The New Millennium Devil's Dictionary - Pleasure
PLEASURE, n. Pain, camouflaged as a sin and worshiped therefore. The bait of the trap. The one part of euphoria causing, and immediately preceding, ten or more parts of agony - and of exaction. Because of the exaction coefficient, the ability to survive the ravages of pleasure is, as usual, directly proportional to wealth.
- O Ceallaigh
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Nice one!
lol, so true..
Many thanks ...
... from your friendly neighborhood killjoy (and, once upon a time, New Zealander - native Yank, but lived there nearly a decade). Obviously I was there at the wrong time. ;^)
I'm done with New
I'm done with New Zealanders! Man that's going to follow me around forever...
Oh, well, oops ..
... then I was never there. Just made that one up.
And Ever
Enjoy!
Actually, they book I am
Actually, they book I am writing (and will never finish) talks about this. Endorphins are released during times of high stress, but also during highly pleasurable activities such as sex. So one small thing my book ponders is the question, "Is sex so painful, so stressful, that we have to fool it into going along? Does it release the endorphins because we'd be screaming in agony rather than ecstasy?"
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Oy veh, that's a blog!
Why do you people insist on raising all these powerful and fascinating points? I'll never get any work done!
To discuss agony vs. ecstasy in the act of copulation would hit Mav's TMI button, so I won't go there now. But in addition to the stress and pain possible in the act itself, consider the stress and pain of getting someone to the point of copulation, and then keeping that person there to help raise the consequences? Viewed this way, the endorphin release of the sex act is the reward for being willing to undergo the agonies of pregnancy, childbirth, and child rearing. It really is the bait of the trap.
In the book, I'm
In the book, I'm purposefully keeping it unanswered. It is irrelevant to the story (it is a fictional story). Overall, the suggestion would be that we are a society that is so addicted to the rush of endorphins that we will pursue it at any cost. All done in a neat little Palahniuk-esque package.
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Check plus!
we are a society that is so addicted to the rush of endorphins that we will pursue it at any cost
Got that right, in my opinion. And in our rush, we neglect to see how The Man uses that addiction to manipulate us. You sound like one who's read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Written more than seventy years ago, but he had many aspects of today's culture nailed.
And in our rush, we neglect
And in our rush, we neglect to see how The Man uses that addiction to manipulate us.
Aw, shoot. You hacked your way onto my hard drive and read it then. lol
I have not read "Brave New World", although I've always meant to. I knew the first time I heard of it that I would love it. But for a voracious reader of every genre, there is just too much fascinating literature and not enough time.
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TMI Is All About
The details. For example, if you're talking about penis, you don't have to go very far to cross the TMI line. If you're talking about lesbians... I dunno if there even is a line. Unless they're very... bullish.
lol hahah
What does this even have to do with this blog? lol I think you wrote this in the wrong place but I can't stop laughing
Have to cut Mav some slack
When it comes to discussing certain primary sexual characteristics, Mav is sensitive to receiving Too Much Information, and complained about it in another thread. So when the topic came up here, I referred to Mav's TMI button. That gave him an excuse. Not that he needs much of one.
St Pattys
Hey for aminute your ads had four leaf clovers.. but now it's gone.
Got shamrocks there now (three leaves)
Must think O Ceallaigh is Irish or something. Silly AdSense people. It's obviously Turkmenistani.
Erin go brach!
technicality
Yeah yeah you know what I meant!