Do you have the ability
to make love for as long as
you want until
you choose to
ejaculate?
That's actually the way we
men are designed to make
love. Unfortunately as we
grow up we learn a different
way of having sex: hurried,
out of control, anxious. But
the exciting thing is that
it's not hard to regain
control, to develop the
power to choose when to
ejaculate. And with the help
of this fully illustrated,
explicit, and very
comprehensive guide to
ejaculation control, your
sexual performance will
improve in days - and within
weeks you'll be a superb,
long-lasting lover!
The facts about sex
Men's sexual physiology: How an erection works
The penis is
made up of three long spongy tubes of
tissue, the cavernous and the spongy bodies
(for complete information on this, see the
page on the anatomy
of the penis). Each tube is surrounded
by flexible and fibrous tissue, and the
whole bundle is wrapped up in another layer
of tissue called Buck's fascia. There's a
rich blood supply to the penis via arteries
which run along the whole length of the
penis inside the spongy erectile tissues and
whose branches empty blood directly into the
spongy tissue.
An
erection is driven by this blood. The spongy
tubes fill up with blood, which results in
the tissue expanding and, at full capacity,
hardening as the tissues become
inflated, much like a hydraulic system in
engineering. However, many different
components have to work together in a well
coordinated fashion for an erection to
be created and maintained.
First,
the blood flow to the penis increases. This
happens through the helicine arteries, which
are small branches of the main arteries
bringing blood to the penis. The helicine
arteries have walls which are made up of
smooth muscles. When the penis is flaccid,
these muscles are contracted, which reduces
the diameter of the blood vessels and
therefore the amount of blood which can flow
through them. When presented with an erotic
stimulus, the brain sets in motion a series
of neuro-physiological events, the
net result of which is to cause the muscle cells to
relax, which allows the blood vessels, the
helicine arteries, to expand. This means
that more blood flows into the spongy
tissues of the penis.
After
an increase in the incoming blood flow, the
next step in an erection is a decrease in
the outward flow of blood so that a pressure
gradient arises and the erection becomes
progressively more rigid.
The
decrease in outward flowing blood happens
passively through the structural design of
the penis. While the incoming arteries bring
their blood into the spongy bodies, the
veins in the penis are close to the Buck's
fascia tissues
which surround the erectile bodies. In fact
the veins tend to run between the fascias for
some distance, before traversing them. This
means that as the internal spongy tissues
fill with blood, they expand against the
outside fascia, which puts pressure on the
veins. As a result, the veins are squeezed
in the middle between the two layers,
thereby decreasing their diameter, which
means less blood is able to flow back out
from the penis.
The
whole design is incredibly efficient. The
resistance for the out-flowing blood
increases a hundred-fold during an erection,
compared to the flaccid state. Once you have
an erection as little as 1 to 5 ml of blood flowing in
is necessary to keep the penis hard. The
downside is that the design is complicated
with a lot of different components, all of
which can potentially go wrong.
The
best way to look after your penis and your
erectile capacity is to maintain a healthy
overall lifestyle, especially looking
after your heart and arteries. (Cholesterol
deposited on the walls of the penile
arteries can block them and prevent you
getting a decent erection.) Second, to
look after your greatest asset, use it - a
lot! Frequent erections will keep the penile
tissues healthy and the erectile mechanism
in fine working order. Like a lot of the
body's systems, "if you don't use it,
you lose it"!
