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  1. What did dopamine do to deserve this?

    open.substack.com/pub/cognitiv

    A guest post by Dean Burnett for 'Cognitive Wonderland', which explores the surreal demonization in the modern discourse of the vital neurotransmitter dopamine

    #Dopamine #Pleasure #Science #Brains

  2. What did dopamine do to deserve this?

    open.substack.com/pub/cognitiv

    A guest post by Dean Burnett for 'Cognitive Wonderland', which explores the surreal demonization in the modern discourse of the vital neurotransmitter dopamine

    #Dopamine #Pleasure #Science #Brains

  3. What did dopamine do to deserve this?

    open.substack.com/pub/cognitiv

    A guest post by Dean Burnett for 'Cognitive Wonderland', which explores the surreal demonization in the modern discourse of the vital neurotransmitter dopamine

    #Dopamine #Pleasure #Science #Brains

  4. What did dopamine do to deserve this?

    open.substack.com/pub/cognitiv

    A guest post by Dean Burnett for 'Cognitive Wonderland', which explores the surreal demonization in the modern discourse of the vital neurotransmitter dopamine

    #Dopamine #Pleasure #Science #Brains

  5. What did dopamine do to deserve this?

    open.substack.com/pub/cognitiv

    A guest post by Dean Burnett for 'Cognitive Wonderland', which explores the surreal demonization in the modern discourse of the vital neurotransmitter dopamine

    #Dopamine #Pleasure #Science #Brains

  6. CW: New Blog: Choose your own Fuck-Venture!!

    Ludicrously excited!

    I've written my first ever Choose Your Own Fuck-Venture.

    This is part one: Use Me

    "I cross over the promenade and that’s when you notice me. You freeze, just staring at me. I don’t look away, walk straight over to you. Excitement rushes through me, sharp with the edge of desire. And I’m desperate to know which version of you is about to meet me."

    goingdownwithsundial.com/cyof-

    #literotica
    #bdsm
    #pain
    #pleasure
    #flogging
    #oil

  7. The jouissance of writing

    From Mari Ruti’s The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism, loc 1781:

    Its intensity is such that I cannot exactly call it pleasurable. The sheer volume of sentences pouring out, and the rapidity with which they form, can feel overwhelming. This is an experience of jouissance in as pure a form as I am able to experience it, which is why it is the kind of pleasure that borders on pain. I know that others experience it differently, sometimes even as an erotic event.118 But for me it is mostly agonizing. Fortunately, things shift when I reach the editorial stage which, by comparison, is calm and calming. That is when the process slows down and writing becomes a more straightforward pleasure.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjzJKCZWYc

    Nothing is more entertaining
    Than fuckin’ with words and their arrangement

    I really identify with what Ruti is describing here, even if in my case it’s unambiguously pleasurable. There is nonetheless an excess to the pleasure which means it needs to be described as jouissance. It feels to me like there’s a continuous stream of reactions and associations forming just beneath the surface of my awareness which I tune into when I’m writing. The writing process is little more than just deliberately tuning in so that stream starts flowing out of me and onto the page, until either it feels exhausted or I do at which point I stop.

    It’s a process which I’ve learned to steer by being vaguely purposeful with what I read, who I talk to, what I think about. I suspect if I stopped reading, stopped having interesting conversations, the stream wouldn’t exactly dry up but it would lose force and momentum in a way that would make writing far more difficult. At present it’s just a case of finding time to tune into that inner process, which at the moment is proving extremely difficulty. But it’s still relatively easy to write every day in at least one small burst.

    The problem I experience is editing. Firstly, it’s something I struggle with cognitively. I know how to write over my own words in a way that gradually refines them. I know how to reach a point where I’m able and willing to hack away at the manuscript. There’s a certain pleasure in killing your darlings once you reach a vivid sense of the finished work underlying them. But I can only restructure in an intuitive way. I find it hard to cognitively map a text which is why I increasingly rely on LLMs to help me plan this process.

