Tripple Your Pleasure, Tripple Your Fun...

Anyway, ‘modern’ 1950s corsets are much lighter and more flexible using aluminum staves instead of whale bone, and they help sculpt a woman’s body into the perfect hourglass silhouette while playing up women’s femininity. Rather than turning to impossibly strict diets, insane amounts of exercise, the “nip and tuck” of plastic surgery, or even drastic liposuction, women loaded up their closets with 1950s lingerie essentials. Their weapon of choice for that special occasion dress was a simple lace up corset. The Merry Widow corset is typically laced. It features adjustable lacing or hook-and-eye closures, allowing for a custom fit and comfort. This design provides both support and a flattering silhouette, making it a popular choice in vintage and modern fashion even today.

In a lot of ways we haven’t really moved past the Victorian time period (1831-1901), or Civil War (1861-65), with lace-up corsets as finely cultured instruments of feminine torture. Like Mammy helping Scarlett lace up her corset in the movie, Gone With the Wind, my triplet Sisters helped each other with their corset. Of course to an outsider observing them from a distance it might have appeared that they were fighting. It was not uncommon to see one triplet use an elbow punch to the stomach to knock the air out of her sister while the other triplet pulled the lace tight. In any case it was one of the Triplets helping the other Triplet lace up the other’s corset.

Even today the Triplets don’t get along that well together. Often, not always, their fighting, I could call it cat fights, is based on past experiences of the other being abusive, either physically, or emotionally, toward each other. More often than not, their complained of abuse is based on their irrational competition with each other. Yes, the easiest way to get a fight started today is to accuse one of being just like the other. Yes, there is actually an active competition to be different going on all the time with them.

After having to listen to so much of the Triplet’s constant bickering and fighting growing up with them I get bored with them. I’ve even thought for a long time that somebody needs to invent, or better yet, create a, “Time-out Triplet’s App”, to settle the serious disputes between my three sisters. But, in the end, ha, ha, I like to think it’s really their problem. I mean what’s the old saying? “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

Mother ... Mom ... says, I was still nursing on her at 4 almost 5 years old, and she says it’s a myth that the breasts dry up while a child is still nursing. As long as the child is nursing steadily the breasts continue to produce milk. In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics supports extended breastfeeding for 3 or 4 years, or even beyond that. Breast feeding their baby promotes a powerful bond between mother and child.

Hey, as long as mother and child are comfortable with it, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and other pediatric associations, are fine with it, too. When I brought it up to Mom years latter, she admits that she had found nursing me, even at almost 5 years old, pleasant ... and relaxing ... in fact, she even called it relaxing, soothing, and stimulating. Yes, good old Mother Nature rewards the nursing mother with the release of oxytocin, often called the “bonding hormone,” which helps create a strong emotional connection between mother and baby.

She only weaned me then, she confessed, because my Father objected so strongly. She actually accuses him of, I quote her here: “ of throwing a fit”. At the time I was over 40 inches tall, and weighed about 40 pounds. Yes, at 48 months, 4 years old, I had hit all those so-called milestones of child development. I was walking up stairs, climbing on the furniture, running, kicking, and jumping, even using a cup and spoon to feed myself, and dressing myself. And yes, I was discovering the difference between boys, and girls, ha, ha.

My Father said, that me still nursing on Mom at that age was unseemly... “scandalous” ... of course, the word he used once when he got really mad and frustrated was “obscene” ... to have me at my age and size to actually crawl up onto Mom’s lap and demanding her ... Mom ... to take out her breast to feed me still at that age and size was “obscene”, he said. Yes, the changes in Mom and Dad’s marriage left Mom exhausted a lot of the time and made Dad jealous of me, the baby, I found.

