Oxytocin Hormone and Sexual Arousal – A Potential Treatment for Intimacy Issues by Increasing Sex Drive
The brain produces powerful substances that help with feelings of trust, bonding, and social interest. A brain hormone called Oxytocin is primarily responsible for a lot of this and now is being used to help with increasing sexual arousal between couples. There are reports that it even helps with increasing orgasm potential in women, as well as multiple orgasms.
Oxytocin helps to decrease nerve signals from an area in the brain called the amygdala. The amygdala transmits impulses that are connected to the perception of threat. This perception of threat, even if at a subconscious level, can raise fear and anxiety. By down-regulating this threat or fear response a sense of relaxation, trust and increased social bonding is induced. For some couples having intimacy problems these barriers can be overcome allowing for more intimate contact and arousal via Oxytocin’s influence on the brain.
Oxytocin has a long list of benefits, but listed here are a few that point to the fact that it can help in many situations related to bonding and social intimacy problems:
- Decreases anxiety, social anxiety and fear
- Increases bonding and feelings of love
- Improves social interactions and feelings of trust
- Involved in milk production and let-down during breast-feeding, and plays a major role in mother to baby bonding
Oxytocin is available as an injection, nasal spray, and oral forms. Sublingual tablets are available from many compounding pharmacies and is the most commonly used route for adults to enhance sexual arousal and organism. For sexual arousal issues generally 1 to 2 sublingual oxytocin tablets (dose equal to 25 to 50 IU) can be taken 30 to 60 minutes before anticipated sexual contact. You can speak to your personal physician to see if Oxytocin would be an appropriate intervention for you.
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