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Indeed. I know that I know nothing Purely providing insight and questioning my OWN lifestyle, constantly. Nothing is absolut. Also.. please do not confuse MORE with BETTER. As our society is a perfect example of the irony of this frame of logic. I eat very few bananas, and I don't consume rice. I also don't believe the mass majority of the raw food guru's, I have read nearly all of every one of their books, and done my research. Something I am very good at, is questioning everything. I know that I know nothing. I merely question and hope others do as well.. I do what feels best for my body.

Raw meat. More than likely seafood due to the omega 3 content. Humans have never been raw vegan. Veganism and even moreso raw veganism is a luxury of agriculture. I never mentioned the word vegan dear

I <3 iridology! And yes it's true, I believe the eyes do become more your "birth" color when you eat raw, as well as much brighter and vibrant. Babies eyes change color as they get older, they also become more dull (in my opinion) and lose "something"...who is to say this isn't because of cooked food/a poor diet???

Does eating raw make you Disease-Proof?? ____________________________________________________________ Interesting little discussion here: http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/healthy-food-the-cold-truth-about-raw-food-diets.html#discussion The comments should speak for themselves. But one thing that wasn't mentioned that I am also inclined to ask is... If eating exclusively RAW is so limiting nutritionally, and SO lacking, than how did we EVOLVE AS HUMAN BEINGS on raw food before fire was discovered/used?!! If anything, it should absolutely be the other way around. PLUS, the only cooked foods your missing out on when it comes to steaming or veggie soups are things like potatoes and corn, which aren't nutritionally superior or special in ANY way. And infact are becoming more and more difficult to find organic. This makes no sense to me. I understand eating some cooked food for regional living purposes, but NOT for the raw foods diet lacking in someway. The only thing that limits you with raw foods is your imagination.

Simple Medicine: Healing a Wound Healers have played a role in society throughout recorded history. You find mention of spontaneous healing, healing that occurs without scientific explanation, in seemingly all religious traditions. Stories abound about healers who would spend time dialoguing with others and helping heal physical or emotional wounds, expand beliefs or examine circumstances that could change for the better. By talking or praying with others, with healing intent, and often by use of the hands to direct energy, these healers would act as focused channels for universal healing energy. Today many nurses, physicians and other health professionals, like healers throughout the centuries, speak of a feeling that healing energy flows through them toward their patients. However, so often you will hear that the healer could not heal the patient. Why did some heal while others didn't? It is simple, really. No one person can heal another. Healing is an interactive exchange of energy that must include a unconditional desire by the person who wants healing. When there is illness, one must want to change something that led to it, and this has to occur before one can receive healing. There is nothing more powerful than one's own mind, or intent. The person desiring healing must be willing to let go of the past. Emotions of beliefs affect the physical body, as has been confirmed by science, especially quantum and sub-atomic physics. Today healing that does not involve drugs, surgery or other physical means is often called "energy medicine". This is the safest, most natural and accessible medicine, and it flows through all of us at all times. Shafica Karagulla, M.D., in Breakthrough to Creativity, wrote about health professionals who intuitively know about disease processes and who channel healing energy to their patients through their hands and intent, although their knowledge of "higher sensory perception" is often not something they disclose to their colleagues, as they fear censure. I understand them from my own lifetime of intuitively seeing the blockages to health that cause illness in emotional and physical bodies. When those who desire healing ask me to help, I talk with them about their concerns and, when the time is right, begin the healing. Then, I can feel the healing energy flow through me to the patient. Once one's mind, emotions and body have experienced a sense of health, either from engagementwith a healer or through one's own efforts, and one holds that potential of excellent health as one's focus, one can more easily realign to health. This is so even if stress or negative thoughts begin to cause one's mind and emotions or even one's body to shift from balance to imbalance. Memory of a healthy experience acts to guide the way forward to health. Most of those who have asked for my help desire healing at the deepest level and realize the importance of focus and commitment. Many create this desire after a conventional doctor gave an unfavorable medical prognosis and told them that surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, or other drastic means were the only options. Frequent Well Being Journal readers will remember a number of cases of those who have had healings through energy medicine after choosing that additional option. During my first session with a new client, I may see any number of imbalances in the energy field that surrounds and moves through their body. As we agree to work together to bring balance, we not only talk about these imbalances but also what the client has believed or experienced. Then, together we move the energy to clear up blockages, stuck memories, past stressful experiences and even unjuries. This may take one or more sessions. One recent client called because she had an injury from taking a misstep and falling down a double flight of marble stairs. She sustained what at first appeared to be a blister on her shin, most likely from where it hit the edge of a stair, but her internist said there were no broken bones. However, two weeks later she was experiencing such discomfort that she went for a second opinion to an orthopedist, who found a fractured ankle, a torn ligament and bone fragments, as well as sepsis caused by an infection. Even with scrupulous care and strong antibiotics, a 1/2-inch-deep wound was not healing. She went for three emergency room visits, and each time the diagnosis and recommendations were scarier, including hyperbaric and vacuum therapy. With the vacuum therapy she would have to be attached 24 hours a day for 4 to 5 weeks to a suction device that would draw out the debris from the wound. With these prospects in front of her, she listened as a friend who was caring for her said she had read my column in the Well Being Journal and encouraged her to call me for help. She called me and we agreed to work together over the phone. I began by energetically sensing, or seeing, her wound. With her permission, I started, at the deepest part of her wound, to see the tissue and then weave energetic threads across the area, in a manner similar to weaving strands of silk thread. The idea was to encourage the body's tissue to follow the path of the energetic weaving and repair itself. We worked together this way for five 30-minute telephone sessions. She focused on the healing that she wanted to have, and I focused on energetically healing and weaving, or stitching up, the wound, from the deepest part to the surface. At each of her checkups during this process, her doctors were surprised by how quickly this gaping wound in her leg was now healing. In fact, the doctor who had said she would need hyperbaric treatments reversed his stance. He said the wound was healing so nicely that she wouldn't need the treatments reversed his stance. He said the wound was healing so nicely that she wouldn't need the treatments after all, and that she might not even need the plastic surgery he originally predicted. This is just one case that substantiates the effectiveness of energy medicine. As more people experience energy medicine, they are discovering that it is not a new alternative but rather a tried and true traditional medicine. One could say that energy medicine is a system of energies being applied for promoting health, healing and joy, and that energy is the medicine. --Shannon McRae, Ph.D., works with intuitive and energy medicine; source: Well Being Journal <3xxoo- Andesuma

