How High Should I Jump? by R. Milton Quibner - Let's Talk About This One...

"Sadly, most men are obsessed with self-gratification. While this may have been acceptable in former times, Today's Dynamic Woman has no patience for a man bent on pleasing himself..."

How High Should I Jump?
The Satirical Guide to Pleasing
  Today's Woman

By R. Milton Quibner, HE.R.S

"Her greatest power, and her critical beauty, comes from her mouth, and yet I haven't the reserves to stand longer under her illustrative bray. Would that I was a younger, stronger man, how truly learned would I be." --Scribbling Aristoxenus

"I can't relate the joys I've experienced, waiting at my desk while my wife and her partners recreate, knowing the event is proceeding according to her/their desires. Hearing explosions of ecstasy emanating from my bedroom never ceases to bring a tear to my eye. Many's the time I've paused in my note-taking to soak in the sounds of satisfaction from her happy partnering...

"I, too, have made myself sick wondering if my wife's recreational partners sincerely felt comfortable in the setting I provided...

"Today's Rightfully-Demanding Woman feels no hesitation letting her partner know when she's had enough of him, and often enjoys this act of expression. Your role: be a good sport. Of course, some women, for politeness' sake, don't express their desire to have you leave, so you'll need to be on your toes...Since you've been charting her every gesture, desire, thought and feeling, you should also be taking notes about her body language as she approaches the moment of recreational coitus, especially the telling 'little things', say  deep sigh and anxious look at the door, or her fingers absently rubbing her clitoris while she checks the clock, clear indications it's time for you to go...

