Which makes me wonder, in the "it's none of my damn business" department: perhaps a philanderer today is no different from a philanderer ten or twenty or thirty years ago, but what about people who find that they get a certain gratification from zapping erotic pictures of themselves to strangers?
Guys may well get off on the sight of these two women going at it, but the entire audience can take a certain gratification in the way they turn the tables on the devious and controlling men in the picture, including Hideko's uncle (Cho Jin-woong), a pervy old purveyor of Japanese erotica who keeps a collection of human genital parts in jars.
Painters, poets, novelists and other mischievous souls have long recognized -- and even admitted -- that there's a certain spooky gratification to be found in contemplating the ruins of someone else's grandiose home, castle or civilization.
Finding gratification in certain motions, she repeated them, and she often appeared curious about the positions in which she found herself, her body language suggesting, "How did I end up here?" After the timer rang again, Ms. Lacey invited the choreographer Walter Dundervill onstage.
But most philanthropic organizations recognize that people like to have a certain amount of psychic gratification.
"Happiness consists in the Gratification of certain Affections, Appetites, Passions, with Objects which are by Nature adapted to them," (Sermon IX §16).
Also, "you have a certain amount of instant gratification in this line of work," he continues, "where in many other fields, it takes you 15 years to get involved in some project with 15 co-collaborators".
"Everybody understands that he is an asset to the country," said Clinton Bailey, an Israeli scholar and commentator, citing "a certain sense of pride and gratification he gives people across the board".
There is a certain irony to all of this: instant gratification – perhaps in the form of a latte grabbed on the way to work – is made possible in an age of tax avoidance and massive profits, and yet it makes us more impatient as campaigners, more unwilling to give up that gratification for the things we know are right.
By this view, delay of gratification may be adaptive in certain settings, but inappropriate or even costly in other settings.
A combination of imperfect information about the benefits of certain behaviors and the emphasis people put on immediate gratification may lead individuals to take decisions that do not improve their quality of life (Banerjee and Duflo 2011).
