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When you experience lust, the hypothalamus in your brain stimulates the release of the sex hormones testosterone and estrogen. These hormones drive reproduction, an evolutionary need shared by all living creatures.The next level of romantic love – attraction – involves the brain’s reward center, which produces serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. All these feel-good hormones get released during pleasurable activities like bonding with loved ones and having sex.

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The Reverse Engineer Technique to Master Productivity

(This article was reviewed by the licensed clinical psychologist Fouad Monzer)Do you ever find yourself falling victim to procrastination, fighting the seduction of an enticing Netflix series, or succumb to the endless scroll of social media? We’ve all been there. In our quest to conquer these productivity killers, we can take a lesson from the brain’s mighty motivator: dopamine.

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Study: Trichotillomania, Excoriation, Other BFRBs Reduced with Habit Replacement Training

August 18, 2023Habit replacement training significantly reduced body-focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) for more than half of patients with excoriation (skin picking), trichotillomania (hair pulling), nail biting, lip-cheek biting, and other BFRBs, according to a six-week proof-of-concept study published in JAMA.1Of the study’s 268 participants, 53% of those who practiced habit replacement techniques reported improvement compared to 20% of the control group. Those who exhibited nail-biting benefited the most.Further, 80% of those who practiced habit replacement said they would recommend it to a friend with similar problems, and 86% reported overall satisfaction with the training, which substituted the pleasurable sensation of skin picking, nail-biting, or hair pulling with another action that feels good but isn’t harmful to the body.“BFRBs refer to recurrent and chronic behaviors inflicted upon the body (like trichotillomania and excoriation) that often result in physical damage,” said Roberto Olivardia, Ph.D., in the ADDitude webinar “Nail Biting! Skin Picking! Hair Pulling! Understanding Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors with ADHD.”The TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors estimates that BFRBs affect about 3% of people worldwide.

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21.08.2023 / 09:11

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How Unhealthy Lifestyle Choices Sculpt the Path to Addiction Susceptibility

When it comes to understanding addiction, the root of the issue oftentimes lies in past lifestyle choices. The reality is that our habits and behaviors can shape who we are today—and may even put us on a path toward an unhealthy dependence later in life. By understanding how poor lifestyle decisions increase addiction susceptibility, people can take proactive measures to protect themselves from forming dangerous connections. In this blog post, we’ll explore the impact of bad habits on overall mental health and provide tips to reduce the risk of developing an addiction in adulthood.

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Ready to Move the Needle Forward? Your Personal Growth Begins with Self-Awareness

, restructuring your team or mulling over the idea of adding new training and leadership skills to your repertoire, our goal is to inspire you to move the needle forward.The theme of this issue is aligned with that very mission. Self-awareness sets the stage for personal growth and professional advancement, both of which require a deep dive into where we are and where we want to go.

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06.07.2023 / 10:11

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Unlocking New Markets: The Benefits of Global Payment Processing

As the digital economy grows, it is becoming increasingly important for businesses to have solutions in place that make payment processing seamless and efficient.

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Digital Detox: What is it, and why do you need it?

Our attitudes towards the digital world are very contradictory. Many researches show that most of us consider the Internet the best source of information and knowledge. Moreover, online presence increases the chances of finding a job and facilitates most everyday activities. Almost 80% of teenagers develop their interests and passions in the digital world. 60.2% feel calm and happy when using the web. However, this is only one face of the digital world.On the other hand,2 out of 3 Internet users declare they consider themselves addicted to technology.

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12.05.2023 / 10:49

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Everything You Should Know About Private Jet & Air Charter In Houston, TX

Houston private jet charter from BitLux is the ideal way to travel to your destination quickly and opulently if you’re planning a quick trip from this thriving industrial city in the south of America. Thanks to the well-maintained private aircraft’s wide range of cutting-edge facilities, your charter flight will be safe, pleasant, and pleasurable no matter where it takes you. Therefore, if leaving the Houston region as soon as possible is what you crave, look no further than BitLux private jet charter flights!

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18.04.2023 / 12:33

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Benefits of Taking Supplements to Last Long In Bed

A successful relationship must have sexual closeness, and many people yearn for longer, more gratifying sexual sessions. Due to a multitude of variables, such as stress, anxiety, and hormonal imbalances, this may be difficult for some people. A good technique to increase sexual endurance and pleasure are by taking vitamins. The advantages of using supplements to stay in bed longer are listed below.

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ADHD and the Relentless Search for Dopamine

Some people search for love. Others money. Some spend their lives in search of fame, or glory. But not me. There’s only one thing I’m after, and that’s the Big D.

