Kurosawa Koctail™Sexual Arousal Revisited (print)

Sexual Arousal Revisited

Revised 10.11.06
We never considered studying the subject of sexual arousal or sexual dysfunction until we received the following email from a client. He claimed the treatment protocol we designed for him made him “incredibly horny”. So we contacted him, strictly for scientific reasons of course, and asked him to clarify exactly what he meant by “horny”. We assumed he was talking about something trivial so we were more than a little shocked when we received his response.

“Steve, I don’t think it’s weird for you to ask about this. If I can’t talk about this with you, then who can I talk about it with.

OK, here’s the graphic truth. I am so horny and I am having tremendous erections…to the point that I can’t get out from behind my desk at work when it happens there. I’m only (blank) feet tall and I only weight (blank) pounds and I have an above average size manhood. There is no possible way for me to hide it and it’s getting a little annoying. I have to try really hard not to think of anything “sexual” in nature. When it gets so bad, I usually have to masturbate 4 or 5 times during that period just to relieve the need and the pressure. I don’t mean to sound like a dog or anything, but it’s like I was back when I was in my 20’s. I was an erect, horny mofo just about 24/7 and I hit the age of 19. And I pretty much stayed that way for about 11 years. Just the last few years (maybe 5) has it tapered off to a more “normal” level. And then, about five months before I (developed his chronic disease problem), my drive was diminishing to nothing.”

“George” was in fact masturbating all the time, and he was understandably upset about it. George was about 40 years of age and was not used to these intense spikes of sexual arousal. We wanted to ask him what his wife thought about all this, but we didn’t have the nerve.

But there is more to the story. First, a little background information.

There are different phases of sexual behavior. First there is arousal, followed by erection, orgasm/ejaculation, and latency. The latter refers to how rapidly the erection is lost and how soon thereafter the erection can be regained. Sounds simple on paper, but nothing could be more complicated. Some “sexual experts” claim that ejaculation and orgasm are different phenomenon, but we’ve never heard of one without the other, at least in men.

In George’s case, he was “primed” for sexual arousal, and he developed extremely strong erections very quickly. But, and here is the really interesting part, George had a terrible time ejaculating. His erections were rock hard, and the sexual tension he felt was difficult to release. More importantly, George never completely lost his erection after ejaculation and was often ready and able to have another full erection in as little as ten minutes. George had not only mastered the art and science of not ejaculating early, but he had become the first truly multi-orgasmic male. Theoretically, George could have had sex over and over and over again…stopping only to pass out from exhaustion.

“Holy crap” was our scientific response to George’s dilemma. We simply had no idea, whatsoever, how the compounds we had George consume could possibly have this kind of effect on sexual arousal. None of those compounds were sold as aphrodisiacs, nor did the scientific literature mention them, at least individually, as having any effects on sexual arousal, erection, ejaculation or latency. We were clueless.

So, being scientists and all, we began a series of experiments with George’s permission. We began subtracting compounds from his treatment protocol until his “problem” normalized. And we succeeded. When we took one compound out of the protocol completely, his sexual arousal spikes stopped, but his level of sexual arousal did not go completely away. George was still horny, but he didn’t have to masturbate 4 or 5 times a day any longer. Ejaculations became easier to attain and he completely lost his erection thereafter. Clearly, there was more to George’s problem than simply taking too much of one compound. These compounds were clearly working together, synergistically, to achieve this incredibly heightened sense of sexual arousal, and sustained level of sexual performance.

In our copious free time, of which we have almost none, we worked on understanding the physiological basis for George’s enhanced sexual prowess. It took us almost four months of searching the scientific literature to arrive at a reasonable, actually better than reasonable, explanation for George’s condition. Slowly the pieces began to fall into place until the whole picture emerged. Why these compounds enhanced sexual prowess and how they interacted with one another to achieve these results is not something you will EVER find published anywhere but in our treatment protocol. The whole story involved not only the supplements George took, but the food he ate and didn’t eat, and his personal habits.

In order to confirm our results, we asked Bill to duplicate George’s protocol. He readily volunteered. Who wouldn’t?

