If the text makes it past the Senate and the National Assembly later this year, French people's nights could soon be again dedicated to a more pleasurable activity than answering emails from your boss.
But you can rest assured that I'll never be without snowdrops in the garden: in these very first days of the year, I can think of few more pleasurable gardening activities than searching out their noses as they erupt from the ground.
For example, self-help guides for better stress management; or strategies for making room for more relaxing, pleasurable activities.
And quicker cleanup means more time for pleasurable activities, in and out of the kitchen.
All patients interviewed reported doing more singing and other pleasurable activities in their lives, suggesting that there may be long term benefits to participation in such a group.
At a time in history when people are living longer, are more physically active and are retiring younger, with more time to engage in pleasurable activities, why shouldn't sex be one of them?
Following VMMC, 57% of male participants reported that sexual activity was more pleasurable or that there was no change (42% and 15%, respectively), and 22% reported decreased sexual satisfaction (21% no opinion).
"Well, there's the hypersonic effect, which is if you put a certain tone into music that's way above the normal human hearing range, people will find that song more pleasurable because it stimulates alpha wave activity in the brain.
Indeed, the bug-crushing experiment suggested that everyday sadists may have more muted emotional responses to all kinds of pleasurable activities – so perhaps their random acts of cruelty are attempts to break through the emotional numbness.