Heterosexual symbol two hearts (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
"Your wife will, at some point, need to share herself
with as many men as possible in order to expand her
library of sexual experiences, or she'll feel her sexual
development requires taking numerous men to her recreational futon. This is especially the case when
the woman is young or has been unfairly denied 
recreational partners. Your role, as Meneleus foresaw,
is that of offering your wife to a legion of men..."
~~~

My Background Investigative Research:
This book placed me in quite a quandry! When I was first asked to review the book and learning the full title, I quickly indicated that I didn't do "satire" well. Nevertheless, the author indicated that I might be just the person and I agreed to allow it to be sent... [BTW, I do do sarcasm fairly well...]

When I got it: At the top clearly is the following: Warning: FOR MEN ONLY...

Well, the last time I checked, I marked Female on any questionnaire...So who is this book for, really? Sure, I review books, but shouldn't I have been disqualified? Yet the author knew my name and my pic is alllllll over the Internet wherever books are, right? Ok, so, I decided the only thing to do is just start reading...

Oh, yes, I should also mention that the writer has letters behind his name... and they aren't the normal ones, such as B.S. or PhD... It's HE.R.S.--Heterosexual Relationship Specialist...

I am heterosexual, so that at least fit...but I spent nearly 40 years on a university campus and I don't think there is a higher education program for this specialist... Nor are there books in any library such as those you will find in the very lengthy "Reading List--note not Bibliography" provided... Many of you may have read my nonfiction reviews and normally the first thing I do is mention the credentials of the author and something about the Bibliography and research...

Needless to say, I was beginning to have even more concerns....A Fraud? Can just anybody write about sex, proclaim that they are a Heterosexual Relationship Specialist??? So I googled it! And I found this man...but nobody else popped up... except those that were in the psychological arena.
That is not Quibner's background, and, indeed, must of his book feeds back to...ancient times???
                                               
Meet R. Milton Quibner. As a Heterosexual Relationship Specialist and Pre-Classical scholar, my work blends modern relationship themes and issues with a Classical/Pre-Classical reference points. In short, I take a non-psychological approach to understanding and sorting out heterosexual relationship issues; rather than offering what I call ‘psycho-babblical band-aids’ for what I feel are more character issues, the Sexual Symposium will investigate, explore and examine the state of modern sexual relationships and offer long-term philosophical insights and observations aimed at developing the entire individual. Employing a generous level of humor and self-deprecation while refusing to adhere to politically-correct and ultimately empty platitudes, the half-hour Sexual Symposium will explore contemporary themes relevant to modern couples including but not limited to the following themes:

Freeing Woman to explore the world of her choosing
The Dating Dilemma facing Women: who really is Modern Man and why is he such a wimp
The Absurdity of Monogamy, and making judgments of each other’s behavior
The end of Male Dominance and the beginning of the Era of Women
Perspectives on the Feminist Revolution and Man’s lack of response
The Effortlessness of Pornography and the Internet Revolution
Modern Woman’s Obsession with Perfection
As the show develops, I will bring in several guest experts, including my wife, Mia, an Intuitive Life Coach, as well as relevant archive material.

MQ

The book opens with a speech which was "given at a seminar in joint cooperation with the Association of Betrayed Professionals and the Network of Betrayed Individuals Seeking Help, on October 3, 2011..."

It was interesting... and I found I could accept most of what the writer was saying...

Good? Right?

Of course not, this book is a Satire:

"Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon. A common feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm—"in satire, irony is militant"[2]—but parody, burlesque, exaggeration,[3] juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.Satire is nowadays found in many artistic forms of expression, including literature, plays, commentary, and media such as lyrics."

Ok, so if this book is for men only, then I should assume that those being ridiculed are men--so that they are shamed into improvement, right? Then, why is this all about "Today's Dynamic, Vibrant Woman"???

"Degradation, or Consciously Measured Sublimation? There's nothing degrading about accepting the superiority of Today's Dynamic, Vibrant Woman. Yes, what's required is the sublimation of traditional male ego, but this is part of evolution and is the only direction a Real Man can take. A virile man acknowledges his helplessness and allows her to make all his decisions: all."

Now, no woman in her right mind, would accept this about a man or woman...Can we really expect that men will know the difference of who is being satired? Sure, the basic idea is to use humor to help men realize that women have changed. I doubt seriously that any intelligent woman would want her partner to read and "laugh" along with this book...

So why ask women to review it? One female reviewer on the back cover called it "Wise-ass hilarity." My problem: I found none of it humorous... My opinion is that for any woman who has been in the position of fighting her way in a male-dominated world--organization, family, or whatever... she really has not changed her basic values about sexuality. Just because the world entertainment has opened up, that does not mean that average women hav become promiscuous nor want any part of the sexualization that is happening--including Human Trafficking!

It does not take Satire to become a better partner in a heterosexual relationship, just as it did not take Satire to be a woman in the business world who saw relationships develop, saw men going after every woman in an office environment... If women chose to participate, I can guarantee you that it wasn't for the same reasons that men used...

Just as I cannot accept 50 Shades of Gray as a book that has become world-wide news, due to the entertainment field's proliferation of sexuality, I do not accept that How High Should I Jump? will do anything more than have men enjoy this piece of Satire, laughing uproariously as they believe that it "ain't going to happen in my house..." 

Here's what I've always used for evaluating a potential relationship:

Ephesians 5:22-33

New International Version (NIV)

22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himselfas a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated their own body, but they feed and care for their body, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”[b] 32 This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

OK, OK, a disclaimer: I've never been married, so has my basis been unreasonable? You know, my guess is that men thought the above quote was probably Satire as well... They learned the first part: "Wives Submit Yourselves..." Then stopped reading or thought the rest was humorous...

Because it's rare for that much-older Book excerpt to be followed any more than this one might be... Enjoy Satire? Having problems with your wife? Hey, it's your marriage--You Decide...



GABixlerReviews 

Let's listen again to a song about loving a woman... I really don't think this is funny or humorous... at least these singers consider Love a serious matter...romantic even?

Gemini's War By Amy McCorkle Takes Readers Into Wicked World of Sex Trafficking! Exciting But Sensitively Done!

"I ceased to believe in angels when I was three years old; when the evil from which my mother so valiantly tried to protect me came and took her, plunging me headlong into madness. Evil I know your name. And it has always been Father. Three times I thought I’d broken the bond for good. Three times I was captured and dragged screaming defiantly back into hell. This time there would be no escape. There was nowhere to run. It was sure to end in death. 
"The fight had finally been knocked out of me by the time I was twenty-five. My father was all-powerful. His name rang through the halls of justice when an undesirable need arose to service the dark pleasures of those same men. I was his daughter, and I was not immune.’ My short life had been written in blood. I could smell cigarette smoke and stale beer and heard the sound of raucous laughter as I lie there drugged and fighting to maintain consciousness. 
“This is some cold-blooded shit. She must have something big on the old man.” 
“But… his own daughter?” 
“Hey, it’s not for me to judge. He pays me for this kind of work. I never said I was a softie.” 
“You have kids, don’t you?”
"I forced my eyes open as my heart still strained against the effects of the barbiturate cocktail they had injected me with a few hours beforehand.
 “Yeah,” the fat one said, “I almost regret abducting this one. She just wanted to be...” 
"My eyes were losing focus again, and it was hard to breathe. I spied a gun 
out of reach. I’d learned how to shoot one out of necessity. I stretched my fingers as far as they would go to no avail. My fingertips brushed the gun’s grip. I knocked it to the ground, causing it to discharge. The men jumped.
 “Goddamn it. Waste of a perfectly good bullet,” the fat one swore. “Tie her hands and feet.” The slender man hesitated. “Dammit, Johnson, if the old man isn’t hesitating in rubbing her out, what makes you think he’ll hold back on us?” 
"Johnson grabbed my hands without mercy and bound them together until the rope dug into my skin. I was too weak to fight back. The will to survive overrode the pain. I saw men running toward us as they heaved me over the side of the Kennedy Bridge Were those FBI logos on their jackets? I screamed as loud as I could. I prayed they would rescue me as I plummeted towards the water. I did not want to die. 