    Perhaps more importantly I get bored at this stage. It’s not that I don’t care about the finished work but the jouissance described above has largely gone. Ruti has a lovely image about jouissance and words on loc 1225:

    Sometimes I even picture tiny morsels of jouissance latching themselves onto the underbellies of select signifiers so as to give them the kind of boost that enables them to resuscitate the domain of signification

    When I’m editing I can still stumble across these little barnacles of jouissance attached to my words. But they’ve washed up on the beach and the jouissance has now died. I can see they were there, but the energy is gone. It means I find editing a slightly depressing process as well as a boring one. It’s the mirror image of the liveness and lightness which characterises writing for me. A sort of turgid death march because I know I have to engage in before anyone will be willing or interesting in the outgrowths of this strangely energetic and ultimately slightly solipsistic process of how I write.

    #creativity #editing #enjoyment #Jouissance #MariRuti #pleasure #writing
  8. The jouissance of writing

    From Mari Ruti’s The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism, loc 1781:

    Its intensity is such that I cannot exactly call it pleasurable. The sheer volume of sentences pouring out, and the rapidity with which they form, can feel overwhelming. This is an experience of jouissance in as pure a form as I am able to experience it, which is why it is the kind of pleasure that borders on pain. I know that others experience it differently, sometimes even as an erotic event.118 But for me it is mostly agonizing. Fortunately, things shift when I reach the editorial stage which, by comparison, is calm and calming. That is when the process slows down and writing becomes a more straightforward pleasure.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjzJKCZWYc

    Nothing is more entertaining
    Than fuckin’ with words and their arrangement

    I really identify with what Ruti is describing here, even if in my case it’s unambiguously pleasurable. There is nonetheless an excess to the pleasure which means it needs to be described as jouissance. It feels to me like there’s a continuous stream of reactions and associations forming just beneath the surface of my awareness which I tune into when I’m writing. The writing process is little more than just deliberately tuning in so that stream starts flowing out of me and onto the page, until either it feels exhausted or I do at which point I stop.

    It’s a process which I’ve learned to steer by being vaguely purposeful with what I read, who I talk to, what I think about. I suspect if I stopped reading, stopped having interesting conversations, the stream wouldn’t exactly dry up but it would lose force and momentum in a way that would make writing far more difficult. At present it’s just a case of finding time to tune into that inner process, which at the moment is proving extremely difficulty. But it’s still relatively easy to write every day in at least one small burst.

    The problem I experience is editing. Firstly, it’s something I struggle with cognitively. I know how to write over my own words in a way that gradually refines them. I know how to reach a point where I’m able and willing to hack away at the manuscript. There’s a certain pleasure in killing your darlings once you reach a vivid sense of the finished work underlying them. But I can only restructure in an intuitive way. I find it hard to cognitively map a text which is why I increasingly rely on LLMs to help me plan this process.

    Perhaps more importantly I get bored at this stage. It’s not that I don’t care about the finished work but the jouissance described above has largely gone. Ruti has a lovely image about jouissance and words on loc 1225:

    Sometimes I even picture tiny morsels of jouissance latching themselves onto the underbellies of select signifiers so as to give them the kind of boost that enables them to resuscitate the domain of signification

    When I’m editing I can still stumble across these little barnacles of jouissance attached to my words. But they’ve washed up on the beach and the jouissance has now died. I can see they were there, but the energy is gone. It means I find editing a slightly depressing process as well as a boring one. It’s the mirror image of the liveness and lightness which characterises writing for me. A sort of turgid death march because I know I have to engage in before anyone will be willing or interesting in the outgrowths of this strangely energetic and ultimately slightly solipsistic process of how I write.

    #creativity #editing #enjoyment #Jouissance #MariRuti #pleasure #writing
  9. The jouissance of writing

    From Mari Ruti’s The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism, loc 1781:

    Its intensity is such that I cannot exactly call it pleasurable. The sheer volume of sentences pouring out, and the rapidity with which they form, can feel overwhelming. This is an experience of jouissance in as pure a form as I am able to experience it, which is why it is the kind of pleasure that borders on pain. I know that others experience it differently, sometimes even as an erotic event.118 But for me it is mostly agonizing. Fortunately, things shift when I reach the editorial stage which, by comparison, is calm and calming. That is when the process slows down and writing becomes a more straightforward pleasure.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjzJKCZWYc

    Nothing is more entertaining
    Than fuckin’ with words and their arrangement

    I really identify with what Ruti is describing here, even if in my case it’s unambiguously pleasurable. There is nonetheless an excess to the pleasure which means it needs to be described as jouissance. It feels to me like there’s a continuous stream of reactions and associations forming just beneath the surface of my awareness which I tune into when I’m writing. The writing process is little more than just deliberately tuning in so that stream starts flowing out of me and onto the page, until either it feels exhausted or I do at which point I stop.

