Monthly Archives: February 2010

Happy Liberation Day

Happy Liberation Day

Commemorating the 19th year since the liberation of Kuwait in 1991 from the Iraqi invasion of 1990.

On the occasion, I would like to share a favourite positive message, a new song with words by Bader Bourisly and music by Sulaiman Al-Dikan (Al-Daigan) and produced by Yarob Burhama.

(Note: the video is also a sponsored message by Viva mobile phone company too)

21 questions (2)

21 questions (2)

1. Why do so many foreigners live in Kuwait?

People need jobs. Lots of jobs are available to foreigners in Kuwait.

2.  Do i need ghusl immediately?

No, you can sleep on it and wash later.

3.  Can i become pregnant riding his penis

There is always a risk of some contact with semen. Those sperm are awfully crafty.

4.  What makes a woman’s voice sexy?

I think it depends on the listener’s preferences. A woman’s voice should not sound whiny, too soft or too loud. Some breathiness is called for but don’t overdo it otherwise you will be accused of hyperventilating. Injecting a smile into the voice is sexy and not affecting an accent is important. However, that is not voice but speech ;)

5.  Why do Arabian woman sleep all day?

I guess it’s because they have to rest after all the wild sex at night. Or it’s because their husbands wear them out. I am assuming single women don’t sleep all day.

6.  What kind of underwear do women like on men?

Every woman has different perceptions and what looks good on a man can also vary. Some men look attractive in “imkassar”; others looks sexy in a “wizar” (similar to the Indonesian sarong wrapped around the waist). Other men may look good in boxers, silk shorts, or form fitting briefs. Depending on the relationship with your partner, and the level of trust and enjoyment, kinkier underwear could be appreciated as well.

7.  Would he marry me?

This question always comes up. I am not a fortune teller. I always say that if you are in a relationship with marriage in mind, you should not wait silently for the other person to make a move. Be open about your intentions but not aggressive because I have a feeling nothing frightens a man as much as being pursued for marriage (unless of course you are rolling in dough and you are a grand prize).

8.  How to talk your wife to let you use viagra?

Hmm, should a man ask his wife about that? I think with some things one should be discrete; it adds some mystique to the marital relationship. As long as you have a reliable doctor’s approval and stick by prescribed doses, enjoy yourselves.

9.  How to clean snow when my wife fucked up?

Well, I don’t know how this question found itself to a dry and dusty Kuwaiti blog since we don’t have anything remotely resembling snow. And I don’t quite understand the question.

10. What’s the mentality of Kuwaiti men?

They love their freedom. They love to be able to go to diwaniyas and socialize without being questioned by their wives or their families. They love to debate and engage in political discussions. They like to complain and criticize all the problems they see in Kuwaiti society and government but do not have the motivation to move the masses to mobilize change. Many are family oriented despite being disengaged from the family and fully immersed in social lives and work. Many Kuwaiti men are like lions, they will take good care of a woman in return for a good meal and tender loving care. Definitely, a good home cooked meal does assuage the most difficult of tempermaments. I could go on and on but will keep it brief.

11. Do Egyptian women have g-spot?

Gosh,  are Egyptian women descendents from alien invaders and missing that  elusive G-spot? I think an Egyptian should answer that one.

13. What is the cost of boob job lebanon?

I have no idea. I would have to research that question and would welcome any answers, you know, for the sake of the common good of the people.

14. Who was Laurence Matheson?

Oh, how fascinated we are with death!

http://jewaira.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/eternally-sleeping/

15.  What are the kuwait new labor law 2010?

http://jewaira.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/new-kuwait-private-sector-labor-laws-proposed/

I need to update that I suppose

16.  What is the g-spot in arabic?

As far as I know it is called the g-spot, too. نقطة جرافبرج -  جي سبوت

17.  How do I make my wife sexually happy?

Read as much as you can about making love to women. Practice makes perfect. Discussing lovemaking with your partner is good but can be understandably awkward for some. With a woman, building trust is an ongoing process; promising excitement can be a good way of building anticipation and desire; patience and  attentiveness during love making is mandatory for sexual satisfaction to achieve the perfect blend of spontaneity, gentleness, and forcefulness that is necessaray.

18.  Where do KISR studies get published?

http://www.kisr.edu.kw/Default.aspx?pageId=392&mid=378

http://www.kisr.edu.kw/Default.aspx?pageId=486

19. How to propose love to a housemaid?

Propose love or marriage? I mean do you want to confess that you love her or confess attraction and a desire to have intimate contact?

