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Sexual Activity

Treated as physiology, not morality. Healthy drive is hormonally narrow, roughly three to five days monthly, tied to ovulation. Chronic oversexuality signals glandular toxicity, diet shapes libido directly, and most sexually transmitted diseases cannot cross intact membranes.

Sexual activity, in Aajonus Vonderplanitz's framework, is a normal biological function tied directly to hormonal production, glandular health, and the body's relationship with toxicity. He did not treat it as a separate moral or psychological category so much as a physiological event governed by the same nutritional and biochemical principles that govern every other bodily process. His understanding was rooted in the observation that healthy, well-nourished animals and humans are not chronically oversexed but are instead sexually active in alignment with reproductive cycles, approximately three to five days per month when a female is in ovulation or heat. Chronic or compulsive sexual drive, in his view, was a sign of toxicity rather than vitality.

He spoke about his own sexual history openly and at length as a way of illustrating how illness, toxicity, and diet shape libido and sexual capacity. As a severely ill child, he masturbated approximately five times a day, not out of genuine sexual drive but because it was the only physical activity his body could perform given his weakness and pain. He framed this explicitly as a substitute for exercise, a way of discharging hormones the body was producing for physical movement but that he was too ill to burn any other way. As his health improved on the Primal Diet, that compulsive pattern resolved. He described his adult sexual activity as moderate, enjoyable, and connected to actual hormonal response to a partner rather than to an internal biochemical imbalance.

Normal Sexual Drive's Hormonal Basis

Aajonus held that truly healthy sexual drive is not a constant daily phenomenon. He pointed to animals in the wild as his reference: among healthy, naturally fed animals, males become sexually aroused only when the female goes into heat, which he described as a hormonal and olfactory event lasting roughly three to four days per month, five days at the absolute maximum. He stated plainly, "We are not normally over, normal and healthfully oversexed creatures." Dogs and cats that chase light posts, furniture, and people's legs are, in his reading, exhibiting the effects of processed commercial pet food on the hormonal system, not normal animal behavior. When such animals are put on proper raw food, this behavior typically resolves within one to two years.

The gonads, meaning the ovaries and testicles, belong to the endocrine system and are activated primarily by scent. He stated that 90 percent of sexual stimulation originates in the nose, with a direct physiological link between olfactory input and gonadal arousal. When a female emits the chemical signals associated with ovulation, the male's testosterone, estrogen, and associated hormones shift in response. This is the natural mechanism. Outside of that specific context, sustained high testosterone or estrogen is, in his view, a sign that the body is producing excess glandular secretions in response to toxicity rather than genuine reproductive readiness.

Oversexuality Signals Toxic Behavior

One of Aajonus's consistent positions was that an excessive or compulsive sexual drive is produced by toxic compounds irritating the glands, particularly the testes in men. When poisons migrate to the gonads, where much of the body's fat is concentrated, the glands become overactive because the body attempts to discharge those toxins through ejaculation, using the fats and proteins in semen as the carrier medium. He described this in a specific palm reading context: a client who was not naturally oversexual but had poisons accumulating in the testes showed markings indicating gonadal overactivity, even though the person's natural temperament was toward physical hyperactivity in the field rather than sexual hyperactivity.

He also attributed the current epidemic of sexual dysfunction and pharmaceutical dependence on Viagra partly to the effects of plastics and hydrogenated oils in the food supply. Bisphenol phosphates, phthalates, and other plasticizers disrupt the entire hormonal system, causing males in animal studies to feminize and females to masculinize, with eventual sterility in both. Hydrogenated oils, which he called liquid plastic, similarly damage sex drive and reproductive function. He observed that sixty years ago, the social problem was too much male sexual energy; by the era he was speaking in, the problem had reversed entirely because of environmental and dietary contamination.

