Something that our brain interprets as dangerous causes stress — in other words: adrenaline and cortisol to be released, whose functions are, among others, to interrupt all activities related to pleasure and to channel the energies in the escape or attack, according to the danger

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«Imagine that you are walking through the forest singing a song, your favorite song, the one that makes you happy and gives you« good vibes ». Then, suddenly a huge bear appears, hungry and angry. What do you do? The first thing you do, in a matter of microseconds, is to stop singing; and second, escape as fast as you can and without looking back ». This is how Dr. Nicola Tartaglia, urologist, andrologist and sexual health expert starts his explanation of how stress can influence sexual intercourse.

https://www.archyde.com/the-story-of-the-bear-the-song-and-the-forest-that-explains-why-you-dont-feel-like-sex

Open Relationship Rules….

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Open relationships aren’t the oddity they used to be. Chances are that you know someone in some form of non-traditional or non monogamous relationship. Open relationships may seem unmanageable if you aren’t experienced. But that doesn’t stop you, you’ve got many other ways or Open Relationship rules to navigate them successfully. If you want to start an open relationship or just educate yourself about it, it’s important to know the Basics, Cz we don’t fuck with the Basics!!! 😅

• Monogamy

Monogamy is basically when we are in a serious or an open relationship with one man/ woman at a time. This is the traditional way or beliefs of people and people in India practice this kind of a relationship strategy.

• Polyamory

Polyamory is a romantic relationship with more than one person at a time, with the root Ploly-meaning “Multiple” and Amor- meaning “Love”. This kind of relationship is…

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Wild Sex in the Middle Ages

In the popular imagination, the history of sex is a straightforward one. For centuries, the people of the Christian West lived in a state of sexual repression, straitjacketed by an overwhelming fear of sin, combined with a complete lack of knowledge about their own bodies. Those who fell short of the high moral standards that church, state and society demanded of them faced ostracism and punishment. Then in the mid-20th century things changed forever when, in Philip Larkin’s oft-quoted words, ‘Sexual intercourse began in 1963 … between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles’ first LP.’

In reality, the history of human sexuality is far more interesting and wild. Many prevailing presumptions about the sex lives of our medieval ancestors are rooted in the erroneous belief that they lived in an unsophisticated age of religious fanaticism and medical ignorance. While Christian ideals indeed influenced medieval attitudes to sex, they were rather more complex than contemporary prejudices suggest. Christian beliefs interacted with medieval medical theories to help shape some surprising and sophisticated ideas about sex, and a wide variety of different sexual practices, long before the sexual revolution.

https://aeon.co/amp/essays/getting-down-and-medieval-the-sex-lives-of-the-middle-ages