Madison Market Central CO-OP is amazing! I love that place. Any health food/natural food store feels like heaven to me. But that one is in Capitol Hill.. on Madison and 16th. PCC and Whole Foods also exist like Robert posted.

Angela Stoke will be giving a talk @ Yoga West Studio on Oct 27th. at this address: 2662 West 4th Ave, from 3pm. I figure it'd be a nice reason for me to visit Vancouver and meet some lovely raw spirits. Do you think you can make it? Were you going to the Vegan Holiday Festival??

Yeah I am! It will be lovely to spend sometime in a yoga studio and meet more raw folks. But I'll be 100% on the trip and everything by next week.

unfortunately I wasn't.. :/

Frederic's live teleseminar Health & Energy With Raw and Living Foods. http://tinyurl.com/2aubbu In this event, you will learn: - How to "cure" diseases with the raw food diet. What's possible. - How to transition to a raw diet, my unique take on it (this will surprise you I believe!) - How to get rid of cravings for sweets - How to get rid of cravings for rich, fatty foods - What different types of cravings mean - How to overcome and avoid deficiencies - And more! Get the recording now: http://tinyurl.com/2aubbu

This is a good quote ... "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -Einstein

All bodybuilders MUST hear this talk! All raw vegan bodybuilders ABSOLUTELY MUST hear this talk! All people who want to gain weight and stay raw MUST hear this! If you are worried about how raw vegans get their protein you MUST hear this! If you are losing too much weight on the raw diet and want to start gaining weight you MUST hear this talk!!! You can also catch the first Nutman podcast - Poopology - at this same address.... http://thenutmanshow.mypodcast.com If you would like to read more on this topic, check out Storm’s Body Building and Muscle Mass eBook at http://www.TheGardenDiet.com/store.html

Hey, I know this all isn't going on anymore, but.. if there is ever a time when you're in the US(like say to become a citizen of some other country perhaps ), or need a roommates in the Portland/Seattle area, just let me know, and I am totally down for being roomies! Plus I would LOVE training with you, it would be totally fun. Just letting you know, if you ever need a place, etc. I'll be in the Pacific Northwest area for at least another year.

