Item number SCP-008 Object Class, Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-008 samples have been deemed Class 5 Extreme Biological Hazards and all related protocols apply. Incineration and irradiation measures will be deployed in the event of political or military action which may result in the facility being dismantled, a power failure, or zero communications from operatives or outside channels during any given eight hour period. The quarantine period for operatives leaving the facility is four months. If a breach has occurred, incineration and irradiation measures shall be deployed. It should be the policy of all G2 sites to not prepare an evacuation procedure. Description SCP-008 is a complex prion, samples of which are stored in each of the known G2 sites. Research into SCP-008 is highly classified and primarily aimed at preventing research which may lead to the synthesis of SCP-008 in the distant future. Traits of the SCP-008 prion include 100% infectiousness, 100% lethality, transmission through exposed mucus membranes and all bodily fluids, not airborne or waterborne. Symptoms of infection with SCP-008 manifest no more than 3 hours after exposure and include flu-like symptoms with high fever plus severe dementia in later stages. Coma onset approximately 20 hours after first symptoms appear and 12 hours after noticeable dementia. Coma onset will be considered onset of death. A period of sporadic cellular necrosis occurs which comes to resemble gangrene. Surviving tissue assumes its original function and is highly resilient. Red blood cells greatly increase oxygen storage capacity, resulting in slower blood flow and increased muscle endurance and strength. Nervous and muscular systems are unaffected by total organ failure for several hours. Metabolism may decrease to extremely low levels, allowing subject to survive for over 10 years without nutrition. High blood viscosity results in negligible blood flow from gunshot, puncture and slashing injuries.  Animals experience excessive brain necrosis and are inactive. Subject can adapt to its damaged nervous systems but is limited to basic physical activities, including standing up, balancing on two legs, walking, biting, grabbing and crawling. Subject will energetically move towards sights, sounds and smells it associates with living humans. Subject will attempt to ingest living humans if physical contact is made. Neutralizing fully infected subjects require significant cranial trauma. There is strong evidence to suggest SCP-008 itself did not form naturally on Earth, since variants of similar complexity would have displaced much of the ecosystem. In 1959, a short collaborative effort with the USSR to locate G2 sites and eliminate SCP-008 was negotiated following their discovery. The status of SCP-008 in Russian custody since collaboration ended is unknown. Addendum 008-1, SCP-500 has been found to be able to completely cure SCP-008, even in the advanced stages of the disease. Item number SCP-16, Object Class, Keter Special Containment Procedures SCP-16 is to remain within the confines of a 5x5x5 meter room at all times, maintained at a temperature not to exceed 0 degrees Celsius. SCP-16 itself is to remain in the Petri dish in the containment queue at all times, unless directed otherwise by level 4 or 05 personnel. Full documentation of experimentation with SCP-16 must be submitted before and after samples and duplicates of SCP-16 may be taken. Failure to follow these procedures will result in termination or reassignment as Class D personnel. Only authorized personnel may be permitted to obtain samples of and experiment with SCP-16 under BCL-5 containment conditions. If an outbreak does occur despite following the aforementioned procedures, directive base personnel are to implement a Code Sigma lockdown and containment plan. Infected personnel are to be terminated on-site by security forces wearing standard mission-oriented protective posture, or MOPP, anti-biological and anti-chemical equipment. Should the infection not be contained after 48 hours, the on-site nuclear device is to be detonated. Remaining personnel are not to be evacuated under any circumstances. SCP-16 has been shown to survive for up to six hours on hard surfaces and up to several minutes in air. High-intensity ultraviolet light and high concentrations of orthothelialdehyde solution have been demonstrated to be effective in disinfecting non-organic surfaces. Description. SCP-16 is a blood-borne pathogen recovered from a mine worker and... who injured himself while working in a deep coal seam. Said wound became contaminated with coal dust from the mine, possibly infecting the worker with dormant spores. Over the next several days, SCP-16 proceeded to infect the remaining employees at the mining camp, as well as the CDC crisis team dispatched to deal with the epidemic. Foundation personnel then took over the investigation and terminated all affected personnel. Patient zero was brought into captivity, and the mine shaft was collapsed by an explosive device. SCP-16 has an incubation period ranging from 24 hours to 2 years, depending on the presence and number of other human hosts in the area. First symptoms resemble the common cold and include itchy eyes, runny nose, coughing, and bodily aches. Phase 2 begins in 48 hours and consists of a controlled form of hemorrhagic fever, as the organism causes a small amount of blood to become aspirated in the lungs, creating an aerosol effect. During Phase 3, the host crashes and bleeds out, bleeding profusely from every bodily orifice, including the nose, tear ducts, anus, skin pores, mouth, urethra, and in case of females, vagina. Blood pressure skyrockets during the final stage. Hosts have been observed projectile-vomiting blood to distances of over 5 meters. Should the host survive this near-total exsanguination, the pathogen will become dormant once more, returning to incubation phase. What distinguishes SCP-16 from other strains of hemorrhagic fever, such as Ebola and Marburg, is its unusual response to high stress. Should the subject undergo a high stress situation, such as a life-threatening crisis, the organism will change its survival tactic from rapid reproduction to the rewriting of the host's DNA and stimulation of rapid cell division. Major physiological changes occur within the first 24 hours, with complete bodily reconstruction occurring within two weeks' time. Most hosts do not survive the process due to the heavy demands made on the body. Due to their similarities as fatal contagions that stimulate the production of excess organs, a possible link to SCP-1801 is under investigation. An interesting side-effect of the transformation is an increased aggressive urge. It is believed that this may be an attempt to maximize the spread of the virus in a manner similar to rabies. On another note, subjects who undergo bodily transformation no longer appear to exhibit SCP-16's hemorrhagic properties. However, subjects infected by transformed hosts will still undergo the normal SCP-16 infection process. Addendum. Experiment log of SCP-16's transformative properties. Subject D-16-1. D-class personnel infected by SCP-16. Upon first showing symptoms, subjects' quarters were slowly flooded with water over a 24-hour period. SCP-16 mutated into a teratomorphic state, transforming subjects' lungs into gills. Subjects survived for two more weeks as SCP-16 transformed its limbs into fins, caused its eyes to atrophy, and enhanced its sense of hearing into a quotation-type echolocation ability. Subject was terminated by draining all water from its quarters, causing it to asphyxiate. Body was subsequently cremated without autopsy. Subject D-16-2. D-class personnel infected by SCP-16. Upon first showing symptoms, subjects' quarters were slowly flooded with water over a 24-hour period. SCP-16 mutated into a teratomorphic state, causing subjects to undergo rapid muscular growth and increased bone growth on knuckles. Subject then attempted to escape from confinement by punching through the reinforced steel door. Subject was not successful and died by drowning. Note. Same situation, two different responses. Interesting. Subject D-16-3. D-class personnel infected by SCP-16. Subject was previously a chemical engineer who poisoned his wife upon discovering her adultery. Upon first showing symptoms, subjects' quarters were slowly flooded with water over a 24-hour period. SCP-16 mutated into a teratomorphic state, causing subjects to grow an unusual organ on his chest, consisting of a chamber and two separate tubes. Organ continued to take in water and swell in size until Foundation personnel, realizing what SCP-16 may be attempting, terminated the subject by gunshot.  Subject D-16-4. D-class personnel infected by SCP-16. Subject was told to concentrate on forming wings. No stress was applied. SCP-16 did not mutate into teratomorphic state. Subject died of exsanguination during Phase 3. Subject D-16-5. D-class personnel infected by SCP-16. Subject was told to concentrate on forming wings and placed in an acrylic box, suspended 305 meters or 1,000 feet above a mine shaft. A timer was placed outside the box, which Subject was told indicated the time to release. SCP-16 mutated into teratomorphic state, causing subject to grow a tentacle-like organ on his left wrist, similar to a spider's spinarets. Subject extended said organ through one of the box's air holes and extruded a strong silk-like substance, which it then used to secure the box to the cable. Subject was terminated when the countdown reached zero and the bomb detonated. Item number SCP-10. Object Class. Safe. Special Containment Procedures. The objects comprising SCP-10 are to be kept in numbered locked boxes in a high-security facility. They are not to be worn except by test subjects. SCP-10 are only to be removed from storage for testing. Description. SCP-10 consists of a series of six apparently identical cast-iron collars with numbered metal tags and one remote control. The control is SCP-10-1. The collars are SCP-10-2 through 10-7. The collars contain intricate electronic components and are powered by small 5-millimeter in diameter, 2-millimeter thick 100-volt batteries. These batteries are rechargeable. The remote is a heavy black box resembling an old-style handheld radio transmitter receiver with a primitive blue-and-white cathode-ray screen and a series of more than 100 unlabeled buttons as well as a frequency tuner. Through trial and error, the frequencies of all six currently found collars have been discovered. A label in Russian is stamped into the metal, along with a logo consisting of workers building a pyramid. The official Russian corporation or government agency uses this logo or matches the words stamped into the metal. Placing the collar around the neck of a person and securing it allows one to control their every movement with the remote. It is also capable of producing an adrenal response and activating or deactivating the sympathetic nervous system. The most abnormal feature of the collars is the effect they have on the body morphology. They allow the user of the remote to reconfigure the shape of the victim to an extent that is apparently only limited by the knowledge of the programming language of the remote. Addendum 10-1 History SCP-10 was discovered in the basement of a lone man in the Midwestern United States after a local disappearance was connected to him. When the police raided the man's house, they found SCP-10 as well as several dead bodies. One of the bodies was identified to be the man. The others were several other missing persons. Cause of death seemed to be mass suicide. However, there were signs of significant struggle first. Addendum 10-2 Disassemble Experiment Test 1 SCP-10-2 Taken Apart Peacewise The parts labeled and several photographs taken then reassembled. Result? After reassembly, SCP-10-2 continues to function. Test 2 SCP-10-8 constructed identically to SCP-10-2 but with the closest approximations available to the unreplicable components. Result? SCP-10-8 Fails to Function Test 3 Unreplicable components from SCP-10-2 placed into proper locations on SCP-10-8. Result? SCP-10-2 ceases functioning with removal of components. SCP-10-8 begins functioning. Test 4 Components Returned to SCP-10-2 Replicable