~~~

. 
Gemini's War:

Gemini Rising--Book 1    

By Amy McCorkle

She was only 10 when he saved her the first time. No matter that it hadn't worked--he had been shot and could not get her away. Instead, the little girl had managed to hide him and take care of him until he was well enough--but he knew without her he would have died...

Aldan had infiltrated her father's building because one of his men had taken the Queen's niece. He was the best man in the British Secret service and was sent to find her. Instead, when he'd broken in, he found Gemini being raped and had tried to save her! Jacobs Michael had shot him! The queen's niece had been returned but had been so damaged that he was still cloistered. Aidan had been ordered back into service...

Still, when he plunged into the river and saved her from drowning, it was hard to believe he had come back...

Gemini was now 25 and her father had finally decided she was never going to willingly accept him as her lover--or anybody else he demanded she give her favors to... But that didn't mean that since she was saved that he would just let her go! Once more he was on the hunt!

Aiden had saved her from drowning but he had been personally affected by all that had happened to him, including having been married and having a daughter... and now being alienated from both. 

Just recently he had learned they were both killed in an accident and he grieved knowing that he had never been able to make up with his daughter...

“Try me. My life is an endless knot of troubles.” 

“My ex-wife Michele and our daughter Christina were killed when a suicide bomber walked into a café in Mumbai.” 

“Why would that be complicated? You loved them, didn’t you?”

 “My daughter, yes, very much so.”

 “How old was she?” “Nineteen.” For a moment I said nothing. It was unnatural for a parent to lose a child.

 “You said ex-wife…”

 “Our relationship was complicated. She was a double agent. She often played both ends against the middle, just to see what would happen. And when our marriage soured she used Christina as a pawn in her games.”

 “Did you ever think about walking away from the secret service to raise Christina?”

 “I had planned to do that when the Queen called on me to find her niece. She said if I brought her home I could walk away free, no strings attached.” 

“And if you didn’t?” “She’d make it impossible for me to do so.”

 “My father happened.” 

He looked at me sharply. “You happened.” His words stung. A lump formed in my throat. But I forced it back down. “If you want to walk away, do it now. Because I’d rather be dead than treated like this.” He erupted.