I would too if I didn't have a vagina.

You mention no sex drive and not getting a period. Have you ever had a blood draw to have hormone levels checked? Increased prolactin levels can stop a period and reduce sex drive. Of course I'm no doctor, but increased prolactin levels are more common than a lot of people think, and it can really do some strange things to the body. Christopher Ah yes, I've looked into that. I don't doubt my hormones were out of wack as an adolescent and my menstrual cycle was NEVER predictable. But the reason I do not get my period has nothing to do with overtraining or hormones, it is because I eat raw vegan. If I eat cooked food my period comes back. I've done a lot of self-experimentation with this, and as far as I've read.. about 70% of women who eat only raw foods loose their period. Or end up having it infrequently. And my lack of sex drive has always been there. That's never changed. It's not like..when I am inlove with someone I don't want to have sex with that person though, sex is just a big deal to me, and that spiritual bond you can have with another human being is a big deal, so it's something I rarely desire I guess... If that makes sense.

Because I don't think a women could ever feel 100% about something like that. I am still very young, my mind could easily change in 2, 3 or 5 years. But so far, I am 99.9% sure I do not want to give birth. ... And..yeah, there is a reason it's been years

THAT is what Zeitgiest is trying to get across to everyone. WE are the ones who need to change this. WE are the ones to need to take action to change this. WE have the POWER, and we need to take care of each other. On of my favorite quotes, and I forgot who said it but... it is "What if there was a war, and no body went.." The only thing that is going to be difficult is mass awakenings, this needs to happen by the millions, but I see it starting everyday, people trying raw veganism out that were hardcore carnivores, people seeing things and questioning things because they feel it in their heart. It is stirring, we need to be the catalyst though.

Please watch this film in it's entirety. It is worth it. You must know. http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/

