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With all sincerity, if we could have a button to induce sexual pleasure, would we want it? The root of this article is the promise/expectation/hope of quick, ea

With all sincerity, if we could have a button to induce sexual pleasure, would we want it? The root of this article is the promise/expectation/hope of quick, easy, sexual pleasure through the use of technology. For a quick analogy of what might happen think about what cheap, easy calories are doing to us as a species. Now think about how much more emotionally powerful an orgasm is vs. say, a piece of chocolate...

wheels 17y ago
With all sincerity, if we could have a button to induce sexual pleasure, would we want it? If people did, masturbation might be common. Since it's not, I guess we have our answer.
- stcredzero 17y ago
  Is that sarcasm? I thought that the Internet is for Porn, and the late 20th century was the start of the biggest explosion of...bothers! How the heck do you talk about this stuff without sounding like a /b/tard? In any case, Internet Porn as it is now is close enough to a button to induce sexual pleasure. The dangerous thing is not producing raw pleasure. It's producing quality sexual experiences. If you could record and replay the experience of having sex with a very desirable partner, in the words of Dennis Miller, this will make Crack look like Sanka. Given that the promise of sex is such a strong compulsion (there's a reason why advertisers and gangsters gravitate to it) is there any hope of resistance?
  - wheels 17y ago
    How the heck do you talk about this stuff without sounding like a /b/tard? With sarcasm.
Anon84 17y ago
A few years ago (80s?) a group of researchers wired a mouse's orgasm center to a button and made it such that the mouse could press it whenever it wanted. The button next to it would dispense food at the mouse's whim. Needless to say, the mouse starved itself to death. Reproduction (or sexual satisfaction) is a more powerful drive than hunger.
- gojomo 17y ago
  I suspect, like the reports of lab-animal drug self-administration, this bit of pseudoscientific folklore is exaggerated. For details on how studies of rats and cocaine have been misrepresented, see http://www.erowid.org/ask/ask.php?ID=2696 http://www.erowid.org/ask/ask.php?ID=2696 .

wheels 17y ago

With all sincerity, if we could have a button to induce sexual pleasure, would we want it? If people did, masturbation might be common. Since it's not, I guess we have our answer.

stcredzero 17y ago
Is that sarcasm? I thought that the Internet is for Porn, and the late 20th century was the start of the biggest explosion of...bothers! How the heck do you talk about this stuff without sounding like a /b/tard? In any case, Internet Porn as it is now is close enough to a button to induce sexual pleasure. The dangerous thing is not producing raw pleasure. It's producing quality sexual experiences. If you could record and replay the experience of having sex with a very desirable partner, in the words of Dennis Miller, this will make Crack look like Sanka. Given that the promise of sex is such a strong compulsion (there's a reason why advertisers and gangsters gravitate to it) is there any hope of resistance?
- wheels 17y ago
  How the heck do you talk about this stuff without sounding like a /b/tard? With sarcasm.

Anon84 17y ago

A few years ago (80s?) a group of researchers wired a mouse's orgasm center to a button and made it such that the mouse could press it whenever it wanted. The button next to it would dispense food at the mouse's whim. Needless to say, the mouse starved itself to death. Reproduction (or sexual satisfaction) is a more powerful drive than hunger.

gojomo 17y ago
I suspect, like the reports of lab-animal drug self-administration, this bit of pseudoscientific folklore is exaggerated. For details on how studies of rats and cocaine have been misrepresented, see http://www.erowid.org/ask/ask.php?ID=2696 http://www.erowid.org/ask/ask.php?ID=2696 .