Dr. Avnish Jolly,6 june:Sexual desire, as well as orgasm, is controlled by various influences on the brain and nervous system. Researchers have revealed many similarities between men and women; contrary to popular belief, for example, visual stimuli spur sexual stirrings in both. Brain imaging studies show that achieving orgasm involves far more than merely heightened arousal.It requires a release of inhibitions, culminating in a shutdown of the brain’s center of vigilance in both sexes, and a widespread neural power failure in women. It far from simple issues that can be resolved by taking hormones or popping a pill that will turn your world into varying shades of blue. There are a host of influences on your brain and nervous system that control your sex glands and genitals, and some of those influences are your very thoughts themselves.
Every erection begins in your brain. Brain stem emits nerve impulses that control erectile function. These nerve impulses navigate through the erection center of spinal column to the erectile tissue of your penis, where they trigger a chain reaction in the membranes of vascular muscle cells. This sophisticated chain reaction is dependent on a messenger molecule called cyclic guanosine monophosphate or cGMP. This works in reverse as well; an erection softens as soon as another enzyme called phosphodiesterase starts to degrade the cGMP molecules.
Anxiety, defensiveness, fear, and failure of communication are destructive psychological forces that can take a heavy toll on your libido, whether you’re a man or a woman, by acting as road blocks to desire. According to Professor Gert Holstege , University of Groningen , Nederlands, “Fear and anxiety need to be avoided at all costs if a woman wishes to have an orgasm.”
Drugs like Viagra etc, work by inhibiting phosphodiesterase, which may help maintain your erection. But, these pills will not create an erection in and of themselves. Initial erection still has to be triggered psychologically. Without that initial impetus, potency pills will have no effect whatsoever. This is also why these pills are ineffective for many men who take them hoping better sexual congress.
The pressures of “performance as well as potency” itself is a large contributor to impotence, and this theme is pushed continually in advertising, whether related to sexual potency drugs.
Bernie Zilbergeld, Sexual psychologist and popular author have shown that most men with potency problems believe in these advertised myths and also pointed out that many of these men engage in which the man gets stuck in observing and assessing the sexual situation as if he’s an outsider, rating the woman’s expectations and what he can deliver.
And then there’s stress. But it’s not necessarily the type of stress typically portrayed by the media. Turns out the problem are rarely the work stress itself, but rather it’s transference of work performance standards to your sex life. Approaching your sex life with that same attitude; feeling pressured to perform to certain standards, can turn the act of love into another grueling task that must be completed, and completed well.
Research into the mechanics of love life is not done for some altruistic purpose. Scientists don’t necessarily care about figuring this out in order to help you understand yourself better and improve your life. Research is done to create medications that act on nervous system to stimulate desire, which is a pretense to love itself. Instead of dealing with emotional and psychological issues that are blocking from connecting with and feeling desire for partner, may soon be able to take a pill that removes the very act of needing to feel anything. One such experimental compound already under development is a peptide called bremelanotide. It works by blocking receptors in brain that are involved in regulating basic drives such as eating and sex. In human studies bremelanotide has triggered spontaneous erections in men, and boosted sexual arousal and desire in women.
As convenient as these drugs may appear, impotence drugs contribute to infertility, heart problems and can even blind you. And taking synthetic hormones in hopes of putting the spring back into step causes all sorts of terrible health problems too.