The mainstream media is amusingly irrational when it comes to reporting scare stories. The latest example involves the lead content of Mattel toys made in China. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a third recall of Mattel toys involving over 700,000 toys containing unacceptably high levels of lead paint (over .06 percent lead). Irrational parents are rushing back to retailers in droves, turning in their Mattel toys to "save their children" from the dangers of lead paint. Mattel, for its part, is being rightly blasted in the media for selling shoddy products made with toxic heavy metals. But here's the interesting part in all this: Parents directly poison their children every day with products far more dangerous than Mattel toys. Don't believe me? I'll name twenty things in this article that are far more dangerous to children than Mattel toys. It doesn't mean Mattel toys are safe, of course. They apparently do contain unacceptably high levels of lead, and there's no question about the toxicity of lead. But children don't eat toys nearly as often as they eat some other toxic substances given to them by their parents, and even as parents are herding back into retailers to refund their toxic lead-laden toys, they're returning home and poisoning their children with many other products that are far worse. The press, of course, reports nothing about these other toxic products. And why? Because they're made in America. American products poisoning American children American products, you see, are often given blanket immunity by the U.S. press. While the media is happy to jump on toxic lead found in Chinese products, they completely ignore (for example) the toxic mercury that dentists continue to place into the mouths of young children all across the country. Why is it considered highly dangerous for a child to merely touch a toy with .06 percent lead paint while it is considered perfectly safe for a child to chew on a filling made with 40 percent mercury? Mercury is far more toxic than lead in many ways, yet the media has nothing to say about the mass poisoning of children through the outmoded dental work still being performed on children today. Mercury fillings were invented before the Civil War, and they're just as toxic now as they were then! Of course, if dental fillings were made in China, the U.S. press would be screaming about their toxicity! But since they're installed by crazed U.S. dentists -- many of whom still manage to seem convincingly sane -- there's zero coverage in the mainstream media. Reporting the truth about dangerous chemicals, heavy metals and other threats to children is extremely selective. The public never hears the real truth about what's dangerous -- they only hear what the media want them to think is dangerous! But I've had it with popular media distortions. Here, I'm going to reveal the top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than the lead paint in Mattel toys. Interestingly, most of these are things that parents intentionally give their children (or feed to them!). If you're worried about lead paint, you should be far more worried about these 20 things... The top 20 things that are more dangerous to children than lead paint in Mattel toys 1. Mercury fillings Often called "silver fillings" to hide the fact that they're made from mercury, these highly toxic fillings are placed directly into the mouths of children where they are inhaled (mercury vapor) and swallowed, causing systemic mercury poisoning to the child and leading to long-term neurological damage. Visit www.IAOMT.org and watch the "Smoking Teeth = Poison Gas" video to learn more. 2. Vaccines Think vaccines are safe? You've been hoodwinked by the popular media parroting drug company propaganda. Vaccines are preserved with methyl mercury, one of the most dangerous chemical forms of the toxic heavy metal. This mercury is injected directly into the bodies of children where it causes severe neurological damage. And yes, it does cause Autism, despite what you've read in the dumbed-down press. Only a fool would inject their child with mercury-preserved vaccines. 3. Hot dogs Hot dogs are made with horrifying processed meat parts (click here to see shocking photos of processed meat products, then preserved with a cancer-causing ingredient called sodium nitrite. As detailed in my book Grocery Warning, this ingredient causes brain tumors in children, not to mention leukemia, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer and other cancers. Hot dogs are far more dangerous to a child's health than lead paint in my opinion, and yet parents keep feeding them to their children! 4. Antibacterial soap How about a little nerve toxin in your soap? That's what's found in antibacterial soap. It's a toxic cocktail of chemicals designed to kill life. That's how it kills bacteria. The problem is that it also harms people -- especially infants and children who are trying to develop healthy nervous systems. Avoid all products claiming to be "antibacterial." You're better off using natural soap (like Dr. Bronner's soap, www.DrBronner.com ) and letting your child's immune system fight off common bacteria. The world isn't sterile, after all. You can't turn your house into a germ-free bubble. 5. ADHD drugs Would you give your child street drugs like speed or meth? Probably not, but what if your doctor wrote you a prescription for speed and said your child needed it because he was ADHD? If you're like most parents, you'd fall in step and start giving your child speed. But wait, you say: ADHD drugs are not speed, are they? But of course they are. They belong to a class of drugs called amphetamines. They used to be illegally sold as speed. Now they're prescription drugs, and they're given to children in schools all across America (and elsewhere). Psychiatrists and drug companies are making a killing dosing up kids and infants on substances that used to be considered illegal street drugs (and that have no legitimate medical use whatsoever). 6. Sports drinks For some reason, parents irrationally believe sports drinks are healthy because they contain the word "sports." Didn't they notice the neon green artificial coloring? Sports drinks are, in my opinion, a nutritional joke. Made from salt water, processed sweeteners and petrochemical coloring, many of their ingredients are actually harmful. Drinking water would be smarter, and feeding your child some healthy trace minerals would be even better. Low on potassium? Eat a banana. 7. Cough syrup and over-the-counter medicines Nearly all children's over-the-counter medicines contain multiple toxic substances such as chemical sweeteners, preservatives and additives. Cough syrup, in particular, has been scientifically proven to be absolutely worthless in preventing coughs. Many "children's" medicines are actually more toxic than their adult counterparts because they're sweetened up and cosmetically enhanced with artificial colors made from petrochemicals. Yet parents poison their children every day with over-the-counter medicine. 8. Sunscreen The sunscreen industry is a huge scam. Most popular sunscreen products actually cause skin cancer due to the numerous toxic chemicals they contain (which are quickly absorbed into the skin where they cause DNA mutations that lead to cancer). Even worse, sunscreen blocks the UV radiation that allows the skin to manufacture all-important vitamin D -- the most powerful anti-cancer nutrient yet known to modern science. It prevents over a dozen different cancers, yet parents block it by slathering toxic sunscreen on their children, all while mistakenly believing they're "protecting their children from cancer!" What a scam. 9. Fluoride in the water I've always found it amazing that city water officials were dumb enough to actually buy a toxic waste substance and arrange to have it dripped into the public water supply where it would be ingested by infants and children. The result? Mass fluorosis and toxicity to children everywhere. Didn't these people realize that fluoride only works topically? (That is, it only works if you rub it on your teeth, then spit it out, and even that only works if you're using natural fluoride, not the chemicals spit out as byproducts of the fertilizer industry, which is what city water departments are buying and dripping into the water supply.) Click