I'm trying to create a pleasurable moment, a pleasurable stimulation for myself.
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Whether it's doing things that once were pleasurable or things that could end up being pleasurable.
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That same study found that 52.3% of men and 63% of women found it very pleasurable, with another 40.6% of men and 54.6% of women finding it somewhat pleasurable.
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" And I said, "get ready for some pleasurable pain.
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My journey is more pleasurable because she is so vicious.
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How could I have made this more pleasurable for you?
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The whole "double headed" design makes it look extra pleasurable.
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"We would experience a highly pleasurable state, indefinitely," Danaher said.
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The issue lies with framing anything pleasurable as strictly reactive.
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Cooking at home isn't particularly pleasurable in New York City.
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Weirdly pleasurable videos have been popping up all over Instagram.
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I like movies, and I find suspension of disbelief pleasurable.
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Food is one of the most pleasurable things in life.
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When I'm focused and making progress, work is actually pleasurable.
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I do it because it is so pleasurable for me.
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"The flattered sickness in me was so pleasurable," Evie recalls.
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And good God if the Knicks didn't play pleasurable hoops.
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But once that goal was met, sex became less pleasurable.
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At this point, the substance itself seems rewarding and pleasurable.
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It can also be fun, consistent, mutually pleasurable and intimate.
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Exerting ourselves during a workout is not always immediately pleasurable.
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They don't talk about it as this even pleasurable experience.
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The intellectual and cerebral are as pleasurable as the corporeal.
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None of which makes this movie more than mildly pleasurable.
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Gardening is generally a healthy and pleasurable hobby or occupation.
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None of which makes this movie more than mildly pleasurable.
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They make for pleasurable listening at home or at the office.
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Sex. Oftentimes it's fun and pleasurable, and yes, sometimes it's awkward.
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They can also be a pleasurable addition to your masturbation arsenal.
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It's a sexy little secret that feels both pleasurable and naughty.
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Is this because these positions are just more pleasurable for him?
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Alcohol is pleasurable and it's proven to be good for you.
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There was this kind of familiarity in a very pleasurable way.
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It doesn't seem to be any more pleasurable to wear either.
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Look how intellectually stimulating it is, how sensually pleasurable it is.
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Psychological healthy sexual satisfaction comes from positive mutually pleasurable sexual experiences.
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How pleasurable it can be to find oneself unbound by categories.
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A. L. Kennedy has long been a surprising and pleasurable writer.
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It was not all pleasurable to read, although I liked it.
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It's catchy, thumpy and far more pleasurable than a Twitter rant.
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It's really just a liquid that, ideally, makes sex more pleasurable.
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It's time for the most pleasurable part of the skincare gauntlet.
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It feels subversive and pleasurable, like — well, like sleeping with strangers.
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Oxytocin is a hormone associated with pleasurable social bonding and attachment.
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Meanwhile, Komisaruk argues that female orgasm is pleasurable and reinforcing and, most important of all, activates the nucleus accumbens -- the same part of the brain that drives motivation and is activated by anything pleasurable, including opiates.
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The rapist made pleasurable things of sex, sleep, and going out traumatic.
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Why do some people find anal sex pleasurable, while others just don't?
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"A more compact car is a more pleasurable driving experience," Rawlinson says.
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Adjusting modes on the X1D, on the other hand, is downright pleasurable.
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In the case of "Akhnaten", though, almost the entire experience is pleasurable.
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FEW things are more pleasurable than a trip to the British countryside.
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Responsibility is not always pleasurable or even positive, but it is purposeful.
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I don't want to undervalue how pleasurable it is to read Jodzio.
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It might have been more pleasurable coming after 10 years of trauma.
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AEBN wasn't just promising a pleasurable sexual experience, but an emotionless one.
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So, why wouldn't I paint the Garden of Eden or something pleasurable?
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Asnaani suggests to look for things that are future-oriented and pleasurable.
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The result was a complexity that required repeated, pleasurable tastes to explore.
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Those and the slaw would make for a pleasurable Sunday night meal.
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Put on your oxygen mask and open to the pleasurable experiences of life.
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In other words, the reward is more pleasurable the more surprising it is.
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And both are distinctly pleasurable, binge-begging tales of crime and semi-punishment.
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What makes the headshot so pleasurable that it can support an entire genre?
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Younger is unexpectedly addictive, nothing short of extremely soothing and pleasurable to watch.
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Persistent concerns remain about whether buttons make life too easy, pleasurable or rote.
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It's all about tailoring the session so that it's pleasurable for everyone involved.
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It's not as pleasurable for me to go to a shop these days.
