Early this morning, I got a call from the police asking me to come to Agent Mulder's
apartment.
The detective asked me.
He needed me to identify a body.
Agent Mulder's coming.
Agent Mulder died late last night from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the
head.
All lies have a beginning.
I was under the impression that you were sent to spy on me.
All deception has a source.
I can provide you with information.
Now go back to where it all began.
You believe it all, don't you?
I wouldn't.
It's the series that created the phenomenon.
The military will not tolerate an FBI investigation.
It's the series that needs to be seen again.
You want me to debunk the X-Files project?
To believe the lie.
No!
You must reopen the X-Files.
We are not alone.
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On Sex Life tonight, gender bending on the streets, the all natural sex toy, looking
for love by the stars and the beauty of beards.
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Hi and welcome to Sex Life.
It may be every little girl's dream to walk down the aisle with Mr. Right, but these days
more and more couples are opting for just simply living together.
Later in the show we reveal whether that move can actually prevent them from ever making
it this far.
But first, some people are natural born show-offs and then there are those who go beyond merely
showing off by happily baring all to anyone who's watching.
Joda Young reports on what actually drives these people to proudly and publicly display
their birthday suits.
You can see it emerging a bit out of Australian culture, we're an outdoors culture and we
often don't have a lot of clothes on to be in with and this is a bit of a larrikin streak
in Australia, we like doing things that upset people or make them think twice or just take
a bit of notice.
I don't think there's really a lot sexual to it, most people who do it aren't actually
attempting any kind of sexual thrill, I think they're really just trying to be noticed and
shake things up a bit.
And there's been a whole lot of shaking going on, but it hasn't always been so.
Now known for its fields of tanned flesh, right up until the late 1960s women were thrown
off Bondi Beach for wearing bikinis.
These days no one bats an eyelid at bad breaths, or anything else.
What's even more shocking than one person's display of nudity is 40 people's display of
nudity and that's exactly what's going on here at Sydney's Bondi Beach.
So guys and girls, get your gear off and hang to it, woo, I lost my sunnies, I lost my gloves.
You didn't really think I was going to do it did you?
Thank you.
Yep, it's nude surfing, held once a year by the Fringe Festival.
The wedding tackles outfishing and the crowd loves it.
Who'd stand on the first line?
You feel kind of exposed, but everybody's on your side.
You don't feel like anybody's really laughing at you directly, they're sort of laughing
with you.
Everyone's having fun, it's a good vibe.
Look at the beach, it's like thousands of people, it's fantastic.
Look, I don't want to pour cold water on high spirits, but this is illegal.
Well, I guess if the police wanted to play tough in the situation they could arrest people,
but that's an event that's fairly well publicised, it gets TV coverage, the TV stations don't
show it as something that's horrible and it's a bit of good fun.
Bondi Beach is a very big beach and the nude surfing occupies only a small bit of it, people
genuinely are offended, they can wander over to Tamarama or the other end of Bondi and
they don't have to take it in.
And generally with flashing, that's the rule, it's all about context.
The Gay Mardi Gras is a perfect example of context is everything.
Everyone knows what's involved in the Gay Mardi Gras these days and everybody knows
what they expect, I think they'd be sorely disappointed if they went to the Gay Mardi
Gras or watched it on television and it didn't involve some flashing and outrageous activities
and outrageous costumes.
And it's the same for the annual Redhead Festival, the Summer Nats in Canberra.
In an event like the Summer Nats where girls are flashing their breasts, it's part of that
internal group, it's part of what that group expects, so for women doing that it's saying
look I'm part of this group, I'm happy to go along with what's expected of me.
And it does have strong sexual overtones as well.
For a number of people who streak or otherwise expose themselves, exhibitionism becomes
such a turn on, they even write about it to prolong the brief moment of ecstasy.
My heart thudded as I stripped off my dress and set my naked foot on the grass.
I was dizzy with anticipation and fear, I was almost there, the roar of the crowd spurred
me on, the adrenaline, a primitive beat of blood in my ears.
