How to Put Your Heart into Sex
There are lots of how to and when to books written about the various
phases of human life; the most various phase, seemingly sex. Now a book about how to deal with a heart attack,
entitled “The Sensuous Heart” By Suzanne Cambre R.N. Pritchett and Hall
Associates Inc.
It
contains chapters such as “Your body during sex”; “Four Phases of the Sexual
Act”; “Frequency of Sex”; “Position”; and “Atmosphere”.
The
fact that Ms. Cambre is a registered nurse lends credibility to the tome. She
certainly might be a practical nurse because her discussion about sex and the
damaged heart was practical; and she could be a practicing nurse in order to
have practiced what she preached.
I
haven’t had a chance to read the book but a glance at the chapter headings
suggested a refreshing candor. The book appears to be instructive and even
people who have never had a heart attack might be introduced to sex in a manner
they had never deemed possible.
The
fact is that most people who have heart attacks are over 50, and many may have
decided to lay sex aside for the duration, a conviction only to be reinforced
by the heart attack. Then along comes Ms. Cambre to convince them that all is not
lost.
For
example, and this shouldn’t be considered a put down, women whose best years
start when their husbands are put on some anti-hypertensive medication that
induces impotence. And there are some
men whose best years start for the same reason.
I
am not knocking sex, but neither do I want to glorify heart attacks.
Not
able to identify with either males or females who have had heart attacks I
decided to call my friends Mr. And Mrs.
Cor Pulmonale who suffered simultaneous heart attacks when the price of
cigarettes rose beyond their reach.
“Sex?”
She exclaimed, “I haven’t given it much
thought. But I would sure like to smoke again”.
“But,”
I explained, “Smoking might be suicidal.”
“Can
you think of a better way to die,” she asked.
I
thought I could but I didn’t want to burst any bubbles.
Mr.
Pulmonale was equally candid. “They told me I couldn’t smoke anymore,” he
wailed.
“But
what about sex?” I asked.
“I
wouldn’t know, never smoked that brand.”
“I
mean marital relations,” I chose my words carefully.
“She
don’t have a relations, even by marriage. No, come to think of it she has a
cousin in
”Did
you ever hear of making love?” I asked in exasperation.
“Sure
they do it in the movies all the time, but I don’t go any more since they don’t
allow smoking.:”
I
didn’t want to belabor the point further with the Cor Pulmonales. But they did
remind me of the fact that I never saw a young man with a heart attack who
wasn’t a two pack a day smoker.
Now
sex is a very interesting subject. Everything about sex has been discussed and described
so that there is little left to the imagination. But I think Ms. Cambre might
have gotten more mileage from a book
about smoking after a heart attack. She could have used practically the same chapter
headings, “Your body during smoking”; “Four Phases of the smoking act”;
(inhaling and exhaling are two); “Frequency of Smoking”; (You can’t chain
smoke. Can you chain smoke?), and lastly but not least, “Position. Most people
like to smoke on their backs because otherwise you burn the pillow.
Anyway Ms. Cambre, go to it. Everything You Wanted to Know
About Smoking After a Heart Attack. Virgin territory for an experienced R.N.
Your book on sex was an eye opener. You should be able to write a good book
about cigarettes after an infarct. I hope you know how to smoke as well as you
know how to – write.