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For some, it can enhance the exercise experience and make it more pleasurable.
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It's supposed to make sex much more pleasurable following use of the device.
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Disturbing and pleasurable, birds with human arms are the salty sweets of photoshops.
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Then something inside me altered and coffee became palatable, then enjoyable, then pleasurable.
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A pleasurable flush came into his face, and his eyes filled with moisture.
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Basically, they're sinfully impractical, but just like any sin, they're super pleasurable, too.
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Besides wringing pity, this photograph has a mood of pleasurable expectation about it.
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Punta Ala has plenty of pleasurable diversions like this away from the beach.
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I found the writing difficult; it was pleasurable or exciting only at moments.
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Here, both the brand itself and the act of branding are found pleasurable.
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Countering the idea that meat is "nice," or pleasurable to eat, is hardest.
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"It reinforces the sadistic behavior via pleasurable experiences," Buckles concluded in her study.
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And gang rapes of baby, daughter and mother a pleasurable pass time (sic).
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These years often require many years of aging before they can be pleasurable.
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It is hardly pleasurable to read, on textual as well as emotional grounds.
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The flavorful dishes and relaxed, quirky ambience made for an exceedingly pleasurable experience.
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Too much of a pleasurable thing, ripped apart by the thing you enjoy.
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Her work often mixes the pleasurable with a political bite and wicked wit.
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It was pleasurable to meet with friends after school and have a smoke.
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Sex is hot, pleasurable, dirty, awkward, and funny all at the same time.
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I am aware that difficulty — however pleasurable and rewarding — is not in fashion.
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Is the relevant affect lust (a pleasurable feeling) or disgust (an unpleasant one)?
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Anything that makes the experience more intimate and pleasurable helps you immerse yourself.
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I can say without equivocation that it was not pleasurable, and instead dispiriting.
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A.S.M.R. may provide a pleasurable new way for Ms. McDermott to experience pie.
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And reading about the illness of a fictional character can be intensely pleasurable.
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I certainly still felt the pain, but the pain becomes sort of pleasurable.
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But can all this disgust also be a cause of libidinally pleasurable desires?
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The rapturous intensity (and specificity) of the prose is formally stunning and deeply pleasurable.
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Ethical sex isn't just consensual—it's non-exploitative, it's protected, it's honest, it's pleasurable.
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Something can be consensual and still really fucked up—exploitative, dishonest, unsafe, not pleasurable.
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Bite and smile is not the only way to show a pleasurable food experience.
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Put simply, hypnosis can help refocus the brain on more pleasurable sensations, Jensen says.
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These orgasms "appear to be more powerful and pleasurable" than penile orgasms, writes Levin.
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Here's hoping next year will be a more pleasurable experience for Prime members everywhere.
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Seizures can sometime be pleasurable, and can be triggered by these sorts of things.
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Soylent is dumb because food tastes good and eating is, generally, a pleasurable activity.
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It will feel either pleasurable, strange, or possibly like a sense of general fullness.
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It's unavoidable that you spend some time taking in culture that's pleasurable to you.
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It's this total abdication of emotional responsibility that makes unrequited love so weirdly pleasurable.
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Excellent keyboard Not the best trackpad Typing on the Spectre is a pleasurable experience.
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So here are nine tips on how to finger someone in a pleasurable manner.
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But, by that time, we were both beginning to find it thrilling and pleasurable.
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In this pleasurable and fascinating exhibition one feels like one is entering a Wunderkammer.
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"You need to stay in the moment and accept those pleasurable feelings," Tepper says.
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But a drug like that is not just going to block the pleasurable food.
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It's delicious and pleasurable served in small slices after a meal or with tea.
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All of a sudden, women had gotten the message that they deserve pleasurable sex.
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For others, the reason is the increased pleasurable sensations that can arise with cannabis.
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There's a political part of yourself, but there's also a part you find pleasurable.
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Most pornography is brutal and doesn't look pleasurable from a female point of view.
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It's really not pleasurable, in the most obvious way, to be in that courtroom.
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"It's fine to piss in someone's ass, and can be quite pleasurable," adds Lacey.
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The kinetic movement of pen across paper is pleasurable, and soothing in its familiarity.
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Seizures can sometimes be pleasurable, and can be triggered by these sorts of things.
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It's so pleasurable to look at so much stuff, smashed together, at different levels.
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"This retrograde will be infused with the positive, pleasurable vibes of Venus," she says.
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Then the movie played, sending almost pleasurable shudders of environmental horror down people's spines.
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The same thing is true of pleasure—we think of orgasm as intrinsically pleasurable.