here to see my CounterThink cartoon on this topic. Whoever heard of drinking a topical medication in the first place? It's like swallowing sunscreen to prevent sunburn. Even worse, putting this into the public water supply effectively mass medicates everyone with a bioactive chemical substance that no one has been given a prescription for. This is all done with no regard for the level of natural fluoride children might already be ingesting from other sources. The situation is so crazy that it's difficult to find a more insane example of medical tyranny than the mass fluoridation of public water supplies. The fact that doctors and dentists so vehemently support it demonstrates just how crazy they really are. 10. Processed milk Children as young as 10 years old are now being diagnosed with heart disease and clogged arteries. Ever wonder how it happened? It's due in part, I believe, to all the processed milk children are swallowing these days. Not only is the milk contaminated with pus, blood and detectable levels of pesticides and other chemicals, it's also homogenized, meaning the fats are artificially modified in a way that makes them stay in suspension. This homogenization also makes milk fats dangerous to cardiovascular health. While I support the consumption of raw, unprocessed milk, I think that consuming processed, homogenized milk is dangerous to the health of infants, children and adults alike! 11. Fast food Fast food is extremely unhealthy for children. Not only are the foods often fried, homogenized, hydrogenated and otherwise altered, they're also laced with chemical additives, taste enhancers, processed sugars, petrochemical food coloring and other unhealthy substances. Strangely, many parents actually reward their children for good behavior by buying them unhealthy fast food meals, thereby creating a psychological association between good feelings and junk food. (Fast food restaurants further exploit this psychological link by building playgrounds and running feel-good advertisements that emphasize friends and fun, then link those good vibes to their food products.) 12. Antidepressant drugs Children as young as six months old are now being put on psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs (antidepressants). These drugs, we now know, cause suicidal thoughts and violent behavior, especially in young boys. They imbalance brain chemistry and even alter the body's metabolism of sugar, promoting diabetes and leading to rapid weight gain. These drugs are so dangerous that feeding them to children should be considered a crime. Every single school shooting involving a child in the United States in the last 15 years has been linked to antidepressant drug use. Need I say more? 13. Chemical laundry detergents Parents are shown fancy ads on television depicting how wonderful and clean their clothes will be if they wash them in brand-name laundry detergent. What they're not shown, however, is the toxicity of all the synthetic chemicals that go into most laundry detergent products. The fragrance chemicals alone are often carcinogenic, and they're just as bad for the environment as they are children's health. A new alternative has appeared, however: Soap berries! It's laundry soap that grows on trees. We offer it at www.BetterLifeGoods.com 14. Flame retardant chemicals Did you know that new mattresses for infants and children are often sprayed with extremely toxic flame retardant chemicals? These are easily absorbed through the skin of infants and children where they contribute to numerous neurological disorders and immune suppression. Many clothing products are also sprayed with flame retardants, as are some carpeting products. In the push to make everything fireproof, state regulators (who have mandated the flame retardant chemicals in states like California) have created a toxic environment for everyone. I suppose if you're a politician, it's always better for a million people to die of a mysterious disease that can't be linked to you than to have one baby burning up on the evening news with fingers of blame pointed directly at you. 15. Soda Aside from directly promoting diabetes and obesity, sodas also contain high amounts of phosphoric acid, a substance that dissolves bones and causes a loss of bone mineral density. This causes massive tooth decay as well as a shrinking jaw bone and overall skeletal fragility. Diet sodas are even worse, since they contain chemical sweeteners linked to neurological disorders and learning disabilities. 16. Air fresheners Air fresheners contain cancer-causing chemicals. Unleashing them in the house exposes children to these chemicals, promoting asthma and other respiratory problems. If you value the health of your children, avoid air freshener products and just use essential oils or citrus peels instead. (Peel an orange and hang the peel in your kitchen.) 17. Synthetic vitamins Many children's vitamins are made with cheap, synthetic "vitamin" chemicals that actually harm people who take them. Plus, many are loaded up with artificial colors, sucrose and chemical sweeteners. Avoid cheap, store-bought children's vitamins or anything containing cyanocobalamin (a toxic form of vitamin B12). Quality children's vitamins are available through sources like Nordic Naturals (fish oils) and www.IntegratedHealth.com (also check www.WellnessResources.com for high-quality supplements). 18. Dryer sheets Most popular dryer sheets and fabric softeners are made with toxic synthetic chemicals that are not safe to use on children's clothing. The fragrance chemicals alone are often highly carcinogenic, and the other chemicals contribute additional toxicity to the clothing. Children's clothes should never be washed or dried in chemicals. Only use natural detergents and fabric softeners, or avoid the fabric softeners altogether. 19. Bacon Most bacon and sausage are processed meat products made with sodium nitrite (like the hot dogs, above) and contaminated with various chemicals lodged in the animal fats. Conventionally-raised beef, pork and chicken products are, in my opinion, extremely toxic to the human body and contribute to colon cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer and many other diseases and disorders. If you make meat for your children, shop for 100% organic, free-range, antibiotic-free meats that have no nitrites or nitrates. 20. Shampoo and bath products Virtually all popular shampoo and bath products sold on the market contain cancer-causing chemicals. The ingredients read like a top-40 list of toxic chemicals. Virtually none of these chemicals have ever been tested or approved for use on humans (they are simply ignored because the FDA astonishingly believes the skin won't absorb chemicals). If you want healthy products, use the shampoo I recommend: Pure Essentials Fragrance-Free Shampoo from Earth Science (www.TheNewES.com) Keeping your health priorities straight So that's the list of 20 items that are more dangerous to the health of children than the lead paint in Mattel toys. Most parents have no concern whatsoever for any of these 20 things, but they're going ape-shoot-crazy over the tiny amounts of lead in their Barbie toys and Elmo stuffed animals. It all just goes to show you that the sheeple will think anything the mainstream media tells them to think (and they'll ignore everything else). It's classic American contradiction: Returning a Mattel toy at the local toy store while taking your child to a dentist to have mercury implanted in the cavities caused by all the soda the kid consumed at home (because the parents keep buying Coke and Pepsi). If it all weren't so downright tragic, it would almost be funny. Almost. pass this onto all the parents you know. thankyou. If you don't believe that 6 month old kids are being put on drugs, or children as young as 10 are being diagnosed with bad hearts. Listen to this.... My mother is an RN Nurse Supervisor(aka. runs an entire hospital). Last night she told me about a 4 year old girl that came into the ER complaining of an infection, and she had a form of a severe cold, etc. They did some testing, blood tests etc. They found out, she is diabetic. (they are even going to call it Juvenile onset Diabetes too...) They diagnosed her with DIABETES!!! AT 4! wow. We need to take care of each other. We need to take care of our health.

