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Summary: On the right track, but....
Review: 100 times is clearly too few, and who has time for more?And by the way you can't do this in meetings at work. I've tried.
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Summary: NOT Malarkey, Effective Way!
Review: As I sit here typing this, while constricting my anus, I can't help but consider how thoughtful and timely this book was. I ALREADY am reaping the benefits of Mr. Nishigaki's "anal-fountain-of-youth", even though it has only been a short morning's-worth of anus constriction. I have quickly begun to "erase my bad sticky feeling", and am feverishly working on the "secret of shooting out [my] immaterial fibers or third attention to [my] work from [my] body". With focused effort, and continued application, I have no doubt that I'll soon be "making * * * three times in succession without drawing out." A lovely treatise on the power of positive-sphincking. PS Added bonus; if all goes well, I'll be able to use my anus as a pencil sharpener....
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Summary: Azheet M'Drurs sez...
Review: For years gay men have struggled with the concept of a male equivilent of pelvic floor exercises, now they have a perfect guide!... This book has allowed me to "tighten" what is normally an incredibly loose ring and ease Amyl Nitrite-induced depression at the same time!... A must for any public school library.... Quod Erat Demonstradum!...
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Summary: Maybe it's actually Malarkey.
Review: I am afraid I must chime in and say that I didn't find this book very helpful. It was recommended by my doctor, whom I now regard as somewhat of a quack. One of the more ludicrous claims the books makes is that constricting one's anus _more_ than the 100 times per day recommended is not suggested and can lead to health problems. I can say with absolute assurance (pardon the pun.. continuing) that constricting the anal muscles MANY more times than simply one hundred times daily has had no adverse effect on me whatsoever. In fact, I'm constricting it right now as I write this, and I've been doing it all day, almost non-stop. Certainly totalling upwards of 1000 times. In other words, the book seemed very attractive to me based on its subject matter due to what I already brought to it from personal experience, yet I received no new information whatsoever and, in fact, a great deal of MISinformation was, instead, imbued. Thanks for listening.
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Summary: no need to constrict
Review: i don't even need to constrict my anus to releive depression. i just pick up this book and read a chapter. fun (and confusion) for hours!!
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Summary: 1000 Times ISNT enough
Review: I read this book a while back and its changed my life. I started on maybe 60 times a day and slowly worked my way up to over 10,000. Sure, I find it hard to sit down or do any acrobatics, but it stops my depression! Nothing like some cereal and a good constriction session in the morning!!
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Summary: i love to constrict!!
Review: i recently bought this book and it's great!! even though i live in santa cruz and can be a hippie as much as i want, sometimes i still get depressed. that's when it's time to constrict my anus! yay! it's so fun!! i've become quite an expert at it! often i will just sit at home all day and wear patchouli and constrict!
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Summary: Hilarious!! Buy it now!!
Review: I've only had this book for a day or so, and I haven't even thought about reading it from start to finish, but it is pretty gosh darn funny. At the end of the book, the author (Niroyuki Nishigaki) thanks everyone for "finishing reading what I have written in bad English." Bad English indeed! I'll share one of my favorite lines with you and if you think it's funny, I suggest you purchase this book. "Besides shooting out a big blank from your buttock, you can feel as if your root chakra leaked sweet hot mucus." That line doesn't make any sense, but it's pretty great. Sometimes I like to open the book up to random pages and read passages for a good laugh. Enjoy!
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Summary: A method to the madness?
Review: Okay, I bought this book because of the "Engrish" translation. It aperas to have been laterally translated from Japanese to English (like the Japanese term for "Carousel" is literally "pony toy go round"). I read it, and I had quote a few laughs, mainly at the surrealism of the language.
But I decided to try the methods described in the book. Anal constrition and stomach compression, 100 times a day for several days.
At the risk of seeming disgusting permit me to say that several days after I started this practice, I experienced what was probably the largest bowel movement in my life. I've also lost a few inches around the waistline and my energy level seems to be rising.
Perhaps there's some wisdom in this book after all!
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Summary: Dude, what were you thinking???
Review: Perusing the net one fine day, I happened upon a site that allowed the peruser to peruse this book in it's entirety online, before buying. One of my first reactions was mild surprise at the similarity of the exercises contained therein to ancient Taoist and yoga exercises.
The anus squeezing exercise seems to be very similar to the Deer Exercise spoken of at great legnth in Taoist books, particularly those by Stephen Chang. From what I've read this exercise IS effective at what it proposes to do, namely to stregnthen the sexual apparatus, as well as allegedly giving the man more 'staying' power. It supposedly also has rejuvenation abilities, probably due to it's effect of balancing the hormones, so the claims that Nishigaki makes for this exercise may have some basis in historical fact.
The navel pressing exercise seems to bear a close, though slightly different resemblance, to the yoga exercise known as Uddiyana Bandha, in which the practitioner exhales, then using suction, pulls the abdomen in towards the navel. The difference here is that Nishigaki uses the hands to press the navel inward as opposed to using muscular contraction. This exercise also has plenty of historical evidence to validate it's effectiveness.
While I found the book somewhat intriguiging, I also found it extremely confusing since Nishigaki uses expressions throughout the book that only HE understands. Just read a few of the reviews by different folks here to get a sample of some of his unintentionally humorous, but confusing comments.
To make matters worse he doesn't bother explaining what the devil he's talking about, so the reader is left staring in quizzical disbelief at what might as well have been morse code. Then again, you just might find yourself busting a gut!
While I thought the book had merit and promise I was left asking MORE questions than when I began. It makes me wonder why he bothered publishing a book with an english-speaking audience in mind, if he didn't first have it proofread for grammatical error or understandability?
My final reaction: Dude, what were you thinking???
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