election four years later. At an early age, Addison recognized the power that each of us holds to create positive change and he set his career sites on being of service to those marginalized by society as a lawyer working for the Legal Aid Society. As Republicans monopolized power at the state level, Addison witnessed a steady decline in the quality of life for Ohioans.  Addison is dedicated and passionate about solving the problems that extremist Republican rule have created. Addison is running as the Democratic candidate for District 36 against Republican incumbent Andrea White who does not believe in the rights of woman or girls to make autonomous decisions about their own body and reproductive functions. Tune in to meet Addison Caruso and listen to his plans to lead Ohioans into a future filled with unlimited possibilities and equality for all. We are two elections away from losing our democracy if Democrats do not hold on to the house majority and win more of a majority in the Senate. Vote. Vote Blue. Vote in large numbers like your life depends on it because it does. Vote Blue to Save Our Democracy. Vote Blue To Save America.

As Mrs. Lion wrote in her post, “Two Rules Broken in Two Days,” I managed to break two simple rules. Both are lapses of attention. The first was when I forgot to close the shower door. This trivial requirement is in place to prevent our dog from wandering around on The post Lion Math: Leave Shower Door Open + Forget Coffee Pot = 15 Minutes Of Spanking appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

As Mrs. Lion wrote in her post, “Two Rules Broken in Two Days,” I managed to break two simple rules. Both are lapses of attention. The first was when I forgot to close the shower door. This trivial requirement is in place to prevent our dog from wandering around on The post Lion Math: Leave Shower Door Open + Forget Coffee Pot = 15 Minutes Of Spanking appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

My Farewell: Since arriving to the United States as a refugee, to becoming an entrepreneur, I am dedicated to helping people find purpose in entrepreneurship and God's love. As Mrs. Petite USA (@mrspetiteusaofficial), it has been a pleasure to represent: Entrepreneurs, Mothers , Wives of First Responders, First Generation Americans, Refugees, and the Land of the Free. To Hazely and the @universalpetite Team, thank you for providing a space to celebrate petite women. ¡Muchos abrazos a ti! Thank you Jenna and the @petiteusa Team for working hard to organize an amazing first year; as you all stepped into new leadership roles. Congratulations on adding the Elite division and value to each of our lives. I am beyond thankful for God's love and know that every journey He puts us on is to glorify Him. Thank you God, My Family, Friends, Coaches, Judges, Sister Queens, and supporters. To my Best Friend, Husband, and travel buddy, thank you for enduring all of the pageant preps, travel, and more. To my Princesses Lydia and Lauren, you are the jewels on the world's crown. Mommy loves you so much and is so lucky to see your sweet smiles every day. “My Invisible Crown” is a children's book inspired by you and this amazing reign as Mrs. Petite USA. To my Win A Pageant team (Alycia Darby, Trinity Pearson, Krystal Quagliara, and Nicole Coker), thank you for coming to support our Queens. To all the Queens, You were born with a crown, You arrived here with a crown, and will continue to shine with Your crown. After tonight, we are Sister Queens forever. To all of you here, thank you for helping us shine a little brighter. You are the Light of the World -Matthew 5:14 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sweettnancy/support

As Mrs. Lion wrote in her post yesterday (“Cool Enough to Wax“), our heatwave is over. With any luck the rest of the summer will be normal (high 80s, low 50s). I'm writing this post on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Lion plans to wax me later today. She's noticed fur has The post Don't Confuse Grooming With Submission appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

The boys stopped by our nation's capital for a humdinger of a show to kick off the year! As Mrs. O'Lady's life literally HANGS in the balance, will the team be able to save her and themselves!?!Join Troy Lavallee, Joe O'Brien, Skid Maher, Grant Berger and Matthew Capodicasa as they tour the country playing the Lovecraftian Horror Strange Aeons Pathfinder Adventure Path.Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/EDleQX-xmqYRecap 14:09Gameplay 24:02For more podcasts and livestreams, visit glasscannonnetwork.com and for exclusive content and benefits, subscribe today at patreon.com/glasscannon.

The boys stopped by our nation's capital for a humdinger of a show to kick off the year! As Mrs. O'Lady's life literally HANGS in the balance, will the team be able to save her and themselves!?!Join Troy Lavallee, Joe O'Brien, Skid Maher, Grant Berger and Matthew Capodicasa as they tour the country playing the Lovecraftian Horror Strange Aeons Pathfinder Adventure Path.Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/EDleQX-xmqYRecap 14:09Gameplay 24:02For more podcasts and livestreams, visit glasscannonnetwork.com and for exclusive content and benefits, subscribe today at patreon.com/glasscannon.

Episode Notes As students and faculty across the Commonwealth iron out their boating, swimming, and traveling plans for the next few months, we're taking you to the classroom once more before summer vacation sets in! Our "Exceptional Educator" this time around is Mrs. Amanda Conrad, a Special Education teacher from Henderson County High School...and even at such an early point in her career, she already has a resume to be proud of! Amanda has inspired numerous students to be the best versions of themselves, and she has maintained contact with many of them following their graduation. As Mrs. Conrad explains, Special Ed instruction varies greatly from traditional instruction. Listen in as she contrasts these two forms of teaching, reflects on the most rewarding aspects of her experience in the classroom thus far, and offers helpful tips for tomorrow's educators...while making us grin and giggle along the way! Have some fun while broadening your mind as you lend your ears to this entertaining episode! Find out more at https://blabbin-in-the-bluegrassblabbi.pinecast.co

