brain spinal column pelvic nerves information transfer

• We get erect or wet as the result of an impressive chain of events:
  • brain perceives a sexual message
  • brain sends a message down the spinal column toward the pelvic nerves
  • pelvic nerves send a message to the small blood vessels radiating out from the pelvis
  • blood vessels receive the message and get to work: they dilate, allowing more blood to flow in
  • increased blood flow fills the penis or clitoris, making it hard, and triggers the wetness that eventually sweats through the vaginal wall into the vagina
• “Sexual dysfunction” is when the brain–spinal column– pelvic nerves–vascular system information transfer doesn’t work smoothly … the information transfer between brain and spinal column, between spinal column and pelvic nerves, or between pelvic nerves and blood vessels; the nonresponsiveness of the blood vessels once they do get the message; or the dis- ruptions created by diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, and Alzheimer’s
• the spinal column also carries our emotions, which are basically simple electrical impulses … the message “Alert—sexual excitement, prepare for pelvic hydraulics!” is carried down the same pipe as the message “I don’t trust you, mister,” or, “What the hell am I doing here?” These emotions serve as noise, which can prevent a clean sexual signal from getting all the way to the pelvis from the brain … not enough signal to create vasocongestion down there, or to keep it flowing after it starts