We call this story…

BILL AND GRACE

Bill is single and in his fifties. He is in good health and doesn’t smoke. He does drink, but not to excess. Bill has a stressful job, takes high blood pressure medicine (which curbs his sex drive), and doesn’t think about sex too much. He couldn’t remember the last time he became obviously sexually aroused by a beautiful woman simply by being in her presence. Although Bill was not impotent, he wasn’t all that interested in sex. He attributed his general lack of interest in sex to his age, his stress level, and not being able to find “the right woman”. Sexually, Bill was fairly normal for his age. He did bemoan his lack of a significant sex drive, however. He had a wonderful collection of old Playboy magazines that he hadn’t looked at in years. The pictures of the naked women did nothing for him any longer. Bill was therefore a perfect test case for our experiment.

We warned him that it was going to take a number of weeks, or more, before the full impact of the treatment protocol kicked in. After three weeks, Bill was discouraged that his lack of interest in the opposite sex hadn’t improved. He even went on the Internet to see if viewing a porn site would help him. It didn’t. In fact, the porn site he viewed made him laugh, it was so ridiculous.

And then Grace arrived.

Grace was a married friend who was 15 years younger than Bill and very sexy. She had a great body, which she liked to show off at the health club they both belonged to. In the summer Grace wore bikini swimming suits in the pool. In the gym, she wore tight fitting workout leotards that accentuated her ample breasts. Bill thought Grace was beautiful, primarily because she had freckles on her face and Bill loved women with freckles.

“I grow them”, she used to tease.

Grace also talked with her hands. In a one on one conversation, Grace usually placed her hand on the other person’s elbow. It was a gentle touch and not meant to be a sexual advance.

One morning, Bill was in the health club drinking coffee and reading the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper he was too cheap to buy himself. Grace entered and, and full of life as she was, sat down hard on the couch next to Bill and began talking to him. This time Grace placed her hand on Bill’s knee has she leaned in to talk to him. She had done this many times in the past and Bill never sexually responded to her touch. This was simply Grace, and she touched people. It was no big deal. Until this eventful morning…

Bill, dressed in sweat pants and T shirt, noticed quickly that he was getting an erection, a really big erection that was rapidly filling up his shorts. Panic set in…what if Grace noticed? He’d die of embarrassment. He certainly couldn’t go into the men’s locker room in this condition. After what seemed like an eternity, Grace got up from the couch and poured herself a cup of coffee. In a flash, Bill reached for his gym bag and placed it on his lap. He was safe for now…trapped on a couch with a gym bag in his lap, but safe.

When Grace returned to the couch, her hand went back on Bill’s knee. If he asked her to remove it, he risked hurting her feelings. So he sat there and laughed at Grace’s stories and pondered how in hell he was going to get out of the lobby without his now massive erection being noticed. The place was full of people…someone had to notice his very active Mighty Sword (for some genetic reason, men tend to name their penis). As he sat listening to Grace, he realized that he was sexually attracted to Grace, although he had never had a sexual feeling about her before. He probably thought his lack of sexual feelings was an indication of a general lack of interest, but he was wrong. The sexual thoughts were always there, but the body was not willing. It was now!

Bill finally did manage to get out of the lobby and into his car without being noticed. He drove directly home, making certain not to exceed the speed limit. The last thing Bill wanted to experience was a police officer staring into his car while he helplessly sat there with a monster erection.

As soon as Bill returned home, he went into the back year where his favorite tree would protect him in his effort to relieve himself. Sure enough, just as with George, Bill found it difficult to ejaculate, and when he did the intensity of the orgasm shocked him. Bill had some incredible orgasms in the past, but those were all memories of a time long past. This orgasm rocked him to his soul. It was so strong it hurt. We are not trying to be pornographic here. This is the truth.

Bill would make two more trips to that tree later in the afternoon.

Bill changed his protocol, as per our instructions, and his sexual arousal level declined to “normal”. Well, normal for a 30 year old, someone 25 years younger than himself.

Bill is now a happy man. He now realizes that his body is not too old to respond to sexual stimuli. You just have to follow the rules. Grouppe Kurosawa has now written those rules.

When we began our research, we never realized there was so much research being conducted on virtually every aspect of the sexual response. Thanks to our academic friends throughout the US, we managed to get a copy of every scientific article we wanted on this subject. In the process, an interesting picture of the mechanics of human sexual response began to emerge. Most of the information is well known and accepted, but we found some isolated forgotten studies that cast a substantial amount of light into the picture that George described…that is heightened sexual arousal, strong erections, prolonged period before ejaculation, and a short latency period.