My resolve strengthened and I flew across the pitch, I felt released.
Tracy Collison streaked in front of 45,000 rugby league fans and paid the price, a $650
fine and a criminal record for indecent exposure.
Originally I've been wanting to do it since I was about 8 years old, streak at the football
because when I was a kid that was the only exciting thing that ever happened on the
football or the cricket.
People who streak are very different to those who flash their flesh in the company of their
mates and a few beers.
These sorts of people are likely to be perhaps more comfortable with their bodies in the
sense that they're quite happy for people to be looking at their bodies and then they
lack the self-consciousness that most people would have.
And they need to be comfortable with themselves because unlike flashing, when you streak you
don't have the support of your peers, it's just you against the world.
Yeah I do think you need to be probably a bit of an exhibitionist, I'd like to say that
I wasn't but that would be probably stupid.
Tracy's now taken her passion onwards to become the reigning Miss Nude New South Wales, a
title she revels in.
I enjoy being nude in public I guess because of all the fuss and excitement and everything
else.
That fuss seems to be the key to the streaker's psyche.
It's probably a little bit more generally in their nature and they're seeking attention
and often of course they're egged on by things like alcohol or other people.
This can be a danger zone, if you feel you must expose yourself or can only achieve sexual
excitement by streaking, please seek help.
And finally it doesn't matter where you make your full disclosure, there's always a risk
of prosecution, like this guy who seems hell-bent on cutting short his breeding career.
When you expose yourself, it's a risky business.
Coming up, unshaven and sexy, and saying I do or I don't.
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To beard or not to beard, that is the question faced by a lot of fashion conscious guys these
days.
And it's not quite as simple as just not shaving anymore.
As Jodie Young reports, facial fuzz has become an art form.
Gone are the days where the morning routine of a shower and a shave was just a simple
process for you guys.
These days it's more like a shower and a sculpt.
For the 90s men, hairstyles aren't limited to the head.
They're taking root right across the face as well.
I think there's so many different ways that you can wear facial hair.
Probably the most popular that I can think of is certainly the goatee beard.
There's the pencil mustache.
And also I think there's this thing that guys are wearing under the bottom lip which apparently
is called the spike.
Okay guys, it's show and tell time.
I have a thin mustache and a tuft under my bottom lip.
I have a full rounded goatee.
I have wide sideburns that go to points down to my lips.
I'd call it a thin strip of hair on my chin.
I think definitely men are very influenced by what famous guys have.
For instance, if you look at some of the actors, certainly people like Brad Pitt.
I think guys almost, by wearing it, probably fundicise that they kind of look like these images.
And why are you so attached to it?
Because it's different and I like to keep my appearance changing, I guess.
I like my sideburns because they add definition to my face.
They also allow me to change the look that I have because I don't have any hair.
I don't know, I just like the difference.
It changes a fair bit.
Keeps me interested, I suppose.
Because I think it looks good.
Never trust a man with a beard, my Nana always said, he's probably hiding something.
And like most things Nana said, that can be true, but it's not entirely fair.
Now, facial hair is used less for deceiving and more for receiving, if you get my drift.
They can be quite sexy, actually.
Like little goatees and sort of little moustache.
Nothing too fierce, looking like a barkeep.
I just find it a little bit ageing.
I find that they may be doing it to cover up certain parts of their face that they don't like.
I think now that the age of the goatee has come around a bit, it's kind of created a bit of a crossover.
So, yeah, it's not so bad.
No.
No, it totally depends on the guy.
The cute level is just going to be there or just forget it.
I like a girl who knows what she wants.
I think it's great.
I love a bit of rub up against my cheeks.
It's great.
I like it.
No problem with it whatsoever.
Well, the grungy goatee can get a warm reception from the chicks, especially if you happen to be Brad Pitt.
But it seems the boys are equally to blame for the growing popularity of face fuzz.
I think men certainly do grow facial hair to make them feel more confident.
I think by doing that, by giving them this extra confidence, it probably makes them feel like they're more sexually attractive to the opposite sex.