components in SCP-10-2 replaced randomly with replicas. Result? SCP-10-2 begins functioning with return of components. Changing replicable components for replicas does not significantly reduce functionality. Replacement of a damaged transistor decreased time from transmission to effect of SCP-10-2. Response to commands entered in the remote by 12%. Addendum 10-3 SCP-10 has been demonstrated to work more effectively in creating unskilled labor than for any other task. The logo is apt. Item Number SCP-021 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-021 is an obligate parasite of the human body. Containment, therefore, is no more difficult than containing an adult human. Most cells will suffice. Item is currently housed in Detention Cell 217A on Subject D-139. Only Class D personnel are eligible for hosting SCP-021. As long as a given subject survives as a host for SCP-021, he is exempt from normal monthly terminations of Class D personnel. Description SCP-021 takes the form of a large and elaborate tattoo of a serpentine dragon in the Oriental style, covering approximately 0.8 meters squared of skin. This tattoo is fully animate within the confines of its host's skin and behaves largely as a normal animal would, albeit in only two dimensions. The tattoo's movement causes constant pain to its host, comparable and similar in character to simultaneous tattooing and tattoo removal on a large scale. The organism tends to spend most of its time on and near the torso. SCP-021 displays no intelligence beyond a basic pattern of feeding and locomotion, although actually measuring the intelligence of a two-dimensional lifeform has proven impossible thus far. SCP-021 appears to feed exclusively on pigments in the host's skin. This can include melanin, in which case the subject appears to be suffering from vitiligo. However, the organism shows a marked preference for other tattoos and will seek out and devour these before resorting to natural pigments. It should be noted that the feeding process itself, beyond the sensation of movement, is painless, normal tattooing simply vanishes as it is eaten. The organism maintains a constant size and no excretions have been observed. The organism is capable of clearing over 0.6 meters squared of skin per hour. One may feed SCP-021 by quickly tattooing fruits or small animals on the host. SCP-021 can be transferred between hosts by various forms of physical contact, with differing rates of success. In the case of successful transfer, the organism simply swims from one person to the other. Sexual intercourse appears to be the most reliable method of transfer, with a 93% rate of transmission. However, due to the severe pain involved, this is less than ideal. Contact between two open wounds is generally preferable. Transfer is more complicated than deceased subjects, though not unreasonably so. The organism suffers no ill effects from the death of its host and continues to consume pigments. Transmission between species is unknown. Previous tests suggest it to be either impossible or exceedingly rare. SCP-021 does confer some benefits to its host. The tattoo has been proven to accelerate the release and reuptake of epinephrine and decrease lactic acid buildup, providing boosts of strength, confidence, and pain tolerance in stressful situations, and reducing the usual after-effects of weakness and fatigue. In addition, the tattoo seems to have some beneficial effect on the host's immune system. Aggression profiles on hosts are generally higher than average, whether this is a direct effect of the tattoo or simply a reaction to the constant pain remains to be seen. The symbiotic relationship is usually limited by how long the host can tolerate such pain in everyday life. This has culminated in suicide in a number of subjects. In rare cases, hosts have also fallen victim to fatal skin infections. SCP-021's origins in nature are a mystery. Tracing its transmission from host to host is hardly feasible within the confines of secrecy, and the organism could well be hundreds of years old, if not more. Nevertheless, SCP-021's captivity is one of the longest in the Foundation's history at nearly data-expunged years, and has been very educational thus far. Current research focuses mainly on observing the characteristics of life in two dimensions. Object Class, Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-034 is to be kept in a secure room, with access granted only to Level 4 personnel. SCP-034 itself will be kept in a locked case that is under 24-hour surveillance. When not in lab conditions, SCP-034's protective sheath cannot be removed under any circumstances. Any personnel in contact with SCP-034 must be placed under a 24-hour observation period, until their identities can be confirmed. Description SCP-034 is a primitive knife constructed out of pure obsidian. Tests reveal that SCP-034 is approximately 1,000 years old. Despite its crude method of construction in age, SCP-034 is still incredibly sharp and requires no maintenance to retain its edge. Expert analysis hypothesizes that SCP-034 may be of South American origin, and that it may have been used in Native American rituals. Several accounts from Spanish conquistadors exploring the region support this hypothesis, with detailed writings on how priests would flay their victims alive with similar knives and wear their skin as a tribute to their gods. SCP-034 is the ability to allow its bearer to take on the appearance of another individual. If SCP-034 is used to cut a piece of flesh from a living individual, and that piece of flesh is placed against the skin of another individual, the second individual would take on not only the appearance, but all physical characteristics of the first individual. Testing has shown that the minimum amount of skin required can be as little as 1 square centimeter. However, testing has also revealed that the amount of time the transformation lasts is directly proportional to the amount of flesh used. The ratio of time the transformation lasts to flesh used has been measured at approximately 1 hour for every square centimeter used. Once the time limit is passed, the affected individual will revert to their original form. Analysis of SCP-034's ability shows that its method of mimicking another individual is nearly flawless. Not only does SCP-034 change its bearer's physical appearance, but their actual physical attributes as well, including height, weight, muscle mass, bone density, hair growth, eyesight, strength, physical medical conditions, and even DNA. The only physical traits that are not carried over in the transformation process are wounds caused by SCP-034 itself. Subjects still retain their original personality and memories while transformed. Even though the process is nearly instantaneous, taking only a few seconds, human test subjects have described the transformation process as extremely painful. Subjects also may suffer psychological trauma, depending on the extent of their physical transformation. Side effects are especially serious if the subject takes on the appearance of a person with differing gender, or with wildly different physical attributes. However, in order to function properly, the individuals who have their flesh cut off by SCP-034 must still be biologically alive to maintain the transformation.  Further details may be found in lab report 034-A. Also, SCP-034 only appears to work on human subjects. Cross-species experiments with SCP-034 have resulted in data expunged. SCP-034 came into foundation possession when an imposter disguised as Dr. Attempted to infiltrate site. The imposter was apprehended when authorities discovered the real Dr. Tied up in his home, with a large portion of his right arm skinned. Further details may be found in post interrogation report 2211. Lab report 034-A. We've decided to test several scenarios dealing with the limits of SCP-034's capabilities. Test 1. Sample taken from deceased human cadaver and applied to subject D-452. There is no observable effect. Test 2. Sample taken from D-532 and applied to D-452. D-452 successfully mimics D-532's appearance. Upon termination of D-532, D-452 immediately reverts back to original form. Test 3. Sample taken from D-433 while under a medically induced coma and applied to subject D-452. D-452 successfully mimics D-433's appearance and manages to maintain the transformation and consciousness. Test 4. Sample taken from a brain-dead medical patient who suffered a massive brain hemorrhage and applied to D-452. D-452 successfully mimics the patient's appearance but immediately loses consciousness upon transformation. D-452 does not regain consciousness until the transformation period expires. D-452 retains no memory of the event. Test 5. Sample taken from D-625 who suffered a broken arm due to a confrontation with security staff. D-452 successfully mimics D-625's appearance, including the broken arm. D-452's broken arm is remended when the transformation period expires. Test 6. Sample taken from a terminally ill medical patient and applied to D-452. The patient's terminal illness was caused by an inherent genetic defect. D-452 successfully mimics the patient's appearance as well as the patient's illness. Both the terminally ill patient and D-452 expire at the same time, after which D-452 reverts back to original form. Test 7. Sample taken from a chimpanzee and applied to D-466. D-466 experiences rapid growth of hair across their entire body. There are otherwise no other significant physical or physiological changes. Body hair disappears when the transformation period expires. Test 8. Sample taken from an Atlantic salmon and applied to D-466. There is no observable effect. Test 9. Under 05 authorization, a sample taken from SCP- is applied to D-466. D-466 exhibits extremely adverse reaction upon transformation and data expunged, resulting in significant damage to testing environment, multiple injuries among test and security staff, and the death of D-466. Testing of anomalous humanoids with SCP-034 is suspended indefinitely. Post interrogation report 2211. As per standard operating procedure, we first attempted to interrogate the prisoner via non-violent and non-invasive means. However, when such methods proved ineffective, we began to implement conventional interrogation techniques. While partially successful, we deemed it necessary to use SCP- SCP- SCP- and SCP- we managed to learn the following facts. The prisoner had extensive knowledge on the existence of the Foundation and its inner workings. The prisoner had extensive knowledge on other SCP-related agencies and groups. The prisoner was not acting under any official capacity from any government agency. The prisoner obtained SCP-034 and instructions on its operation from an unknown benefactor. The prisoner was given very specific instructions to infiltrate site and maintain his position until further notice. The prisoner had enough samples of Dr. to stay within site for days. Regrettably, the prisoner did not survive interrogation. Agent Item number SCP-040 Object Class, Euclid Containment Procedures SCP-040 is to be contained in a standard humanoid containment module within Bio Research Area 12. The chamber is to be connected to an airborne tranquilizer dispersal system to be activated in the event of SCP-040 manifesting its properties outside of testing environments. The chamber is to be observed by two supervisory personnel at all times. Several items such as toys, games, and art supplies may be provided to SCP-040 at the discretion of supervisory personnel. As they have been determined to pose no possible threat, SCP-040-1A, SCP-040-1C, and SCP-040-1J have been approved to remain in the containment chamber with SCP-040 for purposes of the subject's mental well-being. Security Chief Special Order 392-5 All other entities modified by SCP-040 are to be disposed of after recovery and study, according to standard biological specimen clearance protocols, as outlined in document CDP-BIOEN-1. No outside organisms are to be brought into SCP-040's presence beyond those used in testing procedures. SCP-040 is to undergo daily school lessons and bi-weekly psychological review, overseen by doctors Abernathy, Logan, and Izawa. Description SCP-040 is a Caucasian female of approximately eight years of