Is there any thing stronger than sexual pleasure?

When I think of it, I'm always reminded of my young teenager days, when a friend of my parents told me that there's nothing more pleasurable than studying/academics, and I thought to myself that I should become strong enough to find more pleasure in studying, more than even sex.

Now that I'm an adult, I realize that all of this is hardwired into us. I don't think there's any thing more pleasurable than sexual pleasure. Not even close. What do you say?

Posted Feb 20, 2010, 4:32 AM UTC

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mezz•

I don't think there's any thing more pleasurable than sexual pleasure. Not even close.

Tell that to a heroin user.

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[deleted]•

I recently asked the guys over at r/drugs to describe what heroin feels like. This is what they came up with.

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mezz•

My only exposure to heroin has been through watching Trainspotting.
Although I hear the movie is fairly accurate, it's very interesting to read real accounts. Thanks!

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[deleted]•

No problem.

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simianfarmer•

Have you ever been stuck in a situation where you had to PEE really bad, but couldn't? And then that's all you could think about for 5 minutes, then 15 minutes, then 30 minutes, and so on? Then you get out of the meeting (or whatever) and you do that stiff/brisk walk to the bathroom while the sense of anticipation is just about killing you? And you get in there, and fumble frantically at your pants, and the moment comes when you can just let it all out?

Man... THAT is satisfying.

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mexipimpin•

Urination... ejaculation. Yeah, at times can be very similar. Damn straight.

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plan17b•

The ability to breathe is very nice, followed closely by the ability to eat.

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[deleted]•

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LordBrandon•

yea there is. Do some heroin. It's better to listen to your parents. Derive pleasure from simple things.

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tempvariableOP•

Simple things, like looking at porn :P

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pixelnoir•

This is probably going to sound a little cliche but here goes.

Smoke a little weed and then have sex. You'll never want to have sex sober again.

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Kittycide•

Yes, sexual pleasure with someone you love.

...Now add ecstasy, hookers, & chocolate ice cream.

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This give me an idea...

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SevenCubed•

Couple of people here are mentioning heroin, but yeah. That's in the right direction. If sex WERE the most pleasurable thing we were capable of experiencing, we'd forgo everything else in its pursuit. I don't mean in funny "Guys think about sex when they're supposed to be working" ways, I mean "Guys won't remember to drink water because of their pursuit of orgasm and therefore die in three days" kind of ways. There are drugs that activate huge gobs of pleasure centers, and they're life-destroying. It's probably possible to rig up neural connections that WOULD engage the most pleasurable experience a human could have, but doing do would be a very bad thing.

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Anal_Angus•

revenge

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[deleted]•

arnold shwarzenegger

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[deleted]•

heroin.

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tempvariableOP•

I don't think breathing, eating or peeing are comparable. When you don't do these, you experience pain. But when you do them, the pleasure you get is nothing compared to that from sexual activities. On the other hand, the pain you feel when you don't do sexual activities, isn't as bad. At least it takes a while to get bad. So breathing, eating etc. tend towards the painful side of things, and sexual activities tend towards surplus pleasure side of things.

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tempvariableOP•

I deliberately left out drugs because they aren't natural to our bodies.

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unoriginalusername•

For some reason, I picture your parents' friend as one of the professors from that lovers Will Farrel/SNL sketch.

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[deleted]•

In the words of my idol, Tyrone Biggums, "....smoketh that rock"

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butch123•

My Dick

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