So, is stubble sexy?
Yes, I think people find it attractive.
I'm not sure.
I hope so, but I haven't asked.
Yes, I like to think it is.
I find facial hair attractive.
And, yeah, I like to think that other people would find it attractive as well.
I think it can be attractive, but I think they usually find it more annoying in the end.
I like it.
I think it's sexy until you kiss them and then it's beard rash all over.
And the worst thing is waking up the next morning and having red face.
It's great.
It looks good.
But when they want to kiss you, it's so prickly and it really gets in your face.
Here, here.
Just because it looks sexy doesn't mean it feels sexy too.
But don't let that deter you from getting creative with your shaving technique.
You never know what your new look will do for you.
Still to come on Sex Life.
The working girls who aren't what they seem.
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They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.
But Sikhs therapist Mark Anz is about to show you how to use food
to get to those places that are just a little bit harder to reach.
Anyone who's ever had a romantic candlelit dinner for two
will be well acquainted with the powerful seductive qualities of food.
Food mainly gets its erotic potential from the texture.
Food can come in many different forms and the texture is very,
can be very squashy, creamy, can be very hard.
The food can be directly used as a sex device, that is,
a hard food object such as a cucumber could be a replacement for a penis,
it could be used as a dildo,
or we can use a food as a part of sensuality.
We can feed each other.
But remember, before you begin,
warn your partner about what's on the menu.
Somebody might get this brilliant idea,
OK, I'll go and grab the zucchini or cucumber or carrot
and I'm just going to put this inside you.
And the other person may be thinking, no, you're not.
So it's very important to discuss what you're going to do with the partner,
particularly if it's going to be anything involving penetration.
If your partner has agreed to allow you to eat
or if your partner has agreed to a little culinary experimentation,
there's no end of useful food at your disposal.
Now, we do have to have a few precautions here,
like if you're playing with chillies or hot peppers
and place them in somebody's mouth and they're not used to the taste,
it's going to be a burning sensation.
And certainly I wouldn't necessarily advise placing hot, spicy foods
into the anus or into a vagina at all
because that can be very discomforting to people.
And for those who prefer cooler sensations,
there's always ice cream or yoghurt.
It's the sensation of the coldness as well as the taste.
And just applying them to the skin without even tasting them
can create a change in temperature, which can be erotic for some people.
There's no magic formula. It's really about experimentation.
And don't just limit yourself to solids.
There are different sorts of liquids we can use.
We can pass different drinks from mouth to mouth.
Or we can use ice blocks or ice cubes.
And we can make ice cubes of almost any substance you want.
You can hold them in your mouth until they start melting
and then sort of exchange from mouth to mouth
until it totally melts and dissolves.
And this can be very erotic.
Combining food with foreplay can be great fun,
especially when you're using chocolate.
An added bonus is that chocolate contains a chemical called PEA,
the very same chemical that naturally zings through our bodies
when we're in love.
Not only that, but chocolate is very versatile.
What about melting chocolate
and dripping it all the way down the body
and having your partner lick it up
or very slowly lick the chocolate?
Or honey.
I can drop honey to any parts of the body.
It's really going to be, if I'm receiving the food,
what's going to create sensation on my body?
Hopefully the flavour is something my partner likes.
As they lick it up, it's pleasurable for them
and it's pleasurable for me as well.
Once you've selected your dish of the day,
the next thing to decide is where to put it.
Well, it really does depend on the individuals to communicate.
Some people may like having honey or chocolate
or a trowel of caviar on the body
and it could mean having the trowel going from the head
all the way down to the feet,
including the genitals, including the breasts.
Some people may think,
oh, no, I don't want to do that.
I don't feel comfortable
if I have food dripping on my genitalia.
Other people will love the sensation.
Well, some people like having the nipples stimulated.
And if they get aroused by the nipples being stimulated,
well, what's the food that we might better apply there?
With the nipples, it's most probably something
that's sticky and runny
to create some sort of friction
that can create the touch and sensation.
