When Dr. Volkow compared the responses of addicts and normal controls with an infusion of a stimulant, she discovered that controls with high numbers of D2 receptors, a subtype of dopamine receptors, found it aversive, while addicts with low receptor levels found it pleasurable.
Although I do find it pleasurable.
"Time Future" induces a similarly mindless state, although I found it far less pleasurable.
I found it both easy and pleasurable to read.
They actually experience a decrease in happiness when smoking marijuana, compared with those with the normal FAAH gene, who find it pleasurable.
You can't be sure whether what they do is done for financial reward, or they just find it pleasurable, or because they're tied into this system; it's not clear.
For a crossword in a classical language (let us not forget all those Greek puzzles set for the Listener by Castor and Janus), that applies more so – as long, of course, as the setter finds it pleasurable.
A man has to conform to a pattern of work in order to feed himself and his family; a man may find it pleasurable or natural or convenient to conform in his social tastes.
Why would anyone find it pleasurable to sit upon a chair whose legs, instead of a simple, elegant form of smoothed wood, ornamented with dahlias or peonies, say, had been sculpted into the shape of four miniature black women — four miniature black female chair legs — their hands extended high above their heads, to hold up the sitter?
The thing nobody talks about when they talk about war, which is just so striking to me, is that a lot of men find it pleasurable.
But these questions in turn raise the question of why we may find it pleasurable to ask them of ourselves at all.
