Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Knuckle Sandwich

I must stop cracking my knuckles. I'm addicted to it. That sweet muffled crunch of cartlilage. That snap that seems to dissolve some hidden stress which has settled into the bone like a sunshine unit of strontium-90. Like biting into a crisp apple on a cool fall day. Bright red and yellow leaves floating around like plankton.

A baby's skeleton is 80 percent cartilage. As you grow that cartilage is slowly replaced by bone. Bones are simply deposits of the calcium you take into your body through food. In fact that snap you hear is not cartilage at all, but fluid that gets trapped between cartilage and bone and is then forced out through a contortion of the limb. Wow, it really sounds gross when described like that, but its true. How many other greatly pleasurable things sound hideous when described medically. Masturbation, for one, or sex for that matter.

But it doesn't bother me, I like thinking about it. Each snap brings my bones that much closer together. I am more complete with each snap, crackle and pop. I'm one, working as a whole. But...there is a catch. With each crack you are letting in slightly more fluid than there was before. That's why it's easier to crack your knuckles each time. In fact, the moment after the crack, your bones are slightly further apart. You are drifting away from yourself, held together by this bag of skin you call a body.

What are you? Your face? Your body? Your hair, lips, eyes, make-up? Each pop brings you closer to dismemberment. Each moment brings you closer to death. Crack your knuckles! Enjoy your time...

6 comments:

cataplexy said...

come crack me. i want to be taken apart and put back together.

十ants五monkeys said...

please describe masturbation medically

Michael J. Migliacci said...

Cataplexy,
If it makes you feel better, all the cells in your body are replaced every three months. If you don't like yourself just wait...a new you is being born every minute.
m
by the way, who are you?

Michael J. Migliacci said...

andy,
Pressing or rubbing the genital area, either with the fingers or against an object such as a pillow; inserting fingers or an object into the anus (see anal masturbation); and stimulating the penis or vulva with electric vibrators, which may also be inserted into the vagina or anus. Members of both sexes may also enjoy touching, rubbing, or pinching the nipples or other erogenous zones while masturbating. Both sexes sometimes apply lubricating substances to intensify sensation.
Reading or viewing pornography, or sexual fantasy, are often common adjuncts to masturbation. Often people will call upon memories during masturbation. Masturbation activities are often ritualised. Various fetishes and paraphilias can also play a part in the masturbation ritual. Some potentially harmful or fatal activities include autoerotic asphyxiation and self-bondage.
Some people get sexual pleasure by inserting objects into the urethra (the tube through which urine and, in men, semen, flows).[6] If these objects are urethral sounds, the practice is known as "sounding".[7] Other objects such as ball point pens and thermometers are sometimes used, although this practice can lead to injury and/or infection.[8] Some people masturbate by using machines that simulate intercourse.
Men and women may masturbate until they are close to orgasm, stop for a while to reduce excitement, and then resume masturbating. They may repeat this cycle multiple times. Called "edging", this "stop and go" build up can achieve even stronger orgasms. Rarely, people quit stimulation just before orgasm to retain the heightened energy that normally comes down after orgasm[9]. Doing this could lead to temporary discomfort due to pelvic congestion.
Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich in his 1922 essay Concerning Specific Forms of Masturbation tried to identify healthy and unhealthy forms of masturbation. He tried to relate the way people masturbated to their degree of inclination towards the opposite sex and to their psycho-sexual pathologies.
how's that
Mike

cataplexy said...

oh it's just the same old me just a different name - not some new and exciting person, but maybe in 3 months i will be.

十ants五monkeys said...

thank you wikiliacci!