20.  Do Christian women enjoy sex?

Please, if there are any Christian women reading this, do answer. I would say yes :)

21.  Should you freeze your eggs at 39?

I’m obviously not a doctor but I would venture to guess that the earlier a woman freezes her eggs the better.  You would have to consult an oocyte cryopreservation specialist

Mama, what is the intrinsic value of beauty?

Mama, what is the intrinsic value of beauty?

Has anyone been to the Acanthe School of Etiquette & Protocol in Kuwait?

I was both surprised and pleased to see the ad for a local school of etiquette.

Tonight at the Loyac Annual music concert in Mishref, I was struck by the complete disregard the audience has in the presence of people presenting on stage or performers. The concert and performances were lovely and truly inspiring. I really enjoyed all the presentations by the young musicians and singers. Their effort was really commendable and so was that of their instructor/maestro who seemed to truly love his job.

But I found myself as always at these functions, questioning the disregard members of the audience have for performers. It is normal to hear the drone of people holding conversations, laughter, comments, and other disturbing emissions while the performer is on stage. It is normal for mobiles to go off wildly and for people to answer. It is alright for people to get up in the middle of a performance or to walk in and scramble over other people’s feet to get to a middle seat after the show has begun

Are people being intentionally rude? Or do they just not realize how disrespectful it is to make noise during a performance or when someone is talking on stage? Or can they do all things at one time: listen to the performance and talk to companions at the same time?

I decided that people behave as they have been culturally trained to do so. Most people’s exposure to theatre in Kuwait has been to noisy comedies during the Eid holidays. Not many have had to sit through classical concerts, or long plays where one has to concentrate on the actor’s words to get the story. We are a gregarious, loud, talkative group of people and few of us have been exposed to proper theatre or had the etiquette of respectful listening behaviour instilled in us, which is why people talk during lectures.

Are we deserving of a state of the art opera house or theatre building? Would we really appreciate the art within? Or will it be just like that designer watch or handbag you are wearing: just for show?

http://www.alraimedia.com/Alrai/Article.aspx?id=187965

Accomplished singer and fine voice - http://www.alraimedia.com/Alrai/Article.aspx?id=187965

From Al-Qabas Daily Newspaper http://www.alqabas.com.kw/Article.aspx?id=582479&date=05032010

http://www.alqabas.com.kw/Article.aspx?id=582479&date=05032010

A variety of talents

http://www.alqabas.com.kw/Article.aspx?id=582479&date=05032010

A view of the audience

Mama, am I erudite?

Mama, am I erudite?

As if it wasn’t bad enough that the Kuwaiti women’s football team lost 17-0 to the Palestinian team in the West Asian Football championship. Now we have to listen to outcries from conservative members of parliament who declare that playing football is “against the nature and physique of women” and how did these women ever get there in the first place and who gave them permission to participate in such a sport, exposing themselves all over the media in their shorts.

Well I missed the match. And I’ve been looking all over for a photo of the Kuwaiti women’s team. I’ve been looking for some information on them. Nothing. Nothing the average information searcher on the Internet can find. Even the Western media is not interested in the “oppressed” Kuwaiti females who cannot engage in competitive sports.

Poor Kuwaiti girls. Poor women who must struggle to achieve some sort of normality; to compete in healthy competitions against other teams and gain recognition.

Now they will only be humiliated by the 17-0 loss and by the snarky remarks of sexist men who think that Kuwaiti women are only good for walking around the local malls, shopping, wearing designer clothes, showing off expensive oversized handbags, and exercising their fingers on their Blackberries. (something similar to what some guy wrote on a local forum)

The headlines on the Kuwait Times this morning made me laugh heartily. What a silly thing to put on the front page! Why even give conservative reaction any sensational news coverage? The ideal reaction would have been to run a thorough report on the Kuwaiti women’s football team and their struggles to establish themselves.

Don’t hide from the media, ladies. Utilize it to your advantage.

a brief interlude

a brief interlude

The other evening

at the Clinic,

some women

sported thongs,

their unpainted toenails

appeared

delicate,

like fresh petals

peeping up

from soft-fleshed

feet;

like a veiled woman

removing her burqa

in an intimate moment.

oh winter,

you were the briefest of

interludes.

