La petite mort
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Funny thing is, I learned this in Latin class...in high school. My teacher was hilarious. Figured the best way to get Latin into our heads was to make it 'interesting'. That and 'agricolae' were the only things I retained. Oh, and 'veni, vidi, vici'. But, that one was just fun to say.
'veni, vidi, vici' 
...I didn't catch that!
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I never had the opportunity to go to college, but I was in all honors courses in HS, which meant I got the crazy teachers. My Psych teacher was a sex therapist, so we spent most of the time discussing Freud (I was the only girl in class...and the most outspoken student...heh). My History/Constitution teacher was a hippy that would take off her shoes as soon as she came in the room and would sit crosslegged on her desk. She would start debates in class that helped form my opinions today. My Journalism teacher looked like she stepped off the bus in the mid 50's, but was a huge fan of my writing and cried when I told her I was dropping out of school. She's also the one that had my article on the legalization of marijuana printed on the front page of the school newspaper. 
Yeah, that was a bit trippy.
No all day, every day? 
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There is a way to ... shall we say ... cover the activity at hand. [img]
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Completing any unfinished matters later. Like in the car!
Fair enough 
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Pretty wiped out from working every night , 12 hour shift. I can't even see straight :/
My next day off is Monday and I plan on going to Tampa weeeeeeee!
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Tampa is great!
Or did you really mean multi-pal?
I mean, I'm cool either way.
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AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! <----- 'cause this just wasn't enough!
Good to keep in mind for my next escorting job south! 
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... from about the age of 6 or so. She had gone to American schools and had moved back-and-forth
between Germany and America with her stepdad's postings. Her German accent, while I could hear
hints of it now and then, was virtually nonexistent for most people.
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Now I get personal (but cute, I hope). Her name for, ahem... Li'l MiddleFingerMom was Fido. For the
longest time, I just accepted that... but one day asked her, you know... why.
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She had read a book and had been impressed with one of the character's explanation of the Sicilian
version of "La petite mort".
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The book? "The Godfather". The character? Vito Corleone.
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Oh, yeah. And their real.
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But I'm posting to add: "As often as possible!"
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But we should keep striving...
one gets so good at it!...
anyway, I'd celebrate the body electric.
The "celibate" thing? it's a fancy word for a dry spell.
This was on page 8 in My Journal ~> http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018320145
I'd celebrate the body electric. <<~ Very Good! [img][/img] Or have I missed something interesting again? 
Plz enlighten me.
Sad 
But you did learn to speak the language of love.
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and that must be a plus
I remember what that felt like.
I believe that I will again feel la petite mort daily.
I Believe That My Voice Should Be Heard.
perhaps you will agree with me freshwest
In my lifetime I have been:
An Investigator for Child Protective Services.
The Chair for a twelve-step program for Sex Addicts Anonymous: Court mandated pedophiles had no choice but to hear what their evil despicable acts caused to everyone of their victims.
I cannot allow my voice to become silenced again. 
Definition of IN FLAGRANTE DELICTO
1: in the very act of committing a misdeed : red-handed
2: in the midst of sexual activity
Origin of IN FLAGRANTE DELICTO
Medieval Latin, literally, while the crime is blazing
First Known Use: 1772
Karl Grammer
Affiliations Ludwig–Boltzmann-Institute for Urban Ethology, c/o Institute of Anthropology, University of Vienna, Austria
Abstract
Olfactory communication is very common amongst animals, and since the discovery of an accessory olfactory system in humans, possible human olfactory communication has gained considerable scientific interest. The importance of the human sense of smell has by far been underestimated in the past. Humans and other primates have been regarded as primarily ‘optical animals’ with highly developed powers of vision but a relatively undeveloped sense of smell. In recent years this assumption has undergone major revision. Several studies indicate that humans indeed seem to use olfactory communication and are even able to produce and perceive certain pheromones; recent studies have found that pheromones may play an important role in the behavioural and reproduction biology of humans. In this article we review the present evidence of the effect of human pheromones and discuss the role of olfactory cues in human sexual behaviour.
More widely, it can refer to the spiritual release that comes with orgasm or to a short period of melancholy or transcendence as a result of the expenditure of the "life force", the feeling whereof is caused by the release of oxytocin in the brain after the occurrence of the orgasm. Literary critic Roland Barthes spoke of la petite mort as the chief objective of reading literature. He metaphorically used the concept to describe the feeling one should get when experiencing any great literature.
A recent study of brain activation patterns using Positron Emission Tomography (PET) give some support to the experience of a small death:
"To some degree, the present results seem to be in accordance with this notion, because female orgasm is associated with decreased blood flow in the orbitofrontal cortex, a part of the brain that is crucial for behavioural control."[1]
The term "la petite mort" or "the small death" does not always apply to sexual experiences. It can also be used when some undesired thing has happened to a person and has affected them so much that "a part of them dies inside". A literary example of this is found in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles when he uses the phrase to describe how Tess feels after she comes across a particularly gruesome omen and meeting with her own rapist:
"She felt the petite mort at this unexpectedly gruesome information, and left the solitary man behind her."
'La petite mort' has been referenced in other art forms as well. In 1993 Jake and Dinos Chapman created a piece called "Little Death Machine (Castrated)". The sculpture is part of an installation at the Tate Britain gallery in London, which explores some of the overtly sexual views of the Surrealist movement. Surrealists such as Salvador Dali explored the links between sex and death through their art.
In the 1973 musical A Little Night Music is a song titled "Every Day a Little Death", written by Stephen Sondheim.
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Le petite mort
Anything worth achieving once is worth achieving twice. Three or more if you are really blessed
multiple times
I'm not sure what made me think of it.
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