Some interesting facts. Over 40% of women 18 to 80 report a serious dissatisfaction with sex. Many women, married or not, have never had an orgasm. Many married couples in their 50s have sex only a few times a year. 5% of American men at age 40 already consider themselves totally impotent. The female G-spot does in fact exist, as do female ejaculations. The first woman to champion the rights of women to have and enjoy orgasms, Ida Craddock, killed herself before the government could imprison her for being a pornographer. She wrote pamphlets with titles like “On The Wedding Night” that frankly discussed the obligations of men and women to one another on their wedding night. Since these pamphlets were mailed, the government went after her for distributing porn. This was in 1900; 100 years later we are only now paying scientific attention to issues concerning sexual arousal and sexual dysfunction in women.

We also found out that common anti-histamine and anti-ulcer drugs like Benadryl and Tagamet (cimetidine), respectively, can make a man (and maybe a woman as well) impotent. For many allergy suffers, the source of their lack of sexual interest or inability to perform may be strictly due to the allergy medicines they are taking or over taking. It occurred to us that the high level of impotence in 40 year old American men may be due to the use or over use of allergy and ulcer medicines. It’s an idea worthy of study.

Prolactin, the hormone that stimulates milk production in women, also controls the sex drive in both men and women. Prolactin is secreted from the brain after orgasm and causes the penis to lose its strength. Some men, genetically lacking prolactin, are actually multi-orgasmic. They don’t lose their erection and their level of sexual arousal remains high after orgasm. People who consume excessive amounts of alcohol have enhanced levels of prolactin in their blood. This may account for a phenomenon known to all men as “brewer’s droop”.

Orgasm/ejaculation is a feeling most men want to postpone for as long as possible. Women, on the other hand, want an orgasm as quickly as possible. Orgasm is a complicated physical responses largely controlled by a hormone called oxytocin. Oxytocin is released into the blood in lactating women when their nipples are stimulated by suckling. This explains why some women experience orgasms while nursing. Oxytocin also stimulates ejaculation by activating certain muscle groups in the penis.

Ejaculation and erection are controlled by different muscle groups. It is perfectly possible to ejaculate through a flaccid penis. Some men who can’t get an erection for physiological reasons can still have an orgasm. It’s weak but it is an orgasm. God, or Mother Nature, your choice, combined an erection with ejaculation so the penis could penetrate the vagina far enough to deliver the sperm. The state or strength of the erection enhances the pleasure of the ejaculation, thereby encouraging sexual behaviors.

There really is a G-spot in the vagina and its location is known. Furthermore, the phenomenon of female ejaculation is also apparently real. It’s usually experienced by women who can attain G-spot orgasms, and is characterized by the release of a clear liquid that is not urine. Some women can propel this liquid a substantial distance. In the world porn industry, these women are called Squirters. You can purchase videos of women who have mastered the technique of “squirting” during orgasm (we didn’t). Most gynecologists, men usually, dispel the idea of both G-spots and female ejaculations. Apparently, if the subject wasn’t taught in medical school, it doesn’t exist. Well, we beg to differ.

In our studies of this subject, it became obvious that lifestyle issues play a huge role in issues of sexual arousal and behavior. Smoking, drinking excessive amounts of alcohol (which enhances prolactin release), eating unhealthy foods, a general lack of exercise, and taking recreational drugs all contribute to impotency and a general lack of sexual arousal. There are also diseases, such as hypertension, diabetes, and obesity, which also make it difficult to attain and maintain an erection. The ability to sexually perform and to actually enjoy sex is a complicated topic. Let’s face it, you could be in fantastic physical shape, or so you thought, and not be able to develop an erection in the presence of a beautiful naked women because your arteries and capillaries cannot vasodilate or relax. Both penal and clitoral erections depend on vasodilation, a process which allows certain tissues to become engorged with blood. This is an erection, pure and simple, and all the desire in the world is not going to help if your vascular system cannot relax.

