So, are today's sexual super stimuli, like today's junk food, causing drug-like changes in the brain's reward circuitry?
This is how food and sex, which throughout evolution have generally contributed to our well-being and led naturally to warm feelings of satiety, morph into drug-like and addictive super stimuli that don't.
It proclaims that, "Any kind of orgasm-promoting behavior is inherently so healthy that we must vigorously deny the growing evidence of the risks inherent in unlimited access to today's sexual super stimuli".
"It's a super-stimulus and we really are defenceless.
Artificial structures that aggregate fish (fish aggregation devices; FADs) have been previously suggested to act as ecological traps by acting as a super-stimulus and misleading fish to make inappropriate habitat selections [3].
What pornography is doing is giving us super normal stimuli, it's exaggerating what is a natural and instinctive desire to seek out attractive natural partners, but it is exaggerating that - the brain is becoming more wired towards those pornographic images than it is towards partnered sex".
The process is called "super-normal stimuli" and it is a key to enticing action by creating the stress of desire.
The news this week that global stock markets and commodities prices surged just on the hint that Beijing might super-size its stimulus calls to mind a headline from The Onion last year: "Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble to Invest In".
Since 10 mM H2O2 is a super-physiological oxidative stimulus, we tested the natural prostaglandin, PGJ2, for oxidation on p38.
Notably monkeys that had not been implanted were not observed using the mirror suggesting that the implant constituted a relevant stimulus, a "super mark," that prompted them to look.
