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Indira began to laugh.
"Actually the penalty for not taking care to respond to our biological hunger can be rather severe," she said after she stopped laughing. "Studies show that men who experience orgasm several times a weeks have experienced half the death rate of the laggards, whatever that means. It certainly helps the vascular system. Sex raises the heart rate; they say to more than doubled in some cases, from 70 beats to 150 beats per minute. Sex also boosts the production of testosterone, which helps to produce stronger bones and muscles. Some doctors go so far as to suggest that the bed may be the greatest single piece of exercise equipment that we have as a society. Also, sex helps a man's prostrate. Did you know that, Peter? The collects zinc, citric acid and potassium from the blood. It then concentrates the mix 600 times. Any carcinogens that are found in the blood are likewise captured and concentrated. So it is wise not to let them hang around for too long, causing trouble. Sex gives you men the means to evict this crap. It's a way of flushing out the system, and the only way you've got to do this is with intentional sexual activity.
"Sex even causes pain relief," said Indira. "We are told by medical researchers that during the buildup to orgasm, the body levels of the hormone oxytocin increase up to five-fold. As the hormones build up, the body releases more endorphins that alleviate the pain of everything from headache to arthritis, to even migraine."
"There you have it. If you have a migraine, sex is the cure!" I interjected and laughed. "So, let me help to cure your migraine."
"You fiend!" she scolded me. "Unfortunately for you, I get migraines very seldom. But there some truth to it. Sex is known to boost the production of estrogen in women of a type that reduces postmenstrual pain. It is certainly true that sex furnishes a build-in natural way for us to help each other biologically. There exists a hormone in semen that studies suggest might be absorbed in the female genital tract, which then modulates the female hormones with the effect that they are reducing depression."
Indira began to smile. "Did you know that sex provides even significant defenses against the common cold. People that have sex every week have 30% higher levels of an antibody called immunoglobulin, which is a known immune system booster.
"And here is one more snippet of medical information that is really wild," she added. "Researchers have found that oral sex is even good for the teeth. The seminal fluid contains zinc, calcium, and other minerals that are known to retard tooth decay."
"The only drawback in all of that is the risk involved of contracting sexually transmitted diseases," said Indira a wile later. "Medical examination, caution, honesty in relationships, and plain common sense, can do a lot to lower those risks."
"So where's the balance?" I asked.
Indira suddenly began to laugh. "Did you know that one of the safest sexual arousal agent, which is probably helping more millions of people to satisfy their biological 'hunger' than any other process, is the Internet, Peter. The much-slandered sex on the Internet is safe and is always there and is largely free."
"It should be free," I interjected, "because it doesn't measure up by a long shot to the banquet that is served up with the real thing where the key focus is on giving love, on giving ecstasy, in which the biological hunger is fulfilled in the background. The Internet, or any other form of pornography, doesn't exist for the development of love, intimacy, closeness, and caring for one another, and nurturing one another. It doesn't develop a sense of community, and a sense of a human family, and the larger sense of the universal family of mankind. And above all, it doesn't engender a sense of celebration as the banquet table does."
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