Now, if it's the back,
the back is less sensitive for most people and parts of the body,
so we can most probably use a rougher type of food with it.
If you rub a breakfast cereal in somebody's body,
depending on which it is, it's going to crackle,
it's going to prick,
it's going to sort of be rough, or it could be smooth.
And, again, it's just really about exploration.
Those people with more cannibalistic tendencies
might find it erotic
to use their partner as a human plate.
Now, hopefully, the person being eaten off
is going to get some pleasure out of this,
so if I'm going to eat a food off my plate,
then I want to ensure that I keep my mouth or tongue
that part of the body to give that person pleasure.
A very essential exercise
is for me to be blindfolded
and to trust my partner,
and they can feed me foods
and just different types of foods.
An interesting game is to vary the types of food
in terms of feeding.
First, will I get something very sweet,
some ice cream,
and then it's followed by
peanut butter.
It's going to be sort of,
oh, that's interesting, totally two different tastes.
Well, really, the only limitation
in the use of food is our imagination.
Still to come on Sex Life,
Chinese sex workers on the beat.
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For those people who spend their lives on the streets,
just surviving can be tough enough.
But as Chris Hill reports,
some carry an added burden
which keeps them trapped
in an endless cycle of sex, drugs
and the constant threat of death.
What do you call a woman with a willy?
And no, this isn't the start of a joke.
The reason I ask
is that in Western societies
we're brought up with this inherent need
to categorise everything.
Man, woman, dog, cat.
That way the universe balances itself.
So what do we call a woman
with the body of a man?
There's one over there.
She was just pruning herself. She's just arrived.
They used to be called transsexuals
and what you're witnessing is the public face
of these most private lives.
This is where they prostitute themselves
to survive and, make no mistake,
they believe themselves to be women
even though the majority still have the penises
they were born with.
Their male clients prefer them intact.
These days the Trannies prefer the term
transgender, but the name change
hasn't eased their isolation
or our confusion.
So what do they end up with instead?
Well, we usually call them something derogatory
like freaks or cocks in frocks
and the reason we do that is because
we've got a box for this yet.
Anything we can't stick in a box scares us.
It's very much something that we
define in our particular culture
as a problem of gender
because we've got very strict ideas
about people being male or female
and as a society we're not very good at
treating those people very well
who choose to move the boundaries a little bit.
My voice hasn't changed.
I sounded this way when I was a boy before.
Generally, Trannies like Norrie Mae Welby
develop a warts and all perspective
pretty early in life.
Sexual duality doesn't tend to sneak up from behind.
I used to take that victim mentality
that when you take that view
it's like God made a mistake with me
and I don't see how you can win from that position
if you believe that the universe was made
by a God that makes mistakes
and the mistake is me.
How can you win from there?
Accepting myself as what I am comes first
and for me I then found that what that is
is something that's sometimes male
sometimes female, often both,
sometimes neither.
If you're not asked, you don't talk about it?
When I was working on the streets
that was the way I played it, yeah.
Now in my social life I try to make sure
people know pretty quickly.
The DSM, which is the classification
manual that psychiatrists use
talks about a disorder
called the Gender Identity Disorder
which describes people who have
problems with deciding or feeling
comfortable with their
anatomical gender, with the sex
that they're born with.
I believe that I'm female
so what's wrong with heterosexual males
being attracted to me.
Other cultures, notably Elizabeth's people
the Polynesians, embrace transgender
members of their community.
Unfortunately, Elizabeth is a long way
from home.
I reacted very badly and it was to
I suppose it was part
human nature, you know, when you come from
this very protected environment
and you're frosted into
a situation where all of a sudden
you're the odd one out and you're being made
fun of, you're being vilified.
Sure you'd have to react negatively.
Sure you'd react angrily.
This self-enforced duality
for transgenders isn't a surface
thing. There's an obvious biological
hurdle that takes months of hormones
and often years of counselling
to overcome.
And with apologies to John Wayne Bobbitt
losing a penis isn't usually
a spur of the moment thing.
