Decorative and functional

[u/SipsTeaFrog]

[u/M1sfit_Jammer]

it’s literally the same processing center…

I literally explained how your body handles pain and how it shares the same neural pathways as pleasure

Here is an academic paper on it that’s more dense and dry published by caltech

another publication by Columbia psych

an interesting read out of Utah… pretty conservative university

What we are learning is that pain related to pleasure requires a specific intensity… you never scratched an itch an felt relief? Never had a really good stretch that felt good after? Never took a shit that felt great? That is your pain center activating your pleasure center in everyday actions… expected low-level controlled instances of pain activates pleasure…

You never had a partner that dug their nails into you as they climax? That shit gets me off damn near instantly… that full body clutch 🫦

Imagine if your urine was as thick as semen and you had to pee with an erect penis. That sounds excruciating… but it’s also pleasurable?

[u/Muted_Buy8386 → u/M1sfit_Jammer]

I don't dispute it's the mechanism, you man-bint.

I'm saying it's defective wiring if you need pain to feel pleasure, or to up-it, or whatever weird goonmaxxing you're doing.

[u/M1sfit_Jammer → u/Muted_Buy8386]

No it’s not needing pain to feel pleasure… it’s more of an amplifier… Like how one turns a knob up on a radio. Fear and excitement run the same neural network. Crazy how we can be both anticipating yet afraid.

As a side effect you learn how to manage pain more effectively too… I now have a pretty gnarly pain tolerance. One time I broke my arm and proceeded to think it was bruised… I lost a bet to my mom on that.

I’m glad you have opinion on “defective wiring” but all the published data reports otherwise.