the question’s pretty straightforward. i heard orgasms being described as like a drug but if its a burst of seratonin in the brain why is it that the pleasure always comes from the groin area not the whole body?
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An orgasm is a full spectrum Force feeding of every good brain chemical you have at your disposal. Mood elevators antidepressants painkillers you name it but it’s all at once like a shotgun. And another reason why it so intense is the contrast compared to the way you feel when you are trying to have that orgasm because you have stressful aggressive fight or flight hormones raging through your bloodstream and this is why they tell a boxer not to have sex right before about he will try to do a cream puff the same way a guy rolls over and goes to sleep and doesn’t even bother cuddling. They want that boxer to be blue balled and pissed off and if you didn’t have that orgasm you would feel just like that boxer and you don’t know it at the time because you were escalating but when that orgasm happens it instantly neutralizes all those aggressive I got to spread my seed hormones because you go totally primal when that happens it is a big part of why some people commit rape because they don’t have any control over there impulses. So the difference between wanting to have an orgasm and having an orgasm is immense. And those chemicals just flood your brain and that’s what you feel it everywhere it’s so much that everything feels good any pain you have will temporarily dissipate anything that’s bothering you beforehand is gone. Basically when you will try to have that orgasm you have a temporary chemical imbalance and the orgasmic Rush of the endorphins instantly shuts that down
Science can’t fully explain why *anything* “feels like” anything (what it’s like to eat a strawberry, smash your thumb with a hammer, etc.). In other words, although we understand how nerves turn rubbing or pressure into nerve signals, we don’t understand why the activity of parts of the brain results in experiencing anything. We haven’t cracked the (famous within philosophy) “mind-body problem” yet.
Ask this in the (probably far) future and maybe you can get an answer. But as of today, it’s a baffling mystery.
Pleasure and pain are just illusions caused by the brain. Things feel good because your brain makes it feel good.
Eating, sleeping, f…reproducing. They’re all good for you, so your brain rewards you for doing them by giving you pleasure. Stick your hand on a hot oven, and that’s bad for you, so your brain punishes you by giving you pain. That way you’re encouraged to only do what’s good for you.
But as I said, these are illusions caused by the brain. You can trick the brain. If you hypnotise someone, you can make them not feel anything, or feel things they shouldn’t, up to and including having orgasms on command. It’s all just your brain making you experience things.
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Well, for one, women often have full body orgasms. So, as guys, we got a bit shafted (the irony). But, for any sensation, no matter where it come from, it is ultimately the brain that “feels” it, even if it only feels like it’s in one place. But in addition to feeling that good sensation, a bunch of pathways are set off in the brain in response to an orgasm. This includes “reward” pathways. This makes you want to do the same thing again in the future, so your brain can get that “reward”. Unfortunately, drugs can do the same thing, making your brain want to chase the ‘reward’ of doing the drug again.
Ultimately the pleasure is not coming from your groin. It is coming from your brain which is associating it with your growing because that is where the stimulation is. But the dopamine and serotonin and all of the processing involved in feeling it are actually occurring in your brain.
With enough practice and willpower you can actually produce effects very similar to an orgasm through a pure meditation alone.
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