One sex change said to me
if you don't want to have your willy cut off
then you're wasting your time. In other words, you're not
allowed to live in a female role
and have a willy. You have to want to get rid of it.
You have to want to hate it.
So I was encouraged
very much to do so.
Did you hate your penis?
I projected a lot of myself loathing
onto it and the moment
I identified as a tranny I followed
that model and saw it as a wrong thing
and saw it as part of the wrong body.
I've always thought that that was the ultimate
decision that you have to make. That when
you've gone through the humiliation, when
you've gone through the
non-acceptance, when you've
gone through the rejections, when you've gone
through being used
and abused, that the final
obstacle is whether you decide
whether you want to take that final
leap.
Change or reassignment surgery is considered
a logical progression for many transgenders
although the successful
conversion rate leaves a lot to be desired.
Of those that are assessed
as trannies, that is a psychiatrist has said
this person wants their genitals
removed and feels trapped in the wrong body
20% of them
go through with the operation
and of that 20%, only 20%
of them, that's 4% of the total
are actually fully satisfied
with the results. That's from a survey
done in 1995
by the Australian Federation of AIDS
organisations. So that's under
5%, that's a shocking rate, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
Suicide is big as well, isn't it?
I wonder why.
Out on the streets
it's the pre-ops who are popular
with the boys.
Is it like the Mets?
I mean, are we seeing all mercs
and the high rollers
and that sort of stuff?
There is, but
there's not much
difference between the top
and the bottom.
I mean, I've seen clients
that you read about in newspapers
for God's sake, that purportedly
have very perfect marriages
and have children. I mean, they come down
and they see me once a week.
And what's that? That is the natural
sexual curiosity in the human animal.
Also, a lot of them are seeking
anal stimulation. That's why
I work on the street with my vibrator
so they know they can get that from me too.
Sex work is invariably an economic
decision. Mainstream employment
still stumbles over which office toilet
tranny should use.
They've often put up with years of really
quite inappropriate and bad
treatment, persecution. People have lost jobs,
lost their families,
been ostracised and have a lot
of internalised problems as a result
of that. So we might sometimes see
people who are very depressed.
Just as the gay and lesbian
groundswell eventuated in their broader
social acceptance, the transgender
members of our society are working
for positive change.
Hey, it's on the verge of coming out
now. It's on the verge of being recognised
as the third gender.
Contrary to popular belief,
there's no tranny stereotype.
There could well be more to the little old lady
next door than first meets the eye.
So the next time you think you're just dealing
with a handful of freaks in dark alleys,
think again. Conservatively,
the Australian transgender community
is estimated to exceed
35,000 individuals.
We obviously only see a fraction of that
number.
Scorpio
Taurus Gemini.
Amazing. It says here
that today you will all meet
a tall blonde stranger who will reveal
how to win the girl of your dreams
by faking the
characteristics of her perfect
astrological match.
Hmm, that doesn't sound like a stranger.
That sounds like Mark
Stauffer.
So,
you're on your way to a party.
There's going to be lots of chicks there.
You've got to make an impression quickly.
A little secret.
Chicks are into star signs.
So all you've got to do
is fake their astrological perfect match.
Arian woman,
Libran car.
Astrologically speaking,
there are four main types of
chicks. Fire, water,
earth and air.
To get
fire signs really hot,
they need air.
So if she's an Aries, a Leo
or a Sag, you've got to pretend to be
either a Libran, an Aquarius
or a Gemini. Watch this.
Aries chicks need some balance
in their lives. They'll love
the stability a bonafide Libran
lover can offer.
Leos fall
for a zany and artistic Aquarian
man.
My god, can I paint you?
Please.
Sagittarian chicks will go for an intuitive
Gemini man.
Sagittarius, right?
Wow.
Now, Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn
are all earth goddesses.
They get turned on by water signs like
Scorpios, Pisces and Cancerians.
Like so.
Taurians just love a sexy and determined
Scorpio man.
How about a screw?
Virgos go for a new age spiritual
Piscean man.
