Today in Digg, I came across this very interesting article published in Scientific American by Martin Portner :
“Achieving sexual climax requires a complex conspiracy of sensory and psychological signals—and the eventual silencing of critical brain areas.
Key Concepts about the Principles of Pleasure:
* Sexual desire and orgasm are subject to various influences on the brain and nervous system, which controls the sex glands and genitals.
* The ingredients of desire may differ for men and women, but researchers have revealed some surprising similarities. For example, visual stimuli spur sexual stirrings in women, as they do in men.
* Achieving orgasm, brain imaging studies show, involves more than heightened arousal. It requires a release of inhibitions engineered by shutdown of the brain’s center of vigilance in both sexes and a widespread neural power failure in females.
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Standpoint heterosexual relationships; (I have no experience with other forms) Contrary to popular misconception, the male brain is not exactly situated below his belly button. Until a man has matured, he does tend to react very spontaneously, in fact seemingly uncontrolled towards the opposite sex. (especially in Spring;) The shutting down theory will explain why many are caught in the act in public places, which can be embarrassing for those in the act and those who stumble upon the scene. For some that can of course increase arousal. Having reached a given mature age, I can say that the longer and deeper you love someone, the better it gets. First time sex is usually pretty disappointing. Wishing you all many wonderful hours…or many 11 minutes…;)
Love & Light, Paul
Interesting article. The human mind is so complicated. There are so many problems when it comes to sex. I wander why?
Is the life too quick, too complicated these days?
People do drugs just to get high, feel better, more relaxed, etc..
Some constantly looking for new stimuli, new experiences, to make this life more spicy, some would say.
I know many who are in a great relationship but just for a change they become “swingers“. Yes, life is definitely funny in a way people behave, but I guess it’s the part of human nature. Some feeds on other’s desire, not being able to feel, others try to solve their problems by visual stimuli, etc..
There are even men or women who like any kinds of games just for fun.
Some like to test others not being able to have a healthy relationship with their partners. Probably sky is the limit when it comes to sex, because the imagination is infinite.
Of course there are some who have medical problems but mostly I think there’s just plain boredom and/or curiosity.
I have so many male friends who change partners so they can fall in love over and over again and that gave them this adrenaline shot or something.
Funny thing is that they don’t realize that at the end they can stay lonely and alone, burned out, having nobody to really care for them. If something becomes a habit, the addicted person will never be satisfied, and the frustration makes this person miserable in the end.
I think that if you can really love somebody, that love can and does do miracles.
The only problem with love is that sometimes some people can play with other people’s emotions just for fun or curiosity, having no feelings inside, and that is sad.
I heard today on the news about this 13 year old who committed suicide few weeks ago because somebody harassed her on the internet.
Knowing that teenagers are so unstable, so vulnerable because of the hormonal imbalance, there are no words to express this terrible act.
I wander how far people would go with those experiences in order to satisfy their desires?
love
Agnieszka
The best sentence of this item:
“Overanalysing this moment of intense pleasure might also put a damper on the fun.”
To be open to your fantasies without having fear or feeling guilty is the fuze to best brain fireworks.
The article and study was very interesting. Is is the theme that it is a taboo yet.[for me!!] Nobody really wants to say what is happening during the crucial “Eleven minutes”.. The desire, the ‘being in love’ romantic stories of the 70s have flied away with Viagra!!! Why the scientists did not try Kirlian photography as well, for their experiments, to see what is going on in our souls and aura?? LOVE, Thelma
Hmm…I guess the news crushed me so much that all I could think of was the negative side of perception of sex, when there’s so much more,
but… it’s hard to imagine that this girl lost her life..
love
Agnieszka
Don’t you all think that the music is the greatest stimuli of all?…and…funny thing is what I heard, that…the devil was the angel who were responsible for the music before he became the devil…
;-)
love
Agnieszka
When women finally join men in the hormonal prison then that way each can nether !! think with there regions ,then perhaps we all will be able to understand each other ..
I think visual stimuli is very important ,but more say looking a person directly in there eyes and listening to them ,also music yes is one of the greatest mood stimuli but overall I think its a combination of chemicals,pheromones and chemistry,biology and psychology plus body language …yes when two people first meet it is sum ed up subconsciously in the first 30 seconds yay or nay ..but all this great information is courtesy of the cleo magazine I was reading last night which all makes perfectly logic sense but for me I believe its all a bit of a mystery and thats how it should be…Blessings
Tania -Yes and nothing beats a beautiful view..
have a wonderful weekend .`~~
When we accept our nature we are living orgasms…
Women are a part of men’s body,…
…this being said it is a fight for women to be their nature…
When they have an orgasm, most of the time they stay in their clitorical fase because of the inferior feelings that they give themselves, it surpresses their femininity and they can’t reach the transcendention which an orgasm normally gives.
Love
All Ways
Hildegarde