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You can tell by my face here that this was not a pleasurable sip.
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It's only appropriate that Hustlers hustles its audience, but in a thoroughly pleasurable fashion.
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That in a way makes it more of a functional rather than pleasurable experience.
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The advice, of course, sounds specifically designed to make life less pleasurable, if longer.
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So it's no surprise that less pleasurable things like studying are 2900 times more difficult.
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Without honest and realistic sex ed, how do we learn to have healthy, pleasurable sex?
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Heavy social drinking is so often treated as an obligation, rather than a pleasurable choice.
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What would seem painful in daily life becomes acceptable and pleasurable in a play space.
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The only way to know if what you are doing is pleasurable is to ask!
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"What's often much more pleasurable for the woman is his penis staying inside," says Kim.
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The vagina stretches when you are aroused, so sex is much more pleasurable and easier.
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In reality, that's not always the most pleasurable position if you don't have a penis.
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Most people enjoy sex and find it pleasurable, and drinking alcohol increases your baseline tendencies.
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So it's no surprise that less pleasurable things like studying are 2503 times more difficult.
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At their best, pleasurable lubricants like Valentine's Day and ecstasy make it easier to love.
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"It is brutal misogyny turned into entertainment, murderous cruelty elevated into pleasurable viewing," Wilson wrote.
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Not only did I feel vaginally stronger, but my orgasms were more powerful and pleasurable.
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And attention seems to be key to the link between pleasurable feelings and well-being.
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Sara Gillingham's "Alpha, Bravo, Charlie," to take one innovative example, packs quite a pleasurable wallop.
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It makes the mundane pleasurable but also introduces a layer of security and positive emotion.
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But the experience of making that film was so pleasurable that I'll always have it.
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Even when the experience is not pleasurable, Egan often describes it as though it were.
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You may experience some of the physiological aspects of pleasure without perceiving them as pleasurable.
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Does using (and requiring) lube to have pleasurable sex mean there's something wrong with me?
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Try not to judge any of these sensations as bad or good, pleasurable or not.
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With the computer acting as prophylactic shield, sex could be both pleasurable and disease-free.
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"Dopamine certainly turns on when you experience something pleasurable for the first time," Poldrack said.
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It's supposed to be fun and provocative to a degree, but in a pleasurable way.
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We're not going to say that you're not supposed to have a pleasurable sex life.
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Fortunately for audiences, it's more pleasurable to witness anarchy than it is to experience it.
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Jennifer Finney Boylan Contributing Opinion Writer For whom is sex more pleasurable, men or women?
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It's a pain we perversely crave, a feeling that's as pleasurable as it is uncomfortable.
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Richard A. Friedman The cruel thing about vacations is that they are pleasurable but finite.
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For Mr. Romero, the tour guide, the evolving scene makes for a pleasurable tapas crawl.
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If that makes seeing it almost a civic duty, duty has rarely been so pleasurable.
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But Wayne Earle, a 183-year-old Australian, finds nothing pleasurable about his phantom penis.
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I kept trying to drink in all the details, which was both pleasurable and daunting.
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As with Yang's figures, seeing these semi-abstract forms from multiple angles delivers pleasurable surprises.
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That, to me, fits in with compulsions because these things we're doing really aren't that pleasurable.
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Reddit user's canipetyourdog21's boyfriend recently designed a shelf that makes taking a bath genuinely pleasurable.
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Think of all the ways you already insert pleasurable, circumscribed bursts of risk into your life.
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But those worn paths, with their clearly visible destinations and legible morals, can be incredibly pleasurable.
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After working out, he told me, he is very relaxed, filled with a deeply pleasurable lassitude.
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When it's released, you get a rush of feel-good emotions and an overall pleasurable experience.
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There's nothing more quietly pleasurable then watching this particular video, or any video on this list.
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The inventors hope it will provide wearers with a more secure, more pleasurable option for contraception.
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It's funny, it's pleasurable, it makes us feel powerful, and we want to do it more.
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Yes, she told us about the surgery she's having to make their wedding night more pleasurable.
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As was the case with any condom he'd ever used, it also dulled any pleasurable sensations.
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And it's much more pleasurable to sip it over ice than vape it in the alley.
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Cooking can be pleasurable but also, after a long day at work, it can be exhausting.
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She knows how to keep the viewer looking in ways that are both pleasurable and challenging.
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ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response, is a pleasurable tingling sensation in the head and scalp.
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If you do orgasm earlier than intended, there are also ways to make continuing more pleasurable.
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And what do you need after something as pleasurable as a Barry Bonds parade of dingers?