Negative emotions don’t mean you don’t feel love, joy, and wonder. It all goes together, making the roller coaster of parenthood an unexpected ride. Jealousy is an instinct, and it doesn’t mean there’s hostility or a lack of love. It might seem like your partner lacks empathy, but they could be trying to adjust to the shift in your relationship, too. They probably feel like they’ve been pushed out of place and can’t see where they fit anymore.

Dad being jealous of me was because of the drastic life and relationship change. He was used to having alone time together with Mom to relax and bond, and now that time was not happening as often. Now, Mom’s life revolved around another human, and it was a big adjustment causing Dad decreased marital enjoyment. As a result it caused Dad to experience envy because things aren’t what they were before. Then add in the lack of sleep, and I guess it was natural for Dad to have some negative feelings about me.

Even when I was asleep Mom was still thinking about me, and they both remained tired and stressed out all the time. Sure breast feeding me promoted a powerful bond, but Dad felt useless during this time because I refused a bottle and he wasn’t the one lactating and feeding me. My nursing on Mom was a beautiful thing, but it made Dad progressively insecure and envious.

Yes, I was one of those babies that refused the bottle, and insisted that Mom breast feed me all the time. Yes, originally, Mom wanted to head back to work, and share the job of feeding me with a baby bottle with Dad, or another caregiver. Yes, she was just hoping for a little more flexibility and free time. She intended to introduce me to a bottle, because breastfeeding a baby can feel like a big milestone around your neck. But, sometimes your baby ... me in this case ... has other plans ... like flat-out refusing the bottle.

There are many experts like the, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, IBCLC, that will tell you that bottle refusal is common, and doesn’t mean you’ve done anything wrong. The most common reasons for bottle refusal in newborns has to do with flow rate, nipple shape and the way the bottle is introduced.

Of course, there is a fascinating twist on this latter on. At around three to four months, babies go from reflexively sucking bottles and nipples to making the choice to do it on their own. This is a really fun time, because all of a sudden, they aren’t required to suck, swallow and breathe because of their natural reflex. They now get to choose, and sometimes they choose that they don’t want the bottle.

Hey, I was one of those fussy babies that refused the bottle, but thank god my three older Sisters, the Triplets, positively loved the bottle. They were even old enough by then to help Mom with my feeding. In fact, you could say I took the place of their life size Betsey Wetey baby dolls made by the Ideal Toy Company.

Just for the record here, even without ever getting pregnant, women, any woman, even trans-men some doctors claim, can produce breast milk if their breasts are stimulated enough. Inducing lactation only requires stimulating and properly emptying the breasts. The stimulation can occur in 3 different ways: #1. With a breast pump. #2. With a nursing baby. or #3. By manual expression. Of course, there is also something called galactorrhea, and/or hyperprolactinemia.

It accrues in maybe 25% of all females between the age of 12 to 50 years old, during the peak childbearing years. The most common cause is a benign tumor on the pituitary gland at the base of the brain. The tumor causes the pituitary gland to make too much prolactin causing hyperprolactinemia. Prolactin is the hormone responsible for milk production after you give birth. Excess prolactin tricks the female body into thinking it is pregnant.

Anyway right after their births the Triplets became part of an ongoing Federal Triplet Study. Yes, they had weekly checkups, from doctors, psychiatrists, psychologist, and all kinds of other experts in the fields of human behavior and development. At around 2 years old my triplet Sisters were discovering gender ... what boys do ... what girls do ... and the differences. They were also in daycare and kindergarten programs and were being separated a lot.

In fact, I latter found out, by hacking into the study’s own computer records, that the governmental, the “Behavioral Think Tank People”, the professional head shirkers, the psychologists and psychiatrists, running the program anyway, thought that I, their younger Brother was developing too much control over my three older triplet Sisters. One part of the government research group argued that my seeming control was detrimental and unhealthy for the Triplet’s natural development, but another part of the Group, the Paranormal and Parapsychology people, the ESP people, along with their pet medical doctors, psychiatrists, psychologist, and social-psychologist, wanted to let it play out and study it.

