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The Neurological Orgasm
When we last spoke about sex, we discussed the neurotransmitters involved in pleasure and attraction, namely dopamine and oxytocin. Now let’s look a little deeper into the action of those neurotransmitters and how we can manipulate their action - to extend the neurological orgasm for as long as possible.
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Posted by iPan on 08/29 at 11:28 PM
"The element of mystery is a trigger for dopamine — in figuring out that mystery, we are intrigued, drawn in, motivated to examine it closer. If a stimulus is more abstract and leaves a little to the imagination, you will spend more time on it, thus extending every pleasurable neurochemical process, giving you a prolonged neurological orgasm."
Is this why the Mona Lisa is so sexy?
Posted by Dan Dascalescu on 10/05 at 04:41 AM
The Lady Gaga video is blocked by UMG.
Posted by rapunzel on 12/10 at 06:29 PM
What is it about SSRI's that prevents orgasm? (I know -- it can also prevent libido, arousal, ability to engorge, and can cause genital anesthesia, and other intercourse-related problems, but my question is why does extra serotonin in your system eliminate people's ability to have an orgasm? What else might it be doing in addition to increasing the serotonin in neurons? (See SSRIsex@ yahoo.com for examples.) And I might as well also ask, why does it not do that in other people? I took Effexor and Wellbutrin for 13 years. The Effexor didn't dampen my sexuality. I recently tapered off it but am still on Wellbutrin. Effexor is an SNRI (inhibits re-uptake of serotinin and norepinephrine) and Wellbutrin is a NDRI (inhibits re-uptake of norepinephrine and dopamine. Wellbutrin is sexually stimulating in some people and you can see why -- extra norepineprine and dopamine running around in your blood. Some people who do fine on SSRI's don't have sexual dysfunction until after they quit taking it. We all want this to stop being a mystery, and specifically I want to know what neurotransmitter or hormone triggers the orgasm. I have a (male) friend who has libido, arousal, and engorgement, but can't have an orgasm. He takes Prozac. Before the Prozac he was a stallion.
Posted by rapunzel on 12/10 at 06:31 PM
Isn't oxytocin one of the hormones that causes the refractory period? Not a stimulator?
Posted by Kimberly Chapman on 09/12 at 11:11 PM
Excellent article, although when I went and looked up the Gaga video (your link is blocked), all I could think was, "Is this a mashup of 'Las Isla Bonita' and Madonna's Sex book? How long until Gaga plays a sanitized version of a historical female in a musical and then goes on to adopt from the third world and marry some UK director?" Weird Al's parody of her makes more and more sense every day...
There's also another difference between the two photos: how relatively dynamic they are. Both suggest motion, but the first is minimal, while the second, by virtue of the extended view of the tangled limbs, suggests much more. The first is sliding, the second is writhing. The first has a lot of relaxed muscles; the second has many flexed or tense ones. So while you're right on target with the different element of when we're involved in the story within the photo, there surely must be even more to a physiological response of more action versus less. The Gaga video's edits throw motion together in a heart-thumping manner as well, keeping the viewer's eyes glued so their own body is still while they're internally experiencing all of that motion on some level.
Maybe that's why I find the first photo fairly dull while the second one is quite appealing...that is, it was appealing until I noted the way his hand is on her jaw, and that crossed the line of my preferences into looking too rough, too demanding, too controlling, too aggressive. As soon as I noticed his hand on her face like that, I winced and turned away. Then the previously attractive tangled limbs looked entirely less attractive, the tense muscles started to appear more confrontational, and I saw the photo in a whole new unpleasant light.
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