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“I don't actually see the world through the prism of left and right, I see it more as authoritarian versus libertarian.” ~ Dominic FrisbyTRANSCRIPTJoel Bowman:Welcome to the Bonner Private Research podcast. I'm your host, Joel Bowman. Each week we bring you exclusive conversations with members of Bill Bonner's Private Research team, as well as some special guests we'll meet along the way. We're trying to connect the dots from high finance to lowly politics, private investments to public follies, from Wall Street to main street, at home, and on the road. We're into sound money, personal freedom, classical books, and great wines. Not always in that order. So join me and the rest of the Bonner Private Research team, as we pack our bags and follow the money. We're welcoming today to the Fatal Conceits podcast, Mr. Dominic Frisby, who is a British author, comedian, and investor. He is also, as he and I have just been discussing, a fellow Substacker. So, make sure that you check out his Flying Frisby articles over on Substack. Right out the gate Dominic, for those of our readers/listeners who are perhaps not yet familiar with your work, but soon will be, you occupy a double life as both an investor and comedian, which it's not unusual certainly, uncommon for the average listener. I've always thought of markets as a bit of a tragic comic projection of the human condition with all our hubris and folly and fear, greed, envy, and whatnot, projected up onto the markets. I'm wondering if you feel that those twin hats that you wear are maybe not so delineated as maybe most people might think.Dominic Frisby:Well, it's a bizarre situation that I find myself in, it's completely accidental. It's not something I planned. And, I think, I am the world's only finance writer stroke comedian. I was once doing a show up in Edinburg at the Edinburg Festival. And, some chap came up to me and said, "I am your German rival. I am a German financial writer comedian." So there might be a German guy who does it. But, I don't know who he is, but he did come up and say, "Hello." But, I think I might be the only one who does it in the English language, put it that way.And yeah, it is funny because while a lot of comedians tend to veer slightly to the left in their world view, they would've been anti-Trump and anti-Brexit and all that stuff. They might say that, but if you look at what they actually do, being a standup comedian is probably the single most libertarian existence that there is, because you don't get any government support. You're only as good as your act. You troll your act around the country and hopefully eventually around the world and get better. And as you get better, you get better paid gigs. And you are acting entirely out of your own self interest. But, it is in your interest at the same time to get on with everyone else. But, the more you work at your act, the better your jokes get the more people laugh. And the more pleasure they derive from watching you, and as a result of the pleasure they derive from watching you, the better gigs you get and the more money you earn.And, certainly at the grassroots level, there's no government intervention in live comedy. There's no subsidy, there's nothing. It's the only art form that survives without government subsidy, all things like opera and ballet require loads of subsidy. So yeah, it's a libertarian, Adam Smith existence. And then, you actually talk to comics and they go, "You're a financial writer." And, loads of them are speculating in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. And if you go, "Oh, I've got the really sexy junior mining company I'm looking at here." They all want to know what it is.Joel Bowman:Right.Dominic Frisby:And I think it's because they've all got a speculative mindset. And so, there's definitely... And, the famous thing with traders, Jesse Livermore and famous traders is that, they're often prone to depression, bouts of elation and bouts of depression. And Jesse Livermore, of course eventually killed himself. And, that's the same existence of the comic. They're famously happy one minute and sad the next. And so, I do think there is a lot of crossover between the two worlds, albeit accidental.Joel Bowman:Yeah. It does seem that it's a extreme expression, as you mentioned, of those highs and lows, those vicissitudes of life. And, just on the point of government subsidies, I honestly can't imagine anything less funny than a government subsidized comic. That's got to be just the bottom of the barrel, surely.Dominic Frisby:Well, I'll show you a government subsidized comic. It's someone who's on the BBC.Joel Bowman:Yeah.Dominic Frisby:And you just look at the state of BBC comedy and it's dire, and it used to be brilliant.Joel Bowman:So, what's going on there? Because, we all grew up with comedians, and yeah, many of them had left wing tendencies, but they were funny. And, I'm just wondering what... It's like what happened to the anti-war left, what happened to the funny left? Now it seems that comedians on the left are telling jokes more for applause than they are for laughter.Dominic Frisby:Well, yeah. And, I tell you what that is, is I think to be a good comic, you've got to be counterculture. You've got to be irreverent, you've got to be against the status quo, you've got to mock the status quo. Zero Mostel used to say, "Comedy's about exposing pomposity." And by the way, I don't actually see the world through the prism of left and right, I see it more authoritarian versus libertarian. But, I think when we use the term left, we all know what we're talking about. And that slightly authoritarian, "We know better than you" left, that technocratic mindset that dominates state planning, and government, and regulation, and the federal reserve bank, and the Bank of England, and the civil service, and it just dominates the entire establishment. It dominates the cultural establishment as well.And so, by adopting that world view of, "Trump stupid. Trump orange hair. Ho, ho, ho." You are not doing anything counter-cultural. They think they are, because Trump is the president and they're attacking the most powerful man in the country. And there is an argument for that, but really, Trump himself was counter-cultural in that he was so anti-establishment or anti the conventional way of doing things. And so, yeah. So, the irreverent really funny anti-establishment voices are coming more from the right, they're coming from the libertarian angle, than they are from the establishment state planning world.Joel Bowman:Yeah. And just to speak to that establishment mindset, it does seem that on both sides of the pond, two countries separated by a common language as Mr. Wild observed, that there is this surging sensorial impulse that is cracking down on culture across the board. And it seems like there's a very one size fits all mentality to what you're allowed to think. And it doesn't matter what the subject is, whether it's a pandemic, or a mandate, or a war, there's just this very monotone mentality that we're allowed to express. And that seems to be really the antithesis of comedy. Would you agree?Dominic Frisby:Yeah. A 100%. The standard reaction to any worldview that you don't like is to try and get it canceled.Joel Bowman:Yeah, yeah. Right. It's a very childish reaction.Dominic Frisby:It is. It's like, "Why is the BBC giving so and so a platform?Joel Bowman:Right.Dominic Frisby:And it's got so stupid, it's like anyone who's to the left of Bernie Sanders, he's a far right racist. And you're like, "It's insane." And it's some mental illness, it's obviously been propagated by the Russians, who are trying to spread dissent and disorder. I'm joking when I say that, but I do think at one stage they were trying to divide the right. And, whether by accident, or whether it's just by social media, or it was going to happen anyway. But yeah, the world is so divided, but the standard libertarian thing is live and let live. But, that doesn't apply to the left, and there's no live and let live there it's "Either agree with me or have your livelihood cut off."Joel Bowman:Yeah. You only have to go back a generation or so, and that seems to me just utterly anathema to that late-60s, happy-go-lucky Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the hippies getting their groove on whatever they happen to be into. I mean, they seem to be demanding their own civil liberties, as far as obviously freedom of speech, freedom of what they wanted to put in their body. Goodness knows that has come full circle now. And, they were very much anti-war, anti-establishment, anti-big corporation, anti-big government, and now down the line, it's the total opposite.Dominic Frisby:Well, I just think there are loads of people who are libertarian and they do not realize it. And so yeah, that whole movement of peace, anti-war, live and let live, flowers, get back to nature, local rule, all that stuff that they stood for. And it was a brilliantly creative time artistically, and especially musically, it's just ended with more government. And, they all find themselves now supporting the NHS, state welfare, state mandates on climate change, all this big state stuff. And you're like, "How did that happen?" And, I think there's this weird thing that they cannot understand that with less state and more individual responsibility, the result would be better welfare, better healthcare, better all these things, but they can't that emotional leap to the point of trusting human beings to do the right thing. They're unable to do that. And so, they think, "All right, well, government must provide it." So, it's bizarre. So, all that movement has just ended effectively in light socialism, or rather heavy socialism.Joel Bowman:Yeah. It is bizarre, isn't it? That they've quashed competition and that they're so allergic to, I think, it was Hike who called it spontaneous order, which is where you take a leap of faith and you rely on the market to find nuanced and work around solutions to of things like central banks destroying our money, and universal healthcare providers diminishing our level of care, and on and on down the line, look at education, et cetera, et cetera. But, I wanted to ask you, just segueing from comedy to the go government's version of it. I did see a couple of your posts, which I found pretty amusing. And, we've seen just in the past couple of weeks, both the permanently startled Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden saying that government spending... I'll have to paraphrase them both here. But it's something like, government spending is absolutely not to blame for inflation. Presumably, they're laying that at the feet of the evil capitalists. Does that line make you laugh? Does it make you cry or wince? All of the above? It's its own peculiar brand of comedy, I think.Dominic Frisby:Well, I mean, it makes me do all of the above. And, this is why I absolutely adore Bitcoin. I just think it's the most fantastic movement. I think I discovered gold in 2005, 2006. And, it was one of those clarity moments that one has in one's life, when soon as I discovered gold, you uncover all the Austrian economic worldview, the libertarian, the small state, all the arguments for having an independent system of money. And it keeps governments not being able to print money, keeps them in check. And, it's using independent money as a way by which the citizen can hold his government to account, and all that stuff. And just suddenly so much about the world came clear to me. Fundamentally, why houses are so ludicrously expensive in London.And, I spent many years trying to educate people. I wrote a film called Four Horseman, which was an incredibly popular film. It had something like 9 million views on YouTube, something like that. And, I wrote it with a guy called Ross Ashcroft, but all the stuff in there about gold and fiat money and all that was all me. And I wrote a book called Life After the State, and I wrote my weekly column, and time and time again, I just saw it as my mission to educate the people about the evils of fiat money. And every time you wrote the word fiat, you'd go, fiat money (money which is money by decree, or money which governments can print) or whatever. You'd have to define what fiat money meant.And then, along comes Bitcoin and as well as being the most fantastically glorious speculative vehicle, if you are long, particularly, if you were long early on. It's also been the most brilliant educative tool. And, it's just educated anyone... I mean, I'm 52, and I suppose I first discovered Bitcoin, it would've been maybe 2012. So, when I was in my early-40s. And, I'd go to a Bitcoin conference, and in my early-40s, I'd be the oldest person there. And then, I'd go to a gold conference and I'd be the youngest person there.Joel Bowman:The changing of the guard.Dominic Frisby:Yeah. And so, I was straddling, and I'm in my early-50s now. So, anyone born in 1969, 1970, around about that time is on the cusp of the two worlds. And, I'm younger than a boomer, obviously. And so, the old guys all knew about gold and all that, but the young, they're all speculating in Bitcoin, and then they're creating the memes, and then they're all laughing at the memes, and so on and so forth. And, it's just been the most wonderful educative tool about the natures of fiat money, inflation, all these things. And it's just brought these arguments into the mainstream while earning a lot of people, a lot of money. And so, everyone celebrates the glory of Bitcoin, "Bitcoin fixes this." But one of the many things it fixes is financial literacy.Joel Bowman:Yeah, absolutely. I have a somewhat similar experience to you with both gold and Bitcoin. I'm down here in Argentina, as I mentioned to you before the show, but I recall going to an Austrian economics conference with some friends, Jeffrey Tucker, and a few others who were speaking there back in... Oh, it would've been 2012 or something. And-Dominic Frisby:Was that the one in Acapulco, or was that the one in Germany?Joel Bowman:... No, this was in South Paulo in Brazil.Dominic Frisby:Oh, okay.Joel Bowman:Some years ago. But yeah, the same experience, where I had been used to going to these gold shows around the U.S., where my publisher at the time was holding conferences. And you would get people who were very, very well versed in Aristotle's five characteristics of sound money, and they knew all the ins and outs of gold, and they knew enough Latin to understand what by decree came from, and what fiat meant, and all the rest of it. But they were having a bit of a mental blockage with regards to Bitcoin.Joel Bowman:And then, I went to this conference in South Paulo. And, it was full of young kids. I was around maybe young-30s at the time, but it was full of kids in their early-30s and even in their 20s, who were just talking up this new currency, and really actually just asking the questions that I don't think people had really asked about the nature of money for... Maybe going back to Keynes's "Barbarous Relic" comment, but certainly even some time before then, where we just took for granted that it was up to the state to manage our money for us, and that the private market had no business entering that realm.Joel Bowman:And then all of a sudden, Bitcoin exploded in 2008. And yeah, we were invited to really question the foundational role of the state in producing money, and maybe even address