The Buildup

When you start masturbating, there are a lot of chemical changes in your brain. When you start to masturbate, you are turning on different parts of your bodies sympathetic nervous system. Basically, you are tricking your body into behaving as it does during sex. Your digestion stops, your eyes dilate, you sweat a little, your heart rate increases. All these things are automatic responses to sexual stimulus.

Part of the sympathetic response is that your orbitofrontal cortex is less active. This is the part of the brain responsible for judgement and decision making. With the judgment center of the brain essentially off, you are on autopilot once the masturbation starts. That is how you go from watching a photo of a hot coed to suddenly seeing the girl next door getting railed by a fucking machine while she’s strapped to a board and getting face fucked. It’s because your judgement center is off.

As you continue to masturbate, and get closer to cumming, your dopamine levels increase as well. This pushes your decision making skills into the dumpster. As your orgasm hits, our brain is flooded with oxytocin and your dopamine.

The Orgasm

When the orgasm hits, the oxytocin and dopamine hit. The orgasm crashes through, and you cum. The oxytocin is a “bonding” chemical that makes you feel bonded with the person you are with. It’s also released during breast feeding. The dopamine released is the pleasure hormone, but some research shows that it teaches the brain to search out more of what creates the hormone as well. This will make us crave more sex. When your orgasm, the thalamus is active as well. The integration of sexual memories with touch and movement happens in the thalamus.

Post Nut Clarity

The post nut clarity that happens post orgasm is the rush of all these hormones returning to normal. The orbitofrontal cortex in particular is a big part of this, as your judgement returns and your decision making returns. What you need to remember is that orgasms are not a catch all for your feelings. They will help, for a short time only. Once you have orgasmed, the same thoughts you had before will return. Sometimes stronger than before. If you were depressed before, you’ll be depressed after. The French have a name for post nut depression, it’s called “Post-Coital Tristesse (PCT)“. This only happens if you have sadness to begin with.

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