
Episode 37: Porn, Poop, and Personal Identity (with Nina Strohminger)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Sexual Pleasure
There's a similar question about sex, which Nina and I have talked about a bit. Why do some fetishes involve gross things? And like you could imagine that it's something similar. Like the arousal actually makes the pleasure more intense. Maybe what happens is once we're past a certain threshold of sexual arousal, these stimuli, which are usually disgusting become arousing and disgust related stimuli then become a source of sexual pleasure instead of aversion. So we want to do this study. We don't want to do a study. We are doing a study.
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