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The Latest Sexual Wellness Trends You Are Going To Want To Try This Year

smoothies, Pilates, and trends like mouth taping, red light therapy, and cold plunges first come to mind while a self-pleasure protocol and regular orgasms probably fall low on that list. But tending to your sexual health, desires, and sexuality is a form of self-care, just as much as therapy, journaling, and getting quality Zzzs (more on that to come).Thankfully, 2023 is the year of normalizing sex (seeing it as an essential part of our overall well-being) and sexual inclusivity (AKA de-stigmatizing sexuality). Case in point: the range of sexual wellness products (think: vibrators, lubes, toys) that you’ll be able to shop in-store alongside your beauty must-haves, feminine products, and groceries in one fell swoop.

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A Single Mother Struggling to Budget Weighs the Balance Between Just Surviving and Really Living

. We had been responsible with money, but I still wasn’t fiscally prepared for this loss. I wanted to ensure that my kids and I could stay in the neighborhood and home where we’d always lived—something that was hard enough when my husband and I were both working.

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That Food You Just Can't Get Enough of May Be an ADHD Hyperfixation

Everyone has a favorite food. It’s that food that makes your eyes light up and you could talk about for hours. However, if you have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), it may go a little bit deeper than that.

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A Sexual Abuse Survivor’s Guide to Buying an Adult Toy

The first time it was suggested to me that I should invest in an adult toy was about six years ago. I had just disclosed my sexual abuse to my then-therapist and she knew I was extremely triggered by sex. Her solution was a version of extreme exposure therapy to help desensitize me to sex, which included reading erotica she suggested, watching “gay porn,” and regular masturbation. What she failed to recognize because she was not a trauma therapist, was that none of this was going to be possible or even safe for me to do until we processed my abuse, something she wasn’t equipped to help me do. Needless to say, all of this resulted in my becoming retraumatized and even more anxious about sex and anything having to do with pleasure.

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Do Not Give Up On Dreams Despite Rejection

Rejection sucks! It’s hard to keep going in the face of adversity. Hopefully, these lessons I have learned will show you how important it is not to give up.

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20.05.2022 / 09:41

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Dry humping: This Guy Gets Paid To Dry Hump And Calls It Alternative Love Therapy

One definition of dry humping is as follows: Dry humping is grinding or rubbing your genitals against your partner’s genitals or body. And this is usually done through underwear or clothes, meaning both partners remain fully or partially clothed. Or, in other words, humping with your clothes on. And because dry humping can often lead to orgasm, bo

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29.04.2022 / 12:55

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What You Should Look Up While Planning A Trip To Istanbul From Dubai?

Turkey has always been a popular destination for tourists looking for a complete vacation. This country is a healthy tourism destination because of its crystal clear lakes, steep mountains, historical ruins, charming towns, and huge cosmopolitan cities.

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7 Things I Learned From 'The Principles of Pleasure' as a Sexual Abuse and Endometriosis Survivor

I have written before about the ways in which my experience with sexual abuse and endometriosis have both impacted the ways in which I inhabit my body. Shame and a feeling of disembodiment accompany both and with that comes sexual dysfunction. Whether it’s emotional or medical, discomfort with intimacy and with pleasure become a pervasive aspect of one’s identity and a source of angst. That’s why I was intrigued by the new series “The Principles of Pleasure” on Netflix. And for as awkward and often uncomfortable as I felt watching it, it certainly taught me a lot about why pleasure is a human right and how exactly it works. Here are some key takeaways:

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How I Overcame Shame from Sexual Assault and Began to Love Myself

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~Martin Luther King Jr.

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How I Found Freedom With Masturbation After Trauma

I was curious as to what my parents were hiding in the cabinet in the den of our house. I got a chair and went snooping. I found old records and books. One of the books was about sex. I sneaked it off to my room and when I had a chance, I read it. All I remember about this book is that it said that masturbation was a sin and you would be punished if you did it, by God. This scared the holy crap out of me.

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10 Foods to Eat If You Want a Better Sex Life, According to Experts

aphrodisiacs are controversial among experts (no, chocolate is not a magical food meant to make you orgasm), many healthy foods contain important nutrients that can affect hormones or increase blood flow to help increase pleasure in the bedroom (or the bathroom, back of your car, with your vibrator–no judgment!). But just a reminder that libido is a vital sign—a low sex drive could be the body’s way of communicating that it needs something. Therefore, the question is not just how can we improve our sex drive, but why is our sex drive lacking in the first place? This list is not meant to replace talking to your doc about finding the root cause for a low libido.Also, the most important thing you can do for your pleasure is to eat a healthy diet.

