How to Manage Your Dick: Destructive Impulses Through Cyber Kinetics

"Each man who has a dick and every woman who loves him and must deal with him, think they know enough ..." begins this amusing look at the connection, and often the divide, between the spiritual energy and physical urges that drive men. Ac-cording to O'Reilly, it's all a matter of dick management. Proper care leads to enlightenment, creativity, and societal advances, while bad handling fuels war and destruction. (Recall Osama and his promise of 72 virgins that inspired young men to fly planes into skyscrapers.) Use the PECER Test or the Gandhi-Hitler Index to discover your management skills. If it's truly a man's world, the dick might be the ultimate culprit, and for those who believe this book is only for men, at some point, "Every women is a dick manager," says O'Reilly.

Just say "NO" doesn't work when it comes to newsgroups containing binary titillating eroticism. This book truly explains the flow of energy involved in seeking sexual relief through porno and masturbation. Well done, and a discovery.

Disclaimer: I'm Sean's brother, and read this book in manuscript.Sean is truly a remarkable individual, who combines ideas from philosophy, psychology, science and pseudo-science, like a mad chef, then serves them up as food for thought. His book is provocative and often funny, but underneath all the hyperbole, its message is a simple one. Here's my summation:* With the advent of psychiatry and twentieth century psychology, people threw out thousands of years of previous psychological insight and practice. The insights of various eastern disciplines, such as yoga, zen buddhism, and sufism, have come back into fashion via the New Age psychology movement, but the insights of two thousand five hundred years of Western philosophy have largely been ignored.* Many problems that seem intractable to modern psychology can be addressed by principles articulated clearly by Aristotle. He pointed out that virtue, which he defined as the control of the appetites by the reason, is a kind of habit. Learning what is good for you, and then developing good habits to practice it -- much as athletes practice for their sport -- and ultimately learning to like what is good for you, is the key to success and happiness. * As Freud and others pointed out, one of the most difficult appetites to control is the sexual appetite. Sean's work, which he calls "dick management" -- crude, but to the point -- focuses on how the principles of habit formation can be applied to the sexual appetites.* As a kind of cover story for what most people would consider a boring subject, Sean argues that the principles laid out by Aristotle have been supported by modern science. An understanding of the insights of multi-dimensional physics gives a way of understanding the role of the soul in our lives. We don't need this scientific framework to practice the art of dick management, but it gives us a way to talk about it that will make pop psychologists green with envy.P.S. When I read Steven Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I was extraordinarily disappointed by Covey's failure to adequately define and describe the true role of habit formation in success. It is a fundamental idea that has gotten very little attention in the 20th century (at least outside of music and athletics), and we need to rediscover it. The principles in Sean's book can be applied to many different fields of endeavor. So even if you don't struggle with your sexual appetites, there's a lot to learn here.

I can't say enough about the power and timliness of this book. Although humorous and insightful it is also powerful and as penetrating as its subject matter. Drawing upon such diverse traditions as quantum physics and Taosim, O'Reilly is able to bridge western and eastern traditions to brilliantly conclude a better behavior for the reader. The only way I could imagine to improve the book is for it to provide an index. Even without one this book is a treasure and is uniquely though provoking. Now is a wonderful time to read this book as O'Reilly is generous monitoring the books related website and answering readers questions. (Just do a google search for the book).

When I first saw the title I didn't hold out much hope for it transcending the level of a book-length dirty joke, or that maybe it might actually contain a few bits of food for thought. Boy was I wrong.The book isn't mere food for thought. It is absolutely profound on a topic that is more significant than almost any other. The title is unfortunate in one sense because it's not an easy book to leave lying on one's desk for others to "discover" and thumb through. I could even see it leading to a sexual harassment action in some office settings, a further indication of how incredibly sexually messed up we are as a people.On the other hand, the title reflects the brutal honesty with which O'Reilly discusses "the elephant in the room that everyone denies." He writes, "Can anyone pretend that the world's chronic problems from murder and rape, pillage and war, assault and insult, graffiti and torture, child molesting and domestic abuse, are not in the main caused by men?" As an observer of events in Washington, I have seen presidents, statesmen and alleged pillars of the community brought to ruin by what we call the "zipper problem."The book is not anti-man at all. In fact it celebrates male energy. But it does confront us men in a bold, wise, metaphysical, scientific, spiritual and often humorous way on how our favorite shillelagh affects our thinking about so much of the worldIt's a tempting world out there. I have been around it a great deal and have seen how fragile are good intentions and how dangerous are the waters in which fidelity swims. I am convinced, for example, that every hotel in Asia is scientifically designed expressly for the purpose of getting traveling businessmen laid. I know the power of appetites and am no stranger to the cold sweats. Nor is anyone really.I read the first chapter aloud to my 16-year-old son and he was amazed to find out someone is not afraid to write about the organ that dares not speak its name and to write about exactly what he spends a lot of time thinking about. He asked to borrow my copy, but he'll have to fight my secretary for it. She wants to read it WITH her husband. "Every woman is a dick manager," O'Reilly insists.Me and my penis go back a long way and I have given serious thought to the spiritual importance of the sexual organs. I think the sexual act is, whether used for good or evil, a portal through which two peoples' spirits connect. It is the one human interaction that fully engages and unites like no other activity, both the physical and spiritual dimensions of two people.While I scored decently on O'Reilly's Gandhi-Hitler Index and the Pecer Test, I experienced discomfort in recognizing a few things about myself of which I'm not terribly proud. On the whole, these and other opportunities the author presents for self-assessment are a valuable and sobering exercise for any man.Sean O'Reilly is an amazing individual, one who combines the educational background to bring history's big thinkers approp