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ORIGINAL: NookieNotes
Orgasm releases testosterone in both men and women, making them more independent, able to think critically, more decisive, more active, more willing to stand up for themselves.

If you remove that, but keep in the activities that create dopamine (edging, affection, play), you will create a super happy and addicted sub.

In very basic terms.

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ORIGINAL: orgasmdenial12

quote:

ORIGINAL: NookieNotes
Orgasm releases testosterone in both men and women, making them more independent, able to think critically, more decisive, more active, more willing to stand up for themselves.

If you remove that, but keep in the activities that create dopamine (edging, affection, play), you will create a super happy and addicted sub.

In very basic terms.

I'm not sure about the testosterone connection (I seem to do fairly well with the critical thinking, decisiveness and assertiveness regardless of whether I engage in denial or not) but I do agree on the subject of dopamine.

It's my belief that the effects of denial may be connected to the interplay of dopamine and prolactin. Dopamine builds over the two weeks after orgasm, and peaks during foreplay and pre-orgasmic sex. After orgasm, dopamine drops and prolactin rises and remains higher for up to 2 weeks.

People who do 'tease and denial' may be unconsciously raising their dopamine levels, through engaging in sexual foreplay or even full sex, without orgasm. In subjects who engaged in sex without orgasm, prolactin was lower after sex than before it, suggesting that orgasm denial may raise dopamine and lower prolactin.

Higher levels of dopamine are thought to be associated with increased energy, libido, improved pain tolerance, feelings of motivation, well being, satisfaction, pleasure, sociability and love.

Excessive levels of dopamine are associated with risk taking, increased 'craving' for sexual behaviour, sexual 'addiction' and sexual fetishism, as well as compulsive and addictive behaviour, gambling, aggression and psychosis.

Prolactin appears to depress the sexual libido, and excess prolactin is associated with mood changes, depression, hostility, anxiety, headaches and lack of sexual response, so keeping prolactin levels low will most likely increase the libido and reduce hostility and anxiety.

All of this is hypothesis, although with reasonable scientific backing. When combined with the hypothesised oxytocin effects of love-making, it may be that orgasm denial ramps up sexual arousal and feelings of love whilst improving pain tolerance and feeds into the compulsive or craving manifestations of sexual fetishes.

I read a bunch of websites and can't be bothered going back to find links, but hopefully what I have said is basic enough and fairly well accepted in the field of neurochemistry that a simple google search would confirm what I have said here, in case anyone wants to read articles.

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ORIGINAL: orgasmdenial12

quote:

ORIGINAL: NookieNotes
Orgasm releases testosterone in both men and women, making them more independent, able to think critically, more decisive, more active, more willing to stand up for themselves.

If you remove that, but keep in the activities that create dopamine (edging, affection, play), you will create a super happy and addicted sub.

In very basic terms.

I'm not sure about the testosterone connection (I seem to do fairly well with the critical thinking, decisiveness and assertiveness regardless of whether I engage in denial or not) but I do agree on the subject of dopamine.

It's my belief that the effects of denial may be connected to the interplay of dopamine and prolactin. Dopamine builds over the two weeks after orgasm, and peaks during foreplay and pre-orgasmic sex. After orgasm, dopamine drops and prolactin rises and remains higher for up to 2 weeks.

People who do 'tease and denial' may be unconsciously raising their dopamine levels, through engaging in sexual foreplay or even full sex, without orgasm. In subjects who engaged in sex without orgasm, prolactin was lower after sex than before it, suggesting that orgasm denial may raise dopamine and lower prolactin.

Higher levels of dopamine are thought to be associated with increased energy, libido, improved pain tolerance, feelings of motivation, well being, satisfaction, pleasure, sociability and love.

Excessive levels of dopamine are associated with risk taking, increased 'craving' for sexual behaviour, sexual 'addiction' and sexual fetishism, as well as compulsive and addictive behaviour, gambling, aggression and psychosis.

Prolactin appears to depress the sexual libido, and excess prolactin is associated with mood changes, depression, hostility, anxiety, headaches and lack of sexual response, so keeping prolactin levels low will most likely increase the libido and reduce hostility and anxiety.

All of this is hypothesis, although with reasonable scientific backing. When combined with the hypothesised oxytocin effects of love-making, it may be that orgasm denial ramps up sexual arousal and feelings of love whilst improving pain tolerance and feeds into the compulsive or craving manifestations of sexual fetishes.

I read a bunch of websites and can't be bothered going back to find links, but hopefully what I have said is basic enough and fairly well accepted in the field of neurochemistry that a simple google search would confirm what I have said here, in case anyone wants to read articles.

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ORIGINAL: GoddessManko

Agreed, though even the science of "pheremonal release" is very vague and fetal at best I do not engage in sexual activity because I prefer to Top than be Topped however even the smallest bit of pheromone release from the opposite sex elicits a physical response from me.