# Err...umm...controlling your reaction...down there (maybe TMI)

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 8, 2004, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/err-umm-controlling-your-reaction-down-there-maybe-tmi/238908 "2004-04-08T05:48:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/err-umm-controlling-your-reaction-down-there-maybe-tmi/238908/21 "2004-04-09T23:33:02Z")

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MrPict has reacted the same way since our first date when he was 19 and I was 17 up till and including last night 32.5 years later. I would be very worried if he did not.

PS Don’t let people dis you about young love. It can be great, it can be the worst thing in your life, but it could also be the love of your life. It just takes a lifetime to figure it out.

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**Author:** ![dublos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@dublos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dublos)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/err-umm-controlling-your-reaction-down-there-maybe-tmi/238908/22 "2004-04-09T23:50:43Z")

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> [@Soapbox Monkey](#):
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> But anyway, this leads us to my questions. Yes, kissing is the farthest I’ve ever gone with a girl, but everytime we did, I…got excited. :o SERIOUSLY excited. It was pretty easy to cover up because we always made out sitting down, but I assumed that my utter lack of experience and desire to GAIN some is what triggered such serious feelings down below just from kissing. But it’s really something that I would like to be able to get under control. I’d feel pretty embarrassed leaning in to kiss a date goodnight if I ended up jabbing her unintentionally.

Do not try to control this reaction.

Being and showing you’re a bit embarassed by it is perfectly normal, but if you fixate on it and you work too hard to contol this reaction… it could lead to melt downs when you do not want them.

That would be bad.

That would be very very bad.

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