the question that had been addressed around maybe when the Gutenberg Printing Press came along originally, which is, can we separate the church from the state? Now, all of a sudden we were confronted with the proposition of potentially separating the money from the state. Is that something similar to the way that you grappled with it in the early days?Dominic Frisby:Yeah, exactly. And, that's the mission, separate money and state. And, there are people who still think the pound and the dollar are backed by gold. They actually think it. They can only print as much as they've got gold and silver. And you're like, "Oh, please. Do me a favor..." But anyway.Joel Bowman:I noticed just incidentally that there's not a whole lot of Bitcoin and crypto money being used to purchase tanks and jet fighters. And, just while we're on the roll of what the state uses its tax dollars and its untethered money to fund.Dominic Frisby:They will.Joel Bowman:Yeah.Dominic Frisby:When we get our little Bitcoin citadels and we need to defend them, we will have to buy some tanks, and we'll use Bitcoin to do it.Joel Bowman:Right. Right. Well-Dominic Frisby:And, they'll be sound tanks. They won't get caught in 40-mile traffic jams in Ukraine or whatever it is.Joel Bowman:... Right. Oh, well, so moving on there. I've read a couple of your recent articles, and again, that's the Flying Frisby on Substack, for people who want to check out Dominic's work. You and some others around the space have been observing, of course, that inflation is something that had been ticking up to, at least in the U.S., 40-year highs before Mr. Putin even circles invade Ukraine day on his calendar. But it seems that in the past couple of weeks, since the conflict in Eastern-Europe has erupted, that everything that has been going wrong with Western economies is now being blamed on the conflict in Ukraine, including, not least of which, some pretty extreme price action in the commodities markets. What's been your take on, for example, nickel going limit up across in the $100,000 a ton mark, and doing us all an Al Gore shaped hockey stick just last week, I think, and some other really crazy price action in the commodities markets.Dominic Frisby:Well, that nickel chart was extraordinary. It's like nothing I've ever seen. I think it went up from 25,000 to a $100,000 in two days, which for a-Joel Bowman:It's insane.Dominic Frisby:... I mean, it's not a cryptocurrency, it's a nickel, it's an essential basic metal. And for it to quadruple in a day is nuts. And I also happen to think the London Metal Exchanges decision not to honor the contracts signals the end of the London Metals Exchange. To close the markets and not force the dude in China to cough up, even if he hasn't got the money, they have to do that if they're to maintain the integrity of the LME. But anyway, that's their own business. And, yeah, I mean, commodities have basically been in a bull market since the big corona panic sell off in March, 2020, oil went to minus 30. And so, it went from minus 30 to 130. That's a $160 move. That's one heck of a trade, if you bought the lows and sold the highs.Joel Bowman:Yep.Dominic Frisby:And, this always happens with commodities is that, you get 5 or 10 years of under investment. So there's a shortage of supply. There's a few cranks on the internet like me, you, and Bill who go, "There's a shortage of supply in this metal, it should be trading much higher." We quietly inform our readers. We take positions in mining companies and in metals, and so on. And, I've been banging the drum about oil for goodness knows how long. And then, we just watch it go up.Dominic Frisby:And so, commodities were all in a massive bull market. And, what this war has done is given us the speculative blow off top. And, now I'm looking at this, and as we speak today, oil's gone from 130 to about 95 bucks. It's had a $35 sell off in what... Three, four days. Gold has gone from testing its old highs, 2070 around about there, that's sold off and it's gone back to its previous old highs, 1920. So that's $150 sell off. But all the metals, platinum, palladium... Palladium's lost about a third of its value. And, they're just so speculative. And, I'm not suggesting you got speculative bubbles under a gold standard, but you did, but there were nothing like they are now, because everyone's losing leverage, and leverage is a fiat money thing, all leverage is, is debt. And so, you just got these mad speculative markets where everyone's speculating, wanting to get rich quick. It's all part of that fiat money mindset. But I'm look looking at commodities now and I'm going, "Was that the top?"I think, there's a really good chance... I put out two pieces last week and both said the excess here feels like a top. That excess marks a top. But then you look at the fundamentals and you go, "Well, Russia supplies something like 17% of global commodities, and 40% of European gas, and I think it's 10% of world oil." And, I can't remember what the number is for nickel, but it might be something like 20 or 30% of world nickel. Palladium, I think it supplies more than 50%. And, you can substitute palladium to a certain extent with platinum, but not totally. And it's nuts that palladium should be more expense of them platinum in the first place. But anyway, and with all these sanctions coming, we haven't solved the lack of investment in commodities in a few weeks, there is still this fundamental problem of lack of investment, lack of exploration, and all this.So, all that makes me think, "Hmm, we're not going to go that low at least."Joel Bowman:Yeah.Dominic Frisby:But I think, the bubble blow off top that we've had, and now the unwinding, this is all going to take a while to digest and unwind. So I'm not rushing to take new commodities positions, but I do notice that in all of the insanity gold miners didn't have the run up that gold had. They had a bit of a run up, but gold led the miners, and ideally you want miners to lead the metal. Although, I think those days might be gone, because of all the various ways there are to own gold, ETFs, and gold money, and Bullionvault fault, and gold core, and futures, and spread bets, and there's so many different ways to own gold. You just think, "Why take on individual company risk and own a minor?"And nevertheless, even with that disclaimer aside, I'm still quietly bullish about gold mining. Now there's so much dross in the sector of gold mining, so many bad companies, but I've got two or three companies that I like that can survive gold going back to 1250 an ounce, if it ever goes there. They were set up during a bear market with a bear market mentality, that awful bear market of 2013 to 2016. So, if you can find the right gold miners, I think you can do well. And in fact, I recommended two, one in February, one in March for my paid subscribers on Substack. And they're both higher than when they were even with this massive correction.Joel Bowman:Wow. Okay.Dominic Frisby:So, I'm like, "Oh, look at me. I know what I'm doing." I mean, of course you make tips and they don't always work out that well. But I am quietly British about gold miners, as long as they're well run ones and not run by crooks or bozos. And I'm afraid there's a lot of crooks and bozos. By bozos I mean, stupid people. And there are quite a few of them in gold mining. That's one of the things I admire about Bitcoin by the way, is there are just so many geniuses in the sector, young, enthusiastic, energetic geniuses at the height of their career building years. And just by owning Bitcoin or owning five coins, or one of those funds that you can buy that gives the 10 best DeFi coins or the 10 best metaverse coins, whatever it is. You're just getting exposure to that colossal intellect. And with gold mining, there is just not the same intellect. I'm not saying there are not clever people in gold mining, there are. But, there's not genius, after genius, after genius, in the way that there is with all that computer stuff and Bitcoin.Thank you for reading Bonner Private Research. This post is public so feel free to share it with goldbugs and Bitcoiners alike...Joel Bowman:Yeah. And it does seem, I mean, for those of us who have been around the Bitcoin ecosystem for a little while now, and it really is only a little while, it's only 14 odd years old. But, even just during that short period of time, the amount of wealth that's been created for individuals... I've witnessed a little bit of this myself and the people that I've seen who held on for dear life, who hodl-ed early on and made some pretty sizable fortunes. I can't think of a single one of those people that I know who just tooled off to a Caribbean island and put their feet up and did nothing for the next however many years and dropped off the map. All of those people that I know have gone into other entrepreneurial pursuits, they've started up clinics, or they've branched out into computronics, or some other disruptive industry where...This is a generation of people who are often derided for slacking off on the couch and taking their gender studies degrees and just living in mom's basement. But there is a portion of those people, I think, who are attracted to all that the Bitcoin world offers, part of what you were saying before about live and let live perhaps. And those people, they seem to be the ones that are building the parallel economies of tomorrow.Dominic Frisby:Well, agreed. I mean, you see it, I know loads of Bitcoiners. I started up a privacy tech company in Canada listed on the CSE, called Cypherpunk Holding. And, I was having lunch with Jon Matonis. He's been around for a long time. He's a formidable intellect, and he really doesn't need to work if he doesn't want to. And, I just showed him this privacy tech company that we were setting up and he said, "Oh, I'd really like to get involved." And so, John became a director. And that's just an example of, people don't want to stop just because they've made a lot of money, Richard Branson didn't stop.But, I've just bought one of the gold companies I recommended, the guy who's the CEO... Or actually the president, not the CEO, has just sold another company, and he's made something like 2000 times his money, he doesn't need to work again if he doesn't want to, but people like working, and even into your retirement... My dad was a writer, he died at the age of 87, but two weeks before he died, he was still hustling and still trying sell his place. So, we don't stop, just because government says you can stop when you're 60, individuals don't necessarily do that.Joel Bowman:Well, yeah, it's almost a permissive off ramp, isn't it? That "Work up until this high water mark and then just kick back for a little." While I find that the people who are more self-reliant and yeah, self-starting entrepreneurials, aren't looking for that permission to stop. They're quite the contrary. They're looking for people to get off their backs so they can get going. So, let me ask you then, Dominic, because we've been through a few episodes with Bitcoin now with regards to it being... To quote one of my favorite philosophers of the 20th century, "Born in a crossfire hurricane." As Mrs. Jagger Richards would have it.In 2008, it came onto the scene during the big bailouts. And then, obviously it kicked on higher in that catalyzing moment of the Cyprus Bail-Ins. And we've seen a few geopolitical events that have set off or sparked new rallies. I was curious this time around, with all that's going on with Russia and the Ukraine, it seemed like gold was performed in its traditional role of risk off safe Haven. Bitcoin, not so much, perhaps because of just regulatory uncertainty, or... I haven't checked the price today, but what do you make of its near-term response to that geopolitical uncertainty, and where do you see it going perhaps over the medium-term from here?Dominic Frisby:Well, firstly on the subject of gold. Gold did what it was supposed to, but now it's stopped doing what it's supposed to, it just sold off $150 and it's done a massive double top. It's also done an island reversal. The chartists must be looking at gold and just shaking their head and crying. But, I love gold and you can make an argument about an asset. So, I'm making this argument, I'm using the disclaimer first, I love gold, I own loads of gold. If the world went back to some day factor gold standard, I wouldn't be an unhappy man. But you can look at gold and you can make two arguments. You can go, "Well in 1980, the value of America's gold holdings could have paid off its debt." And, the Jim Sinclair argument, "The role of gold is to balance the books of the United States." And so, if the United States now were to pay off its debt with its gold, then the gold price would have to be whatever. I don't even know what the number is, $50,000 an ounce or something stupid, and probably more.Or you can look at gold and you can go, "Well actually, it might have been money since..." Gold was the very first metal that human beings used. We used it long before we used copper and we discovered smelting in the bronze age. Gold was the first metal we used. We discovered it in river beds when we were hunter gatherers, stone-age people, and we decorated ourselves with it, and we gave it to other people, and used it as reward, and we used it in barter.So, it was the very, very first money. It was the first metal we used and we used it as money. Obviously a less sophisticated form of money than what we have today, but its role was money. We used it to store wealth, display status, all that stuff. And, probably 20,000 years before we discovered smelting. So, it's the oldest metal we've ever used. It's probably the oldest substance on earth, when it came in at its supernovae collisions. And you can make all those arguments, it's been money for 20, 30,000 years, longer. Why would it stop being money now? Well, the horse was transport for 20,000 years and the horse no longer is transport because we invented cars. So, you could say about gold, "It's as irrelevant to modern finance as the horse is to transport." And, I see that argument. I don't entirely agree with it, but I can see it.And on the other hand, like I say, you could say, "Well, gold has to balance the United States... The balance sheet of the United States." So, it's up to you what argument you want to make at any given time. And in a bear market, you'll find yourself making its irrelevant argument. And in a bull market, you'll find yourself making, "It's going to balance the books of the United States." But anyway, we do seem to be... I'm following all this Luke Gromen stuff, and I'm quite interested about how the east, the Euro-Asian countries, Asian countries are trying to go back to some independent money system.And by the way, I've spent a long time auditing China's gold, and working out how much they've got, how much they've mind over the last 15 years, how much they've imported, and how much falls into private hands, and how much falls into state hands. And, China's gold holdings are bigger than the United States. They're not declared as bigger. They're declared at 1,600 odd tons, to United States 8,000 tons. But in reality, China's gold holdings are somewhere between 15,000 and 30,000 tons, in my opinion. So, at least twice what the U.S. has. And that's an astonishing fact when you think about the implications. Anyway, so that's gold, and in all probability, my theory is it'll go up a