Things I did not know: a female orgasm results in widespread shutdowns in various areas of the brain; there is a biological connection between pain and pleasure; the part of your brain that controls self-evaluation and reason turns off during sex (or shows diminished activity). Sex is pretty much the weirdest thing that we do as organisms, and. as such, remains one of the most fascinating subjects of our organismness, while being one of the more real connections we have to our evolutionary history. The great whiteboard explainers Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown, aka AsapSCIENCE, have a new video out probably not explaining everything you ever wanted to know about bonezone biology, but doing a pretty good job for a mere two minutes of video. So, the next time that dirty sinful thing happens, you can drop some terminology, like “I find your refractory period excessive, my lateral orbitofrontal cortex is turning back on.”
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