The ongoing quest for "what makes great sex great ?" A lot of it has to do with tactile sensitivity, how much you skin surface
reports to your brain...

Thus far, my conclusion is that a healthy dopamine system is essential for a wicked pleasure response.

Unfortunately, the dopamine parts of your brain age the fastest, therefore, that's where you lose functionality the quickest, barring head traumas and things like that.

Fortunately, the dopamine system appears to be responsive to safe and legal helpers that you can buy over the counter. Take note, they are generally safe, but you may have special considerations such as medicine you take, mental disorders, hypertension... so if you do, or think that you might, see your doctor first, o.k. ?

Anyway. Am staying with my now established intake of 25 mg. keto-dhea (under the tongue for 1 minute) and 5 mg. of enada on empty stomach, first thing in the a.m.

Got massage last night from Sammy, she was excellent when I met her, and after some instruction in Esalen technique she moved up to freaking awesome, best in class.

Limbic system properly adjusted, I flopped on the massage table and turned her loose. Lawdy.... my skin was pouring erotic information into my brain like it hasn't since I used to hang out at the Kiva in Santa Cruz in my mid twenties. This was juicy good.... completely and totally stoned on the experience...

For a while now I've been thinking that I had gotten used to massage and wasn't as turned on by it as before, or it had become a familiar form of relaxation, or something like that.

Wasn't true. My tactile awareness had lost its edge, along with my vision and hearing... a subtle decline, as aging tends to be.

With sensation restored, my only thought at this point is that I sure hope this keeps on working as well as it is right now because my stress level is, ah, unusually low at the moment.

gonna try some of your sensory modulators as my limbic system is probably a bit drained of its catecholamine content.

WRT massage, about a month ago, in Tokyo, I had the most incredible experience with a young lady who had been studying the massage arts in India. I'm cannot recall the details of how she did it, but she could induce an incredible mind-body experience through tactile (surface and deep) stimulation.

Keep up the research...maybe you could get an NIH grant.

thank you.... you won't believe this, but our own FDA exerted its influence to have an effective antidepressant, Survector (amineptine), removed from the international market because it was getting a reputation as a powerful orgasm intensifier (and therefore has a "high potential for abuse"). Survector is a dopamine reuptake inhibitor and an appropriate medicine for some unfortunate souls out there who do not respond to the Prozac family of drugs.
 Freaking amazing, isn't it ?, that an American agency was able to pressure drug manufacturers outside of its jurisdiction to cease making a product, not because it WAS being abused by crazed hobbyists in search of full throttle sex, but because it worked so well that it MIGHT be abused once the word got out.