age, standing one meter in height. SCP-040 bears numerous physical abnormalities. The subject's skin is highly sensitive to light and easily damaged by physical contact, and the subject's hair is a bright pink in coloration. This hair is brittle and falls out easily. The subject displays green and yellow heterochromia with the sclera of the left eye black in coloration. SCP-040 has no sight in this eye. SCP-040's emotional state is within acceptable boundaries for an individual of its age group, accounting for the effects of prolonged containment and physical abnormalities. Subject's intelligence is slightly above average for its age group, and displayed behavior is generally cooperative. Of note is SCP-040's quicker climatization to containment, believed to be resultant of its upbringing before recovery. SCP-040 is capable of manipulating living matter, mutating and modifying existing organisms in order to create new ones, collectively referred to as SCP-040-1. This effect is at will, but requires significant focus and time to enact, and becomes increasingly unreliable and inaccurate when manipulating details through small-scale modifications. SCP-040 is incapable of altering microscopic organisms, and has great difficulty in altering plant life. Dead organic matter may also be used, but must be used in conjunction with a living organism. Instances of SCP-040-1 will not demonstrate pre-modification behavior. The majority will act similar to domesticated house pets, generally with extreme loyalty to SCP-040, regardless of prior association. The appearance of SCP-040-1 instances will vary. Some instances will retain overall pre-modification form with some alteration, such as SCP-040's apparent modification to itself, though the majority will bear no resemblance to their original appearances. SCP-040 appears incapable of manipulating instances of SCP-040-1 more than once. Recovery Log Subject was recovered on ● 2000 in ● SCP-040 was one of 15 subjects taken into custody. Further investigation found no anomalous properties in any other individuals. Amnestics were administered to detainees in the general populace, and cover-up measures were enacted without further incident. Monitoring of the area is ongoing, in order to detect any resurgence of ●. Addendum 1 SCP-040 is currently allowed custody of the following SCP-040-1 instances. SCP-040-1A A polymorphic symbiotic organism, capable of changing size, shape, color, and texture in reaction to its environment. Subject serves as outer clothing, similar to a jacket or sweater, and absorbs nutrients from SCP-040's bloodstream. Subject was recovered alongside SCP-040, and genetic testing reveals that the subject shares the majority of its genetic makeup with the common house cat, Phyllis Catus. SCP-040-1C A spherical organism, capable of flight by means of rubbery bladders filled with helium. Entity has 11 limbs terminating in opposable digits, and a complex respiratory system, capable of replicating a wide variety of musical patterns. SCP-040-1J A quadrupedal organism, covered in a thick coat of pink and blue fur. Entity has no eyes, a broad mouth with blunt teeth, and is capable of climbing up vertical surfaces, occasionally used by SCP-040 as a mode of transportation. Addendum 2 The following excerpt is from an interview carried out on... ...2000... ...3 weeks after initial containment. Dr. Habernathy, good morning, 40. SCP-040. Good morning, Ms. Habernathy. Dr. Habernathy, it's good to see that you're getting over your cold. SCP-040. Dr. Habernathy, can I ask you a few questions before we start with today's lesson? SCP-040. Yeah. Dr. Habernathy, can you tell me about your parents? SCP-040. Mr. Green said that I don't have any. Dr. Habernathy, can you tell me about Mr. Green then? SCP-040. He was nice, but he wasn't very good at talking. He would, would, would always talk like this, but he wasn't there a lot of the time. Most of the time it was the nurses looking after us. Dr. Habernathy. And what did they do for you? SCP-040. They'd play games with us and teach us things, and sometimes they would make us wear these dumb helmets and sit quiet for a long time. Sometimes they'd put a movie on for us if we behaved, but if we were bad they would lock us in our rooms. Dr. Habernathy, can you tell me anything else? SCP-040. Hmm. They always served us peas for dinner, and I hate peas, so I always gave mine to five, because she liked peas, but I think green beans are better. Addendum 3. On- 2003. SCP-040 successfully reanimated a deceased human body during testing, using three specimens of brown rat, ratus norvegicus, as the required living component.  SCP-040 was highly distressed by the event, and refused further testing for the next three weeks. Item number. SCP-051. Object Class. Safe. Special Containment Procedures. SCP-051 and SCP-051-A are to be kept in a sealed containment facility. SCP-051-A is kept within a locked climate controlled document box with a viewing window, to prevent degradation of its material. Any personnel, with the exception of pregnant or non-steraile female personnel, who might not be aware of an early stage pregnancy, may access SCP-051, as long as a request is placed beforehand and cleared by Site Administration. Description. SCP-051 is a 25 centimeter, or 10 inch, anatomically correct model of a human female, carved out of ivory, with typically Asian features. Microscopic analysis shows that the head hair is human hair. The doll is jointed at the shoulders, hips, and knees. The stomach area of the doll is fully removable as a cap of ivory, exposing a detailed ribcage and organs, and a 2.5 centimeter or one inch ivory fetus, connected to the main figure by a leather cord umbilicus. When brought into the presence of a pregnant human female, SCP-051 has various deleterious effects upon the pregnancy, generally resulting in miscarriage of the fetus. Reports include a gentle compulsion to handle the model, open its stomach cap, and take out the fetus. This results in nausea and cramping within 5 minutes, vaginal bleeding that begins as spotting, and may progress to hemorrhage within the next half hour, and miscarriage within 2-24 hours in most recorded cases. Medical records indicate that the aborted fetus is bare moderate to severe defects. Pregnancies carried to term after exposure to the model have resulted in severely deformed live births, including deaths of the mothers, and infants terminated after birth by the delivering physician. Witnesses to these live births show signs of severe emotional trauma that was alleviated after foundation interviews by administration of a class A amnestic. SCP-051-A is a fragment of text on rice paper that was discovered with SCP-051. The surviving text is written with plant-derived ink, test-dated to the 12th century, and the characters have been identified as a known early dialect of Japanese. Translation reveals the text is part of a prayer or spell against demons that attack unborn babies. The incantation orders these forces or demons into the model, instead of a pregnant woman, and claims to trap them there. However, centuries have degraded the paper and ink, so that the full incantation and instructions, if any, cannot be deciphered. SCP-051 and SCP-051-A were discovered in a box of early Japanese artifacts, delivered anonymously to the World Museum in 1938. After 60 years and a number of incidents resulting from contact by female secretaries, researchers, and students, an agent on staff in the museum's archives learned of its properties and obtained it for foundation study. Interview 051-1 Interviewed Dr. David Ehrenfeld Interviewer Agent- Forward Dr. Ehrenfeld was the attending physician at the death of Martha R. on January 2nd, 1942. This interview was conducted off-site, as Dr. Ehrenfeld was a resident of a nursing facility.  A class AM nestic was administered after the interview. Begin log. Interviewer, thank you for seeing me, doctor. Dr. Ehrenfeld, you are welcome. I have outlived most people who would care to hear such stories. Then again, they surely would have thought I was telling lies or slipping into dementia. Now, you may think the same, but at my age, I do not care. Interviewer, can you tell me what you remember of the events of January 2nd, 1942? Dr.  It can be a wonderful city sometimes, but winter is a bad season. It was late in the evening when my housekeeper told me I had been called. I was tired, but a birth is always a wonderful experience. I thought it would cheer me. It had a nurse with me, but the girl never came back to my office after that night. Fifteen minutes perhaps for the cab to reach the museum from my house? I'm not certain, but I think so. The doorman was waiting for me. He led me to the room where they had poor Mrs. R laid out on a low table covered with some canvas ground cloths, I think, to make her more comfortable. Interviewer, what was her condition when you arrived? Dr. Ehrenfeld, thinking back now I should have realized it was very bad. When I was young and had not much experience, she was quiet and only grunted with each contraction. She did not respond when I checked her vital signs and spoke to her. She did not even look at me. There was quite a bit of blood. A gush of it covered my hands as I reached down to begin helping her with the birth. The floor was slick with it underneath her, and the baby had not crowned yet. She was dilated well. The contractions were quite close together and this made me fear she may have been having a breech birth. I showed a calm face though. I did not want to panic my nurse or the researcher Dr. Merrill who was nearby, a dignified older man I believe I wanted to impress him. Interviewer, and then doctor? Dr. Ehrenfeld, I was concerned because of all the blood that her life was in danger. I told her to push and she was pushing and my nurse helped her putting downward pressure on the abdomen as I attempted to manually aid the infant's emergence. I will spare you the details of a breech breath procedure. The baby found at any obstetrics manual of the time. I probed blindly and felt, well I thought it was a coil of the umbilicus, perhaps tangled around the baby's neck. I almost withdrew thinking that an episiotomy would be required. But she tore before I could proceed. There was more blood and the baby began to emerge into my hands. I had never seen such a thing. You were a researcher. Do you know much of the common cephalic birth defects? This was uncommon. I thought at first the infant must be stillborn. Its flesh was gray, not the vernex covered gray of a normal birth, but lifeless and degraded, the smell of decay. I recoiled and the poor mother screamed on her last push and the infant was delivered into my arms with a great rush of hemorrhage. The deformity, unspeakable. The thoracic cavity was completely open, the limbs. Interviewer, but it wasn't a stillbirth. Dr. Ehrenfeld, it looked at me. I heard the nurse above me, beginning resuscitation attempts. Then heard her gasp and falter as she saw what I held. Gagging as the smell filled the room. I tried to drop the creature, but it clung to my hands. I felt my skin begin to blister and crack. Strange how clearly I can remember it. At my age sometimes I cannot even remember what I had for dinner. The infant was almost double the length of a normal viable fetus at eight months. Its lower body, segment. Interviewer, what did you do then? Dr. Ehrenfeld, it began to laugh and I killed it. I broke its neck while it looked at me. Interviewer, were there ever any questions or consequences? Dr. Ehrenfeld, in 1942 with the country at war and two respected professional men to give their testimony? No, the museum building had a furnace. I disposed of the infant's body myself. We claimed some more normal defect had taken the lives of mother and child. The husband was a drunkard and cared for nothing but her life insurance policy. I believe he was drafted shortly thereafter and died somewhere in France. And I left my practice almost immediately. I never delivered another child. End log. Closing statement, Dr. Ehrenfeld expired four months later of pneumonia. Item number SCP-059 Object Class Keter Special Containment Procedures A single specimen of SCP-059 is kept at Site-11B inside a graded Z laminate shielding box composed of depleted