Arab Women & Bodybuilding

Arab Women & Bodybuilding

I came across a discussion on one of the new Kuwaiti TV channels. It was a talk show geared to youth and one young woman and two young men were discussing the topic of female bodybuilding and whether it was a desirable sport.

One of the men said that a woman should be soft and delicate, and the kind that would topple over with a blow from a piece of Kleenex tissue!!

This drew an outcry from the young woman.

The two men insisted that bodybuilding was not the ideal women’s sport as it was considered too masculine and too “aggressive”. It would instil fear into the hearts of husbands or would be husbands to be in the company of a muscular woman. Women, they said, should engage in more refined sports like tennis, aerobics, and a number of other less strenuous activities more suitable to the feminine form.

What I would have liked to know is whether or not there are women who engage in body-building locally in Kuwait or in any other Gulf country and if they have their own kinds of competitions since I don’t think there are any offiicial sponsors of the sport here for females.

To be a gay teenager

To be a gay teenager

The young man called in to Dr. Foz last Saturday night. His voice was full of sadness and dejection as he related his problem to the sexologist.

He said he had a big problem being accepted by his family and friends and was being rejected.

When she asked him what for, he replied with the answer I knew he would give: He was gay, he said and he had a lot of problems with people because of this preference.

Dr. Foz was kind and listened to him. She explained that sometimes teenage years were confusing and such feelings could be misinterpreted. Young people could also be misled by the media or peers. She advised him to come into her office for some counselling and to talk further about his problems.

I wondered several things. First, if a young person like this teenager, needed confidential  counselling, how could he or she afford it without alerting the parents? Surely it must cost a lot to seek private counselling. What other public counselling is  available that is both confidential and builds the self-esteem?

Second, I wondered what the counselling would entail. How to deal with people who did not accept you? How to change and stop having homosexual leanings?

Yes, homosexuality goes against most common societal values and religious mores, but it does happen. Homosexuality has existed in most every culture thoughout history. It is nothing new. It is not a Western import. Some people are simply attracted to the same sex and they must endure a lot of pain and shame trying to deal with it especially in a culture that deems it wrong. The confusion and trepidation in his voice was very painful to listen to and I hope he finds some answers.

the farm

the farm

They kept an ostrich on the farm. It was not a Western style farm, nor an Eastern style farm for that matter. In fact, it was not really a farm but a walled weekend home in the desert. It was nothing fancy, certainly not luxurious by modern Kuwaiti standards. But it had all modern day amenities and in that respect it was not really a traditional desert dwelling.

It was the Abdulrazzaq family’s first such farm and they experimented. The silver-haired Mr. Abdulrazzaq was gifted with baby ostriches that soon grew up into big flighty creatures. One was given away. The other broke its leg somehow, perhaps in its nervous dash for sanctuary. The Abdulrazzaqs were not really an animal-caring family. They just liked to keep them on the farm. They said it was for the children but everyone was simply too afraid to approach the animals, except for maybe the ducks. In the begining they chased the ducks around the green turf and laughed when their pointy fat behinds wiggled and waddled about. After a while, the ducks just became a part of the outdoor decor.

Mrs. Abdulrazzaq said the vet saw the ostrich with the broken leg and said it would be an expensive operation. So they brought it back to the farm where it became sick and died a few days later. Mrs. Abdulrazzaq shook her head as she lamented the cost of medical treatment for animals in Kuwait. “More expensive than human doctors!” she declared “And the operation would have cost more than the bird was worth.”

“You should have slaughtered it and eaten it,” someone said. “It’s got the best meat. Cholesterol free.”

Mrs. Abdulrazzaq looked vacantly at the red brick groundwork and shook her head, remembering the  useless farm ostriches. She continued the long spiel over the fuss over vaccinations, record books and regular care expenses of the modern day pet dogs and cats? Whatever was the fuss about, she wondered in amazement, adjusting her huge Prada sunglasses back onto her nose.

Valentine’s Day in Egypt

Valentine’s Day in Egypt

I enjoyed reading this account of a day spent in Cairo on Travelblog. The writer gives a detailed account of her impressions of all the places they have visited and her impressions. Towards the end of the post, she mentions Valentine’s Day in Cairo and expresses her surprise that people are celebrating at all in a conservative Muslim country:

Valentine’s Day in Egypt by ruins_explorer – Nepenthe

February 14th 2008

“Valentine’s Day must be big here. There are signs and decorations everywhere, and everyone is wishing each other Happy Valentine’s Day. My guide even told us that she was planning on going home to celebrate it with her husband and had bought a special dress to wear for it. In a Muslim country, Valentine’s Day! I guess everyone needs love. In honor of the holiday, I suppose, my stepdad asked our guide all about courtship and dating in Egypt. We learned how you really have to express an interest in marriage to the father before courtship can begin. Then the girl must give her consent. After this, the pair will spend time together with a chaperone. It is quite a conservative culture. It is very different from ours, needless to say.