bit, and it'll go down a bit, and it'll go up a bit, and it'll go down a bit, and it'll probably end up in the mid to high 2000s by the time this is all over. So, that's a bit of sensible rational view of gold.Bitcoin on the other hand is tech. And as you probably know, it's been tracking the NASDAQ and it behaves like a tech stock. Now, I have over the mind that everyone should own some Bitcoin, everyone should have some exposure to it. It's the money of the future. It's the cash system for the internet, but it is not the opportunity that it once was. And every double gets harder than the last. And so, to double from Bitcoin from 50 cents to a dollar, it would've be a 100 million dollars in market cap or something. But, for Bitcoin to go from $40,000 to $80,000, it's at 40,000 now, to go to 80,000 or a $100,000 dollars, we're talking about trillions of dollars of market cap. That's a really difficult double to make.But at the same time, you look at the Bitcoin chart, it's made a double triple bottom around the $30,000 area. And there four phases to a Bitcoin cycle. There's the quiet accumulation phase, there's the noisy bull market and blow off top, there's the unruly, horrendous, noisy correction. And then, there's the frustrating consolidation. And I would argue that at the moment in Bitcoin, we're probably in that frustrating consolidation phase, which... It has corrections in it, it's frustrating, but it looks like $30,000 is the low. And, if Russia can start World War III and Bitcoin still holds up about above $30,000, I'd say, that's a pretty good sign. But it's so frustrating, and we're probably without even knowing it in one of those quite accumulation phases.But it does trade like the NASDAQ. It seems to have got itself with the NASDAQ in risk on and risk off. Is the correction in the NASDAQ over? It was one almighty bubble. A lot of those stocks are down 50, 60, 70% now, is that enough? It probably is. But, I don't think we're set for another massive bull market just yet. I think we're still in for a bit of so-called frustrating consolidation, but frustration consolidation is a good time for quite accumulation.Joel Bowman:Yeah, very well said. Well said. And, I'm just thinking back to that... You got me scratching my head on China's gold holdings, just as far as the implications for what a... People like to talk about a new monetary world order or something of that nature. What that looks like if you have... As we have seen now, just in the past couple of weeks, I don't think people made lot of noise about this, but I found it just extraordinary that, we had sanctions that were essentially canceling the foreign reserve currency assets of other sovereign nations, central banks. I mean, it was almost as if the United States declared that all of the dollars outside of its national borders are now currency by permission and liable to be canceled if anybody misbehaves. I'm wondering just what the follow-ons of that "permission-based money" might be. And, whether not there might be a risk premium that other large holders like China of U.S. dollars might be now factoring into their future purposes, or their appetite for future purchases.Dominic Frisby:Yeah. Well, I'm sure China will be looking at what's happened to Russia, and going, "Wow, we do not want that to happened to us." So, China's got a bit more than $3 trillion, I think. And, it's official gold holdings are 2% of its Forex reserves. Whereas, America's gold holdings are 70%. Now, if China came out and said, "Actually, we've got 15,000 tons of gold, 16,000 tons of gold. We've got twice as much gold as America has." It would be almost a declaration of war. And, it would, A, cause a massive spike in the gold price, because people would go, "Oh actually, gold isn't an irrelevant antiquated asset, it's the money of the future. And China's going to back its one with it." And secondly, it would cause a huge sell off in the United States dollar. And China doesn't want that, the way it's building its economy, it wants to keep its currency cheap, and it doesn't want to destroy the value of its gold holdings. So, as far as declaring its gold, it's declaring the minimum that it can declare and look credible.Joel Bowman:Right.Dominic Frisby:It's only my theory, but until somebody comes up with a better one, I'm sticking with it. And-Joel Bowman:Yeah, no. We're all for we're all for unsubstantiated theories and scuttlebutt here. That's fantastic. I'm thinking that also in the context with their last year, putting the kibosh on crypto mining in China, and there's certainly a chronology to all this that if we were conspiratorially inclined we could build some completely unsupportable scuttlebutt here.Dominic Frisby:... Well, yeah. But anyway, I completely agree. Sorry, somebody is WhatsApping me as you talk, and it's making a noise, and I'm apologizing if my mic picks it up, I'm just turning my WhatsApp off now. But yeah, yeah. Anyway, that's my theory on China's thing and it sounds like you're indulging. So, good stuff.Joel Bowman:Good stuff.Dominic Frisby:But, if I was putting myself in China's thing, it's going to go, "Wow, look at how they've weaponized the dollar. We don't want that to happen to us, at least not just yet." And nor is it, I don't think, going to invade Taiwan because it's just going to see how America's weaponized the dollar against Russia and go, "Well, they'll do that to us. And we'll be screwed, and Apple won't build all its tech here, and it won't build its this and that. And, we're just not ready for that." So, I think China will just quietly stay out of it and continue as much as it possibly can to de-dollarize itself, until it is ready. And, the weaponization of the U.S. dollar, I would argue, has probably worked, because all the oligarchs, surely they're going to have be really hacked off with Putin and they're going to want their money back.And so, there's going to be so much internal pressure on Putin. I mean, the likelihood is, he's going to drag on, this whole thing's just going to drag on. But, I imagine China will just stay out of it for the time being, and we're going to have this 5, 10 year war in Ukraine, which will be not unlike the war in Afghanistan, which eventually brought down the Soviet Union. It'll probably do the same to Putin eventually. But it will happen quicker, because everything happens quicker now. So, I doubt it'll take 10 years, but it could take three, or four, or five. But yeah, so China is going to do all this stuff, but it's not going to do it yet. But it will have watched what America did, how it weaponized the dollar and thought we're not going to allow that to happen to us.Joel Bowman:Yeah. Not-Dominic Frisby:And they will be preparing and taking the right precautions. And, part of those precautions will involve gold.Joel Bowman:... Yeah, I can't imagine them risking three plus trillion dollars of foreign currency reserves and however much gold they've got-Dominic Frisby:It's 20 years of savings.Joel Bowman:... Yep. There you go.Dominic Frisby:20 years of savings and investments. They're not going to throw away tomorrow.Joel Bowman:That's a big piggy bank. A big piggy bank. I really appreciate just looking at the clock here, and I know we're ticking up on an hour here. I really appreciate you taking the time. I wanted just move on real quick before we end it for this particular... And hopefully, we get to you back in the future. But I'm planning at some point this year to hopefully take my young family up to the UK. So, I wanted to just touch on a little bit about how travel is going and whether things are getting back to normal. It's interesting that when you and I first started emailing to schedule this podcast a few weeks ago, COVID would've been pretty much front and center, I would suspect of our conversation. And yet, here we are two or three weeks later. What happened to COVID? Where did it go? And, are we able to travel to the UK yet? Am I going to be able to get a pint of your famously warm beer or what?Dominic Frisby:I think it was Milton Friedman said that, "The art of politics is getting the wrong people to do the right things." And we had a situation in December where we were about to lock down again, when this a Omicron, however you pronounce it. Omicron is actually the correct pronunciation, but everyone says, "Omicron." But anyway, when this Omicron variant broke in, I guess, it was early December, late November, there was a huge pressure to lock down again. And Boris Johnson was about to lock down, under the advice of all... They're actually called Sage, but his wise government medical advisors. And all the back benches from the conservative parties said, "No, if you lock down the economy again, we're going to do a vote of no confidence in you."Joel Bowman:Yeah.Dominic Frisby:So, he massively backpedaled, and didn't lock down when the rest of Europe pretty much did lock down. And then, our COVID rates... Omicron was pretty much the best thing that could have happened, in terms of COVID, because it was massively infectious and very, very mild. So, in terms of building up natural antibodies and all the rest of it, it was literally the best thing that could happen. And so, that happened and we let it run, right? And our infection rate was no higher or lower than anywhere else, not significantly so, and nor was our death rate, nor was anything else. And yet, we had a relatively normal Christmas. And then we opened up.And governments have got no imagination, they're not bold, they're all thinking about career risk. So if somebody else does it, then it's okay to do it. But if you are the pioneer, then they don't want to do it. That's the technocratic mindset, it's the opposite of being an entrepreneur. And, the rest of Europe started to look at England, which didn't lock down. And then, they gradually started copying us. And I think sweet Switzerland a couple of weeks ago decided, "Screw this. We're opening up." And so, I went to Switzerland skiing. Well, I actually went to France skiing, but I went via Geneva, last week. And, I think in one restaurant in France, I got asked for a COVID pass. And I had COVID a few months ago, so I had the COVID pass on my phone. But apart from that, I don't think I got asked once. And then, the only time I did get asked bizarrely was getting on the plane in Geneva, coming back to England, and they want you to do this passenger locator form or something.And so, I just filled that in, and it was a bit of a palaver in the airport. But anyway, the short of it is, I was able to go to Geneva, and then from Geneva to drive across the border into France, and then have a week skiing in two different resorts in France, and then come back to Geneva. It wasn't quite as relaxed as it was before COVID, but it was significantly less relaxed than it was... You had to wear your mask on the plane and stuff like that.But, compared to what it was six months or something ago, we're in a much better place. And, you just assume everywhere else will follow. I just think we've got COVID fatigue now. And, everyone's just like, "Well, we're going to have to live with it." And I'm hoping gradually, quietly, while everyone's eyes are on Ukraine, all the laws will be largely relaxed. And, all the various hypocrisies will be quietly brushed under the carpet and we can just move on and get vaguely back to normal. It's never going to be quite what it was, but there's always going to be this unfortunate precedent that's been set. And, every crisis government intervention increases, and it never quite goes, and taxation, and everything increases. And it never goes back to where it was before the crisis started. But hopefully, we're stumbling back to some freedom. And I use that word, relative freedom, let's put it that way.Joel Bowman:Yeah. A big asterisk, but yeah, it does seem hopefully that the dominoes are falling. And as you say, they're back-paddling on this as politicians, which is to say quietly and while hopefully attention is distracted elsewhere. But mate, look, thank you very much for your time. Do let our readers and listeners know what you've got coming up. I mentioned the Flying Frisby on Substack where they can check out your articles. I know you're often performing in... Is it Comedy Unleashed? Is that the...Dominic Frisby:Yeah, I do a lot of stuff with them. Yeah.Joel Bowman:Okay.Dominic Frisby:And, I am nothing if not prolific. And, I have a large output, and some people prefer me wearing my financial hat, and some people prefer me wearing my comic songwriter hat. And if you want the financial stuff, I would urge you to go to the Flying Frisby, which is just frisby.substack.com, and sign up for my newsletter there. I've only been doing it for two weeks, but it's been going great. I can't believe how quickly it's become so popular. Substack is just fantastic. Literally, within two weeks, if I want to, I can go and become a digital nomad, and I don't need to be in the UK anymore. Just from two weeks on Substack.Joel Bowman:It's a highly recommended lifestyle, by the way.Dominic Frisby:Oh my... Yeah, well, I mean, I've just got to do it. Maybe I've been on it a month now, I might be slightly exaggerating. But, Hey, it's the media, we're allowed to.Joel Bowman:Exactly.Dominic Frisby:But if you want me wearing my comedy songs, go to dominicfrisby.com and you can sign up for a newsletter there. But if you're in the UK, I'm doing a gig on March the 30th, this month at Comedy Unleashed in Bethnal Green, two hours of unacceptable songs and among other things. We'll be singing the libertarian national anthem. And if you like, Joel, you can download the libertarian national anthem off YouTube, and you could end this podcast with it. I can think of no better way to end the podcast than with the National Anthem of Libertaria.Joel Bowman:That's fantastic. You've come with your own plug, mate. That's fantastic. You're doing my work for me. Wonderful, mate. Thank you so much again for taking the time. Yeah, listeners tune in for some imminently cancelable comedy with Dominic Frisby and check out his Substack. And, tune in again next week for your next episode of the Fatal Conceits podcast. I'm Joel Bowman, your host. Talk to you again next week.Dominic Frisby:Arise libertarians above totalitarians. Our guide is the mighty invisible hand. Reject state controls, collectors and patrollers. Our choices are better than government plans. Taxation is a form of theft. Free markets and free tree are best. Free speech, free movement, free minds, and free choice. Our actions are all voluntary. Not coerced or compulsory. War we abhor, socialism does not work. No debt or inflation, no stealth confiscation. No pigs in the trough at the gravy to drink. No state education to brainwash our nation. No experts dictate what to do, what to think. We scorn your fiat currency. Gold and bitcoin is our money. We own ourselves and we live and let live. We take responsibility. Life, love and liberty. Leave us alone, let a thousand flowers bloom.Joel Bowman:Thanks for listening to this episode of the Bonner Private Research podcast. You can find more conversations like this in the members only section of our website at bonnerprivateresearch.com. If you would like to contact us, please address drop your comments in the section below. We look forward to hearing from you either way. Until next week. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit bonnerprivateresearch.substack.com/subscribe

