Robert La Bua examines the world’s favorite hot spot. A sauna experience is one of the healthiest things you can do for your organism. As with any process by which it releases substances to the outside—whether it be urination, defecation, expectoration, regurgitation, lacrimation, or my personal favorite, ejaculation—perspiration is yet another means by which the…
by Robert La Bua Make massage a regular part of life – here’s why The benefits of massage have long been known and documented, yet massage is still regarded as a luxury of the very pampered of the very pampered. If there were massage centres in every neighbourhood right next to the post office…
We all need touch: The many types of professional massage Author: Robert La Bua Touches on tactile stimulation In modern Australian society, almost all activity requiring physical contact between two (or more) adults is bound to engender a rating on the sliding scale of sexual stimulation, falling somewhere what are you talking about? to squeeze…
ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS ISN’T SOMETHING THAT JUST HAPPENS In a study done at Harvard University more than 40 years ago, researchers polled the graduating class of 1953 to find out how many students actually had clearly-written, specific goals and a plan for achieving them. Since this was a class of highly intelligent people at one…
Your time bank account Authors J Chambers and Jan Roberts. Imagine there is a bank, which credits your account each morning with $86,400,it carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. What…
There’s been a long standing tradition with touring sports teams to get out and experience the country they are visiting. To get to know the locals and to try the local produce. And when we say produce, we might be talking metaphorically. Because single sports stars are notoriously famous for trying anything new, often landing…
Nosing around for some action: Making sense of scents Author: Robert La Bua Often abused, even more often re-sculpted, the nose is the neglected step child in our family of facial sensory organs. We please our ears with beautiful music, enchant our eyes with visual delights of all kinds. I won’t even go into…
It’s a fairly reasonable assumption that almost everyone reading this article knows at least one person who’s a SLIder or is possibly even a SLIder themselves. These people appear to represent a non-discriminatory cross section of the population – they are male and female, young and old, straight and gay, black and white and live…