My god, you have
the most incredible Mount of Venus.
Thanks.
Capricorn chicks love an emotional
and sympathetic Cancerian man.
Oh, I broke my nail.
Oh my god.
That's so
gorgeous.
Oh my god.
Thank you.
My astrological Bible
says that water babes go for down
to earth guys. So if she's a Cancer,
you've got to pretend that you're a Capricorn.
If she's a Scorpio, you've got to be a Taurus.
And if she's a Piscean,
unfortunately, you've got to
pretend to be a Virgo. Watch
this acting.
Cancerian chicks will fall for an organized
and controlled Capricorn man.
Would you like some coke? Yeah, alright.
Great.
Sexy Scorpios will be
attracted to the glamorous and sensual
Taurus man.
That's a great bang.
Is it a Prada?
Piscean
women love a practical and orderly
Virgo man.
It's so
messy and noisy in there.
Absolutely.
It
says here that air
signs, like
Gemini's, Libran's and Aquarian's
really dig desiring fiery
signs like Leo's,
Arian's and Sagittarian's.
Libran girls will fall
for a dashing go-getting Aries
male.
How about a dance?
Gemini's
lust after a worldly and knowledgeable
Sagittarian man.
Do you know that 40%
of all relationships start at parties?
Really? Yeah.
Aquarians like outgoing
and gregarious types.
So to snare an Aquarian chick, lay on
Leo's natural Latino rhythms.
So Keating
says to me,
shall I call her an election?
I said...
Hey, is this your first one?
Nice photo.
Hey, you're a Scorpio.
You told me you were a Pisces.
You told me you were a Sagittarian.
Oh, you're a Gemini.
Still to come on Sex Life
can marriage kill your relationship?
If I was on that jury, I wouldn't
give you a nickel frame.
All this because you spilled coffee on yourself?
I'm going to need a coffee hit.
I'm going to be a rich man.
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Could be English.
Get in.
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Let's see how it handles.
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Welcome back to Sex Life.
A lot of couples think
the best way to avoid a messy divorce
is to test the domestic waters
by living together before saying
I do. Well, cohabitation
has its pitfalls too.
And for those couples with their eye on
eventually tying the knot,
living together is no guarantee
of staying together.
I would have to say it was probably
the biggest shock of my life.
That's about the only way
I can describe it.
I guess I rang my mum nearly every week
or every night for about
a couple of months, you know.
Crying and you know.
Kim is describing her not so smooth
transition from living lover
to lawful wife.
You may be wondering
what all the fuss is about.
After all, these days it's claimed
the only difference between marriage and de facto
is a piece of paper.
Well, a lot of people may think that.
I personally don't agree
that the psychological
things that go on are just
you just can't describe them.
In a nutshell, Kim and Chris had led
a perfectly happy life together for 18
months as a de facto couple.
The trouble for Kim was that after
marriage, well, nothing changed.
And although
she was only partly aware of it at the time,
Kim had expectations.
Picket fence
house, 2.2 children,
you know, the storybook,
or the picture book, you know, the romance,
husband, you know.
I found it sometimes difficult
as to, I was thinking to myself, well, what do you want?
You know,
what else can I do?
In many ways, Kim and Chris
fit the bill as a typical pair of newlyweds.
In fact, around 60% of couples
who marry today have already spent
time splitting the rent.
While the dry-run approach to marriage
has its obvious advantages,
you have to wonder whether it doesn't sometimes
overly complicate an issue that used to be
so black and white.
I looked forward to it. It was like
marriage was a big thing and that's probably where the religious
aspect plays a role.
You know, it's important.
In keeping with their family's Middle Eastern
tradition, Thady and Jackie took the
home they'd now less travelled and went straight
for the altar.
For the four months before the wedding,
Thady lived alone in the house they bought together.
Marriage to us was like
starting a new life and
we wanted to
make marriage
our new life together, so
in a way, we lived our old life
together in our own homes
with our parents and then
started our new life
together.