uranium, tantalum, tin, steel, copper, and aluminum. Surrounding SCP-059's containment box is a 7 meter by 7 meter by 7 meter area sealed as a level 4 biohazard area and surrounded by 3 centimeters of lead shielding. This area is to be sprayed daily with a solution of methyl isothiocyanate to prevent overgrowth of SCP-059-1. Personnel entering an SCP-059 affected area are cautioned to wear appropriate biohazard protection as well as Type K-59-B radiation shielding. They are to remain in the area for no more than 15 minutes as the radiation shielding is only partially effective. SCP-059-1 infestations found in the wild should be contained by removing the SCP-059 specimen responsible and incineration of all observed SCP-059-1. Large underground infestations are best neutralized by fuel air thermobaric explosives. Additional specimens of SCP-059 are not needed for experimentation and should be transported to Site 11B for incineration by plasma arc at 10,000 Kelvin. Description SCP-059 is a radioactive mineral of unknown origin, superficially resembling she-light. A component of SCP-059 is believed to originate in an alternate universe and to be responsible for its anomalous properties. In addition to alpha, beta, and gamma radiation, SCP-059 specimens produce a previously unknown type of radiation. Apparently unique to the object, tentatively designated delta radiation. Delta radiation is accompanied by Charankal radiation, visible as a blue glow. Delta radiation is only partially contained by standard radiation shielding. The best results have been obtained using grade-Z laminate shielding with an additional super-dense metal layer. This reduces the effective range of delta radiation from approximately 20 meters to approximately 6 meters. When an area is exposed to delta radiation for more than 15 minutes, an unknown species of fungus designated SCP-059-1 begins to grow on any exposed surface. This fungus does not require any standard nutrition but will die within 24 hours of removal from a delta radiation source. SCP-059-1 is itself radioactive but does not emit delta radiation. However, if a critical mass of SCP-051-1 is allowed to grow, delta radiation from an unknown source other than SCP-059 will appear in the area, further supporting SCP-059-1's growth. Interested readers may consult Dr. Brown for his theories of space-time stress and merger of alternate realities. Within 18 hours, the infected mass will become transparent and disappear, presumably into the universe that is a source of delta radiation. The process then continues with SCP-059-1 infecting new material. SCP-059-1 will infest both living beings and inanimate objects. Humans and animals infected with SCP-059-1 become immune to the effects of ionizing radiation but progressively merge with SCP-059-1 and eventually have all tissues replaced by fungal growth. While generally nonviolent, they will attempt to expose unaffected individuals to SCP-059. SCP-059-1 infections do not appear to be directly contagious but only spread by contact with delta radiation. However, long-term exposure to SCP-059-1 has not been adequately tested to rule out considering it a biohazard, as well as a known radiation hazard. Infected individuals still capable of communication describe seeing a world entirely covered with SCP-059-1 where much of the surface is composed of SCP-059. It is unclear whether this is a hallucination or a view into the source of SCP-059. Infectees are generally pleased with their condition and often refer to being in the blue light of heaven. SCP-059-1 is affected by most fungicides but new growth will continue as long as SCP-059 is present. Early stage SCP-059-1 infection in humans may be treated with Griseo-Fulvin. However, the treatment is 90% likely to lead to death by radiation poisoning. Treated individuals lose their immunity to radiation and will already have absorbed a now lethal dose prior to treatment. Late stage treatment should not be attempted as too much tissue will already be converted to SCP-059-1. The remains of failed treatment should be kept out of range of SCP-059. Otherwise, data expunged. SCP-059 specimens have been discovered in eight different underground locations across a range of 5,000 km. No pattern has emerged for their appearance. Specimens range from 1 to 10 kg in size and are not part of the normal rock formations in the areas where they have been found. Addendum. Dr. P. has recorded and analyzed the patterns of radiation emitted by the contained SCP-059-1 colony and believes SCP-059-1 may be sapient and attempting to communicate via controlled emissions of radiation. Initial attempts to analyze this language reveal data expunged. Item number. SCP-065 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures As SCP-065 cannot be moved, it has been contained on site and site has been established around it. Said site has been marked as a government research facility off limits to civilians and unauthorized individuals attempting to gain access to the area are to be detained, questioned and administered a Class-AM nest to give deem necessary by site security. An area 17 meters in radius around the center of SCP-065 has been designated the red zone. Personnel may not enter the red zone of SCP-065 at any time. An experimentation with SCP-065 may only be performed with prior approval from at least two Level 3 senior research staff. Personnel at high risk of cancer must not be assigned to site while site personnel must undergo mandatory monthly physical evaluations including cancer screenings. Description SCP-065 is a spherical region of space approximately 12 meters in radius located on a farm near an undisclosed location. SCP-065 was formed by the destruction of an anomalous artifact on site by the Global Occult Coalition. Immediately following this initial event the radius of SCP-065 was estimated to have initially expanded to 108 meters in radius resulting in the deaths of 11 GOC operatives and 5 civilians. Since containment by the Foundation the effective radius of SCP-065 has shrunk to and remained stable at its current size. SCP-065 causes abnormal transfiguration of any living organism within its area of effect. These effects include but are not limited to regression of specialized cells to an undifferentiated stem state, spontaneous separation and fusion of undifferentiated cells, spontaneous necrosis of living tissue and reanimation of dead tissue, rapid genetic mutation of living tissue. These effects occur at a rate proportional to the mass and complexity of the organism. Plants and insects show few if any effects. Small animals will exhibit alterations following several days of exposure, larger animals will show harmful mutations within hours and all human subjects exposed to the red zone have been fatally altered within approximately 15 minutes of exposure. To date, all attempts at directly observing the center of SCP-065 have failed as SCP-065 causes a form of extreme sensory confusion in all observers that extends to recording equipment. Affected personnel have reported highly distorted vision and hearing that persists for several hours and can result in severe dizziness and nausea. Addendum 065-1 Researcher Note Onward, a robotic rover designed to use somatosensor rather than visual or acoustic navigation managed to reach the center of SCP-065 and retrieve several objects. When pieced back together, these objects appeared to be the shattered fragments of a stone figurine of Cocopelli, a Native American fertility deity. Along with pre-incident data obtained from the Global Occult Coalition, it appears that this artifact has been used by the civilian family to boost the yield of their farm and only came to the attention of the GOC when an investigation by the United States Department of Agriculture revealed genetic markers in their supposed organic crops, consistent with those of genetically modified organism, or GMO, crops. The GOC attempted an on-site destruction of this artifact, resulting in the creation of SCP-065. Following this incident, the GOC contacted a foundation liaison and requested assistance in containing the resultant anomaly. Addendum 065-2 The following document was recovered from the formerly civilian-owned farmhouse at Scythia. John, I heard things aren't going so well back at home. I wish I could come back and help right now, but it's tough over here right now as well, and we're on the verge of some important discoveries. I know it's not much, but I found this during the trip. The man who gave it to me described it as, a representation of that which is, and that which might be, planted by the cornfield, and hopefully it will help make ends meet. See you soon. G Item number SCP-113 Object Class Safe Special Containment Procedures SCP-113 is to be kept in standard storage in Site-23. SCP-113 may be handled with laboratory gloves. No organism may be exposed to SCP-113 without prior approval. Personnel exposed to SCP-113 are to be kept under medical observation for seven days. Description SCP-113 resembles a small, polished piece of red jasper. Analysis shows that SCP-113 is not composed of jasper, but composition similar to that of other recovered objects. When SCP-113 comes in direct contact with the flesh of an organism possessing sex chromosomes, the organism's physical characteristics associated with gender and biological sex are transformed, including genetics and secondary sexual characteristics, either reversed or altered. This process occurs in four stages. Stage 1 Lasts approximately 0.2 seconds. SCP-113 bonds with the cells that it touches and induces an unidentified chemical change. This process causes tissue damage similar to mild burns, and SCP-113 cannot be removed from contact with the subject until all stages complete. Stage 2 Lasts approximately 20 seconds. SCP-113 emits a low-intensity electromagnetic wave which travels through the subject's body. Subjects may experience nausea and vomiting, along with a stinging sensation throughout the body. Stage 3 Lasts approximately 60 seconds. Throughout this stage, the subject's cellular makeup is temporarily transformed. Altered cell composition ranges widely from being unidentifiable as human to a unique variation of partially differentiated stem cells. The subject will experience intense stimulation of all sensory nerves during the final 20 seconds of this stage, as part of the process as extremely painful. Subjects in poor health may die of shock in this stage. At the end of this stage, the subject's biological sex is permanently altered. In standard cases, the subject's biological sex will be changed to the opposite biological sex. All primary and secondary sexual characteristics are altered accordingly. Stage 4 SCP-113 disengages from the subject and becomes inert.  In human-intersex subjects, this appears to be influenced by gender identity. Such subjects may be unaffected, or their bodies may change to match baseline male or female bodies with sex chromosomes to match, or other results may occur. Usually, change seems to match or partially match subjects' gender identity during initial use, if gender identity is non-standard. Whether SCP-113 alters its effect based on the presence of a non-standard gender identity is under investigation. Gender identity of human subjects is not typically altered by SCP-113. In subjects with non-standard gender identities, typically gender identities which do not match their pre-exposure biological sex, this usually results in positive psychological effects. In subjects with standard gender identities, male and female matching pre-exposure biological sex, psychological effects are usually negative. These appear to be natural psychological reactions, and not an anomalous effect of SCP-113. SCP-113 exposure results in unusual effects in certain species. In Verona's Komodoensis, the Komodo Dragon, a number of ZW-ZZ individuals were transformed to possess WW chromosomes instead of ZZ or ZW, which was in every instance fatal. In Scenarabditus elegans, anemotode, no males were produced despite C. elegans having two sexes, hermaphrodite and male. Male subjects became hermaphrodites, and hermaphrodite subjects were unaffected. Note, in wild populations, male C. elegans are extremely rare. Subjects of single sex hermaphroditic species, such as earthworms, will not be transformed by SCP-113. The object's process will stop at the second stage, and the object will become inert. Previously exposed subjects may undergo SCP-113's effects again by reinitiating contact with SCP-113 after approximately 60 seconds have passed. However, in 25% of cases, immediate second exposure to SCP-113 fails to transform the subject correctly. Transformation failure varies in nature, but usually includes massive bone, organ, and tissue damage to the subject, as well as partial or complete obliteration of genitalia. This commonly results in death by organ trauma or internal bleeding. Failure rate can be affected by subjects not coming into contact with SCP-113 for a lengthy period of time, which varies by subject. Patterns are under research. Under normal circumstances, transformation failure rate increases exponentially upon multiple exposures. Subjects who survive rapid, repeated exposure are eventually transformed data-expunged. Further anomalous elements continue to appear as exposure count increases. Lesson complete. To continue with your orientation training, subscribe to SCP Orientation right now and make sure you don't miss any of our upcoming videos.