I finally finished the latest edits on my book. I'll start reviewing again today. When I am in novelist mode, it's difficult to walk away and write a post here. As Mrs. Lion said in her post (“We Are Slacking“), she's been busy too. Our sex life has been on The post Best-Before Date appeared first on Male Chastity Journal.

Looking to invest in the Central American region? Ally Rodriguez will be sure to inform you about the know-hows today! In this episode, Aron Masliansky is joined by Ally Rodriguez to provide input in investing globally in Central America. Ally empowers people through education to learn how to buy international real estate, and find their fit.  Ally also shares that the cultures of Central America are different than what you may be used to, and it can be refreshing. She speaks about Panama City where there's a boardwalk that people go to just to be a part of a tribe in a collective community. There's a lot to learn about the Central American culture and how to get there so stay tuned!The career shift: Ally shared that when she and her family moved to Belize, they didn't have a solid plan on how to live. They didn't have jobs, they sold everything they had in Texas, started a new life from scratch with the money they had. What struck Ally is that she likes the idea of teaching, coming from a background of teaching in a public school. Ally explored all different options for teaching from online to teaching in a school again, but it didn't feel right anymore. After a couple of years of living in the island, Ally was offered the position where she can reach out to people who had the same situation as her and help them. The idea of meeting someone who has little idea of what they want to do other than needing a change of pace or environment, Ally fell in love with the job as it also allows her to educate and empower people to take the crucial first step into finding the paradise that they want and need.The pandemic's lesson about Central America:Ally shares that one of the reasons why people from the US are moving into to Central America is to have a plan B in case a situation calls for the need to move. A common reason people move to Belize or Honduras is because they did not like how their country or government handled the pandemic. She also tells us how she was on a vacation in Honduras when the lockdowns started and was stuck there for five months!About Ally Rodriguez:Ally began her professional career as an elementary school teacher in Texas where she helped grow and shape young minds for over 10 years. Her tenure included many awards and recognitions for the dedication and support she provided to her students from many diverse and challenged backgrounds. In November 2017, she moved with her husband to San Pedro, Ambergris Caye after a brief trip to the island only a few months before. Her love of the warm Caribbean waters, friendly people, and rich culture immediately made her feel at home.As Mrs. Rodriguez's knowledge of the community and market grew, she found herself as the marketing manager for various businesses on the island where she discovered her desire to deliver information to tourists and locals alike, eventually connecting her with well-known real estate developers in the Central American region. In May 2019, the adventurous souls held by both her and her husband couldn't be contained and the love of the new culture and country led them to become permanent residents of Belize.After holding the position of International Referral Network Director at ECI Devekopment for over 2 years, Ally and her husband decided it was time to spread their wings and position themselves to be able to help people from all walks of life in their desire to move to locations around the world.Panama was the next stop on the list and in December of 2021, Ally along with her husband packed their bags and booked a one-way ticket to the Bridge of the Americas. Upon arriving and settling in, she co-founded a consulting business to offer first-hand advice, experience, and services to people wanting to relocate to Central America and beyond!Through this new business, she has teamed up with the Velarium Group to head up the sales department for the award-winning communities designed by EcoVillages.Life.Outline of the Episode:[03:14] Ally's background and the move to Belize[10:16] How the pandemic made a way for Ally[19:56] Why are people choosing to move into Central America[21:45] Integrating into society and culture in Panama[25:43] Panama as a global hub[29:25] How to keep your paradise, a paradise[31:34] Ally's present workloadAnd many more!Resources:Website: https://www.ecovillages.life/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ally.rod.international/Connect with Aaron Masliansky!Website: https://www.therealestatediplomat.com/LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-masliansky-4b937217/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/633849318025738Twitter: https://twitter.com/aaronmasliansky

