Sexual health, your most important achievement

By Serge Kreutz
2022

Of all achievements in your life, sexual health reigns supreme.

You may become rich, or famous, or a hero saving mankind, or your fatherland. The latter may earn you a bronze statue (you'll never see), and wreaths on National Days.

But as achievements, all these are of less value to your personal life than optimal sexual health which allows you the joy of overwhelming orgasms, every day, up to an old age.

Depending on your religious orientation, you may even assume that the better your sex in this life, the more karma you accumulate for your next, or even your eternal life.

Sexual pleasure is the essence of life, more so than other constructs that aim to give meaning to the human existence, such as philosophy and (other) religions. If you can experience orgasmic pleasure to the full extent, and in series every day, you know that it's good to be alive, not because you would understand pseudo-logical metaphysical systems, but because you feel it. And that is all it takes.

All phases of sexual conduct, from desire through arousal to relief depend on a complex interplay of many hormones and neurotransmitters, which changes in composition every few milliseconds as you move along from sexual interest to an orgasm, or several in a row.

It helps if you have a basic understanding of the biochemistry of the human mind. The human brain does not have a hard disc where knowledge and memories would be stored, awaiting retrieval. Rather, every thought and every memory are caused by specific chemical compositions in the synapses between the nerve cells (neurons) in various parts of the brain. Thus, when you remember something, the neurons at various parts of your brain release neurotransmitters and other chemical factors in certain proportions into the synapses, and when a memory is recalled for a span of time, this is just biochemical compositions in synapses in a constant flux.

There are routine patterns to the release and uptake of neurotransmitters and other factors in synapses, which represents the fact that something has been learned and remembered. But when the mind wanders to another topic, a knowledge or memory isn't stored somewhere like information is stored on a computer hard disc. Something that isn't remembered at this moment is simply not there.

In the human mind, and in human emotion, nothing is digital. Everything is analog, which means: an approximation. Furthermore, all the neurotransmitters and other factors that determine a routine memory or the journey through a string of sexual emotions from sexual interest through to orgasmic release depend on the availability of chemical building blocks, ultimately supplied by nutrition.

Nothing, absolutely nothing in the chemistry of our sexuality depends on just one factor, like, for example, testosterone. In endocrinology and neurology, that would be a prehistoric view. If anything, over-supplying just one component in the delicate mix will throw you off balance.

Excitement without an ability to function (cocaine, amphetamines). Erections that are out of tune with excitement (Viagra). Arousal (maybe) accompanied by nausea (dopaminergic drugs). Erections and a sense of a pending heart attack (yohimbe and yohimbine).

Most other pharmaceuticals just diminish sexuality. And even those that seem to help somewhat (like phosphodiesterase inhibitors) can do many things, but they won't give you back the sexual pleasure that you experienced in your late teens or early twenties.