Men who do this attract the best women. And I'm gonna answer this question right now and it is the men who love themselves. And I'll talk about what that looks like in a moment, what it looks like when a man genuinely loves himself and you're gonna love this answer, okay, or this presentation, okay? Now really quickly, I am not talking about narcissistic men. You know, narcissists was a gentleman back in ancient times who looked at his reflection in narcissists, looked at his reflection in a pond and loved himself.  But we're not gonna talk about that. We're gonna talk about what it takes for a man to really reach this place. And quite frankly, we're talking about women who are in this space as well. Now really quickly, before I get into this, I just wanna draw attention and I'm gonna rant for a moment about masculine and feminine energy because there's a lot of conversations associated with high quality men having the masculine energy and high value women who have the feminine energy and they're selling you on a narrative that isn't quite right. So I think their design is the people that rant about this is you take men who have leadership skills and character and you put them together with women who are agreeable and receptive with character. And this is just going to naturally work out between the two of you. So you ladies need to find that masculine energy man and the men need to find those agreeable, receptive women. Okay, women need to find those leadership type men and men need to find those agreeable, receptive women. See, the challenge with this narrative is excludes an important factor when it comes to understanding people, particularly in midlife and my audience is midlife which is after baby making years and before retirement. So if you're roughly between the ages of 42 and 69 that's the demographic I speak to and within that demographic is a significantly dysfunctional group of human beings. Okay, I go on to say, most humans are rather broken. Relationship skills for most humans are in the toilet because we're swimming in a sea of dysfunctionality. Most importantly, most everybody is lacking what it takes to attract this man or this man to attract this great woman is self love. So let's dive into this really quickly. I just want to, well, I'm going to dive into self love in a second but let me just give you examples of brokenness. Okay, somebody is going through a contentious divorce. Somebody who has a contentious ex that is going to be a problematic person or that's going to be a problematic circumstances in a person's life that oftentimes creates a lot of discourse for a person. So to the extent that this might, it doesn't necessarily make this person broken but their capacity to fully commit to a relationship makes it rather difficult. Okay, if somebody is going through a contentious space in their professional life, maybe they have issues with their health. Okay, this makes that very difficult for these people to enter into a healthy, happy relationship. But what makes most people broken in midlife is that their childhood wounds and traumas begin to bubble up in the surface. In other words, within a relationship, most likely the cause for, by the way, roughly about 75% of singles over 45 years old are most likely divorced. So there's usually a reason that caused this divorce is that it was most likely not a very healthy relationship that two people didn't have good relationship skills. And so when you put these people back in the dating marketplace and it's going to be problematic. And then typically since divorces are contentious, this leads to adult traumas that happen in their lives. Now many of you know I'm a big advocates advocate for doing inner work, particularly healing childhood wounds and traumas. This is why I constantly recommend a book. The book is called The Hoffman Process, The Hoffman Process. This is a deep dive into healing childhood wounds and traumas. By the way, in the show description, if you hit the description, you'll see Jonathan recommended books. All the books I recommend today will be in there. And why I recommend reading this for yourself so you can become that best woman and why I invite you to really do your job vetting a man in the early stage of dating to make sure that he has the capacity to love himself as I'm gonna describe in a moment. And if you need some support with that, by the way, there's a link to schedule a discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you. My whole area of expertise is all centered around discernment and vetting. In other words, before you give your heart to someone, you better ask the questions related to your personality to determine if he's a good fit for you. And in the show notes again is a link to schedule a discovery call with me. Okay, so self love is about being an emotional grownup, but more importantly, self love represents your character as a human being, your character. And this is true for men and this is true for women as well. So when the title says men do this to attract the best women, we're talking about the best women do this and the best men do this, okay? So let's lean into this conversation for a moment. What it looks like to be with this best person, I'm gonna have to pull out my notes, but number one, their actions consistently match their words, their actions consistently match their words. Now that's not gonna suggest people might have foibles in their life. I was having a discussion in my private group today where a man's dating profile said he was 59 and she did a Google search and found out he was 61.  He's untrustworthy. Okay, humans, listen, somebody's fudging by a couple of years is because they wanna be in the search algorithms, okay? And hopefully this person fesses up to that and that shows their level of integrity. But when we're talking about actions matching their words, we're talking about they say they're gonna call, they're gonna call. If they're going to meet you for a date, they meet you for a date, okay? This is actions matching their words. Now, we're all going to have moments where we can't consistent. We can't do it always, but there's a consistency and that demonstrates a level of self-love and character.  A Journey of Personal Development, Self-Open Spiritual Work. We'll talk about this in a moment as well. There's a link below. Okay, these men who love themselves and have great character, they are generous and kind. They have a generous spirit. They have a kind spirit about them. You see it the way they tip people, maybe at a restaurant or how they greet people. Certainly when a man pays for a date, that's coming from a place of generosity, but that's not the only space of generosity. We can gauge people's generosity. We see it in how they operate in their life. Are they generous to other people? Are they generous to you? Are they generous to themselves? And I don't mean in excess, I just mean does a person have a balanced life of being kind and generous to human beings? Okay, the next one, this is critically important. They communicate clearly without wanting to be right. Okay, people who love themselves, people who have good relationship skills, they don't argue their point as if they are right. A healthy person, when they communicate, they communicate but they also have listening skills. They listen to your point of view. They acknowledge your point of view and they validate your point of view. And while they might have a different point of view in their life, okay, we can agree to disagree. It is not about being right, it is about being happy. I can tell you men and women. You girls are no picnic either. Well, please forgive the girl's reference. You ladies are no different. You have a capacity of saying I'm right and wrong, but I'm not here to suggest you should be gaslit either. Okay, this is not about somebody else's point of view of being right, it's about recognizing that we all look at the world through different lenses. Oh, here's lenses, right? And it's a prism and so you can turn, you can look at something and see the color blue, but you might see the color royal blue. People's, the context people look at things can be radically different from another person's point of view. You see a person who loves themselves, a person with character, they communicate clearly without being right, okay? Number four, they don't use people. They are very clear about commitment. Now this is related to those that are in the dating marketplace. They're very clear about commitment. It isn't a passive thing. It isn't like, oh, let's just see where it goes. I need to take it slow. I just want it casual. People of good character, people that love themselves and they clearly know they want a life partner, they have a long-term mating strategy, not a short-term mating strategy. A short-term mating strategy for some men and women is, hey, look, we connect on the bandwagon of chemistry. In fact, if you haven't seen my relationship iceberg chart, this might be your first time if it's a repeat, okay? They focus highly on chemistry, attraction. Those are people who have a short-term mating strategy. And then they pray to God that they share the same values, that their lifestyles are blendable and that they have the emotional maturity and relationship skills. When they're focused here, that's a short-term mating strategy, whereas when they're focused here, they have a long-term mating strategy and they're very clear about commitment. And men know, by the way, ladies roughly within 90 days of dating someone and provided that they've seen each other on average two times a week during this 90-day period. So roughly they physically have been in each other's orbit at least 24 times. Most men know whether or not they see you as long-term potential or short-term potential. And let me be clear. Emotionally healthy men who love themselves who have good character know this. The problem is we're swimming in a sea of dysfunctionality. The three active people who are dating today, the three types of people actively dating today, they're called users. And that's roughly 20%. Then there's the spenders and then the grower and builders. The users, they seek short-term gain, love bombers, players, gold diggers, entitled people, selfish people, only caring about their needs. And then, by the way, this is not a fact, this is merely an opinion, okay? The spenders, they seek companionship, connection, coupling, sex, no direction, uncertain, fearful, they have a dysfunctional life and the builders and growers, these seek long-term commitment, they are emotionally grown up, they have good relationship skills. See, when we're talking about, if you want to be with this type of grower and builder, and it's only about 20% of the population, that's just my opinion, 20% of the people in the active dating marketplace, excuse my slurping and my coffee mug says, don't make me go all psycho roommate on you. Those know that I have a passion and much like a preacher sitting up and I'm yelling at the top of my lungs, it's because I'm passionate about this, not because I'm just yelling. Men who are grower and builders are clear about commitment, they know about this within 90 days, most likely you're with a spender, that's your, you're with a user or a spender, those dysfunctional people that have clinical or might have clinical issues. See, it's your job to be your ladies, it's your job to advocate for your needs, wants and desires. This is why chapter one in my book, speak your truth, deal with kindness. And if you do so, and if it's sincere and from the heart, you can't say the wrong thing to the right person when you're speaking from the heart. So if you genuinely in your heart want to feel safe, then it requires asking the deeper questions to build trust and we'll talk about trust in a moment.  