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xssve -> RE: I say we are just a bunch of drug addicts (3/9/2010 7:21:39 AM)
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Well like I say it is an addiction, it just happens to be an addiction that's wired straight into the brain of every person on the planet, the result of evolution - we're the product of "sexaholics" throughout history, themselves the descendants of mammalian sexaholics, themselves descended form reptilian sexaholics, and so on, back to the first act of sexual reproduction, and really, the first time an amoeba ate too much, split, and got the whole thing started.
In fact all the other addictions including religion, are really more or less substitutes for sexual addictions, what do they do except mimic the sexual response curve: the anticipation, the initial rush, the slow afterburn, leading to the crash, and eventually, the re-awaking of the appetite, which turns into a craving, the anticipation of the next hit - you get the picture.
In fact, the whole nervous system is basically evolved to feed our endless appetite for food and sex, that what makes a successful species, in terms of basic survival and population growth.
Anal sex for example, stimulates the same nerve ganglia as eating does, the Vagus nerve which bypasses the central nervous system, it's a separate system of ganglia that we share with invertebrates, and stimulating it can ease hunger pangs and mediate depression - the genital ganglia are enmeshed with the Vagus nerve, are probably an extension of it - even paraplegics can have orgasms through Vagus nerve stimulation, they just can't feel it. It plays a key role in metabolic function, in fact overstimulation can cause problems, you might forget to breathe, since it's tied in with the autonomic nervous system, the cardiovascular system, and it's no more healthy to go without it.
I'm lied when I said it's wired straight into the brain in fact, really, it's wired directly into the nervous system.
Anyway, there is a cure for it, it's called death, and in that sense, it sort of strains the definition of "addiction", it's more like the model for addiction and it persists despite all attempts to eradicate it, because it is, in the most fundamental behavioral definition of the word, life itself.
Now where's my cuntahol?
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