Men who take anti-hypertensive medicines such as beta blockers have little sexual drive because the beta blockers inhibit the ability of epinephrine (adrenaline) to enhance sexual arousal…heavy breathing, sweating, etc. If you don’t take the beta blockers, you may have an increased level of sexual arousal, but you still can’t perform because your arteries are excessively constricted…they can’t vasodilate. People who suffer from hypertension suffer from serious sexual problems whether they are under treatment or not.

Type 2 diabetics also suffer from impotency problems because the free radicals generated by excessive glucose in their blood makes vasodilation by their blood vessels very difficult.

Both George and Bill are in relatively good shape. They aren’t body builders, but they both go the gym to work out. Neither one smokes, but both drink moderately. Neither takes recreational drugs, and both eat healthy diets, prescribed by us. The treatment protocol we developed for them was designed to improve their overall health and it did so. What was remarkable in both cases was how quickly their overall level of sexual arousal increased. In George’s case, the change took two weeks. It took Bill three weeks before “the change” kicked in and he found himself trapped in the lobby of his health club, breathing heavily while trying to look cool and calm as he pushed down on his erect penis with his gym bag. Everyone is different physiologically.

If you want to regain the ability to become sexually aroused and to enjoy a healthy sex life, you have to take care of your arteries. There are many ways to do this using only natural product that enhance, but don’t interfere with normal sexual functioning like modern drugs. We teach these techniques, especially in our discussion groups, which are open only to members of the Grouppe Kurosawa Society. Keep in mind that drugs like Viagra do not stimulate sexual desire and they don’t have any effect on the development of erections. Viagra simply allows you to maintain an erection for a longer period of time. If you can’t get an erection in the first place, Viagra won’t help you. Viagra also has no affect on the latency period. The protocol we are going to teach affects all four phases of the sexual response…arousal, erection, orgasm and latency. If you suffer from premature ejaculation, a lack of sexual desire, an inability to develop or maintain an erection and an extremely long latency period (some men can have sex again in 20 minutes while others have to wait days), this is the treatment protocol for you.

What we’ve learned over the last few months can be briefly summarized. If you have a physical condition that impairs the ability of the vascular system to relax or vasodilate, you have to fix this problem first. If you use modern high blood pressure drugs like beta blockers, you can reduce your blood pressure and improve the ability of your blood vessels to vasodilate, but in the process you lose the ability to become sexually aroused. Do you know how devastating it is to sleep next to someone you love and not be able to generate any sexual feelings at all? It’s difficult to tell your wife or husband that you have no sexual feelings for them whatsoever and not have them take it personally. In some cases, the love goes out of a relationship and this is the reason for the lack of sexual arousal, but in other cases the problem is more general. The other side of the equation, equally devastating, is to be sexually aroused yet be unable to induce a penal or clitoral erection. Both situations are frustrating and emotionally horrific.

If the vascular system is relatively intact and able to vasodilate, there are many things that can be done to tremendously enhance sexual arousal and the ability to experience strong erections. On the other hand, if the blood vessels are bathed in a steady diet of free radicals, highly reactive oxygen molecules, you can forget about vasodilation in general and penal and clitoral erection specifically.

Everyone who wants to have a great sex life has to face a painful reality. If you weight 300 pounds, have high blood pressure, or diabetes, your sexual prowess is going to be minimal. Lifestyle decisions, such as smoking or the development of chronic diseases such as high blood pressure are going to inhibit your ability to become sexually aroused or to truly enjoy sex. If you aren’t willing to make these changes in your life, you cannot expect to enjoy sex or to perform sexually at all in some cases.

One of the most important things you can do to increase your sexual vitality is to lose weight. Easier said than done, right? No one said it was going to be easy, but we are going to give you an incentive to lose those pounds. If you are a man, you might develop a “paunch” or big stomach as you become sedentary and age. This is omental, as contrasted to visceral, fat and it is biochemically different from the fat on your butt, for example. Have you ever seen a man with a huge stomach, but normal looking legs? Of course, you have. This is omental fat and it is a death sentence. Omental fat is usually associated with something called the metabolic syndrome, which includes insulin resistance (type 2 diabetes), dyslipidemia (high lipids in the blood) and hypertension (high blood pressure). All these conditions are related to one another.