    It’s a process which I’ve learned to steer by being vaguely purposeful with what I read, who I talk to, what I think about. I suspect if I stopped reading, stopped having interesting conversations, the stream wouldn’t exactly dry up but it would lose force and momentum in a way that would make writing far more difficult. At present it’s just a case of finding time to tune into that inner process, which at the moment is proving extremely difficulty. But it’s still relatively easy to write every day in at least one small burst.

    The problem I experience is editing. Firstly, it’s something I struggle with cognitively. I know how to write over my own words in a way that gradually refines them. I know how to reach a point where I’m able and willing to hack away at the manuscript. There’s a certain pleasure in killing your darlings once you reach a vivid sense of the finished work underlying them. But I can only restructure in an intuitive way. I find it hard to cognitively map a text which is why I increasingly rely on LLMs to help me plan this process.

    Perhaps more importantly I get bored at this stage. It’s not that I don’t care about the finished work but the jouissance described above has largely gone. Ruti has a lovely image about jouissance and words on loc 1225:

    Sometimes I even picture tiny morsels of jouissance latching themselves onto the underbellies of select signifiers so as to give them the kind of boost that enables them to resuscitate the domain of signification

    When I’m editing I can still stumble across these little barnacles of jouissance attached to my words. But they’ve washed up on the beach and the jouissance has now died. I can see they were there, but the energy is gone. It means I find editing a slightly depressing process as well as a boring one. It’s the mirror image of the liveness and lightness which characterises writing for me. A sort of turgid death march because I know I have to engage in before anyone will be willing or interesting in the outgrowths of this strangely energetic and ultimately slightly solipsistic process of how I write.

    #creativity #editing #enjoyment #Jouissance #MariRuti #pleasure #writing
  10. The jouissance of writing

    From Mari Ruti’s The Creative Self: Beyond Individualism, loc 1781:

    Its intensity is such that I cannot exactly call it pleasurable. The sheer volume of sentences pouring out, and the rapidity with which they form, can feel overwhelming. This is an experience of jouissance in as pure a form as I am able to experience it, which is why it is the kind of pleasure that borders on pain. I know that others experience it differently, sometimes even as an erotic event.118 But for me it is mostly agonizing. Fortunately, things shift when I reach the editorial stage which, by comparison, is calm and calming. That is when the process slows down and writing becomes a more straightforward pleasure.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjzJKCZWYc

    Nothing is more entertaining
    Than fuckin’ with words and their arrangement

    I really identify with what Ruti is describing here, even if in my case it’s unambiguously pleasurable. There is nonetheless an excess to the pleasure which means it needs to be described as jouissance. It feels to me like there’s a continuous stream of reactions and associations forming just beneath the surface of my awareness which I tune into when I’m writing. The writing process is little more than just deliberately tuning in so that stream starts flowing out of me and onto the page, until either it feels exhausted or I do at which point I stop.

    It’s a process which I’ve learned to steer by being vaguely purposeful with what I read, who I talk to, what I think about. I suspect if I stopped reading, stopped having interesting conversations, the stream wouldn’t exactly dry up but it would lose force and momentum in a way that would make writing far more difficult. At present it’s just a case of finding time to tune into that inner process, which at the moment is proving extremely difficulty. But it’s still relatively easy to write every day in at least one small burst.

    The problem I experience is editing. Firstly, it’s something I struggle with cognitively. I know how to write over my own words in a way that gradually refines them. I know how to reach a point where I’m able and willing to hack away at the manuscript. There’s a certain pleasure in killing your darlings once you reach a vivid sense of the finished work underlying them. But I can only restructure in an intuitive way. I find it hard to cognitively map a text which is why I increasingly rely on LLMs to help me plan this process.

