Burned Out: Amphetamines, Impotence, and Exhaustion

Let's take these possible scenarios: 

1. At some point along your travels, you begin using crystal meth. It enhances your sociability, sex drive and attention. You start masturbating to some pornography. By the end of your ten-hour session, you've crashed and your sex drive has apparently shriveled (among other things). You spend years caught in the drug-cycle, and your penis stops responding completely, so all you have to pass the time is building cabinets out of recycled computer parts.
2. You're prescribed medication, and you notice an elevated libido. You start attending to your “one-eyed wonder weasel” in excess, or you partake in sex sessions suited for the Olympics. While the effects of the drug aren't as extreme as those of crystal meth, over time they result in impotence.

Each chemical serves a specific function in the body, for example: 

• Dopamine, the pleasure, reward and motor function chemical, can induce a state of well-being and can increase the desire to have sex.
• Norepinephrine, the “fight-or-flight” and attentive-focus chemical, creates appetite-suppression.
• Serotonin, the happiness and emotional activation chemical, is associated with intimate touching, emotional closeness, laughing and feeling serene. For obvious reasons, increased levels also increase the urge to touch and feel.

So how can drugs that enhance these chemicals be harmful?

With help from nature, you can go from “flimsy, floppy and inattentive” to “firm, friendly and ready for action”. By increasing blood flow, relaxing the mind, stabilizing neurotransmitters, and putting some pep in your step, your sexual life can recover from abuse.