Now, not every couple going straight from dating
to diamonds will be deliriously
happy, and cohabitation is not
always a recipe for disaster,
but it seems testing the waters
first doesn't always make for smooth
sailing.
All this is assuming marriage
is somewhere on the agenda.
It's usually not an issue for anyone in the
heady early stages of a relationship,
in which case, there's no reason
to lay back and enjoy yourselves,
for a while anyway.
When I first went into a relationship with Donnett,
I wanted to
just have her there and be with her,
but not really taking
responsibility, I just wanted to cruise along
into the relationship.
To remedy that, Lewis and Donnett
took the initiative and enrolled in a pre-marriage
course to iron out the bugs in their
relationship.
A common problem for a lot of them has been
that they don't always feel
they can communicate, or that they can trust
the relationship
as much as they need to be able to trust the
relationship, so they can share
their feelings and share their emotions with
their partner in a very meaningful way.
And I think that's what Donnett
and Lewis were saying, how the
course really sort of made that clear
to them, and how they
feel as though they can relate better
with each other because of, well,
someone was saying, it's okay
to talk like that.
Their problems were typical of couples
in the murky middle stages of living together,
and perhaps define the dangers
inherent in what can become a
netherworld of expectation and commitment.
Otherwise well suited partners can
drift apart through lack of defined goals
or focus, or worse still, just
drift into marriage.
Would you respond if I said to you that most couples
that live together before
they get married have a higher rate of
divorce? I'd be quite surprised
at that. My traditional value
or my background is that
you should try to live together
before you're married. It's
actually getting to know each other better
to make sure that
for the rest of your life you can live together.
So it's quite surprising. I think there's a lot
of people who think that marriage is going to be
the panacea, bit like
having children to save a marriage.
You know, it's just not a reason
for having children. And I guess
getting married is not a reason for saving
a relationship.
In short, living together
can be a double edged sword.
Whatever your short or long term intentions,
take special care you're both clear
about where you are and where you're headed.
And for those with an eye on
matrimony, remember that despite
the physical and even legal similarities
to living together, there is and always
will be at least an emotional
distinction. I think
that perhaps expectations
change.
You know, what you might accept
of a cohabiting partner is not
maybe what you'd accept of a
husband or a wife.
And that brings a few wedding bells
for Kim as well. I probably
made the
expression mountains out of molehills
and that's exactly what happens.
As I said, regardless
of the bumps along the way, none
of our couples had any regrets about
the past they chose to true romance.
And if your hearts and heads
are in the right place, nor should you.
As my mum said,
try before you buy.
And focus,
you know, and at the end
of the day, it's
being happy.
Coming up on Sex Life,
keeping the tiger in your tank.
Good evening.
Tonight, a free man, a purse caught
acquits former WA Premier
Brian Burke of all seven counts of stealing
against the ALP.
Queensland Premier Rob Borebeach intervenes in
the Townsville Burns case, upset
the alleged perpetrator was allowed to walk
free. The rich and famous
pay tribute and emotional farewell to fashion
king Gianni Versace, and
rovers been roving, sending back spectacular
new pictures from Mars. Then in
sports tonight, a recall to the Aussie test team
for Ricky Ponting. All the details
next.
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If you're planning the perfect crime
His wife is even greedier.
You need a couple of perfect scoundrels.
I've found a nice little sting in the tail.
In the tradition of minder.
I thought you were still in jail.
You often hear emotional women described
quite incorrectly as being
hormonal.
And although women are affected by their hormones each month,
we are not alone.
As Dr Cindy Pan reports,
women are just as vulnerable.
Most men have at some time been kicked in the crotch
and they know it hurts.
But if the assault on the testes is
really hard,
long-term damage can be done to a man's ability
to produce testosterone.
Like its female counterpart, oestrogen,
testosterone occurs in both sexes
but in vastly different amounts.
In women,
it plays a role in stimulating the sex drive
and the growth of pubic hair.
But in men, it's the hormone directly
and indirectly responsible
for just about every physical characteristic
we consider masculine.