It seemed that me and the Triplets had some sort of psychic link, connection ... bond ... when we were all very young. If I stumped my big toe on the playground and cried, the Triplets somehow felt it and cried, too. Was it, telepathy? Empathy? They didn’t know, but it was wrong not to follow up on it the ESP, and Parapsychology people argued. The bottom line was we were separated a lot when we were older to study the connection if any. I also discovered that a lot in our files, yes, we each had a file that was above Top Secret, and my meager hacking skills couldn’t get into them.

The US Government uses three main classification levels, each tied to the potential damage unauthorized disclosure could cause to national security. #1. Confidential, #2. Secret, and #3. Top Secret. Then there is Sensitive Compartmentalized Information (SCI), and Special Access Programs (SAPs). SCI is divided into compartments ... codeword programs ... requiring, a Top Secret clearance, SCI eligibility, and on a need-to-know basis for that specific compartment. There are basically three flavors of SAPs: Acknowledged SAP, Unacknowledged SAP, and Waived SAP. Our files were SCI/SAP.

Look the paranormal is a broad umbrella term for events, and/or experiences that seem to defy conventional scientific explanation. Think of “paranormal” as the category of unusual phenomena people report. It includes things like: ghosts and hauntings, UFOs and extraterrestrials, cryptids (Bigfoot, Mothman, etc.), psychic experiences, near-death experiences, time slips, or strange coincidences.

Parapsychology, on the other hand, is the attempted scientific study of certain types of paranormal claims ... specifically those involving the mind. It focuses on: ESP (extrasensory perception), telepathy (mind-to-mind communication), clairvoyance (perceiving distant or hidden information), precognition (perceiving future events), psychokinesis (mind influencing matter). Parapsychologists use controlled experiments, statistics, and psychological methods to test whether these abilities exist and how they might work.

We often mix the two because many paranormal claims involve the mind or consciousness. Parapsychology is sometimes portrayed in pop culture as “ghost hunting,” even though that’s not what the field actually studies. Both deal with experiences that feel mysterious or unexplained, but academically, parapsychology is much narrower and more methodical. Some will argue more Scientific.

Yes, Parapsychology is still considered a fringe science ... not fully accepted by mainstream psychology or neuroscience. Some experiments ... like the Ganzfeld telepathy studies ... show small, but significant, and intriguing statistical effects, though those intriguing effects are still being debated by the mainstream scientific community. Paranormal research outside the parapsychology lab is usually more observational and less controlled.

Consciousness is one of those topics where science, philosophy, and the “unexplained” brush right up against each other. It’s the place where the measurable world meets the deeply subjective one, and that boundary is exactly where things get interesting. Here’s a way to explore it without drifting into pseudoscience, but also without shutting the door entirely on the mystery. Science ... Scientists can describe neural activity associated with awareness. The brain regions involved in attention, memory, and self-reflection, and even the states of consciousness, sleep, dreaming, anesthesia, meditation.

But none of this fully explains the core puzzle: Why does subjective experience exist at all? Why is there a “YOU” behind your thoughts? This is often called the hard problem of consciousness. There are several areas where consciousness research bumps into the unknown:

#1. Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), the vivid awareness during cardiac arrest. Encounters with deceased relatives, or a sense of leaving the body. Some of these experiences occur when the brain appears to be inactive or severely impaired. That doesn’t prove anything supernatural, but it does challenge simple “brain = consciousness” models.

#2. PSI Phenomena (ESP, telepathy, etc.). Parapsychology tries to test whether consciousness can: Access information beyond the senses. Influence physical systems, and/or connect with other minds. The results they get are mixed and controversial, but the persistence of small statistical anomalies keeps the debate going.

#3. The Nature of the Self. Meditation research shows that the sense of “I” can dissolve or shift dramatically. This raises questions like: Is the self an illusion? Is consciousness more fundamental than the brain? Are we tapping into something larger than individual identity?