As Mrs. Allgood and Mr. Rixon return to Chicago and the Columbian Exposition, we focus on the man who designed its fairgrounds: Frederick Law Olmsted. In our latest episode from Season Two, we explore Olmsted's varied life and career as a businessman, farmer, Union soldier, and what he is best known for, landscape architect and designer of some of America's most celebrated parks and public gardens. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/allgood-rixondjo/message

This week, we're headed into the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey to discuss a legend as American as apple pie. The Jersey Devil, a chimera that has filled the eastern seaboard with terror since before the founding of our nation. We begin with a terrifying tale from the perspective of one of the many 1909 experiencers before discussing it's varied origins, modern sightings, and the important place it holds in colonial American history. Is this an unidentified creature? An ultraterrestrial entity? Is an honest to goodness demon plaguing the Pine Barrens? Or could this be a simple case of misidentification so common in the 18th and 19th century? As Mrs. Leeds herself bellowed into the night, "LET THIS ONE BE A DEVIL!"Campfire: Tales of the Strange and Unsettling is created for adult audiences only. The content and discussion in this show will necessarily engage with various accounts that include violence, anxiety, fear, and occasional body horror. Much of it will be emotionally and intellectually challenging to engage with. We will flag especially graphic or intense content so as to never put you in an uninformed or unprepared position. We will do our best to make this a space where we can engage bravely, empathetically, and thoughtfully with difficult content every week. This week's episode includes the following sensitive content:ChildbirthGun ShotsViolence Against Children Animal CrueltySatisfy All of Your Merchandise Needs athttps://www.teepublic.com/stores/campfire-tales-of-the-strange-and-unsettling?ref_id=25702Support us on Patreon: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/campfiretalesofthestrangeandunsettlingJoin the conversation on social media atwww.campfirepodcastnetwork.com Join our community Discord: https://discord.gg/43CPN3rzInstagram: instagram.com/campfire.tales.podcastGoodPods: https://goodpods.app.link/T0qvGnXnplbTwitter: www.twitter.com/campfiretotsau Facebook: www.facebook.com/campfire.tales.podcastSpecial Thanks:Gregg Martin for music contributions! Go follow him on Instagram at Instagram.com/reverentmusic , on Bandcamp at https://reverentmusic.bandcamp.com/releases or on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/album/6QVhQsYQeeBVOtxrelehTI?si=V5CAxS8sSXyVFn14G7j-GAAdditional Music: "Cold Cold Cemetery" - Ghost Stories IncorporatedElias Armao for graphic design! Go follow him on Instagram at instagram.com/doggedlinedesignsupply Jonathan Dodd for merch design! Show him some love at https://linktr.ee/jonathandodd

