I was reading in another thread about "the touching" at the veil and it reminded me of a story illustrating the sometimes ridiculous behavior that some of us had to endure in the morg.

There was this brother, whom I will call Sam who was at the temple one evening doing endowment sessions. This was back a number of years ago when these sessions would last for several hours.

Sam had a small problem this day. Well, not so small. Sam had been taking medicine for erectile dysfunction and he could not get it to go down during the endowment session. This was a serious problem, because at the time, one had to get up and sit down numerous times during the endowment and his endowment was very obvious. I sat next to him so I was aware as was everyone within 2 rows. It was extremely hard not to laugh out loud and making things worse and perfersely funnier, Sam was clearly miserable. There goes the old spirit right out the door. Sam couldn't leave, because that was the rule at the time, so he was stuck.

Finally, after an hour plus of misery, a proctor came over to Sam (Sam was sitting just inside the end of the row) and suggested Sam start thinking "clean thoughts!"

Fantastic suggestion! This old codger of a brother was a gazillion years old and pretty rude not to mention very loud. People for all around the room now honed in on Sam's endowment. Sam's endowment seemed to get even larger after that attention and his was a brilliant shade of scarlet! Can you imagine?

Finally the old codger left and came back with a member of the temple presidency. He proceeded to question Sam right during the endowment right next to us. Un-Effing real. I could hear with fair accuracy his questions. Are you living faithfully? Have you tried praying? Are you thinking Christ like thoughts? OMG!

Sam was desperate. He explained that he was getting medical help so he and his wife could have more kids like the prophet commanded! OMG! I was humiliated FOR Sam.

Finally after a group conference, the temple presidency guy escorted him out of there. I never saw Sam again, but that was a very bad day at the Temple.

UGGH.

I also hope he considered seeing his doctor. I think that reaction might have fallen under the catagory of "contact your doctor if...".

:)

And the classic reply..."I would consult my doctor, but I don't find him that attractive." nyuk nyuk

If I had that problem, instead of calling my doctor, I'd start calling everone I know!

What, nobody felt the spirit to hold unto the iron rod?

was it blonde Eve?

I have thought about doing the same thing (on purpose) in the temple and while going through TSA.

I keep telling you guys...

I have tried viagra...

Didn't work!

I just got taller!

You saw the scarlet color of his member? These people are fully clothed, plus have the apron on over, plus everything else.


I call BS

+1

Temple workers won't disrupt a session to resolve someone's bulge. As mentioned, it would be easy to hide with all the temple garb. Sillly story.

I think the OP was intending to imply that Sams face had turned scarlet,probably due to some combination of anger and embarrasment, not his member. I could imagine this hapening due to the morgs general lack of boundries and sensetivity in sexual matters. Though I will agree that there is always the chance that it is a piece of fiction designed to highlite irritating behaviour.

Are we getting confused with the sure sign of the boner?

talk about a handshake.

Having taken a couple of different verisons of that particular 'medicine', recreationally, I have never had an impromptu unwanted boner.

The action of the drug, is such that you cant get an erection unless you have something that actually arouses you. But you can get a strong erection, and be able to get one, even if you have only just 'finished'.

with some of the medicines, the effect lasts 72 hours. Obviously, it would be useless if you had to walk around with an erection for the whole 72 hours

Obviouslyu "Sam" ws finding something at the temple particularly arousing. Maybe it was the video of eve.

If I take it, it helps but makes my eyes very sensitive to light. Therefore if I was to take it before going to the Temple I could "recieve more Light and Knowledge."

The light thing for me is true folks.

So as the men get their new names, maybe they should get a cup of water and the blue pill to make their eyes wide open so when Peter James and I guess John is out now, it will give meaning to "we bring you further light and knowledge"

As an aside when we left the Celestrial Room in the Alberta Temple I always gave my ex. wife a couple of pats on the ass as we went down the stairs to the change rooms.Maybe with this further light and knowledge we could do some other things!!!!!

Too bad I don't have a Temple Recommend.

It gave me a good laugh that I needed this morning!

Thanks!

"Sam's endowment seemed to get even larger after that attention and his was a brilliant shade of scarlet!"

Also: Viagra has only been on the market (approved for sale) for 10 years.

My pardon. Sam's face was red, not his endowment and it was red from embarassment, not anger. I'm sorry, I should have been more clear.

I don't know what medication Sam was on or what stimulated him--that isn't exactly a question I'm going to ask in a temple session. I, unlike church members, did have boundaries, lol.
Can you imagine asking someone a question like that???!

One thing though, Sam was a nice guy, cause I would have clobbered someone for treating me the way they treated him.

The whole temple experience was a WTF? experience for me. Cheap palor tricks with mirrors and the celestial room nonsense and alway being quiet, etc. Then there's the priveledge of being there--the temple recommend and its worthiness and the cost of driving there, the waste of your time and you even had to pay to rent your temple clothing! Heck, I could even sit with my wife! What a complete sham. I can't believe I did this with my wife for so many years.

The morg always finds a way to make $ and make you miserable in the process. Always.

Stupid errors. I meant to write that I couldn't even sit with my wife during endowment sessions. Totally sucks. What a nice date night, eh? How many of us fell for that manure?

I guess I'm not very observant of such things. I've never noticed a guy walking around with that sort of a problem in my entire life. LOL