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How To Meditate Your Way to a Better Sex Life

I know what you’re thinking: meditation for sex? What do meditation and sex have in common? As it turns out, a lot. The practice of meditation is centered on a mind-body connection, so what if you could use that connection to tap into increased pleasure? Sign us up! A study done by the NATSAL showed that 51% of the women surveyed reported at least one sexual concern that lasted three months or longer, and less than 20% of those women sought out advice or help for it (PSA: Talk to your doctors and partners about increasing pleasure, ladies!). Many of us have experienced sex that isn’t enjoyable and just accepted it as normal, but it’s time to say goodbye to mediocre sex because you deserve to have a great sex life.

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23.12.2021 / 08:51

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20 Life Lessons from an Undefeated Samurai Warrior

Musashi was a unique warrior because he used two swords simultaneously to win over 60 duels. For many years, his life lessons were followed religiously by people everywhere.

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How to Hygge-ify to Your Diet

‘Tis the season for all things hygge, or the Danish and Norwegian concept of the feeling of coziness, connection with loved ones, and pleasure. As the weather changes, we’re making our homes more hygge-approved (candles, fuzzy blankets, and faux fur everywhere), but we can also apply the concept into every area of our lives too (hygge is a feeling, not a decor style).

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positivelypositive.com

02.11.2021 / 15:55

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8 Ways That Being Grateful for Simple Pleasures Improved My Outlook on Life

Here are eight ways that being grateful for simple pleasures improved my outlook on life.People in the west tend to take many things for granted. For example, when was the last time you thought about how convenient it was to get food delivered during the recent lockdowns?People in other regions don’t only need to cook and prepare their meals — they must often hunt and harvest if they want to eat.

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What drives decision making?

What drives decision making?“The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life.

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01.11.2021 / 14:15

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How Cooking Helped Me to Find Myself Post Divorce

Yet, even in this chaos, I was able to find solace in the biggest chore on my to-do list: cooking.Day after day, I prepared meals for myself and the kids — mostly out of obligation at first. At some point, however, I began to take pleasure in the slicing, dicing, mixing and mashing.Using my hands to create something delicious and following a recipe step by step helped me focus on the task at hand rather than the grief and stress.

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16.09.2021 / 15:41

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Trans Porn, Transgender Women, and Everything you Need to Know for a Respectful Pleasurable Sex

The world as we know it is changing; it will only be fair if we change with it. Today, people assume so many sexual orientations, giving the older generations a hard time getting used to the trend. Some of the many sexual orientations include Ecosexual: people that fall in love and are sexually aroused by the ecosystem. Others include Demisexual, Pansexual, Asexuals, and of course the transsexuals who are surgically transformed into the opposite sex. Everything we know about sex has changed; this can be seen in the new wave of porn that has started making it into the industry; one example is trans porn, also known as shemale porn.

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5 Mental Health Takeaways From a Psychologist Who Specializes in IBD Patients

I had the pleasure of sitting down with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) experts and patient advocates in honor of World IBD Day to discuss a topic I am most passionate about — the integration of a mind and body approach into IBD care. While there is much to be grateful for with respect to medical advances in the management of IBD over the last decade, with respect to medical advances in the management of IBD over the last decade, the prevalence of comorbid mental health disorders has remained high and stagnant — suggesting that simply screening our IBD patients for anxiety and depression is insufficient and usually too late.

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6 Things I Learned About Vaginas From This Netflix Show

$250 million brand, or the sometimes ridiculous claims (a $3,000 dildo? I don’t even have $5 for daily Starbucks!), but one of the episodes on the Netflix series The Goop Lab shook my world. Episode three, titled “The Pleasure Is Ours,” features Betty Dodson, a PhD sexologist who has been one of the principle leaders in female sexual health and pleasure for decades.

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04.08.2021 / 18:11

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Being a Super Human, Not Superhuman.

I have to take the mundane with me on my way to the holy. Otherwise, I am not really whole. Otherwise, I am leaving God behind.Ancient.

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My Struggle With Anorexia as Someone With a Disability

“Girl, look at these thighs. You know I eat a lot.”

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We Asked Experts if Aphrodisiacs Actually Work

ancient and medieval times as “love potions,” and legend has it that Aztec ruler Montezuma II drank more than 50 cups of chocolate before “entertaining a woman” (sign me up for the chocolate—no entertaining necessary!). Plus, the word itself comes from Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

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02.06.2021 / 13:43

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You Have to Be Fully in Your Body to Create Things

start doing less of what you don’t like to do, and more of what you love. Start by visualizing three ideal days (based on an exercise by Abraham-Hicks): a perfect at-home day, a fantastical away day, and a day where you just love on and save the world.Vision 1: Your Home Day Ideal 12 hours.In everyday life, where would you be, what would you be doing, who would you be with, what would you be eating, how would you be earning, helping, creating, living, loving in a span of twelve hours? Walk through everything that would go into the waking hours of blissdom for you. Focus on ideal and don’t worry about how you’re going to make it happen.