As Mrs. Russ's Birthday is approaching, Les attempts to advise Russ on a gift idea. 

As Mrs. Russ's Birthday is approaching, Les attempts to advise Russ on a gift idea. 

Today's conversation with motivational speaker and advocate, Sandahl Taylor is filled with "WOW" moments. You will be inspired by the passion and commitment that Sandahl has to her community. She casually tells us about her struggles and we are astonished to find out what amazing resilience and strength she has. It is because of her struggle that she is on a mission of blessing and giving to as many as possible. As  Mrs. Pennsylvania Galaxy 2021/22, she uses her platform to help others in a major way and has a campaign using the hashtag showusyourheart to share her message on heart health education. Reach out to her on all social media platforms: @sandahltaylor    

Katy is a proud wife to her husband Chad, and mother to their son Camden (7). With a heart to serve, Katy is an active leader in her community. She is the proud recipient of the bronze level Presidential Volunteer Service Award, and regularly volunteers with organizations like The Jamie Kimble Foundation, The Kindness Cupboard and Feed NC. As host of  The Joyful Life - a podcast dedicated to empowering women world-wide, Katy shares inspirational stories that will empower you to live an inspired, authentic life you love! She helps her listeners rediscover their deepest passions and ignites the fire needed to make them happen. Katy's personal platform is "Stand Up, Speak Out Against Domestic Violence”. Once a victim of domestic abuse, Katy takes an active stand in the fight to end DV. She knows first-hand the importance that awareness and education play in ending or preventing an abusive relationship.In 2014, Katy opened the doors to Katheryn Jeanne Photography, an award winning, international wedding photography company. Her work has been featured in national publications such a The Knot Magazine, Martha Stewarts Weddings and Brides. Her dedication to her craft, love for serving others, and drive for success catapulted her business from a side hustle, to the multi channel company it is today. In addition to capturing her client's celebration of love, she provides education and mentorships to both new and veteran entrepreneurs alike. As a leader in the wedding industry, she continues to empower the creative economy to rise together. She believes we are only as strong as the communities that surround us, and with a strong community, we can change the world. As Mrs. Cosmos International, Katy plans to use this opportunity to continue the fight against domestic abuse by volunteering at local shelters and domestic violence community organizations. In partnering with organizations such as The Jamie Kimble Foundation, she will help raise funds needed to put programs in place worldwide. At a national level, she will dedicate her time and energy to working alongside state representatives to push bills into approval that protect domestic violence survivors. She will bring educational programs into schools throughout the country to teach young girls and boys what healthy relationships look like and what to do if they feel they are in an unhealthy relationship. Lastly, from an international level, she will merchandise her global outreach program that provides resources to women and men who find themselves in abusive relationships. It is time to take a stand and rewrite the script for survivors of domestic abuse. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." The time to use our voices is now. Join Katy in taking a stand against domestic violence.Support the show (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/authentic-voice-with-janice-mcqueen/id1462542236)

