Pleasure

“So to, in order to understand that, it's essential to appreciate that pleasure and pain are co-located in the brain. So the same parts of the brain that process pleasure also process pain, and they work like opposite sides of a balance.”

“And then the second rule of the balance is that with repeated exposure to the same or similar stimulus, that initial response to pleasure gets weaker and shorter, and that after response to pain gets stronger and longer, and eventually we reset our pain thresh…”

“Pleasure is the measure of sexual well-being. It's not about how often you do it, who you do it with, what room you do it in, what positions, how many orgasms you have. It's whether or not you like it.”

“One way to think about addiction is it's a progressive narrowing of what gives you pleasure. So it's a you are narrowing the things in your life that, that will give you this rush of pleasure.”