We were very tired and didn’t get to see a bellydance show, as it was sold out for Valentine’s Day. We ended up meeting up with our tour group and then going to bed after dinner.

Valentine’s Day dinner was celebrated in a big way in the hotel restaurant. Red roses were given to all female guests. Love-themed dishes were served. A violinist wandered the restaurant, even playing “Alf Leyla Wa Leyla” on the violin! This sent me into a wonderful spasm of music appreciation.”

Uncensored

Uncensored

Recently, Ibtehal Al-Khateeb, PhD, has made more than headlines by things said (and misunderstood) in an interview with Wafa Al-Keilani on the bold LBC program Uncensored.  The  interview caused an uproarious reaction particularily on the Internet where she was mainly bashed on forums and blogs across the Arab world for her progressive ideas and frank answers. To summarize, Uncensored is a program geared towards raising controversy and Ibtehal Al-Khateeb fit the bill of the perfect person to interview through which to exact such a reaction from viewers.  Ibtehal Al-Khateeb is a secularist Kuwaiti woman who lectures at Kuwait University. In addition to her teaching  job, she is a human rights activist and a newspaper columnist (where she also expresses her secularist views).

I took a cursory look at comments on the web and after watching the program on YouTube, found that listeners had misunderstood what she said on some matters. On other matters, the subject was simply too bold for the average listener or reader to understand.

She prefers to be introduced as a Kuwaiti, not as a Muslim, or as a Shiite. She upholds the right of people to practice any religion with freedom they desire without guardianship or interference by any one sect. Secularism in the long run secures the stability of a country where the rights of all people, the majority and the minorities, are guaranteed by civil law. Being a secularist, and calling for the complete separation of state and religion is itself a brave thing to pursue in a conservative society like Kuwait.

Ibtehal Al-Khateeb expressed her support for the civil rights of homosexuals and while she did not expressly say she aided gay marriages, she did say that these were subject to the laws of the country and whether or not such alliances were acceptable in the society.

She was asked about the concept of  polyandry and she replied that although her personal beliefs were strongly towards the nuclear family consisting of one wife and one husband, she could not  declare that such ideas were wrong just because she did not believe in them.

She was asked about some subjects she had previously discussed in her articles concerning breastfeeding non-related adult men and also men seeking pleasure with young girls that did not involve direct sexual intercourse. Here she was quite misunderstood by people who thought she was supporting those two issues when she was actually calling for a revision of such fatwas and religious ideas to be more suited to modern day life.

The interview was quite long even though the nature of the program is based on short questions and short answers, sometimes with no room for clarification. It is this factor and also the boldness of Ibtehal Al-Khateeb’s ideas that caused conservative listeners to misunderstand.

I was glad when she came on Al-Rai* Kuwaiti television in an interview with Abdullah Buftain tonight to talk at length about her ideas and to clarify some points that may have been misunderstood. Nonetheless, her ideas remain too progressive for the mainstream of Kuwaiti society and I think that someone of her calibre has to fight to remain steadfast and true to her ideals. If people let down their guard and listen to what she is saying with regards to civil rights, they will understand that she is a champion of the people and of the Kuwait, a country of diverse nationalities, personalities and characteristics and not as they wrongly assume, against them or their religious beliefs.

Here is the first part of 11 of the interview on LBC:

The interview on Al Rai will be repeated on Friday.

Unusual Jobs for Women

Unusual Jobs for Women

Maryam A. Al-Mutairi using the forklift

Yesterday I watched an interview of Maryam Abdullah Al-Mutairi on the KTV 1 women’s show Heya wa Akhawateha.

Maryam Al-Mutairi works in the Kuwait Ports Authority (KPA) and she was on the program to discuss her job as a certified ports crane and forklift operator. She used to work in the KPA finance department but  jumped at the opportunity to train as a gantry container crane operator in the port and eventually became the first Kuwaiti woman to earn a certificate as a forklift operator from the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in Alexandria Egypt. She’s involved in training others now to become crane operators.

