Marsupial Has Marathon Sex Until It Goes Blind And Drops Dead

Wired Science termed this the Absurd Creature of the Week.  Why?  I couldn't stop laughing when I read this.  On deeper thought, there are lessons for all of us.  Read on.

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Sexual Frenzy Unlike Other
In the forests of Australia, every year just before spring, there erupts a sexual frenzy unlike any other on Earth. It’s bigger than an ultra-romantic Neil Diamond concert, bigger even than spring break in Cancun. Here a tiny hyperactive marsupial called antechinus sprints around mating almost non-stop for an exhausting three weeks, with single romps lasting as long as 14 straight hours.

Relentless Bound From Partner to Partner
Males relentlessly bound from partner to partner, as massive hormone releases in their bodies cause their immune systems to crash and their fur to fall out. They bleed internally. Some males even go blind, yet still stumble around the leaf litter hoping for one last tryst. In a few short weeks, every single male lies dead, leaving the females to raise their offspring. And so it seems that in perpetually dangerous Australia, even the sex can kill you.

Sexual Kamikaze
For these three weeks of sexual kamikaze, antechinus males are concerned with nothing–absolutely nothing–other than mating with as many females as they possibly can. Ecologist Andrew Baker of Australia’s Queensland University of Technology, who studies these critters’ astonishing habits, has even picked up a copulating pair, who ignored him entirely and went about their business in his hands. “It’s pretty frenzied,” said Baker. “There’s no courtship or anything like that. The males basically just grab the females and go for it.”

Testosterone Overdose - the Root Cause
Driving males to such feats are astronomical levels of testosterone. Think of an MMA fight wrapped in an Insane Clown Posse concert wrapped in the Insane Clown Posse playing during an MMA fight. While the hormone mobilizes all the sugars in the antechinus’ body so it doesn’t need to feed for the three-week orgy, it also glitches the mechanism responsible for regulating the production of cortisol, a stress hormone that in small amounts results in bursts of energy and higher pain tolerances.

Runaway Levels of Cortisol
With runaway levels of cortisol, though, the males’ bodies literally begin to fall apart. Bone density plummets and blood-sugar levels go nuts. Their immune systems essentially degrade to worthlessness, as open sores form and never heal. Of course, females are also quite stressed during all of this, but they don’t produce anywhere near the same levels of testosterone, so their cortisol regulation remains normal.

Some Thoughts
Sex, is after all a physical activity. Too much of it will kill you.
We are biological creatures after all.  That's why biological and chemical weapons are really scary.

Imagine, instead of torturing you with pain, your deadly enemy puts something in your body that causes your testosterone to go on an infinite and endless overdrive.

On The Flip Side 
Some males face the opposite problem.  Not enough testosterone.  How?  Putting drugs aside, there are natural ways to increase the testosterone level. Most important would be to lose weight, get some exercise and reduce stress. See this article from a fitness website for more ideas.

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