Sexual Biohacking
Susan Bratton
SUSAN BRATTON (US)
Intimacy Expert To Millions / CEO of Better Lover and The 20 brands
Intimacy Expert to Millions. Susan is the CEO of Better Lover and The 20, a publisher of passionate lovemaking techniques that transform having sex into making love and a formulator of sexual vitality bars and supplements. She is the world's most well-respected sexual biohacker.
Susan Bratton’s talk on Sexual Biohacking explores enhancement,
Your sexuality is your life force. It is your lust for life. The more that you put your intention and your attention on your sex life your whole life long, the better and better it can get. When you're turned on, your whole life is switched on.
Summary
- Sexual biohacking involves enhancement, longevity, and regeneration, treating sexuality as a lifelong practice to maintain vitality and passion as the body ages. - Regenerative therapies like acoustic wave therapy, nitric oxide, and stem cell injections can reverse genital atrophy and maintain sexual function throughout a person's life. - Orgasms are learned skills that can be expanded by activating neural pathways and exploring various types of stimulation, including G-spot, prostate, and full-body sensations. - Female physiological arousal requires 20 to 30 minutes of active pleasuring to achieve full engorgement of erectile tissue, which is essential for registering high levels of pleasure. - Maintaining intimacy at least three times a week through touch, kissing, or play is linked to increased longevity and appearing up to ten years younger than one's peers.
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Sexual Biohacking Turned Intimacy Into A Longevity Practice At Biohacker Summit 2023 Amsterdam
Susan Bratton’s Case For Pleasure As Health, Skill And Regeneration
At Biohacker Summit 2023 Amsterdam, held in the Netherlands on 14 and 15 October 2023, Susan Bratton delivered a presentation titled *Sexual Biohacking* that treated intimacy not as indulgence, nor as private ornament, but as a serious practice of vitality. Bratton, introduced as an intimacy expert to millions and CEO of Better Lover and The 20, argued that sexuality could be enhanced, extended and biologically renewed through a blend of regenerative therapies, anatomical literacy, communication and disciplined erotic curiosity.
Her thesis was disarmingly simple: sexual pleasure, far from diminishing with age, could deepen with deliberate attention. “Sex is a mindfulness practice and an area of mastery,” Bratton said. “The older you get, the more that you focus on your sexuality throughout your life, the better lover you become.”
The Three Pillars Of Sexual Biohacking
Bratton organised her talk around three pillars: enhancement, longevity and regeneration. Together, they formed a framework for what she described as a life-long “upward pleasure spiral,” in which erotic experience matured rather than narrowed over time.
The language was unabashedly evangelical, but the underlying proposition was practical. Sexuality, in Bratton’s framing, was not a fixed trait handed down by youth, luck or chemistry. It was a trainable capacity. Like strength, memory or balance, it could be cultivated, neglected or restored.
This philosophy challenged one of the most persistent myths about ageing: that erotic life inevitably contracts as the body changes. Bratton argued instead that a sophisticated sex life rested on a “three-legged stool” of technique, communication and genital health.
Regeneration As A Rebuttal To Sexual Decline
Much of the presentation focused on the body itself, and on the technologies Bratton believes can slow or reverse genital ageing. She cited acoustic wave therapy, nitric oxide support, photobiomodulation, pumps, platelet-rich plasma applications, exosomes and stem cell interventions as tools for addressing atrophy and maintaining function.
The point was not simply cosmetic. Bratton’s argument was that blood flow, tissue integrity and nerve responsiveness shape the experience of pleasure, especially later in life. In this account, genital regeneration became part of a wider anti-ageing logic: preserve tissue, improve sensation, retain function, extend desire.
Her language was vivid and often comic, but her claim was serious. The body, she suggested, did not need to be surrendered to a narrative of inevitable erotic decline. It could be worked with, supported and, to a degree, rebuilt.
Orgasm As A Learned Skill
Perhaps the most provocative idea Bratton offered was that orgasms are not only possible, but teachable. “Orgasms are a learned skill,” she said. “If you use tools to activate sensation and understand what you are going for, you can create incredible amounts of pleasure that course through your body and release life-affirming hormones.”
This reframing moved orgasm away from mystery and toward method. Bratton described “orgasmic activation” as the deliberate creation of neural pathways between the brain and the body’s pleasure centres. Areas that felt muted or unresponsive, she argued, could become more erotically available through repeated, conscious stimulation.
In that sense, her talk belonged as much to the language of neuroplasticity as to sex education. Pleasure was presented as something the nervous system could learn to recognise more fully, not a binary event but an expanding range of responses, from clitoral and G-spot orgasms to prostate orgasms, coregasms and what she called erotic hypnosis.