One of the first questions she was asked was how she coped in a job which was in a  mainly male environment. Was she taken seriously? Did male employees offer to help out and do the job for her?

Maryam mentioned the importance of a serious, professional demeanour on the job and during her interactions with male empoyees of all levels. She also stressed the importance of appearance that suited  the kind of work she was doing which means non-fitted worksuits and light make-up, if any.

Her appearance she stressed, was different off the job and she is  a woman who loves fashion, make-up, and looking good. They asked her about her non-traditional appearance (as her family is of tribal descent) and she mentioned that her mother is Egyptian and her maternal grandmother was Turkish. She attributed the strength in her personality to her Kuwaiti father. Although her job is not usual for an Arab woman, she says she does respect her family customs and local culture otherwise. She is comfortable with her femininity and her role of nurturer in the home as a mother and as a good cook.

She spoke about her children and how she encourages independent thought and equality in the way they interact with both other males and females. She pointed out the importance of  instilling within them a love of work and ambition and how they were the ones responsible for choosing their own careers without any manipulation from her as a parent.

Maryam is dedicated to her work which she stresses has made her love life because she enjoys her job so much. It is important for a person, she said, to be happy in the work they do and to feel challenged and inspired. She loves being next to the sea and working in such a rewarding environment.

Maryam Al-Mutairi and Jameela Yusuf amongst crane operating trainees

More about being a gantry container craner operator

Discussing Divorce

Discussing Divorce

A couple of weeks ago,  Al-Watan TV presenter Barakat Al-Wgayan interviewed three members of MBC Kalam Nawa’em team on his talk show Hayakom .

Kalam Nawa’em is based on the  the American women’s show The View.

The three women who appeard on Hayakom were: Mona Abo Sulayman (Saudi Arabian); Fawzia Salama (Egyptian) and Farah Bseeso (Palestinian).

Each of the above women are successful in their own right in addition to being well-known in the sometimes controversial women’s talk show Kalam Nawa’em.

I found  the candid discussion of their personal lives during the interview interesting.  Mona AbuSulayman, talked about the importance of having a solid support system within one’s family in order to pursue a career, or several paths as she has done. She talked about the amicable divorce she endured with her ex-husband Ahmad, who has since remarried and had a son with his new wife. She touched on the difficulties of enduring life as a single mother but again reiterated the importance of the support of her parents and immediate family especially in raising her two young daughers. She mentioned the importance of discussing the divorce with her daughters and how she never spoke ill of their father or his  life with his new family, but in fact they still communicated with each other with regards to matters related to their children.

Although Mona AbuSulayman divorced at an early stage in her marriage, Fawzia Salama was married for about 18 years before separating from her first husband. She stayed in the marriage to keep a stable home for her daughter although she was not happy.

There was a time when discussing divorce was a taboo subject in society. The two women discussed their divorces as a positive move individually but did not harbour any negative emotions (at least outwardly) towards their ex-husbands and exhibited a sensible unemotional demeanour on the show.

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Kalam Nawa’em was featured on PBS film Dishing Democracy

21 questions

21 questions

An interesting bouquet of questions from those who passed by the Boudoir and my answers below.

1.  when was souq sharq built?

After the Iraqi Invasion of 1990. Could it have been around 1998?

2.  will he marry me?

I think he is the one who can answer that.

3.  why kuwaitis are assholes?

The wording of the question shows the mental capacity of the person asking it.

4.  how long would you wait for love

You should live your life to the fullest in the present with the ones you love. Putting your life on hold till the other person is ready for you  is not an option

5.  what do you think of kuwaiti gays?

Live and let live.

6.  do women like a cucumber in their vagina?

Some women enjoy it I suppose.

7.  is virginity a physical state?

I believe it is primarily a mental state.

8.  how to find a massage with a happy ending?

I’d like to know too :P

9.  can you milk a donkey?

Yes.

10.  do people of kuwait marry foriegners?

They sure do.

11.  who is meriam al khalifa seeing now?

I don’t know.

12.  do cucumbers let you go toilet?

Yes, they are a diuretic so they will help get rid of liquids.

13.  how do you know if your voice is deep?

Ask someone.

14.  can i have a boyfriend in kuwait?

Well, yes but there are unwritten rules one must follow.

15.  how to find a second wife in kuwait?

Go to a matchmaker or ask friends. If your wife is here,  ask her to look for you (if you survive the questioning that is :P )

16.  why it’s important to wait for love?