Excess sperm production and a corresponding excess sexual appetite can also come from bad foods and chemicals more broadly, not only from plastic compounds. He noted that among the more than one hundred tribal peoples he had visited in his lifetime, not one group displayed chronic oversexuality. They enjoyed sex when it occurred naturally but were not driven or overwhelmed by it.

Masturbation

Aajonus addressed masturbation without any moral framing, treating it strictly as a physiological act with specific biochemical consequences. He recommended it explicitly for people whose sex glands are overactive, whether from toxicity or natural constitution, when they are not in a relationship or not with a partner whose sexual drive matches their own. His reasoning was that the hormones produced by overactive gonads, if not discharged, cause irritability and anxiety. The discharge, whether through partnered sex or masturbation, converts those hormones into endorphins that produce relaxation and calm.

He described his own use of masturbation in adulthood, post-recovery, as occasional and purely functional: if he could not wind his body down and needed to sleep, he would masturbate to relax enough to rest. He distinguished this from compulsive masturbation, which he associated specifically with illness, toxicity, and the inability to exercise. His childhood pattern of five times daily he attributed entirely to the hormonal demands his diseased body was placing on him combined with his physical inability to discharge that energy any other way.

For people reading overactive sex glands in the palm, specifically a very large, firm, full mound of flesh at the base of the thumb near the area corresponding to the gonads, prostate, and ovaries, he advised: "You need to take care of yourself if you are not in a relationship with a partner, or not with a partner who is very sexual." He explicitly confirmed that masturbation is the appropriate response in such cases, and that as long as the person is eating adequate protein, the act of masturbation will not deprive the body of necessary nutrients.

Mismatched Sexual Drive in Relationships

Aajonus discussed the practical problem of mismatched libidos in couples with considerable specificity. He used the metaphor of expecting an eagle and getting a parakeet: if one partner's palm readings show a very large, active gonadal mound and the other's shows a small, flat, inactive one, the higher-drive partner will need to either take care of themselves through masturbation, find a partner whose drive matches their own, or allow the relationship to accommodate additional relationships. He framed this not as a moral judgment but as a physiological incompatibility, like asking someone with low physical stamina to perform at the level of an athlete.

He also noted that for very uptight individuals who have overactive sex glands but are inhibited, the practical counsel was to help them relax as much as possible and to inform them directly that their glands are overactive and that self-care is necessary and legitimate. He described cases from his palm reading practice where he would tell clients that one partner was three, four, or five times more sexual than the other, and would advise the higher-drive individual plainly that expecting the other to match them would cause ongoing problems.

Diet's Impact On Sexual Drive

Aajonus cited a client in his seventies who had been eating properly and, as a result, went from having sex three times a week, which he described as already unusual for that age group, to having sex several times a day. The man reported that he had not previously realized he had any sexual deficiency because his prior frequency had seemed normal by conventional standards. The dietary context that enabled this improvement was not specified in the passages beyond the general reference to "his diet" and the Primal Diet framework.

He also described his own experience with a girlfriend: because she was not as healthy as he was, her hormonal output was different, but his body still responded to it with increased frequency relative to his baseline solo experience. He put the natural ceiling at approximately three times per day when with a partner he was separated from for extended periods, though he noted that even this was not truly a natural baseline but rather a rebound effect from time apart.

Aphrodisiac Foods

Aajonus identified several specific foods as natural stimulants for sexual arousal and erectile function.

**Watermelon rind:** The white portion of the watermelon, from the seeds inward to just before the green skin, contains citrulline, which he described as a natural Viagra. He was careful to specify that the citrulline is concentrated in the white rind, not in the red flesh, not in the green skin, and not in the seed area. He stated that eating approximately one cup of the rind only, with perhaps a small amount of pink included, could produce an erection lasting approximately eight hours. He recommended eating the rind for three to four days, approximately two cups per day, at which point the effects become controllable rather than unrelenting, and stated that this protocol resolved erectile dysfunction in approximately 90 percent of his clients. He noted that the University of Texas A&M was attempting to breed watermelons with higher citrulline concentrations to produce a natural Viagra, but warned that extracting the citrulline as an isolated compound requires solvents such as kerosene or hexane, which destroys the synergistic co-factors that make it effective when eaten whole. He also noted that for women, citrulline causes erection of the clitoris and enhances sexual sensation, and explicitly warned against eating the heart of the watermelon due to its high sugar content, which creates glycogen stickiness in the brain and nervous system.

