Breathe
By Edelmira Cárdenas
A few days ago I read an article on sexual addiction that talked about hypersexuality (a disorder that affects a small but significant percentage of our country). Hypersexuality constitutes a failure of control over sexual behavior, despite the destructive consequences it can generate in people, whether male or female. Basically, those who are hypersexual pretend to fill a void by having sex at such a high level that it affects their work, economic, relational, family life, and in short: like any other addiction. Why do I comment on the above? Because this article made me reflect on what is really important when it comes to seek our full satisfaction and sexual pleasure without losing ourselves or the other.
Whether in food, in fragrances or in any of the senses, pleasure is a delicacy that sneaks through them in a finite way. It lasts for a moment, the moment in which the action is exercised. Nature is wise and has made our basic needs a pleasure (reproduction, food, rest). Can you imagine if food were always tasteless or the same? If sleeping did not represent any form of satisfaction? Or if sex were just a simple "in and out"? Wise and normal is the complacency that is part of our nature. But what happens when, in spite of eating and eating, I don't feel that it is enough, or if I sleep and don't feel rested? Or what happens a lot: If despite the sex I have I do not report the signs of full satisfaction?
