Why Good Sex Matters: Understanding the Neuroscience of Pleasure for a Smarter, Happier, and More Purpose-Filled Life
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Why Good Sex Matters: Understanding the Neuroscience of Pleasure for a Smarter, Happier, and More Purpose-Filled Life
Where does boredom live on the floorplan?
It’s such a good question, not least because there’s a huge cultural narrative around sexual “boredom,” being bored with having the same old sex every time. As the authors write in Magnificent Sex, “Nothing kills desire faster than doing what works – relentlessly.”
If, for you, boredom is merely unpleasant r
... See moreThis shift turns all our expectations about sex on their head, exchanging “faster” and “harder” for “slower” and “more connected.”
Nicole Daedone • Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm
Natural rewards, including orgasm, contain a built-in satiety at consummation relying, inter alia, on endogenous opioids. But when we’re stuck in the dopaminergic excitement of seeking, Kringelbach explained, there is no signal telling us when to stop.
Mia Levitin • The Future of Seduction
we are taught to reframe sensation as emotion. While the two are obviously related—nerves often do result in a fluttery feeling in the stomach—the message we’re getting is that when we feel sensation, the next step is interpretation. The sensation itself is not really worth discussing. Instead, when we feel something in the body, we either ignore i
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