 “My daughter is dead because I was too busy chasing ghosts to fight for her. I’m sorry if I’ve offended you.” 

~~~

“Michaels,” Aidan said curtly. “You are a tricky dick. You’ve done something no one else was ever able to do.” 
“Pray tell.” The sound of my father’s voice was like an ice bath to my senses. Anxiety now hammered me over the head threatening to strangle me. I couldn’t breathe. “Why… you’ve seduced my daughter and made her love you, of course.” 
“How dare you use that word? You murdered my mother and raped me. You raped me. You are evil. Pure evil incarnate. You are unnatural! Incest is unnatural. Then you sold me out to your highest bidders to do what they wanted with me. You are sick. What you did was disgusting.”
 “Shut-up, you insolent bitch! And as for you, Aidan Wells, I trusted you with my business years ago. I thought killing you would be enough to rid me of you. I guess I have to thank my brat of a daughter for your survival. I thought I was well rid of you. But just when I think I was rid of you both, you turn up like bad pennies. You’d think the death of your own daughter Christina would be enough to make you give up this crusade.” 
"I was terrified. I wanted to curl up in Aidan’s arms and have him protect me from this man who wouldn’t let me go. But the mentioning his daughter had hit him hard. His body stiffened. His gaze hardened. I gathered up my courage and pushed my fear as far down as I could and seethed, “You rotten sonofabitch! You are a rapist, a murderer, and a pimp. You enslave women for your own sick pleasure and sadistic wants. You’re lucky you’re not here because if you were, a grieving father’s rage would be the least of your problems.” 
“Oh look, isn’t she cute, the rat terrier defending her master. Just remember, Gemini, I’m everywhere. There’s no place you can go in this world, there’s no place you can hide that I don’t have someone who will hunt you down and bring you back to me. So enjoy your little field trip, because you will pay for it. And you, Aidan Wells—” A
"idan cut him off. With a quiet, grief-filled rage, his blue eyes glistening with unshed tears I was sure he would not allow Jacob to see, he said from between his teeth, “As for you Jacob Michaels, you have just signed your death warrant.” “Big words.” “Sleep with one eye open, you evil son of a bitch, because I’m coming for you. And I’m taking you down.”
 "My father blinked. It was the first time I had seen him do it – nobody had ever stood up to him before, let alone threatened him. Aidan pulled out his gun and blew a hole in the dashboard. The sound was deafening. And I jumped so high my head hit the roof of the car. As we travelled down the road he holstered his gun. I didn’t know what to say or do. Everything in me said go to him. Even if it meant causing him to lash out at me.
~~~

Aiden and Gemini falling in love did not surprise me. Gemini had seen Aiden as her hero, her savior, even when he failed to save her when she was just 10... He had tried, he had been the first person to show any small piece of concern for Gemini since her mother had died...

But McCorkle totally caught me off guard with what happened as the climax of the novel! It was mind-blowing for me!  

The merge of romantic love within human trafficking has been effectively done by this author! Kudos to her... There was just enough balance between both individuals being afraid of a relationship, given what life Gemini had been forced to live, and their need to relate to each other after their early meeting when Gemini actually saved Aiden's life rather than the other way around...

I was also amazed at the quality of hope that was given to Gemini by the author. Surely, when you can never, ever trust your father it would affect your ability to get past what has been done to you emotionally, physically and mentally. While anger was apparent continuously for Gemini, she exhibited a strength of character that had to be there to make this book work! I applaud the author again, for the depth of this character while presenting what happened to her so sensitively.

This subject is an emotional roller coaster for me. As an abused child, and knowing other women who were abused, I know what it takes to get past...that past... When it evolves from inside the family, it can be devastating... But the spread of human trafficking around the world reveals that there are so many individuals who have perverted their sexual desires--and just as many who use those perversions to achieve money and power.

How awful that an individual, like Gemini's father, can rise in the business world, by merely providing for those who are willing to pay for those secret desires! 

I hate to consider that this could be true to some small or great extent...

If we are not willing to confront these issues through books and spread the word that it has got to stop, there seems no hope for America's and the world's future... This romantic suspense is an excellent way to see what happens and realize that those children taken are worthy of love, respect and, most of all...saving!

I consider this a must-read for anybody who cares about the young girls who you love and who could easily be lost within this world! Highly recommended! This is one of the best I've read on this subject...

GABixlerReviews

Amy McCorkle writes romantic thrillers and under Kate Lynd for her scifi and dystopian books has nine books including the Amazon Bestselling GLADIATOR, Bounty Hunter, and her memoir, Letters to Daniel. She spends most of her time writing books and feeding her pet kitty Chyna. She has been awarded for her books, screenplays, and her blogs as well. She aspires to write her own television series, an indie soap, and to gain a traditional publishing contract and agent. Her most recent achievement is having Stan Lee eat her food and winning Best Sci Fi Screenplay for Bounty Hunter with her best good friend, Melissa Goodman.