Male testosterone levels peak around age 20. During the years around this age sexual desire also reaches a maximum, and normally only the most difficult of circumstances prevents men at this age from being “at the ready” when their girlfriends want to have fun under the sheets.
From about age 40 the testosterone level is believe to decrease to some degree, but production never fully stops. Some men keep the desire to conduct the human mating ritual again and again their whole lives, either to the joy or the annoyance to those around them (depending on the circumstances). Other men get problems with a decreasing sex drive.
Testosterone gives men desire but not ability, and it can be advantages to understand what affects these factors.
Illness
Illnesses which directly or indirectly affect hormone producing glands and decrease testosterone levels also decrease desire. Such illnesses primarily affect the elderly.
Stress negatively affects sex life
Stress, especially work related, is probably the number one potency killer. Independent business owners are the most effected group. They have trouble relaxing when they come home from work, and this affects their sex lives. The hormonal balance is also affected by stress. Stressed people should not cancel their yearly vacations and should learn some stress management techniques.
Cigarettes, whiskey, and naked women
For many men the above heading is the perfect example of heaven on earth. In reality, this heaven can be relatively short lived. Regular cigarette smoking can cause impotence if continued for as little as 20 years. Alcohol increases desire, but also decreases the ability to perform and, in real life, women who throw off their clothes and demand sex can cause the paradoxical reaction of performance anxiety in some men. This is a stress reaction where the thought alone of achieving erection and maintaining it until the woman achieves orgasm, causes loss of ability. This kind of problem requires that the man talks to his partner about the issue and sometime requires professional therapy.
Fatty foods decrease potency
Men who eat few fatty foods have more stable testosterone levels in their blood, and therefore more desire and ability for sex. Testosterone levels can actually fall by more than 30 % as quickly as four hours after eating fatty food. This makes the likelihood of wanting sleep more than the likelihood of wanting sex. With this knowledge, a women making dinner who is looking forward to male attendance in bed would be wise to serve something light.
Scents and smells
Men can loose their desire if their girlfriend doesn’t smell good. Women who have contracted a trichomonas infection, which thrives in their vaginas and in the male uterine tract, can smell like a fishery down there. In other cases the smell of urine, or something else, can kill desire.
Since ancient times, women have known, or sensed, that some scents are sexually stimulating to men, but this has only been confirmed science recently.
In 1995 the neurologist Dr. Alan Hirsch and his colleagues published research on the effects of different scents on penile blood flow based on experimental data from 31 volunteers aged 18 to 64.
This research shows that women throughout the ages have been right. Some scents can be used to wake male desire. 48 scents were tested, and the results were somewhat surprising. The scents while caused the greatest increases in penile blood flow were:
1. Lavender and pumpkins : 40%
2. Doughnut and black liquorish: 32%
3. Pumpkin and doughnut: 20%
This result almost screams the need of more research, and more questions need to be answered. It is fascinating that the smell of doughnuts is in the top three. Could this also be true for men from other parts of the world? Is this part of the reason that some people are attracted to baker’s girls? Has the perfume industry thought of launching doughnut perfume?
In the study the older men were more likely to be turned on by the scent of vanilla. Musk scent received a meagre 11th place and cranberry scent was at the bottom of the list.
So girls, now you are armed with the newest knowledge in the field of hooking up. Put a little lavender behind your ears and a roll in the oven!
Reference
Hirsch, A.R., & Kim, J.J. The effects of odors on penile blood flow - a possible impotence treatment. Psychosomatic Medicine (1995) 57, 83.
