Roy Wise, in the 1980s, argued that the unhappiness or lack of happiness of people low on dopamine, including patients on some antipsychotic medications, supports a close connection of dopamine with pleasure (e.g., Wise 1982).
Over time, we get to discover that the mechanics are similar but intriguingly different for gay sex and that there are myriad means of creating sexual connection and pleasure with male partners.
And how many activities may we not be the best at which nevertheless provide us with pleasure, exercise, connection to others we wouldn't otherwise know, and an evolved sense of self?
"), puzzled by her astrology, Googling everything twice and three times, scratching my head, laughing out loud, sighing with pleasure at sudden connections, flipping back pages and chapters and whole sections for rereadings, forging ahead with excitement renewed.
He explains this at one point in connection with his sense memory: "For pleasure, I have to turn to the vivid memory of tastes and smells, an inexhaustible reservoir of sensations.
If we don't use our genitals, meaning if we don't have healthy sexual contact on a regular basis for the purpose of pleasure and connection with a lover, it can take longer for us to get interested in and aroused by sex.
Some, for instance, are concerned with the notion of pleasure as a good and pain as an evil; with pleasure as a supplement of activity supporting its connection with happiness; with the relation between virtues and vices; with virtue as a mean; and with the concept of the involuntary and the conditions of responsibility.
And, similarly, does the basic connection with motivation involve pursuing one's own future pleasure or does one's present pleasure in thoughts and prospects constitute one as desiring, for their own sake, other things as well (as in Schlick 1930/1939, Ch.
This doctrine of imaginative pleasure has no special connection with creativity or with the capacity to produce art.
