WHY MISSIONARY POSITION?- a lengthy comment on “Free Pinay Sex Scandal’s Top Five Love Making Positions”

(This should have been my comment in a blog entry entitled “Free Pinay Sex Scandal’s Top Five Love Making Positions,” but due to my comment’s length I thought of just posting it as a separate article.)

Sex is determined by the male’s sperm cell and not by the female’s ovum. A sperm cell, which is a haploid gamete, contains either an “X” or a “Y” chromosome which in turn will pair with an ovum, which always contains an “X” Chromosome. A pair of “X” egg cell and a “Y” Sperm cell develops into a male offspring, while an “X” and an “X” develops into a female offspring.

According to one of our lecturers, the sperm cells carrying the “Y” Chromosomes are weaker than the ones carrying the “X.” Therefore, “X” carrying sperms has the better chances of reaching the ovum and consequently fertilizing it.

As a form of protection against infections, the vagina naturally maintains a very acidic environment that proves to be hostile to microorganisms, and other foreign bodies- like the sperm cells. Conversely, beyond the cervix up to the uterus, the pH level increases providing a hospitable alkaline environment for the sperm cells to thrive and for reproduction to take place. Therefore, sperm cells with abnormalities, premature and some “Y” carriers die inside the vagina before they even reach the mouth of the cervix. Thus 2 requirements are needed in order to increase the chance of survival of the “Y” carrying sperm.

1.) THE LENGHT. The longer the penis, the closer it gets to the cervix. The less distance a sperm cell travels to the cervical os. The less time it spends inside the vagina.

2.) DEEPER PENILE PENETRATION. For the ones who were not endowed with the monstrosity of a foot long hotdog, seep penile penetration ensures that when ejaculation happens the sperm cells are hurled closer to the cervix.

Among the countless love-making positions that the human species has invented, I should say, therefore that Missionary position gives the optimum likelihood for a male offspring because it provides the penis a deeper penetration (regardless of size) inside the vagina and guarantees a better chance of survival of the “Y” carrying sperm cell. However, beyond the cervix, the “Y” carrying sperm cells still has to compete with the other “X” carrying sperm cells.

An Eye for an Eye… A Smile for a Laugh

It lasts only for a quarter of a second but the result may endure a lifetime. It is cheap, yet is priceless. Smile.

When was the last time you smiled?

I visited a bank today. Queuing on a Monday morning proved to be a torment. A number tag is given to every client entering the bank and I got the number 17. I sat on sofa while waiting for my turn. I heard the guard called the number 14… so I was really hopeful that after 2 more people I’d be doing my own transaction. But then after the number 14… he said 41… then 42. That’s when I realized that he meant 40 not 14.

According to what I overheard from the guard and a customer, the number goes from 1 up to 50. And then after 50 they repeat the cycle again by giving out the first numbers, which by then has already been returned to the security guard. I waited there for like an hour and a half more until finally the number ten was called… a girl who just entered and got a number 40 something heard it and said in shocked disbelief, “Ha, kabubukas nyo pa lang ba?” (What, have you just opened the bank?)

She said that really loudly that the old lady who was sitting at the opposite end of my couch smirked and muttered to herself (but again really loud), “Nakatatlong ikot na no. ” (This was the third rotation.). For a sec I thought she’ll say “DUH!” but then she looked at me and caught me looking at her then we both sniggered.

I always have this experience of getting caught in a momentary eye to eye contact with a stranger and for some reason we always end up smiling and laughing because of something.

I remember one time I was sitting in a bus. Opposite my seat was a girl. In front of her were a lady and her preschool child. There were only a few people in the bus and I believe that at that time we were less than ten in all. It was raining and the little boy insisted to open his window. The mother, being inconsiderate with the rest of the passengers and equally dumb with parenting, gave in to the little boy’s temper tantrums. The rain was not that hard, but of course combined with the wind and the bus’ velocity it is inevitable for someone to get wet, specially the girl behind them, and the boy opposite the girl- ME.