Bible Reading: John 1:35-42Zebb slipped into a seat and waited eagerly for vacation Bible school to begin. He'd become a Christian a few months earlier after his friend Travis had invited him to church, and he'd been looking forward to this special week-long program. He liked the songs and the games, and he looked forward to hearing the story the teacher would tell.Song time was as good as usual, and then Mrs. Jackson got up to give the lesson. "Today we're going to talk about Jesus' disciples--the men He called to be with him while he was teaching here on earth," she began. "One of them is Andrew. And who do you think was the first person Andrew brought to Jesus?"Several children raised their hands. "His best friend?" Zebb guessed."Or maybe some people who lived near him?" suggested Travis.Mrs. Jackson smiled. "I'm sure Andrew told many of his friends and neighbors about Jesus, and we certainly should do that too. But let's not forget there might be people in our own homes who need Jesus. The very first person Andrew brought to Jesus was his brother Peter."Zebb squirmed and looked at the floor. His younger brother Jon had wanted to come along to vacation Bible school, but Zebb wouldn't let him. "I don't want you tagging along with me and my friends," Zebb had told him.The next morning, Zebb shook his brother awake. "It's time for vacation Bible school. Do you want to go?" Jon's face lit up, and he nodded and quickly got dressed. As Mrs. Jackson gave the lesson that day, she explained that everyone has sinned and only Jesus can wash sin away. Jon fidgeted and whispered something to his brother. Zebb nodded, and after the kids were dismissed, he took Jon up front. "Mrs. Jackson, my brother isn't a Christian, but he wants to become one. Can you tell him again how to do that?""I sure can!" said Mrs. Jackson.As Zebb and Jon walked home, Jon looked up at his brother. "Can I go to vacation Bible school with you again tomorrow?" "Sure," Zebb replied. "From now on, we're going to follow Jesus together, just like Andrew and Peter did." At Jon's puzzled look, Zebb grinned. "They're two of Jesus' disciples the Bible talks about. I'll tell you about them." -Teresa M. BeverlyHow About You?Do you have relatives who don't know Jesus as their Savior? Have you invited them to church? Have you told them Jesus loves them and wants to save them from their sins? If you know Jesus, you should do all you can to bring others to Him. A good place to start is in your own home.Today's Key Verse:He [Andrew] first found his own brother Simon [Peter]and he brought him to Jesus. (NKJV) (John 1:41-42)Today's Key Thought:Bring family members to Jesus

Greg Pogue & Jon Burton surprised Coach Tim Corbin with having Chelsie Shaw join the live interview on air. As Mrs, Shaw wanted to thank Coach Corbin for writing her a note to get out of work this Friday for Vandy's Super Regional game.

Is walking in a formal gown something new to you? Or do you have vague memories of that one dress you wore to prom…? If this describes you, you're not alone! Keeping an elegant strut while wearing your wedding gown is no small feat, and it does require specific skills, and practice. Who better to share these secrets than Mrs. Washington candidate, Kama Montermini. In this episode, Kama shares practical strategies to confidently walk down the aisle, and through your reception. She also shares ways you can better prepare for makeup and hair trials, and a few fun ways to build confidence for your big day!As Mrs. Thurston County, Kama founded the Survive, Strive, and Thrive Foundation, which provides grants and scholarships to individuals raised alongside a sibling with special needs. Learn more about Kama and her non-profit foundation on Instagram, @kamagaile, or on Facebook at Facebook.com/mrsthurstoncounty2020

On this episode of Northside NOW we welcome Monica Harris into the studio. As Mrs. Peggy's successor as the Business Manager/Treasurer at the church, she and Patrick make up the new kids on the Northside Staff. Listen in as we get to know her and we catch up on all the things happening around Northside NOW! Connect with us on our new Instagram: instagram.com/northsidenowpodcast Or email us at podcast@northsidejackson.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/northsidenow/message

Our journey through Season 2 of Apple TV+'s Dickinson continues as Emily has her first brush with fame- as the winner of the Amherst (Am'erst?) Cattle Show Baking Contest. Is this what she wants? Or will she resist the call of the Baking Contest Circuit in favor of something else? As Mrs. Dickinson tell us, one win is nice but two is momentum! Watch Hailee Steinfeld conjure one of Emily's more incisive poems out of thin air while the rest of Amherst gorges themselves on that monstrous cake she has made. As always, contact us via email at edictsonedicks@gmail.com OR visit our fancy website at edictsonedicks.com. Here's Emily's haymaker of a meditation on Fame (that last line tho...): Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate Whose table once a Guest but not The second time is set Whose crumbs the crows inspect And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn Men eat of it and die

Laura Ratliff, Mrs. Australia International 2020 sparkles for every child. She is a wife, an entrepreneur, a public speaker, and a philanthropist. When Laura was a child at school in Sydney Australia, she struggled with confidence. Laura was fortunate enough, through the support of her parents, gave her the tools and guidance that helped Laura overcome her challenges. Through the combination of all of the skills she developed in her childhood, she laid the foundation to win multiple awards and build a successful children's entertainment business called, Fairy La La Land which is in Australia and in the USA. Laura now is that light for children around the world. Laura's decision to enter Mrs. Australian International pageant started when she was looking for charities organization to help children. Laura read an article about a title holder and she felt was the platform for her. Laura's mission is to inspire children to reach their full potential through health, fitness, and a positive mindset. There are 1 billion children living in poverty today and Laura wants to end poverty to build a brighter future. Laura will lower those numbers and provide programs. Laura is about to launch a book to help teens reach success in their life, with profits going to programs for kids living in poverty around the world. As Mrs. Australia International 2020 Laura is continuing to sparkle for every child. Laura's positive movement is creating stronger communities that will be filled with love & light with dreams that can come true. To join Operation Sparkle: go to www.laurajaneratliff.com Inst @LauraJaneRatliff FB @LauraJaneRatliff -- Are you having a difficult time getting clear on your goals? Are you tired of doubting every move you make? Do you need accountability to stay consistent? Download the FREE Breakthrough Blueprint here https://bit.ly/3duRwLA -- Would you like more direction and consistency in your life? Maybe its time to surround yourself with other like-minded women who are also wanting to level up their mindset! Starting Wednesday, September 16th at 5pm PST/ 8pm EST Tori is offering a Winning Circle Elite coaching program for pageant girls who are serious about taking home the crown! It's time to create the life that you ultimately desire and with this program you will be equipped with the courage and confidence to achieve them. Learn more at https://bit.ly/2Y2pvVk Follow Tori Kruse: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/misstorikruse/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/misstorikruse Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissToriKruse LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/torikruse/ Podcast: https://apple.co/2LHbyq4

This week on The Nailed It Wall Mrs. Scofield and Mr. Lane the STEM Guy share some inspiring stories about their students via Zoom (1st Graders on FlipGrid, Google Slides Stop Motion Projects, greeting students upon entering Zooms, and the power of music). They also address the dark turn social media has taken on education, educator vs. educator battles, and all that they love about Twitter. Find out what it means to step in doo doo and what is Responsible Gaming. Seriously, where can you get doo doo analogies and listen to educators yearn for all of the positive creativity that social media once provided? A candid heartfelt episode where our hosts hope our educators can lead by example when engaging online. As Mrs. Scofield thinks back on her days working at Blockbuster "Be Kind and Rewind." There is now rewind button on what you put on social media so always "Be Kind Online."

"Ladies, Do You Know What Men Really Think? Men, Are You The Only One That Thinks The Way You Do?" As Mrs. Mister (Dana Mister) is away in Africa on a Mission Trip, Mr. Mister (Jeffrey Mister) takes the #1 RELATIONSHIP/ MARRIEAGE PODCAST into a conversation about some of the RAWEST THOUGHTS MARRIED MEN have on SEX AFTER YOU SAY I DO, VULNERABILITY, MENTAL HEALTH, ANXIETY and INSECURITIES. He is joined by two other married men that bring a fun and transparent perspective to the conversation in Floyd "Trey" Lee III (@humblegang_3) and Valentino Blackwell (@tinosbg). Also, the "Whose Side You're On?" segment is hilarius and asks men - "If your wife went to jail, how long could you hold it down?" This episode is the conversation men need to have but rarely do with their wives and with each other. Get ready to LAUGH, LEARN, and LOVE