Sorry another rambling post .. but I am stuck in waiting for a delivery
Doesn't really, the paper groups men and women aged 20 to 69 with no differentiation between frequency (just that they'd did it), and doesn't link symptoms to behaviour. And doesn't even differentiate between preexisting conditions that could cause in and behaviour.
The paper even acknowledges, it's suggestion. Not causation. Hundreds, thousands, millions of people exist who have incontinence and report never having done anal, it just kind of happens as you get older. Things fall apart.
Yes indeed .. so just another piece of flawed medical investigation
So if scientific method cannot help us much we are left with the anecdotal evidence and there is a great deal of that.
We are also left to speculate with theory and hypothesis albeit without any proof.
On that note one could argue that anal sex is abusing what that part of the body was designed for. The sphincter muscle was designed to keep waste matter in place until the door opened at the appropriate occasion and usually for short periods of time .. at the same time preventing/reducing any ingress into a body cavity.
The vagina was designed with copulation and procreation in mind and whilst that too has musculature at play, it is normally much easier for it to relax and unlike the back passage can produce its own natural lubrication.
Now I do think the Almighty was guilty a major design fault in expecting a nine month old head and body to work its way out of that same orifice!! Perhaps he was a sadist? That said he wasn’t a total misogynist as he created a small penis at the entrance in the guise of a clitoris with a sensory nerve supply capable of creating amazing pleasurable sensations. Clearly this is where the male reproductive organ was meant to enter and not it’s next door neighbour.
Now because nature never intended for us to engage in anal sex does not mean that man (and other species) will not engage in the activity. Man has always been curious, which is why pornography has had such a huge impact on the incidence of 'potting the black' over the last couple of decades. In addition some women can and do find it pleasurable.
On the basis this is not however a 'natural' activity then one could argue we are abusing our body?
The body is fortunately pretty tolerant to abuse. It was never designed for example to be exposed to alcohol, but there is a level of exposure which the liver especially will tolerate and which will vary from individual to individual.
My hypothesis would therefore be that the nature of that abuse, the more frequent the exposure to it and the longer it persists over time, the more likely you are to suffer damaging consequences.
That said I agree there are a great many other conditions which are more likely to give rise to faecal incontinence, both in those who do and those who don’t engage and that the majority of people who do engage will suffer no long term ill effects as a result.
Anal only causes issues if you rush to too large to quickly and don't use enough lube (hence slowly slowly at first, then increase the pace).
It's a muscle, worked appropriately no damage occurs. Shoving something large in without warm up, certainly will, but anyone with any sense warms up.
Completely agree with that, but I would suggest what you are describing is excessive abuse and I would argue it happens more frequently than you suggest? Not everyone has your common sense
I would also argue it happens more frequently in the paid sex arena, where many will engage in anal sex under difficult conditions to be relaxed and on more occasions per day/month ...which brings me full circle to the opening post scenario.
Thoughts?