**Cucumbers:** Contain a small amount of citrulline as well, though substantially less than watermelon rind. He mentioned cucumber as a secondary source.

**Oranges and avocados together:** He described a specific experiment he conducted at a Hindu ashram where he was responsible for food selection, deliberately feeding the celibate yoga community cases of oranges and avocados multiple times daily. Within five days, the instructors began speaking about the anatomy of female students and unconsciously touching them. By the sixth day, one instructor had sexual relations with a woman he had admired. By the seventh night, even the head of the ashram, Sadashiva, had sought out a specific woman. When Aajonus replaced the oranges with pears and apples, the behavior resolved within five days. He repeated the experiment to control for the full moon as a variable, with the same result. He noted that the body acclimates to aphrodisiacs over time, so they do not work indefinitely with the same intensity, and that watermelon with avocados worked more powerfully for him personally, and that adding raw fish, especially raw oysters, to that combination made the effect faster, working within a day rather than requiring two days of buildup.

**Raw peanuts:** Mentioned briefly as an aphrodisiac, ground into a nut formula.

**Unripe fruit and cucumber for collagen:** In the context of maintaining sexual excitability, he mentioned that if a person's mate is unhappy due to a partner's lack of sexual responsiveness, watermelon consumption addresses that. He also connected collagen health to sexual function indirectly, noting that cucumber and unripe fruit provide collagen precursors without excessive carbohydrate.

Erectile Dysfunction and the Prostate

Aajonus was strongly opposed to prostatectomy as a response to elevated PSA levels, and he connected it directly to the permanent destruction of sexual function. He stated that PSA is not a reliable indicator of prostate cancer, citing clients who had their prostates removed and still showed PSA counts of 80 to 100. He described the prostate as the muscle responsible for ejaculation and as a structural component in the blood flow mechanism that enables erection: the prostate supports the musculature of the penis, and its removal destroys some of the blood channels leading to penile tissue, preventing adequate blood flow for erection. His position was unambiguous: "These people are ripping out their prostates and never get to have sex again and their mates don't like it."

On pharmaceutical erectile drugs, specifically Viagra, Cialis, and similar compounds, he described the mechanism as forcing blood into the penis while preventing release, causing internal bleeding. He stated that when these drugs were first released, their package inserts listed penile deterioration in a percentage of laboratory animals. He specified that 23 to 32 percent of animals given these drugs experienced complete penile deterioration, ending with only a clitoris-like remnant remaining. He framed the entire pharmaceutical erectile industry as a profit mechanism whose growth was enabled by the same industrial food system that destroyed sexual function in the first place.

Sexual Transmission of Disease

Aajonus's position on sexually transmitted diseases was categorical and ran directly contrary to conventional medicine. He stated that diseases whose agents live in the tissues and blood cannot be transmitted through sexual contact. He specifically named syphilis, gonorrhea, HIV, and AIDS as conditions that cannot be caught through sex. His reasoning was that viruses and bacteria living in the tissues require direct injection into the body to be transmitted; they cannot cross intact membranes. He cited Dr. Strecker's research, noting that even in a person diagnosed with AIDS, an ejaculation contains only approximately two AIDS bodies, which is insufficient to survive or reproduce even if introduced into another person's body through normal sexual contact. He also noted that even anal sex with bleeding does not create inward bleeding, since the body bleeds outward, so transmission by that route is also impossible.

