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The Science of Love, Desire and Attachment
Huberman Lab
Orgasm and Ejaculation - What Happens to the Parasympathetic Nervous System?
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The arc of mating involves sympathetic arousal, ok, not sympathy, but alertness and arousal for pursuit. Then at the point of orgasm and ejaculation, is back to a sympathetic response. And we don't know for sure why that happens, but it's thought that in species that parbond. In some ways, every human is required to navigate that process if they want their offspring to persist. The return to more parasympathetic activation after orgasm ejaculation is thought to increase the exchange of parmonal ordors, odors, excuse me, and to increase pillow talk and par bonding of different kinds.
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