talk), but sexualized energy does. More specifically, testosterone, which can easily cross the blood-to-brain barrier and does indeed travel from the genitals to the brain and back under the right conditions. The yogic tradition is entirely correct, then, even if it sometimes literalizes its sex-to-spirit claim in ways that are physiologically false (this would also, by the way, explain the maleness of some of these yogic traditions—they would be about the supereffects of testosterone, after all).
