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Comfort, utility and easy care are the key points for the Practical bedroom. These are the down-to-earth, functional people in our world. They’re the ones who are quite happy to accept all the bits and pieces offered to them by relatives and friends, even though the pieces may not match anything else. Being practical, they always find a way to incorporate them into their homes. Practicals are collectors and often hoarders, who don’t like to throw out something which may be of use in the future. They are the bargain hunters of the universe. As material security is important to Practicals, hoarding possessions gives a feeling of security and comfort.

The Practical bedroom is always comfortable though not particularly soft and cosy. It is not always immaculately neat and tidy, but always clean, well kept and ordered in its appearance. Simple and uncomplicated, with any unnecessary items removed is how Practicals like it.

Furniture is basic and only in the room if there is a purpose for it. A bed, wardrobe, chest of drawers and maybe bedside tables are all that are necessary. Sometimes even the bedside tables are deemed unnecessary. Furniture is usually of natural timber, since that doesn’t require any maintenance except dusting and an occasional polish.

Fabrics are patterned, in small to medium size designs, so they don’t show dirt and stains, and they are wash-and-wear so there’s no ironing. Frills and lace are minimal, if at all, because they need careful laundering. A bedspread is often preferred to a doona as it is a nuisance having to remove the doona cover all the time for washing. On the other hand, some Practicals prefer a doona because it is easier to make the bed with it than with blankets and a bedspread.

Curtains are sometimes used because Practicals do like their privacy. They are not the exhibitionists of this world and don’t relish the idea that someone could see into their bedroom. Male Practicals often have only a blind on the window.

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The bedroom can be a place of rejuvenation, relaxation, nurturing, comfort, security, safety and love as well as sensual and sexual gratification.

• If you are looking for contentment and security, decorate with blues.

• If it is rejuvenation and relaxation you most need in your bedroom, use green.

• If physical love is your need, choose pink.

• If you wish to improve the communication between your partner and yourself, choose peach or apricot.

• For an underactive sex life, add some red to the room – be subtle, don’t overdo it or you won’t be able to sleep afterwards!

• If an overactive sex life is leaving you exhausted, add some green to the room to create more balance. This could be in the form of pot plants if you don’t want to add green in other ways.

You don’t need to paint the walls in these colours, although some of you may choose to. All you have to do is add touches of the colours listed above. Perhaps your new sheets, pillowcases and bedcover will reflect these changes. The more ‘touches’, the more your commitment to the desired outcome.

When you share a bedroom with a partner, whose style predominates? Does it matter to you? Perhaps it’s an indication of who has the most control in the relationship and especially in terms of the sexual component. Many men let their partner be the decorator and designer. They feel women have a better eye for colour and style detail. This is not always true, so you should listen to your mate. With this book in your hand, discuss what you both want intimately and how best it can be achieved.

Compromise is the best way to decide on bedroom decor. If you understand the psychological messages of your choice of colour and style, you can discuss where you would like to be in your relationship and choose the options with this in mind. If you like different colours, perhaps one colour can be used as the main colour and the other as an accent.

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If you have an ensuite bathroom adjacent to the bedroom, it’s part of your relationship too. It is an extension of your bedroom, only used by the two of you, leads off your private sensual domain and so is part of your intimate and private life. Water relates strongly to emotions. The bathroom can be a place of great cleansing, emotionally and physically. It is not uncommon for both men and women to retreat to the bathroom for privacy and tears.

So make the ensuite as welcoming and comfortable as possible, make the presence of water a charming seducer. Keep the bathroom spotlessly clean because clean is inviting. Give some thought to the colours of towels and accessories. This is a relationship area. What do you want your relationship to represent?

Do you have a sterile no decoration, ensuite bathroom? That says a lot about the uncomplicated life you want. Life is never as uncomplicated as that. Putting in some shells or plants may well change your relationship and allow you to see things differently.

Think softness if you desire more romance and intimacy. Perhaps something draped will achieve it. Perhaps the colours of towels will do it. Pastels are softening, deep colours with contrast are more dramatic and medium colours suggest just that, a medium and confident look at life.

If you rent or can’t afford changes just yet, you can still use some colour in a variety of ways – move a plant from another area of the house, buy a new shower curtain, collect a few shells and display them, and most of all clear away the clutter. Yes here we go again. Get rid of the clutter from your life by cleaning the shelves and drawers of the bathroom cupboards, and we guarantee you will improve your outlook on life.

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It has been noticed that many men wash their hair in water that is too hot (which over-stimulates the sebaceous glands and so makes the scalp greasier than it should be) and are rough-actioned with the towel when drying the hair. This may seem like a macho way to treat hair but it is also a sure way for pulling the hair out. So too is brushing. Never use a brush. For tidying the hair use a wide-toothed comb.

There is no doubt that balanced diet plays a vital role in the life of healthy hair; bad diet and poor nutrition contribute to dry and brittle hair problems and aggravate dandruff conditions.

To get the right balance of vitamins we need through food each week we should regularly eat small amounts of liver, fish, pulses, fresh fruit, and green vegetables like spinach. All these foods contain essential vitamin-B that strengthens the hair (and body). To get an extra boost of the vitamin most trichologists recommend patients to take a course of vitamin-B complex or yeast tablets. These are readily available at all health food stores or pharmacies.

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There is no better way for a man to avoid the male-menopause totally than promotion or a new job that gives him extra prestige, power, influence and money. This cements his emotional foundations and gives substance to his life. If there were doubts until this moment about a stale marriage or the lust for sexual voyaging, work achievement and success invariably puts matters to right so that the next phase of his life is as controlled and as full of contentment as he could hope it to be.