The Anatomy Lesson At The Heart Of The Argument
One of Bratton’s most concrete interventions came in her explanation of female arousal. She insisted that mainstream sexual scripts had badly miseducated people about women’s bodies, especially the architecture of erectile tissue and the time required for full arousal.
According to Bratton, female physiological readiness is often misunderstood because attention is concentrated too narrowly on the visible tip of the clitoris. In reality, she said, the internal sexual anatomy extends around the vaginal canal in a substantial network of erectile tissue. For that tissue to become fully engorged and capable of transmitting intense pleasure, it requires time, around 20 to 30 minutes of active pleasuring and relaxation.
Without that engorgement, her argument went, many women are asked to perform pleasure before the body has been given the chance to produce it. The consequence is not merely disappointment but a cultural script in which women are taught to see themselves as somehow deficient, rather than under-stimulated.
Orgasmic Intercourse And The Undoing Of Sexual Fatalism
From there, Bratton turned to what she called “orgasmic intercourse,” rejecting the idea that penetrative pleasure for women belongs to a lucky few. Instead, she described it as a sequence of learnable techniques, part of a larger effort to replace resignation with skill.
This was one of the most politically charged undercurrents of the talk. Beneath the upbeat vocabulary of pleasure and biohacking sat a critique of inherited sexual norms, especially those that centre male climax while treating female pleasure as secondary, optional or accidental.
Bratton’s intervention was not framed in academic language, but its implications were plain: the problem is often not the body, but the script.
Conscious Sexuality And Erotic Sovereignty
If the first half of the session focused on tissue, blood flow and response, the second widened into something more philosophical. Bratton described conscious sexuality as an ethic of presence, self-possession and mutual creation.
“Conscious sexuality means being a sovereign being,” she said. “I own my body, I own my pleasure, and I am here for my pleasure. I have let go of the shame and am sitting with you in presence to co-create joy.”
In Bratton’s telling, erotic maturity demanded more than technique. It required the abandonment of shame, the capacity to articulate desire and the willingness to remain emotionally present. The heart, she said, had to be connected to the genitals, not metaphorically alone but as part of a broader integration of intimacy, sensation and attention.
Why Intimacy Was Framed As A Marker Of Longevity
One of the talk’s most striking claims linked regular intimacy to visible youthfulness. Bratton referenced research in which people who appeared younger than their peers were found to have one thing in common: frequent intimacy, around three times a week.
She was careful to define intimacy broadly. It did not mean intercourse alone, but touch, kissing, manual stimulation, oral pleasure, toys, closeness and erotic play. The broader point was that erotic connection functions not merely as recreation, but as a sustaining human practice with consequences for mood, bonding and perhaps even biological resilience.
“When you have attention on your sexual pleasure and connection, you look ten years younger than your cohorts,” Bratton said. “Looking younger than your peers is a key indicator of your longevity.”
Whether one accepted every causal leap or not, the idea landed because it reversed the usual health hierarchy. Here, pleasure was not what remained after wellbeing had been secured. Pleasure itself was part of wellbeing’s architecture.
The Six Essentials Of Connected Sex
Bratton concluded by offering what she called the six essentials of connected sex, a model designed to prevent intimacy from hardening into routine or retreating under the pressure of modern life.
The principles were straightforward: create a dedicated “nest” for intimacy, plan for pleasure rather than waiting for spontaneity, learn to ask for what you want, stay present, explore polarity and leadership fluidly, and engage all the senses. To this she added a final recommendation: scheduled “erotic play dates,” deliberate encounters shaped by curiosity rather than obligation.
There was something almost quietly radical in that final point. Bratton proposed that lasting erotic life is less about preserving old sparks than about building structures that allow desire to keep evolving.
There Is Always Something More
By the end of *Sexual Biohacking*, Susan Bratton had offered more than a catalogue of sexual techniques or wellness interventions. At Biohacker Summit 2023 Amsterdam, she presented a worldview in which pleasure was trainable, intimacy was measurable, and erotic life could become a form of self-knowledge as rigorous as any other optimisation practice.
Her closing line distilled the spirit of the talk into a slogan. “If sex were a brand,” she said, “the tagline would be: Sex, there is always something more.”
It was a memorable line, but also a revealing one. In Bratton’s vision, sexuality was not a fading instinct to be mourned as youth passed. It was an open frontier, one that asked for study, courage, play and the refusal to accept decline as destiny.
Part of Biohacker Summit 2023 Amsterdam