David "The Pain Killer"

The first things to know about sexual arousal during massage is that it is perfectly natural. It has to do with stress. Stress suppresses functions in the human body, heart rate, breathing, the desire to drink, eat, to sleep, and to procreate. The Divine Source that created us implanted the sensation of pleasure within us so that we would have the motivation to do what we need to do to sustain ourselves. We have thirst and the pleasure of a cold glass of water on a hot day so that we will hydrate ourselves. We can live without food for forty-five days but, we can live without water for only ten days. Luckily, or more accurately Divine Providence has given us hunger and the pleasure of eating to nourish ourselves. We have fatigue and the pleasure of sleep so that we will not exhaust ourselves. We have the pleasure of sex so that we will continue the species.

Stress is not just one thing that is lifted like a lid from a boiling pot. Stress exists in layers. Stress is more like a collapsed house. Walls fall down on one another. Floors collapse. Ceilings fall. Finally the roof caves in. We are all under some degree of stress at all times, otherwise we would not move, or take action. One way to lessen stress is to be very still and quiet as when we meditate.

Stress is a matter of degree from the mildest urge to do something to the extreme of flight or fight. One of the best books on stress is Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert Sapolsky. In it he tells the story of the lion and the zebra. One day at about noon the zebra is about to happily munch on some grass for lunch when he spots a lion crouched in the grass across the plain watching him. The zebra and the lion make eye contact, and the zebra reads the look in the lion's eye, "Lunch!" The zebra knows in an instant that if he doesn't get out of town he's going to be that lion's lunch.

Nature takes control of the zebra and he immediately evacuates his digestive track to lighten his load and he begins to run at top speed, the lion bounding behind him. The zebra is running for his life. The zebra runs and runs not daring to look back. Finally after five miles the zebra is breathless, but safe and alive. When the zebra catches his breath he realizes that having run five miles in the heat of the day he is very thirsty. As luck would have it, he sees an oasis a little ways off, and he goes over and quenches his thirst. Do you think the zebra was thinking about thirst when he was running away from the lion? Heck no! He had something more important to be concerned about, his life.

Now that his thirst is slaked, he realizes how hungry he is. After all, he was about to eat lunch when his priorities suddenly changed. Well, not far from the oasis he spots some nice green grass. The zebra eats himself a belly full of fine grass. Boy is it good! Do you think the zebra was thinking about eating when he was running away from the lion? Heck no!

After that wonderful meal the zebra is inclined to take himself a nice restful midday nap. By golly, there is a grove of palm trees over there to give him shade from the sun. Do you think that the zebra was thinking about a nap when he was running away from the lion? Heck no!

As he was lying down he spotted a rather attractive female zebra, and he the thought occurred to him, "You know, it's been a long time since I made any little zebras." Do you think that zebra was thinking about procreating when he was running away from that lion? Heck no!