They have balance in their life, but more importantly, they have self-control. Folks, I'm gonna tell you something, it took me a long time for me to reach this place. When I was in the active, when I was going through my divorce back in the 2000, what was it, seven-ish right around that time is when I got divorced, 2007, I didn't have self-control. When I felt strong chemistry for a woman, all it took was alcohol and there was sex. I had no self-control in those early stages after my divorce, alcohol, sex. In fact, I was doing drugs just to get through the day because I was emotionally a broken man. I was a train wreck. One of the reasons why I know this type of man so clearly is because I was that type of person. It's why I coach women like warning, warning, warning, Will Robinson, Will Robinson, warning. Does anyone remember Lost in Space back in the 60s? See, I recognize that I didn't have self-control. See, chemistry is a powerful drug. It is like crack cocaine, or heroin, okay?   I've never experienced this before. I can't wait till we go on vacation. Yadi, yadi, yadi, yadi, yadi. I didn't have self-control then. Now I recognize, by the way, even when I get excited, I might slightly fall into a category of being overly enthusiastic. That's called limerence, but I'm not driven by the lust bug, yet a lot of dysfunctional men are. Okay, the next one, they have healed from their past relationships. Oh my God, we are swimming, for those of us in midlife, the average person has a divorce and a relationship under their belt. And I gotta tell you, a significant percentage, I'm spitting, significant percentage of people haven't healed from their past relationships. They're reliving the trauma over and over and over again. You ladies know, many of you have experienced maybe a narcissistic personality in your life, and many of you have been traumatized by it. And certainly men have as well in their past relationships, and they're still either clinging on to the past relationship, or they gave that person their power. And they haven't healed in such a place where they're in their divine essence. These people that love themselves and have good character, they are introspective, they work on themselves to grow beyond their limitations, their wounds and traumas. Oh my God, I would say I invested a minimum of 30 minutes to an hour each day, doing inner work, reading all the books I recommend, listening to podcasts, to heal those places inside of me that are still in fear. It takes a tremendous amount of awareness and introspection to absolutely be in a state of trust. See, it's all about trust, and we're gonna talk about trust in a moment, but trusting oneself and people that are introspective and do work to heal are in a better space to trust themselves. Now, the next two are critically important. So stick around for this, men who do this attract the best women. And this is true for men and women alike. These are people who I have a protective nature, protective and empathetic nature, meaning they care about their partners, they truly care about their partners' feelings.   And while we might have selfless acts, we can be very self-centric, particularly in the early stage of the dating. Dating isn't about what I can give, it's about what I can get from another person for the most part, generally speaking. And we care about our own needs because when we're broken, all we know is to take care of our own needs. That's when you're broken, you need to heal. When you love yourself or loving yourself, you can actually then give to another human being and genuinely care about this other person's feelings. And by the way, caring about the other person's feelings, coming back to self-control, particularly for men. Hey, you're putting, by the way, true chivalry is putting a woman not above you or below you, true chivalry is like I'm gonna be mindful of my actions because my actions have consequences if I'm out of integrity. Folks, if you're not familiar with the book, the four agreements, I highly recommend checking this out. But I'm gonna tell you something, a man who's protective and empathetic, he genuinely cares about your feelings, he operates from a place of integrity. This is what chivalry is all about, it's like going, I know my impulse to be selfish selfish could have consequences on another person. Folks, it used to be some hundred years ago, or not a hundred, yeah, but a while back, you know, if a young boy came to a young girl's house for a date, the dad would have a shotgun pointed out the guy's face or maybe the brother or the uncle would and say, what's your intentions with my sister? There was a consequence for bad behavior and today there are no consequences for being out of integrity. If there were, we'd have everybody in jail, okay? Okay, the last piece I wanna lean into, they believe demonstrating trust is paramount in their life, meaning when they partner with someone, trust isn't just about fidelity, trust is, coming back to what I said before, this other person's feelings is on equal footing as my own feelings. In other words, I always have this best person interest at heart without compromising my own interest without being a doormat, without putting someone on a pedestal or putting someone below me.  And this is when men do this, they attract the best women. The problem today is we are in, we are swimming in a sea of casual relationships. We are swimming in a sea of casual relationships. See, cause something's missing today and you gotta stick around for this because you gotta hear this. This is probably one of my best videos if I'm gonna toot my own horn for a second because this is paramount. See, today casual relationships are all self-serving relationships. And usually one person gets hurt in this because it's missing this one element. And that is all in. Like I'm all in this relationship. I am all in. Those people are afraid to go all in. They've been hurt multiple times in their life and they're afraid to go all in. And sadly women go all in by giving their power away to man because the masculine is supposed to lead and the feminine is supposed to sit back in their feminine energy and let the man claim them.  And what I mean to say is when we're swimming in a sea of dysfunctionality your job ladies in particular you are in charge of your relationship destiny not the guy. And it requires two people being all in. This is why I created my private coaching. So I mean, I just got invited I just got invited by a woman to walk her down the aisle based on my work because her mother and father are no longer here. I am blessed to be an advocate particularly for discernment and vetting people. That's where my again schedule a discovery call if you wanna change your love life whether it's working with me or another coach I invite you to do the work so you can be prepared to attract this type of person but more importantly how to weed through the landmines of all the wrong people. By the way, I want everyone to think about this dating for a second. Actually was contemplating this in the shower this morning back when I used to be insurance sales we used to do something called cold calling in other words, we'd grab a telephone book and call people on the telephone book. These were cold leads, okay? Just like, just like dating apps just like where's this dating app? By the way, does anyone recognize this dating app? You know, I'm not on Bumble by the way but you know what? These are cold leads. It's just like telemarketing your chances for success are one in a thousand. See the job is to create warm leads by physically putting yourself out there. I'll be attending Allison Armstrong's event at the end of October 2023 in Los Angeles. I am physically putting myself out there. I'm going to events. I invite you all to generate more warm leads that have a greater chance for success out in the real world because the reality is is the dating apps are so riddled with dysfunctionality, the likelihood is very slim. And if you want to attract the best person then it's time to put yourself out there. Is this sinking in? Is this resonating? Please let me know if it is. And you're watching the replay. Post a comment below. I'd like to hear your thoughts on any of these subjects. Also, if you liked this video please hit the like button. Please share this video. Please subscribe to my channel. Hit the notification bell so you can be notified of new videos as well. All right, those who know my format know I'm going to ask questions. If you have a question, write the word question then post the question there after or you can purchase a Super Sticker Super Chat. All the monies from the Super Sticker Super Chat goes and there's a little dollar sign in the chat box. All the monies go to a scholarship fund in the name of my son Connor Asley. That's a picture of them right there. He's my son who passed away five years ago and his honor I donate to causes like the Hoffman Process Insight Institute and Seeds of Love as well. So for those that can't afford those, I donate so it goes into their scholarship fund. So it's coming from the Connor Asley fund into their fund. And by the way, Connor Asley is not a true fund.  So again, hit that dollar sign or purchase a Super Sticker Super Chat. All right, let's see what we have in the board here today. Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum, bum. We have a lot of, Sylvia says these undiagnosed people with ADHD fall in and out of love frequently and they also get dopamine hits from arguing and drama. There is high percentage of them online, unable to stay in healthy relationships. Thank you for bringing that to attention. I totally agree. Laurie says, thank you for sharing all this information. I'm learning. Oh my gosh, I am so grateful that people are learning from my content. If you have a question, write the word question. Paula Stork says, how do you recognize a serial data? They've had no relationships. They've been single for a long time. They've been on the dating apps for a long time. Serial data is different than a serial monogamous. Serial monogamous have one relationship after another after another, which is part of the reason why you have to ask deeper questions. One of the things I talk about in my private coaching is radical honesty, laying your cards on the table and the rules of engagement, the rules of engagement. So what does radical honesty looks like? It's about like, look it, we gotta cut to the chase here. Folks, I know dating isn't an interview process, but whether you like it or not, you have to interrogate a person. You have to interview them. And I say that a little tongue-in-cheek. So radical honesty is starting with deeper questions when two people physically are attracted to each other and they go, are we interested in dating one another? By the way, I think I'm gonna try this on the next. Actually, I don't plan on dating. I plan on, what I mean to say is I plan on being so selective on whom I'll meet that it won't be a traditional type of meet and greet in my life. It'll be a warm prospect than a cold prospect, okay? What I plan on doing is I'm like, look, can we agree if there is mutual attraction between the two of us when we meet that we ask deeper questions early on to save ourselves time, would you be open to that? And if there isn't mutual attraction, can we agree on that right from, by the way, folks, you all know right from the first few minutes if there is attraction. Now the sad part is, for men, it's rather instantaneous. For women, attraction can build over time. So this is the tricky part, okay? I'm talking about those two people that have genuine attraction for one another right from the get go. You then immediately go into radical honesty, laying your cards on the table in rules of engagement. Let me tell you what that looks like. Radical honesty is the agreement to have deeper questions. Laying your cards on the table, look, this is my past. This is how I've healed from my past. This is how I operate in the future, okay? These are the standards I seek in my life. Folks, you know my narrative. I'm looking for a relationship where we spend on average three or four days and nights a week together doing shared activities, hobbies, mutual interests, spending time with family and friends, traveling together, teamwork, building skills, both in our personal, our professional life, intimacy, both physical and emotional intimacy that leads to either moving in together or getting married. That's my standard, that's me laying my cards on the table. And the rules of engagement are the following dating vows, okay? By the way, in the link below, you can get a copy of what I'm reading here. These are the rules of engagement.  