eli5 How does the body determine if we have lewd thoughts and the proceed to make us horny?

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Basically, hormones.

Pretty much the majority of things happening in your body is in one way or another controlled by hormones.
Hormones control functions in your body and brain, making you feel a certain type of way. For instance, the hormone melatonin lowers your blood pressure, which slows down digestion, it makes you feel tired and ready to sleep. It can be triggered by boredom, exhaustion, darkness or your inner clock telling you it’s time to sleep.

In the case of sexual arousal it’s the hormones estrogen and testosterone. When you have lewd thoughts, these hormones get released and influence your body. They relocate blood flow to focus on the areas important for sex (like the sexual organs in both genders), making them more sensitive to touch, making them swell up, etc. The hormones also control your blood pressure, making it higher, preparing you for potential physical activity. They drive the fluid production in the sexual organs, too, along with other things.

During puberty, you may (have) notice(d), these hormones can just be triggered at random a lot, you get horny in the middle of math class and there’s nothing much you can do about it. It’s because the body goes crazy during puberty and doesn’t quite know how to manage itself, it will release masses of hormones at once, also giving teenagers plenty of mood swings.

Ways to stop the horny is by eitheranaging to overshadow or stop the hormones. Forcing yourself to think about something absolutely not arousing (take, your grandmother’s fungi-ridden feet), will usually stop the excessive production of estrogen and testosterone, lowering the amount of them in your system. Overshadowing them with other hormones like melatonin or dopamine can have a similar but not so powerful effect.

During climax (orgasm), a lot of dopamine (hormone for happines) is released and the production of the sexual hormones is stopped, making sex and masturbation potentially addictive, especially for people suffering from depression or other mental issues, because the human body craves dopamine a lot of and if the dopanice from a climax is a person’s only source of it, it can become an actual addiction.

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Basically, hormones.

Pretty much the majority of things happening in your body is in one way or another controlled by hormones.
Hormones control functions in your body and brain, making you feel a certain type of way. For instance, the hormone melatonin lowers your blood pressure, which slows down digestion, it makes you feel tired and ready to sleep. It can be triggered by boredom, exhaustion, darkness or your inner clock telling you it’s time to sleep.

In the case of sexual arousal it’s the hormones estrogen and testosterone. When you have lewd thoughts, these hormones get released and influence your body. They relocate blood flow to focus on the areas important for sex (like the sexual organs in both genders), making them more sensitive to touch, making them swell up, etc. The hormones also control your blood pressure, making it higher, preparing you for potential physical activity. They drive the fluid production in the sexual organs, too, along with other things.

During puberty, you may (have) notice(d), these hormones can just be triggered at random a lot, you get horny in the middle of math class and there’s nothing much you can do about it. It’s because the body goes crazy during puberty and doesn’t quite know how to manage itself, it will release masses of hormones at once, also giving teenagers plenty of mood swings.

Ways to stop the horny is by eitheranaging to overshadow or stop the hormones. Forcing yourself to think about something absolutely not arousing (take, your grandmother’s fungi-ridden feet), will usually stop the excessive production of estrogen and testosterone, lowering the amount of them in your system. Overshadowing them with other hormones like melatonin or dopamine can have a similar but not so powerful effect.

During climax (orgasm), a lot of dopamine (hormone for happines) is released and the production of the sexual hormones is stopped, making sex and masturbation potentially addictive, especially for people suffering from depression or other mental issues, because the human body craves dopamine a lot of and if the dopanice from a climax is a person’s only source of it, it can become an actual addiction.