For most men, although ambition has fired them to aim for higher goals, the success they have achieved in their career climb has come from a fortunate mixture of ability, work aptitude and acceptable personality. And luck. And being in the right place at the right time has probably boosted their chances of promotion too.

But at forty, just as choice and opportunity become less, so many men feel trapped by the work they once considered if not enjoyable, at least acceptable, or at worst, tolerable. Now they feel suffocated. What they want above all else is a new job to give them a personal sense of achievement and success.

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As he glances into a mirror a fortyish man may not think he looks so good but to many people he is now at his most attractive with an indefinable element of sophisticated maturity. Unless something has gone dramatically wrong or his equilibrium is irrevocably shaken by the male-menopause, he will as yet only be just slightly off-peak in condition and whatever signs of decline he may spot they will be nothing he cannot handle.

For the record, true signs of aging are visible from about the fiftieth birthday onwards. To slow their approach: exercise for a firmer body, stronger heart, better circulation and healthy lungs; diet by eating sensibly and cutting out fats; give up tobacco (a cigarette smoker is likely to live ten years less than a non-smoker); drink only moderate amounts of alcohol (more than five drinks a day is not considered moderate but heavy). And if you are a sun-worshipper, use suncreams. The sun’s ultraviolet rays dry out and stiffen the skin often making it blotchy with age spots. Leading cosmeticians claim that unless he is a nudist the best skin on a man of sixty is on his buttocks where the sun never sets.

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Others, feeling burnt-out creatively, want out. Out of their stream and into another. This is particularly a reaction of men in the arts fields where ideas and the ability to follow-through are vital. It is not that at forty the body is too old (as it may be becoming in dance and the sports fields, for example). It is not. But, in the competitive fields of advertising, movies, journalism and theatre where mental creative follow-through is important people may see the man as having an output verging on brilliant while inside he fears he is burnt-out and able to get no further than putting the subject title on paper. His mind he feels is tired and has lost its nimbleness and facility to surprise. Therefore he wants out and into a new work field where success cannot be judged or compared to past skill or past fame.

For many men the mere suspicion that failure is ahead makes it imperative they get out of their stream and into something new and personally satisfying. They may run down their work so that their output becomes regarded as useless and perhaps subconsciously they hope to be dismissed so that the final act of severence is in someone else’s hands. Many will throw up a career or profession as if this original line of work is of no importance.

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Inevitably, if we escape death on the way, we grow old. Growing old is a mysterious biological process, during which many of the body’s functions slow down. It is a process of maturing and of degeneration.

Physical ageing is inevitable. Everybody’s hearing and sight diminish in sharpness as the years pass; hair becomes grey and thins; muscle strength diminishes; the kidneys function less efficiently; and illness is less easily combated. Psychological ageing is not inevitable; it depends on the person’s attitude to old age.

To grow old is inevitable, to feel old is not.

We feel old because, over the years, we have lived unwisely and because we have been conditioned by society to believe that old people are inferior, dissolute, often dirty, possibly degenerate, sometimes dejected, and usually cut off from ‘real’ life, that is a life based on work. Old people believe this myth, because when they were younger that is how they saw old people to be. Once you believe in a myth, you become part of it; you play the role expected of you. In this way, old people play the role society expects of them -they feel old.

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Of course, some homosexuals are psychopaths and paedophiles, just as some heterosexuals are. In neither case is the erotic preference a relevant factor in their mental pathology, which has a deeper origin and is related to insecurity, a defective self-image, or mental disturbance.

Psychopathic paedophiles are frequently sadistic and society is rightly offended, whether the victim is a boy or a girl. But because of society’s attitude towards homosexuality, the disgust is greater if the victim is a boy. Psychopathic individuals also seem to be the main target (but by no means the only target) for much of the child pornography which is being produced in increasing quantities.

In many Western cities child prostitution is increasing. The young people are usually rootless, having been rejected by their parents, and have drifted to the supposed excitement of the city. Any employment they have is transient and many are hooked on drugs, the two most usual being heroin and barbiturates. They engage in prostitution (and in pornography) to pay for their drugs and to permit them to live what they perceive as ‘the good life’. With this background they are preyed upon by pimps and pornographers and are available to satisfy the sexual needs, to reduce the loneliness and insecurity, and to satisfy the desire of the men – homosexual and heterosexual – for the dominance and subjugation of another human being.

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Sex is not just intercourse and the happiness of the treated men 11 may be linked to the myth that it is. If the cause of the man’s erectile failure is due to disease, and his sexual arousal is unaltered, penile implants have a significant place. But if the man’s impotence is due to a failure to become sexually aroused, or is due to psychological disturbances, the surgery is likely to be followed by failure.

Unless the surgeon has sought information about these matters and has discussed the procedure with the man and his wife (or partner) before operation, the results are likely to be poor. The penile implant only helps a man obtain a penis which is sufficiently firm
to insert into a woman’s vagina. It produces neither an orgasm nor ejaculation, nor does it necessarily improve the woman’s sexual pleasure – that will occur only if her man is able to respond to her sexual desires.

Microsurgery is an alternative surgical approach to help a man who has erectile impotence due to diabetes. In diabetes, narrowing of small arteries occurs, and if the arteries supplying the penis become narrow, the inflow of blood needed to fill the penile cylinders and produce an erection cannot occur. New microsurgical techniques are being developed which will, it is hoped, enable surgeons to cut out the narrow segments of the arteries supplying the penis and join the cut ends of the healthy arteries. These will then respond by dilating to sexual stimulation and the man will regain his ability to obtain an erection.

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