*sporfle* Imagination Much?
So, I'm reading David J. Linden's The Compass of Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Fatty Foods, Orgasm, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity, Vodka, Learning, and Gambling Feel So Good. It's an interesting look at the neuroscience involved in pleasure, addiction, and compulsion, and I'm enjoying the read thus far. That being said, I can't not share this with you...
The first paragraph from Chapter Four: Your Sexy Brain
What is your cat thinking while she watches you have sex? Even if you are as sexually conventional as they come in this culture-let's say you're not dressed up in a Dick Cheney rubber mask with clamps on your nipples and Wagner's Ring Cycle playing in the background, or you haven't inserted a Bluetooth-enabled electrical shock probe in your anus that's connected to the Internet to be triggered by wild fluctuations in the Hang Seng stock index, but are in a committed heterosexual relationship with your partner, in private, in your bedroom hugging, kissing, petting, licking, having vaginal intercourse - your cat still thinks that you're a freak. And she's right.
And who says books are boring???
ETA: The author is not trying to say that homosexual interactions are unacceptable or atypical/immoral. Further paragraphs detail how 'natural' homosexual interactions actually are throughout the animal kindgom. His point was that the scenario is one that society in general would see as very vanilla. He goes on to say just how atypical the above scenario actually is in the animal kindgom and the chapter progresses from there.
The first paragraph from Chapter Four: Your Sexy Brain
What is your cat thinking while she watches you have sex? Even if you are as sexually conventional as they come in this culture-let's say you're not dressed up in a Dick Cheney rubber mask with clamps on your nipples and Wagner's Ring Cycle playing in the background, or you haven't inserted a Bluetooth-enabled electrical shock probe in your anus that's connected to the Internet to be triggered by wild fluctuations in the Hang Seng stock index, but are in a committed heterosexual relationship with your partner, in private, in your bedroom hugging, kissing, petting, licking, having vaginal intercourse - your cat still thinks that you're a freak. And she's right.
And who says books are boring???
ETA: The author is not trying to say that homosexual interactions are unacceptable or atypical/immoral. Further paragraphs detail how 'natural' homosexual interactions actually are throughout the animal kindgom. His point was that the scenario is one that society in general would see as very vanilla. He goes on to say just how atypical the above scenario actually is in the animal kindgom and the chapter progresses from there.