What does waiting for love mean? Waiting until that person knows you exist? Or till that person is free/able to be with you? One can wait one or two years but a endlessly is not an option.

17.  does a little facial hair on a women turn men on?

Not really

18.  why do guys lie about being married?

It’s instinctive. They need more than one woman in their lives but can’t guarantee that a woman will accept them if they are married.

19.  how to marry a kuwaiti christian lady?

I would like to know the process too.

20.  where do kuwaitis come from?

Kuwaiti originate mainly from three places: the Arabian peninsula namely the area of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran. There are also Kuwaitis whose families are originally from other countries too such as Pakistan, India, Egypt and other Arab countries like Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.

21.  do turkish men prefer women to be waxed?

Hmm, not sure but I guess the trend now is for women to be smooth and hairless so I would say yes.

Has she swallowed a radio?

Has she swallowed a radio?

The first thing I read this morning was Saudi girl ends bid to divorce octogenarian and I felt sorry for the 12 year old girl who “changed” her mind and decided to go ahead and marry the 80 year old man. How can one justify such abuse of a child? Although there are people and charities who may campaign for children’s rights, there are no laws in Saudi Arabia against child marriages.

I pondered what an octogenarian would want with a 12 year old girl. Could he even have sex?

This led me to  this article: Viagra turns octogenarian  into sex maniac , an account of an octogenarian who was demanding his 53 year old wife to have sex at least three times a day. Hmmm, I thought. So it is possible.

I took a brief look at the site and saw that too much sex was indeed an issue for some women and came across this unusual account : Two Malay women file for divorce over husbands’ unusual sex drive. What was unusual for me was the allusion to the devil and black magic. In the case of the first woman:

“The riddle to the husband’s unnatural sex drive was answered when a relative of the wife saw the husband in the house when the family had seen him left for work earlier,” the Star Online quoted Awang as saying.

“The relative heard the husband’s voice in the bedroom and upon checking, found an ‘individual’ in the room looking exactly like the husband,” he said.

Hmmm, it sounds like wifey was up to hanky panky and just plastered poor hubby with this accusation!

In the other case [my own bold text] :

Perubatan Islam Mustajab specialist Nazri Md Isa said that an 18-year-old woman had filed for fasakh after her husband asked her for sex more than 10 times a day.

Nazri said that according to the wife, the husband had the ritual of going to the bathroom before having sex with her.

“It all started when he had sex with her 17 times on their wedding night. The wife did not suspect anything then as she thought he was merely performing his duty as a husband,” Nazri said.

“But when the situation persisted, she discussed the matter with her mother-in-law, who told her that it was a normal behaviour.

“She told her own mother, who brought her to the religious department to file a report because the latter thought it was sexual abuse,” he said.

When an investigation was carried, it was found that the husband’s demeanour was strange.

The wife and her family had a shock when they found “two individuals” that look alike in the bathroom.

Religious leader Datuk Abu Hasan Din Al-Hafiz claimed that it was not impossible for a man to have sex many times in one night if he was “friendly with the devil”.

It all sounds pretty strange to me. What if it was hubby’s twin? Or his buddy? Or he was overdosing on some performance enhancers that made the wife “see double”?

17 times? How can one count past say the 6th? Did she have a marker and mark every round on the wall?

Things were just getting weirder.

I quickly scanned the news of the 9 year old Chinese girl giving birth to a baby boy and wondered about that only to find out that one Lina Medina from Peru is the youngest recorded female to become pregnant and deliver a baby boy at the age of 5 years and 7 months. Her son grew up thinking she was his sister.

OK. Back  to my quest on octogenarians: I came across  Helen Gurley Brown who authored Sex and the Single Girl in 1962 and is the editor for the  international editions of Cosmo magazine. Her film producere husband David Brown just died a couple of days ago.

Helen Gurley Brown advises:

All the suggestions about pleasing men are as viable as ever,” she says in her soft, papery voice, perhaps the only indication of her age. “Whatever age you are, you should be flattering to a man about the way he looks, telling him how attractive he is. And you should be very flattering to his penis. You should tell him how beautiful it is, how attractive, how irresistible.” [Source]

For some reason, this brings me to the concluding thought on this morning’s post: something Dr. Foz said on Saturday night. A woman should kiss a man in the centre of his forehead. This will calm his inner chakra and enable him to heal emotionally. She also mentioned that pressure on the forehead when prostrating during Islamic prayers helps induce emotional calm and serenity.