The Future of Your Sexuality:
An Upward Spiral
“When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.”
—OPRAH WINFREY, QUOTED IN CARL TUCHY PALMIERI’S
OPRAH, IN HER WORDS
Even though you have the potential to experience extreme sexual pleasure, as we underscored at the beginning of this book, there’s a crucial caveat: You have to claim great sex, again and again, over the course of your life. It won’t grow and blossom without your long-term commitment.
One of the central themes of this book is that your capacity for sexual pleasure and overall health are seamlessly interwoven. A healthy body frees you from countless discomforts, and gives you the energy you need to act readily on your desires—both of which are prerequisites to your ability to fully enjoy sex. As you’ve seen throughout these pages, great sex is a natural outgrowth of great health, and the two flourish in tandem.
Your sexuality, like your health, is part of a complex, multilayered tapestry that extends far beyond the physical realm, encompassing everything in your life. Sex is so much more than the sum of your genital experiences; it touches your deepest emotions and desires, opens you to profound mind-body mysteries, and may connect you with your innermost spirituality. Its powerful effects reverberate in your life long after momentary erotic pleasure passes. Through intimacy, romance, and love, it can transform your behavior and feelings, reach far into your future, and forever change your destiny. This is the ultimate meaning of “great sex”—the totality of sexuality.
Great sex and great health are yours for the having; you can choose your way into both. All that you do—every choice you make on a daily basis about what you eat, how you exercise, and even what you think about—influences your capacity for both sexual fulfillment and abundant health. The future of your sexuality, and your health, is in your hands.
As you continue moving forward on your itinerary to more vibrant sexuality, be kind to yourself; remember that it may not be realistic to expect instant results and immediate gratification—there are no fast tracks to great sex—especially if your health is compromised and you have important challenges to overcome along the way. Keep in mind that any one piece of sexual-health advice is unlikely to suddenly propel you to peak pleasure. As you’ve seen, the great health that makes great sex possible doesn’t happen overnight. It requires your time, patience, intention, devotion, creativity, and craftsmanship. You weave your well-being deliberately; it grows gradually, steadily, strand by strand, with each careful, meditative motion of the loom and shuttle.
At the same time, it’s not a daunting challenge to claim your birthright to great sex. The resplendent health that allows you to maximize your sexuality is your natural state, and well within your grasp. This book is intended to serve as your personal “pleasure trove,” by providing you with a wealth of tools and techniques for achieving the most gratifying experience of your sexuality, but the message between the lines on every page is simple: you can create great sex and great health.
Now that you’re on your way, myriad momentum factors are working in your favor. The more you make lifestyle choices that manifest your vitality and potential for pleasure, the more likely you are to keep doing so in future situations—and to experience optimal health and radiant sensuality in any eventuality. And perpetually adding to your momentum is the fact that great health and great sex are mutually supportive, inseparably intertwined like a double helix: the higher you curve along the trajectory of one, the greater your ascendancy along the other.
Everything in this book is designed to support your momentum on this upward spiral; its pages contain the essence of what you most need to know to enhance your sexuality, now and in the future. As your journey continues onward and upward, we hope this book will open many possibilities for you and continue to expand your natural capacity for sexual fulfillment for many years. May it serve you well, and may you always enjoy all the gifts of great sex, naturally.
Aloha Nui Loa,
Laurie and Alex
