But at its best, the age-old religious tradition of renunciation – found everywhere from Ramadan to Lent to Buddhism's "five precepts" – isn't about neurotically regarding pleasure as dangerous or shameful.
Therefore, Chinese people might need to introduce moral justifications in response to questions of whether the pursuit of personal interests can be legitimate in relation to the 'sociality' of the individual, together with aesthetic justifications regarding pleasure and comfort, to make themselves confident in their tastes.
Aristotle exploits this analogy in regarding pleasure as similarly presenting a fallible appearance of goodness differing from rational belief (Cooper 1996b/1999, pp. 101-2/269-70) and, we may wish to add, from conceptual representation of anything as good, at least in some cases.
The case of the A's and the B's shows that we regard pleasure and pain differently.
By contrast, Stiva, though never wishing ill, wastes resources, neglects his family, and regards pleasure as the purpose of life.
For example, one might regard: "Pleasure… as a feeling which … is at least implicitly apprehended as desirable…" (Sidgwick: 127; see also Brandt, Sumner: 90).
Kant like Locke regards pleasure (Lust) as admitting of no precise intrinsic verbal definition, but offers indirect causal and functional characterizations (1790/2000, p. 33/Ak. 20 231; see Bibliography note for more on Kant).
If Plato in the Philebus is more favorably disposed towards a hedonist stance than in some of his earlier works, he is so only to a quite limited degree: he regards pleasure as a necessary ingredient in human life, because both the physical and the psychic equilibria that constitute human nature are unstable.
Scientists increasingly regard pleasure, like many cognitive states and processes, as separable from awareness and generally assume that all such processes have natures, whether physiological, computational, or both, that are not wholly revealed by introspection and of which biological and behavioral research may reveal more.
The survey asked a wide array of questions regarding female pleasure including the participant's sexual preferences, sexual behaviors, quality of orgasms and if she can orgasm during intercourse. .
Regarding sexual pleasure of adolescents girls in Ecuador, Goicolea mentions that, on the individual level adolescent girls may feel equal to boys, but due to powerful cultural expectations, at the interpersonal level they may consider it inappropriate or impossible to take initiative for having sex and thus for seeking sexual pleasure (10).
