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How Desire Actually Works

Come As You Are

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How Does Responsive Desire Work in the Brain?

If you are having fun at the party, you are doing it right. The only difference between spontaneous versus responsive desire is the point at which you get there is a lower level of stimulation for spontaneous desire. You're interested in sex before you're aware of being aroused and before you're actually in a sexy scenario. It takes more explicit stimulation, more explicit arousal before you have that awareness of like, "Oh, oh, please this"

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