The Package Myth: When Blokes Obsess Over Hardware – Part 5 – Team Operations

Yes there is more than one Team Ops. Enter Team Sperm

The infrastructure is ready, the Ops teams are watching the screens attentively, raring to go. Management presses the button – Management does love a bit of drama – and a large 'GO' appears on the screen down on the shop floor. From this moment onwards, it's absolute mayhem.

What triggered the 'GO' in the first place? Well, we all know Management. Everything and anything sets them off, so a smile, a whiff of perfume, a glimpse of a body part, a passing fantasy – more than enough to initiate the frenzy.

Team Sperm doesn't sit idle while Team Blood is pumping away at the infrastructure. In fact, the testes are pulled up towards the body and muscles contract, which is why you feel that tensing up in the pelvic region. For ejaculation to occur, both the prostate and seminal vesicles release their fluid to mix with sperm et voilà – you've got seminal fluid travelling through the urethra in an erect penis.

This is the point of no return. The train has left the station, climax is inevitable, and you certainly know it. No refunds, no exchanges. Contractions of the pelvic muscles propel the seminal fluid along the urethra and finally... ejaculation.

Now here's the beauty of it: the whole body reacts in preparation for this event. The tensing you feel in various parts of your body isn't imaginary – muscles actually contract like springs, sensitivity increases, the senses go on high alert. It's all glands on deck.

Rapid breathing, heart pumping, blood pressure rising – all these systems contribute to climax. And when it's over, blood is released back into the body, muscles relax, breathing returns to normal. The whole operation stands down.

But wait – was all this physical and physiological stuff taking place in your body.... actually pleasurable? Did you enjoy it? How did it feel at a sensation level and an emotional one?

Because contrary to popular belief, ejaculation and orgasm are two separate things altogether.

One is the physical release of sperm, the other is the peak of pleasurable sensations.

The two might or might not happen simultaneously. Ejaculation doesn't have to occur for orgasm to be experienced, and the same goes the other way around.

Is this a problem? Well, actually no. Once again, unless there's pain or discomfort, this is quite normal. They're a package deal that doesn't always come as a package, if it makes sense.

Think of it like going to the pub with your mates to watch football. Whilst it's a fun thing to do – horsing around, drinking beer – the pub exists on its own when you go with family and friends for Sunday roast.

And football exists as well in the comfort of your lounge on the sofa when you're getting excited at watching a goal being scored with your kids.

All permutations are valid and all contribute to having a good time, so don't sweat it. That said, if something feels off, checking in with your GP is a good place to start.

And next time to Management – and I'm not talking middle management. I mean THE MANAGEMENT, the C-suite that constitutes our body, feelings, emotions, thoughts, reactions.

Anybody who's experienced an executive board meeting will be familiar with the flights of fancy of the various Chiefs, all talking over each other, plotting against each other under the pretence of working for the organisation that is YOU, whilst actually making sure they're serving the CEO (Chief Ego Officer) who's invested in ITSELF instead of YOU.

Classic C-suite behaviour: loads of delegation, questionable judgment, finger pointing galore and no accountability when things do not go according to their fantasies.