I was reading a book and was completely oblivious with what was happening until drops of water came pouring down the book’s pages. I quickly closed the book and cover myself with my huge back pack to keep me dry. I saw the girl doing the same with her grocery bags, which didn’t help at all. She was trying to dodge every drop of water with her canned goods quite unsuccessfully. The rain came pouring in and we both tried harder to dodge the rain, and as we did so, we both caught each others eyes and started laughing heartily. The woman, thank goodness, sensed what was happening, closed the windows, starting another sequence of cries and whines fro her son. The bus went on but I still couldn’t stop giggling even after 10 minutes. When the bus stopped and the girl descended the steps, she looked at me and smiled. Of course, I smiled back

And to make you smile watch the following videos I found while browsing youtube.com.

What about the Legalization of Prostitution in the Philippines?

I had to transfer from one bus to another in commuting back and forth the Regional Health Unit. As my first bus slowed down and approached the terminal where I had to ride the next bus, I had a glimpse of a karaoke bar. It was one among multitudes of Karaoke bars that line that street. Stood in front were more than a dozen girls in skimpy attire. A lady in her early forties was clearly visible as she audibly talked with a mob of more or less than twenty Korean men. The age of the guys ranges from as old as forty to as young as early twenty years old. I saw the two youngest men exchanging conversation with uncertainty in their faces, which they passed into giggles.

If Ever I Die Along the Way

Tonight I am leaving with my father to spend the season with our relatives in Isabela. It always takes us more or less twelve hours to travel from Bataan to Isabela, and thus my father prefers that we go on a night trip. However, travelling that long especially thru the rugged terrain of the Cordillera mountains of the province of Nueva Viscaya is certainly dangerous, actually any kind of journey via national hi-ways is dangerous. In fact, I have encountered an accident when I was little in the said route.

Last September, I acquired an Organ Donor Card from the National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI). The card is part of NKTI’s HOPE or Human Organ Preservation Effort program that aims to “advocate organ and tissue donation and to source out transplantable organs from deceased organ donors.” Organ donors are not just the victims of accidents, there are instances when a person’s body still lives though the brain has already given up and so he becomes the perfect candidate for organ donation. This card guarantees that if ever I die, my organs will not be wasted and rot with the rest of my body.

At first I found it a little bit repulsive. Just thinking of people hauling my lifeless body from a supposed vehicular accident, and immediately transferring me from the site to the nearest hospital, not to revive me, but to the take advantage of the still fresh and still “consumable” internal organs that haven’t been destroyed by the accident.

I gave it a thought and with the help of a little explanation that my death will not be put to waste and will mean a lifelong health for someone else strucked me. It is a little bit eerie but death is an inevitable phenomenon so why not endure with the optimism that at the end of the day someone else’s life is lengtened. So I agreed and took the card. I went home and jot down the needed data at the back; it says;

In the hope that I may help others, I wish to donate after my death; 

followed by a list of five organs and a word “others’ with the corresoponding boxes where I have to put a mark. I checked all the boxes. Then I proceed to the next statement with a box saying;

Any needed parts to be used for transplantation, research and education.

i didn’t find the last three words, “research and education”, inviting so I put a slash mark over them and wrote the word “only” after the word “transplantation” so it looks like this

Any needed parts to be used for transplantation, only

research and education.

Obtain your own HOPE card now at the National Kidney Institute, who knows, LIFE might be your next perfect Christmas gift to someone.

The Nursing Board Examination

The 2007 nursing Board examination result is finally here. Boy, it must have been tough waiting for it. I have been dreading about my own licensure examination since I was in sophomore. And now that I am in my senior, the thought of me finally taking the exam next year is just unbearable.

If ever next year I got lucky to pass my Major subjects and graduate and take the examination on June 2008, and after two months the result finally came, please do not ask me about it if ever I did not post an article about its result. I won’t post anything about it if ever I failed my own examination and then we can all just pretend that I did not take the exam. Okay.