However, obesity per se is not necessarily linked to diabetes and high blood pressure. We know more than one individual who is clearly obese yet who has normal blood pressure, cholesterol, lipids and everything else you can test for. If you look closely, you will notice that these obese individuals are usually very relaxed people, e.g. they aren’t the “road rage” types. The men with the omental fat, who suffer from a litany of other dangerous diseases such as diabetes and high blood pressure, are usually the “Type A” or easily aroused personality types. Now, what does this have to do with sexual arousal? In a word….EVERYTHING!

Men with omental fat make more estrogen than those without this particular kind of fat. Estrogen kills the male sex drive by increasing the secretion of prolactin and inhibiting the secretion of luteinizing hormone (LH) from the pituitary gland in the brain. Prolactin inhibits sexual arousal and everything associated with it and LH stimulates testosterone synthesis in the testes. In the absence of LH, testosterone will not be synthesized.

The culprit in all this is a hormone called cortisol or hydrocortisone. You may have seen TV ads in the US about weight loss products that claim to reduce the level of cortisol in the blood, thereby reducing omental fat. We will be discussing some of these products in our blog on this web site.

This is how it all works. If you eat a high carbohydrate diet, you will increase the level of insulin in the blood. If you are one of those Type A, stress prone personalities, the enhanced level of cortisol in the blood, combined with insulin and a few other goodies, will stimulate cells called preadiposites to multiply and form new fat cells. Obesity is associated with BOTH the production of new fat cells (hyperplasia) and the swelling of mature fat cells (hypertrophy) with lipid. Excessive cortisol in the blood contributes to the existence of both.

There where the story gets complicated. There is an enzyme in many cells of the body called 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1. This enzyme converts inactive cortisone to active cortisol (and back again under certain circumstances). When this enzyme is activated, it keeps the level of cortisol high in tissues that possess it, although the level of cortisol in the blood may be normal. This 11beta enzyme exists in very high concentrations in fat tissues, and is also present in the testes. As long as 11beta is active, you are going to have a defacto case of Cushings Syndrome (excessively high levels of cortisol in the blood) on your hands even though the actual level of cortisol in the blood is normal. Excessive amounts of cortisol are well known to induce insulin insensitivity (type two diabetes) and hypertension. Cortisol’s ability to induce high blood pressure can be traced to multiple factors, such as the inhibition of blood vessel vasodilation and the direct activation of the blood pressure increasing rennin-angiotensin system (due to a release of factors from fat cells).

The fat cell issue is bad enough, but the story gets positively scary when you realize that cortisol is capable of inhibiting all the enzymes in the testes that make testosterone. Furthermore, cortisol is capable of directly killing the Leydig cells in the testes, the very cells that produce testosterone. Leydig cells harbor the 11beta enzyme. There is no sex drive without testosterone, but the effect of testosterone on the body is complicated. Clearly obesity, diabetes, hypertension and a lack of sexual desire are all complexly related.

One of the interesting things that we found in our search of the literature concerns the role of testosterone in the sexual response. As men age, our testosterone level does not necessary go down. Therefore, the lack of libido or the inability to get and maintain an erection is often due to factors that transcend the presence of testosterone. Testosterone is therefore necessary but not sufficient for proper sexual functioning. We also found out that DHT, the testosterone metabolite, is actually the hormone that maintains sexual functioning. The enzyme that converts testosterone to DHT is activated by histamine and inhibited by anti-histamines. Interesting…

The Grouppe Kurosawa web site gets tons of spam emails which are handled by filters. At least one out of 20 spam emails have something to do with increasing the size of the male penis using pills and stretching exercises. Every man has heard of this stuff, but do they work? We doubted that penis length could be increased by stretching, but we were once again mistaken. The penis contains skeletal muscle that can be exercised just like skeletal muscles in the arms and legs. So it is possible to increase the size of a penis by exercise alone. We’ll get into this in the protocol.

