The phrase "attain pleasure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the act of achieving or reaching a state of enjoyment or satisfaction.
Example: "Many people seek to attain pleasure through various forms of entertainment and leisure activities."
Alternatives: "achieve pleasure" or "gain enjoyment".
As Freud wrote, "The deepest essence of human nature consists of self-preservation, aggression, need for love, and the impulse to attain pleasure and avoid pain".
Its characters discard their morals to attain pleasure or to quench their ambitions, and, by the novel's end, they all wind up hollow and disaffected.
He wanted us to explore how gay men attach and produce meanings through anal sex, and the role of masculinity and power in attaining sexual pleasure.
Herman would like to find the utopia that Singer himself envisioned in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, where one can "attain all possible pleasures" and "still serve God".
Avempace enquires further on the issue of pleasure and knowledge, and we can abbreviate it by saying that the highest form of pleasure requires continuity and that continuous pleasure is attained only by intellectual knowledge, and by knowledge of an eternal object.
Manic individuals believe that whatever they attain will be extremely enjoyable -- that they will have incredible pleasure from what they achieve -- so they are willing to take the risks to pursue those gains.
Militant feminists expressed their disdain with an inherently sexist and patriarchal society, and concluded the most effective way to overcome sexism and attain the equality of women would be to deny men any power or pleasure from women.
It is worth noting that although HE and MCE attain high CMN values, it does not necessarily mean that they produce visually pleasuring images [4].
Is it possible to take pleasure in things that one has to harden oneself to this extent to attain?
The urge to seek out that sort of pleasure, writes Balcombe, "is a combination of instinct on the one hand, and a powerful desire to attain reward on the other".
When seeking to understand the bacchanalia we must remember that beneath the hedonistic pleasures that promise to drown our sorrows is the deeply submerged, indeed the strongly repressed, desire to attain the death that is release.
