Coleridge was a fan, saying it gave him a "pleasurable sensation of warmth".
"Drunkenness is rare," he wrote, "and if so, it rarely manifests itself in a boisterous or belligerent manner, but more frequently takes the shape of song, fun, and a general pleasurable feeling of warmth, energy, and self-command, and hence those horned crimes that sometimes shock us in the United States are rarely heard of here".
"We do seem to be hardwired to associate warmth with pleasurable sensations," said David J. Linden, a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the author of "The Compass of Pleasure," a book on why certain things feel good.
At some level, Pauline knew even then that this sort of behavior was not healthy, even though it felt good -- just as many alcoholics recall, with a mix of awe and terror, the flush of warmth and belonging that their first drink brings, quickly followed by repeating the pleasurable action over and over again, until ending up vomiting or passed out in a friend's front yard.
People's sensorial or psycho-physical judgments (by touch) of the roughness, softness, slipperiness and warmth of 37 material samples are reported as well as their affective judgments, such as how pleasurable, exciting, indulgent, the samples felt.
Pleasurable physical intimacies followed.
These scents were pleasurable.
