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"Every day, a choreographed dance takes place within your physical self as these complex, multifaceted substances intermingle to create your unique sexual nature. The intricacies of this dance extend even beyond your body; your hormones ultimately connect you with your environment, inviting you to join with another who can share your passions and pleasures, bond with you, and join you in the dance."
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"Your magnificent hormones drift through your body, profoundly affecting who you are, how you feel, and your overall health and vitality. They constantly influence your thoughts, emotions, behavior, and spirit, often exerting a powerful pull on even your most subtle urges and inclinations. In fact, the word hormone derives from hormé, Greek for 'impulse.'
"Perhaps more than anything else, your hormones affect your sexuality, intimately shaping your experiences of love, attraction, and arousal. (Hormone is also related to the Greek ornynai, which means 'to rouse.') If there's one thing you can do to enhance the quality of your sexuality, stay healthy, and keep your zest for life, it's to create and maintain your hormonal balance.
"Your hormones are not only an integral part of your personality, but also an extraordinary physiological phenomenon-tiny biologically active substances that are released by your glands, circulate in your body fluids, and have strong effects on parts of your anatomy far from their points of origin. Every day, a choreographed dance takes place within your physical self as these complex, multifaceted substances intermingle to create your unique sexual nature. The intricacies of this dance extend even beyond your body; your hormones ultimately connect you with your environment, inviting you to join with another who can share your passions and pleasures, bond with you, and join you in the dance.
"As you go through your life, this choreography passes through many delicate transitions . . . and a new kind of hormonal harmony gradually emerges during every phase. Each new dance of your sexual health is as elaborate as anything you've previously experienced and perhaps even more extraordinary. Even as you pass through new transformations, your hormones continue to move in elegant synchronized patterns, your sexual nature gently re-creates itself, and the dance goes on."
-From pages 95-96 of Great Sex, Naturally
"From the top portion of your uterus, your fallopian tubes extend gracefully upward toward your ovaries. Every month during your ovulating years a ripe egg, newly released from your ovaries, floats in the small, nebulous inner cavity of your pelvis directly above your fallopian tubes. Like a sea anemone collecting microscopic nutrients in the ocean current, fluttering tentacles at the ends of your fallopian tubes reach, embrace, and gently guide the egg down into the central tube toward your uterus."
-From page 53 of Great Sex, Naturally
"Your experience of menopause is unique . . . Not all women are created equally when it comes to midlife hormonal harmony. Some have a tumultuous transition, filled with physical challenges that require much time and attention, while others seem to sail through midlife effortlessly, with little or no difficulty, hardly needing to pause for menopause."
-From page 136 of Great Sex, Naturally
"Cervical dysplasia can . . . disrupt the quality of your sex life and compromise your experience of pleasure. For some women, cervical dysplasia might well be renamed cervical displeasure."
-From page 88 of Great Sex, Naturally
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