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Stillness, that love is vividly expressed.Going to the beach is perhaps my all-time favorite thing to do. Next to that would be reading, cooking, and entertaining.Instead of just taking still photos yesterday, I thought it would be nice to capture the actual sunset on video.

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What “Libido” Really Is—and How You Can Tap Into Yours

The question heard in gynecologists’ offices and typed into Google all over the world: what is libido, and how, oh how, can I improve it!? It seems like “libido” is the word on everyone’s mind, and many women are feeling like theirs just don’t measure up: according to a 2013 study, up to 43 percent of women claim to experience low libido. But what does libido really mean? (Hint: it’s not just about sex drive.) If you feel like your sex drive has gone MIA, you might just be focusing on the wrong things.

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curiousmindmagazine.com

24.04.2021 / 19:03

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The Latest Tech Trends in Gaming

The 1950s and the 1960s first witnessed the birth and development of video games and simulations, beginning with the famous MIT’s Spacewar, a space combat video game in 1962, the first one to be played with a video display. Come the 1980s and the improvements in video games have skyrocketed. Games were made for personal computers as much as for consoles, and Sega and Nintendo were fighting for supremacy on the US market. So, what brought about these rapid developments? Well, technology, of course.

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What It Really Means To “Be Sexy”

Sans oppressing cultural standards, “sexy” actually means something very different. It’s not an item of clothing or a label that puts us into a box.

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The Top 3 Most Distressing Symptoms of My Bipolar Disorder

For those who struggle with the devastating highs and lows of bipolar disorder, it is truly an illness that can negatively impact the qualify of one’s life. Broadly defined as a disorder where the individual experiences both depression and mania/hypomania, with periods of stability in between, many of the symptoms can be distressing, if not downright damaging to one’s life.

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What is the Mental Health Impact of Losing Your Sense of Smell and Taste from COVID-19?

95% of the time when an individual experiences a loss of taste it’s caused by a loss of smell. Without smell and taste, 40% of our sensory input is lost. Unfortunately, as a result of COVID-19, more individuals have lost their sense of smell, taste, or both this past year than perhaps any time in history.

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15.02.2021 / 00:49

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Looking To Start Vaping? Here Are The Various Ways To Go About It

If you are looking to start vaping for pleasure or to try to quit smoking then you have to know what you’re getting into. Years ago there were not many options when it came to vaping. These days there are many different types of devices and even what you vape comes in many forms.

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20+ Gifts to Give Your Loved Ones for the Sexiest Valentine’s Day Ever

review of this sex-positive, women-owned audio erotica app! Comfort. Easy access. What can I say, I'm a woman of simple pleasures. 8 colors available

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The Moment I Knew I Needed a Lifestyle Shift With Bipolar Disorder

The night went by so fast, but the fall on the concrete floor happened in slow motion. Intoxication is a cruel pleasure. I found myself being pulled by my friends from the ground where I hit my head. Before I knew it, we were in a speeding car. It was chaos. I was bawling, screaming for my doctor’s name. My friends were trying to calm me down. Then, it all went dark.

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The Depression Symptom That Robs Us of Joy

If you’ve ever faced depression in your life, you’re familiar with the way it makes you feel. The persistent sadness, low energy, disrupted sleep and missing motivation can make even the simplest daily activities seem too difficult to even contemplate.

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Bar Rescue’s Jon Taffer on Finding Hope, Handling Self-Doubt and Defining Success

Who? Jon Taffer, TV host and executive producer, author, entrepreneur and hospitality expertWhere? Las VegasWhat? Taffer is best known as the host of Bar Rescue on Paramount Network, the long-running show in which he uses his decades in the hospitality industry to turn struggling mom-and-pop businesses around. He opened Taffer’s Tavern outside Atlanta in October. I think the first thing people are going to do after they get a vaccine is go to dinner.

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A Guide to Intimacy and Sex When Have Irritable Bowel Disease

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21.11.2020 / 14:50

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New Study Discovers Key to Happiness

“The capacity to experience pleasure or enjoyment without getting distracted by intrusive thoughts contributes at least as much to a happy and satisfied life as successful self-control.”According to new research from the University of Zurich and Radboud University in the Netherlands, enjoying short-term pleasurable activities that don’t lead to long-term goals contributes at least as much to a happy life as self-control. The researchers therefore argue for a greater appreciation of hedonism in our lives.This is one of those hot new research topics that comes out and makes people think to themselves, “Wait, I already knew that.

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This Is Why You Get Chills While Listening to Your Favorite Song

Lauren is a freelance journalist focused on elevating the well-being of women and the LGBTQ+ community. She specializes in patient advocacy and justice.

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