Testosterone is essential for a man's
sperm production, muscle growth,
vitality and the full development of his
sex organs.
Sufficient testosterone levels are vital throughout
a man's life, particularly during
puberty. But problems with
the body's ability to create the hormone
can strike at any age.
We divide the causes up into what we call
primary, in other words damage to
the testes directly
or secondary, that is
damage through the pituitary gland.
But the commonest causes are actually primary
causes, in other words damage to the testes themselves.
And that can be either due to infection
or injury.
In terms of the secondary causes,
the pituitary problems are usually due to tumors
and again fortunately those
pituitary tumors are extremely rare and uncommon.
Brian was treated with
radiation therapy after suffering a
pituitary tumor.
Both the tumor and the treatment
caused his testosterone level to drop
dramatically.
The pea sized pituitary
hangs from the base of the brain just below
the optic nerve.
It's the kind of miniature master control
for other endocrine glands,
which release various hormones directly
into the bloodstream.
For Brian, like many men whose
testosterone levels have dropped,
the onset of symptoms was slow.
I gradually noticed that I wasn't able
to cope with the day.
I was getting tired
earlier in the day than I would otherwise be
and at first you put that
down to the level of activity
and don't worry about it.
But there came the moment when I said to the doc
at one of the regular checkups
that I reckon I'm feeling
a bit too tired for what I'm doing
and he diagnosed
it from there.
Assessment of low testosterone can be made
by your GP.
If your GP does suspect a problem,
a simple blood test can help confirm
the diagnosis.
Fatigue is a very common
symptom of low testosterone,
but there are many others.
As things progress, things like
noticing that their beard growth
may become less prominent,
they may require to shave only
every second day rather than every day
and finally if it continues,
their secondary body hair
may fall away
and even their skin
texture and appearance may change
ultimately by becoming finer.
Even in cases like Brian's,
an abnormal decline in testosterone
certainly isn't a life threatening condition.
In fact, like women,
most men will experience a natural
decline in hormonal levels from about
the middle age onwards, which partly
accounts for the fatty deposits and loss
of muscle tone in older men.
However, severe prolonged drops in the level
of testosterone can be serious enough
to lead to osteoporosis or even heart
disease. The good news is that
treatment is simple and effective.
The most effective way is
either by injection
or by implant.
An implant is one of the
most recent advances
and we perform a little
cut, usually in the abdominal
skin under local anesthetic.
It's quite
a painless, simple procedure
and then a metal
device is inserted under the skin
and a little pellet of concentrated
male hormone is actually inserted
just under the skin.
The latest advance which is
being trialled
at the moment and available in the
United States is skin patches
that can be applied either to the shoulders
or the buttocks or different
regions to actually deliver enough
male hormone. For Brian,
the treatment is by injection every two
weeks. Some people find it painful,
I don't. I've got a
numb posterior, I think, or
something of that sort. Because the treatment
requires repeated top-ups, it's more
accurate to say it's about lifelong
management than instant cure.
But the treatment's certainly effective.
It means that you,
instead of being distracted by the idea
that, yes, I'd like to go and have a little
time where I'd like to
opt out of this activity
because I don't think I've got the energy to see it
through, I'm able to
do all kinds of things
which help
other people as well as myself.
Topping up testosterone means simply
restoring the level back to normal
and therefore there are few side effects.
But some men should still be wary.
The only theoretical
concern, say, with female hormone is
with breast cancer and similarly in
men, testosterone should be
given to
men very carefully if there is some risk of
prostate cancer.
And for men who don't have a testosterone deficiency
but are wondering if a top-up might make
them more macho, I'm afraid I've got
some bad news. I mean there's obviously an
upper limit in terms of each of those
performance factors. It's like
anything, if the analogy is like
a V8 engine in a car,
you can't actually get more performance out of what's
designed to be normal performance.
Next week on the show,
the men who are uniformly sexy,
making love after
making life, and the beauty
of older women.
That is just a taste of next week's
line-up on Sex Life. I hope you can join us.
Until then, good night.
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