    Perhaps more importantly I get bored at this stage. It’s not that I don’t care about the finished work but the jouissance described above has largely gone. Ruti has a lovely image about jouissance and words on loc 1225:

    Sometimes I even picture tiny morsels of jouissance latching themselves onto the underbellies of select signifiers so as to give them the kind of boost that enables them to resuscitate the domain of signification

    When I’m editing I can still stumble across these little barnacles of jouissance attached to my words. But they’ve washed up on the beach and the jouissance has now died. I can see they were there, but the energy is gone. It means I find editing a slightly depressing process as well as a boring one. It’s the mirror image of the liveness and lightness which characterises writing for me. A sort of turgid death march because I know I have to engage in before anyone will be willing or interesting in the outgrowths of this strangely energetic and ultimately slightly solipsistic process of how I write.

    #creativity #editing #enjoyment #Jouissance #MariRuti #pleasure #writing
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  17. CW: bare breasts, genital groping, implied fingering

    People used to give me a REALLY hard time for posting commercial porn from big porn companies like kink.com but every now and then the pleasure chemistry just hits and I can't resist!

    erosblog.com/2014/12/15/gettin

    #pleasure #fingering #DerrickPierce #SavannahFox #Porn #KinkDotCom #Panties #BDSM #Whip #Chemistry #Smile #Smiling #grin #grinning #fingered #kink

  18. CW: bare breasts, genital groping, implied fingering

    People used to give me a REALLY hard time for posting commercial porn from big porn companies like kink.com but every now and then the pleasure chemistry just hits and I can't resist!

    erosblog.com/2014/12/15/gettin

    #pleasure #fingering #DerrickPierce #SavannahFox #Porn #KinkDotCom #Panties #BDSM #Whip #Chemistry #Smile #Smiling #grin #grinning #fingered #kink

  19. CW: bare breasts, genital groping, implied fingering

    People used to give me a REALLY hard time for posting commercial porn from big porn companies like kink.com but every now and then the pleasure chemistry just hits and I can't resist!

    erosblog.com/2014/12/15/gettin

    #pleasure #fingering #DerrickPierce #SavannahFox #Porn #KinkDotCom #Panties #BDSM #Whip #Chemistry #Smile #Smiling #grin #grinning #fingered #kink

  20. CW: bare breasts, genital groping, implied fingering

    People used to give me a REALLY hard time for posting commercial porn from big porn companies like kink.com but every now and then the pleasure chemistry just hits and I can't resist!

    erosblog.com/2014/12/15/gettin

    #pleasure #fingering #DerrickPierce #SavannahFox #Porn #KinkDotCom #Panties #BDSM #Whip #Chemistry #Smile #Smiling #grin #grinning #fingered #kink

  21. CW: bare breasts, genital groping, implied fingering

    People used to give me a REALLY hard time for posting commercial porn from big porn companies like kink.com but every now and then the pleasure chemistry just hits and I can't resist!

    erosblog.com/2014/12/15/gettin

    #pleasure #fingering #DerrickPierce #SavannahFox #Porn #KinkDotCom #Panties #BDSM #Whip #Chemistry #Smile #Smiling #grin #grinning #fingered #kink

  22. What did dopamine do to deserve this?

    open.substack.com/pub/cognitiv

    A guest post by Dean Burnett for 'Cognitive Wonderland', which explores the surreal demonization in the modern discourse of the vital neurotransmitter dopamine

    #Dopamine #Pleasure #Science #Brains

  23. theguardian.com/books/2026/apr. "Daily #reading for #pleasure among 5 to 17-year-olds fell from 39% in 2012 to 25% in 2025, #data shows, while the proportion of #children who rarely or never #read for pleasure tripled from 5% to 15%. However, the #study also found that both daily & weekly reading for pleasure increased between 2024 & 2025 among 11- to 17-year-old #boys & #girls. For 14- to 17-year-old boys... those who never read fell from 36% to 30% year-on-year."

  24. theguardian.com/books/2026/apr. "Daily #reading for #pleasure among 5 to 17-year-olds fell from 39% in 2012 to 25% in 2025, #data shows, while the proportion of #children who rarely or never #read for pleasure tripled from 5% to 15%. However, the #study also found that both daily & weekly reading for pleasure increased between 2024 & 2025 among 11- to 17-year-old #boys & #girls. For 14- to 17-year-old boys... those who never read fell from 36% to 30% year-on-year."

  25. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1759-05-26), The Idler, No. 58

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/20542…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #expectations #gladness #goodfortune #goodluck #happiness #pleasure #serendipity #surprise #unexpectedness