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Originally Posted by TexanAvenger
What this means is that, while the orgasm still causes a surge of endorphins, and thus the characteristic opiate effect, the magnitude of the effect is lessened. What's more, the level of endorphins your body releases throughout the natural course of the day may now only have a negligable effect due to an intense increase in receptors. This could result in the depression you seem to feel since your brain is becoming accustomed to having a much larger amount of endorphins... like a kind of pleasure withdrawl.
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I am not a doctor either, but I find your explanation quite logical. I don't know about the hard facts though, and having never been addicted to anything serious (except music
) I can't really say anything to back up your hypothesis.
I have a couple of questions for you however... You say that an orgasm releases endorphins. If I recall correctly, training also does the same thing. This would then mean that intensive physical training (apart from aerobic wrist workout
) would also have the same effects. I've also read stuff about people masturbating to get to sleep faster, but this has seemingly no effect on me; quite the contrary I'd say, as it actually makes me stay up (not a pun) longer.
I must admit to not getting so great a "kick" from various happenings lately though (thus my self-description as an apath, sometimes).