Sublime

like in chapter 6 we’ll learn that genital response is learning while the conscious experience of being “turned on” is learning + liking.

Physical activity is the most efficient strategy for completing the stress response cycle and recalibrating your central nervous system into a calm state.

To realize the full potential of sex, you must learn how to recondition your body and nervous system. You must learn how to unhabitualize the mechanics of your ejaculation, and convert your orgasm into a massive profusion of energy which deepens, not ends, the lovemaking session.

when a woman is low in estrogen she is more vulnerable to traumas, while high levels of estrogen can partially protect a woman from emotional disturbances.

Nevertheless, I think that, in general, the core conditions required for maximum sexual arousal are very difficult to change significantly. Although people may become less ashamed, more communicative, and more flexible about the fantasies that turn them on, it is unusual that they give them up completely. The man who prefers to be dominated sexuall