Before you give your heart to a man, ladies, before you're physically intimate, I would want some agreements between the two of you. And I call this the dating vows and it goes like this. I, Jonathan, I, you know, Jennifer, you know, whoever you're, whoever the two people are, agree to explore the process of getting to know you with the intent to declare something serious in the next three to six months. I agree to be monogamous sexually while we have regular sex together. I agree to not actively meet date others while we are in the dating process, which includes taking down our dating profiles. I agree to speak up if this isn't working for me versus pulling back ghosting or disappearing. I agree to invest regular time in the process of getting to know you, which looks like three or four days and nights a week together doing shared activities, hobbies, mutual interest, spending time with family and friends, traveling together, teamwork, building skills, both in our personal and our professional life, intimacy, both physical and emotional intimacy. By the way, imagine if you just played that back at two times speed. Listen, ladies, 90% of men will bail on this. Why will they bail on it? Because they're in the dysfunctional category, they have clinical issues, they are broken. They're just spenders or users, they're not growing builders. By the way, I just got a call from a client who said, Jonathan, I recited the dating vows and she said, the guy loved it. He goes, oh my God, who wrote this? Let me give this person credit. Folks, I know this is a turn off to 90%, but are you looking to date 90% of men who are not ready for a relationship? Are you looking for that 10% who are genuinely serious? All right, that was my rant on that. So who has questions? By the way, oh by the way, let's see who wants to join the hot seat today? Does anyone wanna join the hot seat and ask me a question directly? Here we go, we posted it right there. You can jump online. Naughty Kitten says, I am broken too. Yeah, sadly, men and women are hurting. We have a population that is truly hurting. We deeply want connection. We deeply want love. Most humans do deeply want to feel love. And yet we are wrapped in layers of so much pain and suffering. Not everybody, just a significant percentage of people, particularly those who are single, those who are, by the way, I know, listen, I have some contemporaries who are happily married or happily engaged right now. And yes, they're blessed to be in that space so they can talk about that. I just happen to be aware that the dating marketplace is riddled with dysfunctionality. There's a reason why so many, by the way, think about this for those of us in midlife. You realize that second and third marriages end at a rate of 65 to 75%. Why does that happen? Because most humans have their emotional maturity and their relationship skills. This is not a fact, merely an opinion. But most people are dysfunctional. They have poor emotional maturity and poor relationship skills. That's why second and third marriages end at a higher rate. And relationships end at a higher rate. Or worse, people are in casual relationships because there's no statistics outside of marriage about how many people are in casual, unhappy, toxic relationships. Kristen has a post. By the way, if you have a question, write the word question post the question thereafter. I date alternately and I'm considered joining as a third. How would you deal with that scenario? I don't know exactly what you mean, Kristen. So, okay, who here has a question? By the way, who here has a question? Come on, pop into the screen. I need some content here. Otherwise, I'm just gonna be rambling. Give me something to work with, folks. Write the word question and post the question thereafter. Do we have a bashful group today? I wanna hear how I can support you. Folks, come on. Give me something here. I'm sorry, are we gonna cut it short today? Come on. Okay, Nancy says, wow, Jonathan, this is top notch, straight shot to the point, clear cut, very useful. I will listen to this over and over and I will use the interview. My next guy who fits the bill. There you go. All right, here we go. We got a question from Marilyn. Thank you, Nancy. I appreciate that question. Why do men get hot and heavy online dating apps and then ghost you? You know, I think COVID amplified a really big issue that's going on is we have humans who are really seeking connection. At the same time, their desire for connection and their brokenness is, excuse me, it's kind of like the yin and yang sign. Their desire for connection, their desire for closeness, actually don't take the yin and yang sign. Let's take a positive battery and a negative battery or two positive. What is it? Two positives repel each other. So one is you desire connection, that's one positive. We'll call it a negative.  I'm just using this as an example. You're positive, positive. I mean, on a battery. Desire for connection, fear for connection. They repel each other. See, humans desire connection but at the same time, they're equally afraid of connection. This is a sad, this is why the dating apps is like cold calling. It is the weakest form of connection. And this is why we have so much, we have so many broken people seeking connection that they operate in a broken fashion. That's the why. Question is, what are you gonna do about it? Schedule a discovery call with me to see if working with a coach is right for you. All right, Alexa says, I like your pink shirt. By the way, I think this is salmon color. By the way, what color do people think this is? I believe it's salmon, not pink, okay? But I'm curious, because this goes back to the concept of context. All right, Lori says, how long do you date before you hook up together? You know, for each person is different, but I would say if you've built a level of trust with another person, if you are on the, listen, if you've been radically honest, you lay your cards on the table and you establish the rules of engagement, that's the time that you can be ready for sex. By the way, I've always said trust takes about 100 hours of face-to-face time to build the first layer of trust. It takes a while to build the first layer of trust and trust is built in layers. Usually for every 100 hours you spend with someone, you're building more trust. Unless you're in a transactional relationship, which is either based on sex or entertainment. See, because the need for companionship is so great, the need for connection and sex is so great, people have transactional relationships based on sex and entertaining one another and they're not going into the deeper roots of trust. One of the things I talk about in my private coaching is establishing the five deep roots of trust that make a relationship go the distance. And if you want some additional support with that, check out the work of the book, Eight Dates by Drs. John and Julie Gottman.  Read this book. Just a suggestion, you take it for what it's worth. Tracy's in the house. Do you have any stats on women who never marry early in life and but try it later life outpost 60? You know what, I was just thinking about there are very little statistics. Because once every 10 year surveys, and by the way, you can do a random survey, researchers can do surveys, but I think the problem with a lot of research studies is humans lie to themselves. So I don't know if there is a true study out there to know the stats on that. Why do you need to know it, Tracy? That's a question I ask of you. All right, naughty kitten. Someone in the chat stated it's a red flag for a man to never have been married by 50. Why and your thoughts? Okay, so is it a red flag? A man or woman over 50 has been never married. We have a lot of women, 50 not married. Let me ask you this. What's a worse red flag? Somebody who was married and got divorced, they obviously don't have the relationship skills to make a relationship work. So just because they made a commitment is no greater testament to their capacity to be in a relationship. I would venture to say you'd want to find out some of the details during this person's life because maybe they were a serial monogamous. But you know what? I applaud, you know, listen, I'm grateful. I've got blessed with two children. I've got Colin over there, Connor who sadly passed away. I'm grateful that I got married. I didn't marry the right person because I wasn't the right person when I got married, okay? So number one. And by the way, I got married at age 29. She was 27. Statistically speaking, people under 30 years old have a 75% who get married. I think it's under 25 years old. Have a 75% divorce rate. So you know what? I got married. Oh, and by the way, after my divorce? Okay, here's another thing. Do you know how many people after divorce are less likely to get married again? They appall marriage. Except for codependent people, they immediately get married to someone else, okay? So I don't know why that's any more relevant than the person who's failed in relationship or failed to get married. They're equally challenging because we are swimming in a sea of dysfunctionality. Okay, by the way, now, this can sound like my whole, this whole video can sound like Jonathan. There's no hope, folks, there is hope. We have all these landmines in front of us. Awareness allows you to navigate the landmines. Discermin allows you to navigate the landmines. Vetting allows you to navigate the landmines to put the odds in your favor. May the odds forever be in your favor, Hunger Games. My job is to put your odds in your favor, the odds in your favor. Because yes, it is, listen, if you had a chance to get on an airplane and you knew the odds that we're gonna crash are pretty high, would you get on it? So wouldn't you want to invest? Like, I want you to think about this. Let's take a small plane, for example. Wouldn't you want to investigate the service record of a plane that you're gonna get on? Now we trust because we statistically know planes are safe. But wouldn't we want to know somebody who's a pilot? This is a great analogy. You're flying in a small plane with another human being. Okay, this is a great analogy. This is, oh, by the way, this is a perfect analogy now that I think about it. You just met a man. You know nothing about him. He says, I wanna fly you from Hawthorne, California to Santa Barbara or Palm Springs for the weekend. And you know nothing about his pilot record, his plane. You know nothing about it. But you'll just jump into it. That's what dating is like. Fuck, I'd wanna know how many hours he has on his belt. How long he's had this plane? When was the last time this plane was serviced? I'd ask these questions. Now, we assume this person most likely wouldn't get into a plane that he doesn't believe safe. But you know what? We got a lot of people who make grand mistakes. JFK Jr. should never have been fought. Okay, I don't know if there was a conspiracy. But let's just assume what happened was legit. He never should have got on that plane. He had a broken foot. He was flying VRLR or whatever. I mean, he was flying outside of his capacity and look what happened. We are dating these this way today. Does this analogy make sense? I think this is a great example of how naive people are. I just want you to ask good questions. Sandy, why are we afraid of connection when we desire it? Because we've been hurt. It's scary. That's why everybody's been hurt. Everybody who's been watching this channel, men or women alike have felt pain. And we try to avoid pain. We desire, by the way, think of health as an example. People are in such pain. We are one of the fattest countries in the world. Well, that's for different reasons. But we are so riddled with pain. We want to be healthy and fit and thin, but we're in so much pain. So many people are in pain that we eat as a way to soothe the pain. And dating is another form of overeating for many people. Does that help, Sandy? I hope so. Starting back, questions, starting back dating. How do I convey to a man I'd like to take physically slow for six weeks so this means not being alone together? You don't need to convey at other... You don't need...  