The issue of increasing penal length was brought up by Bill. He asked us if it was possible that his now rock hard erections could have “stretched” his penis a bit. Bill feels that his flaccid penis is now longer than it was in the past…maybe an inch. The answer is yes…it is completely possible. Most of the junk sold to insecure men is just that…junk. But a few products look interesting. No, we didn’t try any of the products, but some of the web sites on this topic contain interesting and useful information. The idea that the penis contains skeletal muscle that can control both the size of the penis and how much blood it can hold (the nature of an erection) was a new one on us. We don’t know what’s in the pills, or if they really work, but some people swear by them. Stay tuned…

The clitoris and the G-spot are the primary sources of sexual arousal in women. These areas can easily be reached by men with small penises. If a man performs sex with a woman where she is on top or he is behind her (doggy style), even the smallest penis can maximally apply enough pressure to both the clitoris and the G-spot to induce sexual pleasure. Penal length is only important psychologically. Somehow, the idea that men with large penises or women with large breasts have greater sexual prowess has become established in the psyche of both men and women. This is a complete myth, but it’s a myth that will never go away. Some men and women are absolutely obsessed about the size of their penises and breasts. They’ll do anything to make them larger. In one revealing study, virtually all teenage girls queried agreed that they would like to have plastic surgery on one or more parts of their bodies, usually to make their breasts larger. Many plastic surgeons now refuse to operate on teenage girls for purely cosmetic reasons because they consider it unethical.

Although women can get the size of their breasts augmented, men don’t have that option with respect to their penis size. So they psychologically fret about the size of their penis and refuse to shower at their health club, nude sun bathe or go into a hot tub naked if others are present. They mistakenly believe people, men and women, are looking at the size of their flaccid penis and laughing behind their backs. Unfortunately, penis length and girth does mean something in sex. Many women are very sexually aroused by a large penis, and prefer to have a large penis inside them, but this is an individual preference. So the issue isn’t trivial or insignificant. Feelings of sexual inadequacy are psychologically devastating.

Let me tell you a quick personal story. When I joined the Navy, I was a virgin, a condition I was determined to correct as soon as possible. During a deployment overseas, I joined some of my mates and visited a whore house. I was nervous and more than a little drunk; this, after all, was my first time. When I couldn’t get an erection, the prostitute not only made fun of me, she told all the other prostitutes in the lobby about my little problem. They all laughed. It was a wonderful joke, except of course to me. I was absolutely psychologically devastated, humiliated to the core, and remained totally impotent for over five years thereafter. If a woman even touched me, every muscle in my body tightened. I continued to like women during this five year period, but I didn’t want them touching me. I think my experience as a young man is the reason I am so interested in this subject now. It took a very patient girlfriend, one ten years older than myself, three months to get me to relax and stop being afraid of sex. I associated sex with humiliation, and that’s an emotional problem I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.

Here is the interesting part. Once I realized that I could give pleasure to an experienced older woman my entire life changed. My self esteem level climbed through the roof, I quit my job, moved back home and enrolled in college. Years later I find myself writing treatment protocols for HIV and cancer. So, if I end up helping people with cancer or their HIV infections, it is all because one very wonderful woman turned my life around by curing me of my sexual hang-ups. Once I felt good about myself sexually, my self confidence climbed and I began to take risks like enrolling in college. I was not a good high school student, but when I began college I succeeded beyond my wildest expectations. And it’s all because one woman held me in her arms at a very vulnerable time in my life and proved to me that I was a sexually desirable man. She got me to trust her and to stop being afraid of sex specifically and emotional vulnerability in general. So, when I hear idiots make fun of men who have sexual problems or hang-ups with their bodies, I get very angry. Sexual problems, in either men or women, are not a very humorous topic.

A man or a woman’s ability to please his/her lover is psychologically very important. Sex is important. When we first got involved in this project, we worried that people would think we were writing about porn. It was a stupid thought but it did enter our minds. It’s just that people are so uptight about sexual issues, yet if you look at Internet statistics, sexual oriented sites get the most traffic. Grouppe Kurosawa is definitely not a sexually oriented site, but we had a certain amount of information dumped into our laps and we were not about to ignore it. The information we found out about sexual issues is important to every man and woman on the planet. It simply isn’t necessary to take drugs to enhance sexual performance if you understand how your body responds to sexual stimuli. Why is it that men in their 40s are increasingly reporting impotency problems yet some men in their 70s and 80s lead very active sexual lives? We think we understand these questions much better than most people. And the answers will surprise you!

The Grouppe Kurosawa sexual arrousal treatment protocals are published in our Quality Of Life Blogs.