He cited 236 couples who had been together since the early 1970s, one partner diagnosed with AIDS, still living as of the time he was speaking, without transmission to the other partner through unprotected sex. He also referenced a documentary film involving a couple, apparently from Thailand, in which both partners had AIDS but no transmission occurred through continued unprotected sex.

The only sexually transmitted condition he acknowledged was yeast infection, and even this he qualified: yeast and fungus live on the skin surface, not in the tissues or blood, which is why superficial transfer is possible. Nothing living in the tissues or blood can be transmitted through sexual contact, in his view.

He attributed AIDS specifically to a biological warfare program developed at UCLA in 1961 and 1962, with the agent placed into the hepatitis B vaccine administered to homosexuals in four major American cities in the 1970s and 1980s. He stated that the AIDS agent is transmissible through blood transfusion or injection, because in those cases the material is physically introduced into the body, but not through sex, saliva, or any other mucous membrane contact.

Impotency

He distinguished between psychological impotency and physiological impotency. Psychological impotency, in his framework, is addressed primarily by allowing fantasy during sexual activity. He acknowledged that some partners may be troubled by the content of their mate's fantasies, and that for some people sharing a fantasy ruins its power while for others sharing increases arousal. His practical counsel was to run imagination freely, with or without disclosure to the partner, as the mechanism for reigniting arousal when a relationship has become sexually routine.

Physiological impotency he attributed to nervous system deterioration, blood pressure medications, psychotherapeutic drugs, and genital-related structural problems. He did not develop this extensively in the available passages, but the framing is consistent with his general position that pharmaceutical interventions degrade bodily function.

Sexual Activity As Exercise

Aajonus consistently described sex as his preferred and often only form of exercise. He stated multiple times that he has zero activity rings in his eyes, meaning he produces virtually no activity hormones on a daily basis, and that the only physical activity he is interested in expending energy on is sex and dancing. He used Cary Grant as a reference point, noting that Grant described his exercise as finger exercises and sex, and aligned himself with that position.

He described periods of six or more hours of daily sex with a former partner, noting that the relationship ended partly because she had six activity rings and needed far more physical variety than he was interested in providing, since he was content with sex, his computer, and no other movement. He framed this as a physiological incompatibility rather than a personal failure.

For people with high activity ring counts, seven to fourteen rings, who are naturally athletic, farmer-type, or laborer-type constitutions, he noted that this constitution also tends to create a strong sexual drive, and again advised self-care through masturbation if not partnered. The endorphins produced during ejaculation were described as a specific physiological benefit for such individuals, providing relaxation and hormonal balance that helps compensate for low glandular activity in other areas, such as the thyroid.

Palm Reading and Gland Assessment

Aajonus used palm reading as a diagnostic tool and described specific markers for gonadal activity. The large mound at the base of the thumb corresponds to the gonads, ovaries, and other sexual organs including the prostate gland. A very large, full, firm mound indicates overactive sex glands producing excess hormones and prostaglandins. A flat, lifeless mound indicates inactivity or exhaustion of those glands. A puffy, swollen appearance lower in that region may indicate prostate involvement. He also read the activity rings in the iris of the eye to determine how many hours of physical activity, including sexual activity, a person needs daily to avoid converting those hormones into anxiety.

He described a case of a child aged nine to eleven brought in by parents without his being told the reason for the visit, in which he identified specific glandular and activity patterns from the irises and palm and communicated the appropriate activity requirements to the parents.

Caesarean Section and Sexual Function

Aajonus made a specific connection between Caesarean delivery and permanent reduction in sexual pleasure. He stated that the surgical incision through the abdomen severs connections between the mother's spinal cord and brain, severs blood and lymph circulation to vital abdominal areas including the uterus, and scars nerves, veins, lymph, muscles, and skin. The consequence he described was a drastic reduction in sensation for sexual pleasure and loss of control over motor responses and hormone production, which he stated usually affects the woman negatively for the remainder of her life.

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