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The Science of Horniness

Come As You Are

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Sex Related Stimuli Can Hit the Accelerator and Hit the Break?

The same stimulus in one context might activate the accelerator, but in a different context, it'll hit the breaks. Emivalence is totally normal because of the way your brain has been trained to respond to stimuli. If you are at like private and the door is locked and you're feeling really aroused and turned on and trusting of your partner, that sensation isn't going to activate the accelerator. But if you're in the grocery store having a fight with your partner and they try to tickle you, that sensation is not going to activated the accelerator. I cannot tell you how many people have asked me if there's something about their body that's broken because a sensation that turns them on in

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