For future reference:

Athletes all over the world have absorbed the American model of self and body, presumably because of the influence of American sports psychology (which "gives results"). Athletes speak openly of themselves as machines of a biological variety that have to be fed certain nutrients in certain quantities at certain times of the day, and "worked" in various ways by their taskmasters to be brought to optimum performance level.

One imagines the lovemaking of such athletes: vigorous activity, followed by a burst of orgasm, rationalized as a kind of reward to the physical mechanism, followed by a brief winding-down period during which the ghostly supervisor confirms the performance has been up to standard.

and, by way of contrast of a sort:

Romantic music seeks to recover a lost state of raptness (which is not the same as rapture), a state of exaltation in which the human shell will be shed and one will become pure being or pure spirit.

from the "Strong Opinions" section (Sect. 27 -- On Music) of Diary of A Bad Year -- J.M. Coetzee.

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Less didactically:

Alan squirms like a little boy, but his embarassment doesn't run deep. I know what sort of childhood he had . . . . Now he is bursting to share his new secret.