8 ways not to think about sex

If you believe homegrown psychologists, men think about sex every five minutes. Women "indecent" thoughts go to two times less. Someone will be quite satisfied with such an obsession, and somebody interferes live. The latter by hook or by crook trying to outwit nature and sometimes even succeed in this.
Who needs it?

In the first place come to mind not so long ago attracted the attention of media movement adherents antiseksualov The very eccentric friends who passionately argue that sex is bad, wasteful of energy and health. However, their case is not limited.

Thoughts about sex prevent war, go hiking, young novice, departing in a monastery, loving couples, who (as is) separated for some time.

Well, brother of Pushkin?

Once AS Pushkin was sent into exile in an estate Boldin. He could not see with Natalia Goncharova a few autumn months.

The result was one of the best series of his works, and the period called Boldin Autumn.

Athletes, writers and scientists are trying to forget about sex in order to achieve a fairly pragmatic goals - to win the competition, write a book or to prove the theorem of Poincare. This is a classic case of sublimation - the displacement of sexual desires and translate energy into a creative direction. In Freud's theory by its very existence of human culture must sublimation.

And finally, many faithful lay-volunteer driven thoughts about sex for a considerable period, in Orthodoxy, for example, this is the time of Lent.
How to escape from thinking about sex

Method 1. Go on a diet

It is believed that a strict diet reduces the development of sex hormones. The lower the calories in food, the less libido. Noticeably fewer thoughts about sex is with a decrease in caloric intake by 40% from normal.

Particular attention should be paid to the fact that the food was so-called aphrodisiacs: spices (pepper, cinnamon, ginger, cloves, basil, etc.), nuts, mushrooms, eggs, seafood, meat, fish, olives, honey, chocolate. And most importantly, totally abstain from alcohol!

Method 2. Loaded muscles

Remember the hero Adriano Celentano in the movie "The Taming of the Shrew - a hardened bachelor and misogynist, who every time when I saw the beauty, went frantically chopping wood? Heavy physical work may well support the struggle of the spirit with flesh.

If the right moment to hand ax was not, you can draw the muscles in the gym or simply poprisedat or pootzhimatsya from the floor. Hundred times.

Method 3. Take up the mortification

"The holy ascetic piety of all forces and kept a very strict bodily purity, not stopping at the most heroic measures ...". Mortification has historically been one of the most effective ways to fight the temptations of the flesh.

Voluntary self-flagellation and the wearing of armbands with spikes albino monk from the movie "The Da Vinci Code" - not an artistic exaggeration. For example, the monk Benedict of Nursia (founder of the Western Benedictine monastic order) were quite prickly thorns whenever it covered passionate excitement.

However, less radical elders advised all the same to start with cold washing or lying on the cold bare floor, until after the outbreak of passion.

Method 4. Taking drugs

There has bikes that half a century ago, soldiers in the food spiked with bromine, to thoughts of a sexual nature in the head not climbed. Reduce libido can and other drugs: neuroleptics, antidepressants, tranquilizers, beta-blockers, diuretics, some cardiovascular, hormonal and sedatives.

However, the primary effect of these drugs to have sex is irrelevant. Accept them without a doctor's prescription is not safe!

Method 5. Take up the extreme experiences

Concomitant hormone epinephrine can cause anything, but not an erection. You can do contact martial arts (Thai boxing, karate, etc.) or extreme sports (kayaking, paragliding, mountain climbing, scuba diving, etc.), you can go fight in a hot spot, and you can shave my head and join the gang skinheads or club football fans. By the way, knowledgeable people say that a good fight better than good sex.

Is no accident before Lent (which relies abstention) in Rus necessarily passed fisticuffs "wall to wall.

Method 6. Praying

This advice from the Internet pages of the Orthodox mother.

"If you feel, finally, that forces you to change, and sin is ready to win, there is still a great tool - prayer. Where the lack of human power, there is hope for God's help. Lord is able to deliver on the edge of the abyss. Especially in those moments when the covers passionate excitement and bad thoughts climb in the head, it is necessary to resort to prayer. Most convenient in such cases, a brief but insistently repeated the prayer: "Lord, have mercy!".

Method 7. We can break away

Despite the fact that scientists claim that workaholics - a fantastic lovers that can not believe it. At least, spontaneous thoughts about sex from a person working 12-14 hours a day, especially when it comes to mental labor, - that the stuff of unscientific fantasy.

Distracted from sex can not just work. There are books, crossword puzzles and computer games. Last good by the fact that devour a lot of free time. Particular attention is paid to the endless epics like "Lineydzh-2", in which on-line game days and nights, many thousands of people.

Method 8. Make sex work

The method of the field of homeopathy - "like be cured by likes.

Remember the bearded anecdote about a prostitute?

By lying on a beach prostitute glued man: "Girl, do not want to have fun?" - "No". "Why?" - "Imagine that you work hard and turner at the factory. And then you go on vacation to the sea. Come out to the beach, and there - machines ... machines ... machines ... ".