It's a turnoff. What you say to a person is, before I'm physically intimate with anyone in my life, I'd like to know that we built a fair amount of trust with each other and that we desire a long-term relationship and we build and we are going to be mutually exclusive with one another. This is how I operate. How do you operate? I need to build trust.  You just say those words. Tracy agrees, this is salmon. Thank you so much. Oh, Naughty Kitten says this is mauve on my screen. See? This is context, pink mauve salmon. See, we all view the world through our own lens and everybody reviews it differently. Hey, one of our face, by the way, if you wanna join my private group called Midlife Love Mastery, check out the link below to have direct access to me on a regular basis. Question, when a man asks after sex, did I satisfy you? My true answer is no, but I don't tell him that. What should I say? I'm not physically active and I'm not dating anyone. Yeah, that's a tough one. Because if you told us the truth, that would hurt our feelings, but if you lie to us, that's holding back on your own. I'm not the best at communicating this. I think what's important to say, I have, let me just be candid about my body. There are certain things that work for me versus other things. By the way, I've learned this with my own body. Certain types of blow jobs work better than others. And so I think people like, I've shared with women, do you wanna know what satisfies me? And they go, yeah. Now, if they're in their ego, no, they don't wanna hear that because they have their own version and men when they're in their ego have their own version, but would you like to know what works best on my body? Invite that question, see how they respond. I've asked, I've told women that and I've gotten such flack from women. Yeah, I'm being honest here. I've had women that literally have given me flack. I say, I know my body, this is what turns me on. Not everybody is the same. Everybody is slightly different. They like it a slightly different way. Some people like it aggressive. Some people like it soft. Some people like it varied. Some people like it all over the map. I've learned with giving oral, I've noticed women like different things. The good news is I've tried to practice all techniques. Anyway, I hope that answers your question to our Facebook group member. Our Ms. J, it took me six years to heal and now I'm in a great place. How can I protect my peace when I'm with a man with a still processing his own healing? Well, you don't take on his problems, number one. By the way, great that you're in a great place and you've healed, by the way. You don't take on his problems. You allow him to share.  And you can simply say, while I appreciate where you're at, I'm in a different place in my life. Is it possible we're not a good fit for one another? I'm being very blunt here. If you're still in pain, maybe you should go heal before we engage in a relationship together. I'm a big proponent of like two people being an aligned with one another. All right. An alignment with one another question. It's true in person meeting is the best. Can you provide a list of the best places to meet the highest percentage of normal men? Folks, you gotta first off, make a list of the things you like to do out in the real world and ask yourself, are men in these places? Okay.  By the way, the workshop I'm going to is Allison Armstrong's workshop. Allison Armstrong call it, the workshop is break from your freedom or it's in the end of October, I will be there. Allison Armstrong, can someone write this in the chat box? It's in Los Angeles, California by LAX airport. There's going to be men and women there.  Do what makes you happy though. TK says, thank you so much, Jonathan. I learned so much from you. I'm so happy to hear that. Maryland's planet says, are most men online immature and only focused on women much younger? A lot are, a lot of women are just as immature. You ladies are no picnic either. There are dysfunctional men, there are dysfunctional women.  And yes, there was a lot of people using online as I did a video on this just recently, they use it for either hooking up or an unsuspecting therapist. So yes, the answer is everything to above. But learning how to navigate these landmines, that's what I teach. Someone, Aaron says, dusty rose shirt, interesting.  I would agree, people that put, oh my God.  I give a lot of credit, but then their photographs are so shitty.  Okay, I get it, I get that. Wait a minute, do I have a picture? Oh, I gotta show you something. Folks, I went on a fishing trip last year. There's me with the guys. Do I post, should I post that on my profile? Should I post that on my dating profile when I'm ready to put it out there? Oh my God, I will get so much flack.   And yet you all think you're the 1%. This is the delusion humans are in. Let's keep going here. Sorry, I'm just reading. Yaz wants to recommend, my advice is get a hobby you love. If you're still bored, then date. I'm working from home with something I love. If I had this years ago, I wouldn't have felt bored and thought to need to date. Okay, I don't, maybe that didn't make sense to me. Oh, one of my Facebook members says, I love the analogy, vetting to a man's ability to fly a plane before getting on, like, I want you to think about this. Let's really get into this. Okay, I just came up with this. Dating, ladies, you're told to sit back in your feminine energy and let the man lead this whole masculine and feminine energy narrative. That's what I ranted on the beginning. It is akin to getting in an airplane with a man who has a small plane. I mean, you guys blindly, some women blindly get onto planes with men knowing very little about their record in flying and their ability to service their plane. As I said before, JFK Jr., by the way, not a smart move on his party at a broken foot, flying in conditions that were outside of his expertise on a plane that was a pretty powerful plane. And you guys are jumping into relationships with men who literally don't know how to fly an airplane because you're falling into love because Jonathan, we have so much amazing chemistry. It's so up the charts, chemistry.  I talked about the whole level of character and it's on you. You're just as equally as responsible. You know, JFK Jr.'s wife and sisters should have just said, no, but we blindly do things. Now again, there's, I'm sure, you know, no disrespect for them. I'm using this because it was a pretty popular thing that happened, excuse me, recognizable thing that happened. But it's akin to the way we date today. Anyway, just my rantings going on. Oh, Facebook group says, JFK pilot analogy, we take an air word from, we take their word for it, not the potential dates. Okay, Terry is in the house and she says, I keep meeting men that say they can only date one woman at a time. I personally cannot justify instantly committing to a guy only after a few dates. How do you respond to such a thing? Well, I'm very clear. I only want to date one person at a time. If I like a person and they like me, then I want to invest in getting to know them and spending regular time together is how I get to know a person, okay? If somebody's dating multiple people, that's a no for me. If you have a need to date and vet, now, let me be clear, meeting people do as many as you want.  If after the first date, you want to see that person again, I like to get to know one person at a time. Let's take the word date out of the equation. I like to get to know one person at a time because let's just say a woman's getting to know several men at a time and he's getting to know several women at a time. Do you see how much, do you see the potential hazards? You start to like a guy, but he's liking a different girl or woman, excuse me. Do you see the problem here? Listen, I mean, by the way, Terry, you can do what's right for you. If that bothers you, then don't date them. Do, if your system works for you, then do what works for you. I'm just telling you, I'm speaking as a man. If a woman did that to me, I'd say, you know what? Then it's best you date, you know, go and do what you need to do, what's best for you. If I was that guy, that's what I would tell you, Terry. If you don't, folks, getting to know someone, by the way, it takes less than three weeks to know if you want, let's be realistic here. If you've seen someone three or four times in a period of three or four weeks, you know whether or not you like each other and hopefully you've had the radical honesty, laying your cards on the table, rules of engagement. If two people like each other, then explore getting to know one another. At least by the six week mark, okay? At least by the six week mark. But I will tell you this multiple circular dating is part of the problem. You've been sold this duty dating, circular dating as this way of protecting yourself. If you have to protect yourself, then you're not ready to date, in my opinion. Terry, but you do what's best for you, okay? This is just, I am offering a perspective. I'm not saying right or wrong, I merely have given you perspective here, everyone, to make your own choices. Does anyone agree with me on this one? I'd be curious to know. Oh my God. Earth Angel says, juggling people can be disastrous. You can get to know someone if not invested in giving them all, giving them your energy. Exactly, you don't have to give someone your entire energy, you're just taking a little break to get to know one person over a three week period. And then if you feel like there's potential, then you go, you invest more. But by the way, now I understand people can gum and go quickly. I'm talking about two people who are intentional, two people who are intentional about a serious commitment. This is why you ask these deeper questions before you ever go out on a date, on the telephone, ask these deeper questions to determine if you're on the same place. Wait a minute, Terry goes on to say, it's the first time we meet out, haven't had a first date. His date, he wants to take me on going for a walk. Gotcha. Again, I'm differentiating between a meet and greet. Meet and greet as many people as you want. If then you have a first date with someone, after that, if the two of you wanna see each other again and you've done it in a relatively short period of time and you wanna see each other again in a short period of time, don't disperse your energy with multiple people, that's just what I'm merely suggesting, okay? And Sharon says, I agree. Carol says, I agree. Katie says, taking sex off the table for the first few weeks is not a turnoff for the right guy. Exactly, even Lewis Howes, who's somebody who has the School of Greatness publicly stated it took a month before him and his now engaged partner. I think her name is Martha. They took it off the table for the first month and they saw each other a lot of time. He devoted to one person, she devoted to one person to get to know one person. It's worth it instead of dispersing your energy. By the way, but again, if that system works for you ladies, then do it. All right. Hey, listen, I'm starting to get parched here. 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