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...incision in the abdomen or the scrotum, two expandable balloon-like cylinders are slipped into the corpora cavernosa. The cylinders are connected by tubing to a small spherical reservoir filled with fluid (which is placed near the bladder under the muscles of the abdominal wall) and to a pump (inserted into the scrotum). To achieve erection, a man squeezes the pump several times, forcing fluid into the cylinders and distending the penis. The process is reversed by pressing a release valve on the pump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Aiding Nature | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...When you reach that pumped-up feeling, and everything's tight. The tightness of the muscle, and the pump, means that you have trained well and that it will get bigger...There's a certain high to the experience in the gymnasium, it's the same high as you would experience when you come when you have sex...It's like--the ultimate. The training is like leading up to the pump and sex is like leading up to coming." Arnold Schwarzenegger...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Attanasio wondered whether he could call himself Hercules. Despite his skinny arms and pathetic inability to lose weight over the course of two decades, Attanasio had always fancied himself a lifter of weights, had put in the hours in the cellar, yeah, pumping with the sump pump. His uncle and eponym, he knew, had once been on the cover of Muscle magazine. So let us follow Hercules as he travels with Arnold...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...When you reach that pumped-up feeling, and everything's tight. The tightness of the muscle, and the pump, means that you have trained well and that it will get bigger...There's a certain high to the experience in the gymnasium, it's the same high as you would experience when you come when you have sex...It's like--the ultimate. The training is like leading up to the pump and sex is like leading up to coming...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

George Bush advocates a $20 billion tax cut in 1981. Teddy Kennedy thinks a pump-priming cut may be necessary in 1980, but is not yet sure. John Connally wants a crowd-pleasing $50 billion to $100 billion tax reduction spread over three to five years, while Howard Baker figures a four-year time frame is about right. Both Jerry Brown and Ronald Reagan would like lower taxes and a balanced budget (who wouldn't?), but want the cuts linked to a constitutional limit on the growth of federal spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Candidates' Me-Too Ideas | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

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