Very well said!

Oh I know, I just mean desiring sex.. I don't mean in a negative religious way, just that it's bitter sweet. Mostly bitter.

Yeah.. I agree. Maybe I am just intimacy frustrated.. I don't know really. I'd like a connection with someone, or.. to "explore" an intimate connection with someone that is. But I don't want a relationship(commitment). But I don't want "friends with benefits" either. Soooo.... does anyone know what a relationship like that could be defined as? haha I know, I know.. , I am perfectly happy being single. But my morals get in the way when I meet a guy I am interested in, but don't want to do anything with that person unless we're in a relationship. But I don't want a relationship to begin with. I really just need to declare celibacy...

And this is probably like...the first time in 4 years(if not EVER) that I have felt sexually frustrated. It's just a weird feeling.... ugh , sex is evil. And I know I won't be having any for a very long time, so I guess that is what makes it even more frustrating. I guess it gives me time to figure out a birth control method I like though. haha..

Yah I have.. but so far the only method I've found that seems like it would be remotely natural is that maybemom.com thing, as well as Neem oil/seed.. but, I mean even WITH anything, I still worry like crazy and cannot relax. That's mostly what I'm curious about... is how do you actually relax when there is always a chance. Guys really have no idea what women deal with, especially because I DON'T want children. So, the irony of life would have me get pregnant, I just know it.... haha Anyhow, I'm currently just sexually frustrated... so lame. But that is a good point Tasha, however when I train frequently, which I am planning on getting more into very soon...my sex drive goes thru the roof (I normally have no sex drive, so that's a great thing for me). So I don't know how much good MORE physical activity is going to do me.

I feel I'm past the foreplay days. I mean.... I love intimacy, and everything that leads up to sex. But I have absolutely NO desire for anything else but the penetration, if that makes sense? Of course I am typically disappointed...so I know I need to re-evalute my hormonal needs vs. what I actually like in terms of intimacy. I'm not desiring the actual physical act of sex, as much as the bond that it creates with that person, the intense connection you have with another spiritual being while having intercourse. Which only intercourse can provide. It's not like I even have anyone I want to have sex with, let alone am dating...so, haha I don't know what my deal is.