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Given that today is Sunday Funday, we're sharing them all, from the practical to the pleasurable.
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It's more pleasurable to sing without remembering, or to forget at the rate that I sing.
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But as a multitasking listener, I found the straightforward, chronological narrative easy and pleasurable to follow.
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In the 1970s, books like Judy Blume's "Forever" showed teenagers that sex was natural and pleasurable.
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"I thought revisiting the show would be more pleasurable," the creator told The New York Times.
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The result is a wide-ranging, pleasurable overview of many different approaches in American poetry today.
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"It needs to be marketed in ways that make it sound sexy and pleasurable," he said.
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You know every beat and lyric, and it's pleasurable to watch Dern interpret each one anew.
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It certainly wasn't pleasurable for Mr. Sarrar; he said that he tried to leave every night.
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"Usually this kind of nausea will subside once the pleasurable experience of sex sets in," she says.
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Most bike-share journeys replace unattractive walks, and make urban navigation much more pleasurable as a result.
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It's umami TV, so meaty and pleasurable you want to gobble it down, regardless of nutritional content.
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This may make it feel weird at first, but it will also be gratifying and overwhelmingly pleasurable.
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"These are real tools that can help you have more pleasurable experiences in your body," Fine says.
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Nipple play can get even more intense and pleasurable with the addition of one simple toy, however.
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And so, I'm conflicted: Do I keep watching a show that provides me with (mostly) pleasurable entertainment?
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To me, breasts were more than a body part, they held this other sensation: a pleasurable desire.
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"It's all about creating that pleasurable cozy feeling with everyday moments," lifestyle guru Anne Chertoff tells PEOPLE.
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It can be difficult to pin down the point at which a previously pleasurable behaviour becomes problematic.
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If you have a vaginal canal, the sensations of each area are generally considered pleasurable, but distinct.
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They work by applying pressure and restricting blood flow, which can provide a painful (and pleasurable) experience.
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" Or, as I'm sticking yet another potato chip in my mouth, "Is this actually pleasurable, or not?
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That's the thing, we can't ignore the fact that taking drugs can be fun and really pleasurable.
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We do funny things in the name of vanity and in the name of pleasurable sexual activity.
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The anticipation of the next encounter is pleasurable enough to drive away the woes of real life.
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Part of what is pleasurable and terrible about tuning into this show is seeing the "experiment" unravel.
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I found it more pleasurable to focus on the souvenirs left by the likes of Nicki Minaj.
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When they come together, there's a pleasurable jolt: Yes, that is how it is; this is true.
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Talking and getting to know your acquaintances better is more fun and pleasurable as Mercury meets Venus.
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Trending What's more pleasurable on a vacation to Italy than enjoying a scoop or two of gelato?
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It is the most purely pleasurable of the trilogy and the most entertaining "Tempest" I've ever seen.
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A good way to do this is to maintain daily routines and engage in pleasurable, safe activities.
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The novel's pleasurable uncertainties — and there are many — come from everything that whirls around that stable center.
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When I reach to a high shelf for my whiskey glass, the act, though effortful, is pleasurable.
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"As pleasurable as these thoughts and fantasies are, they detract from mental and physical health," she says.
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Then, allow the sexual energy to build as you move it about how it feels pleasurable to you.
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And it can be very frustrating when something that's supposed to be pleasurable causes pain and discomfort instead.
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Most of the time the act is so pleasurable, that it is hard to stop, Dr. Berlin says.
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Even better, the implementation of Android 9 on the OnePlus 6T is a faultlessly smooth and pleasurable experience.
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These same hormones also increase vaginal discharge, all of which heightens sensation, often leading to more pleasurable sex.
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The Fire Stick's user interface is more pleasurable visually and easier to set up, change settings, and watch.
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But, if anything, it seems that this is being replaced with an erotic buffet of other pleasurable activities.
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"The device itself is seen as a pleasurable source of comfort and parents play into that," says Christakis.
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The work relates to a child's pleasurable feeling in a swing, but it also addresses Pollock's extended stroke.
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Kimmie KaBoom: Anal sex does [often] feel better over time and can be very pleasurable for both parties.
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To hear these companies tell it, a smarter, more pleasurable drinking experience is just a button press away.
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Venus is about love and money, peace and harmony, style and beauty—basically everything that makes life pleasurable.
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As anyone who's ever got messed up on hallucinogens will tell you, this isn't always a pleasurable experience.
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If you haven't shown your nipples some love recently, maybe it's time to test out some pleasurable pain.
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Everyone, do your partner a favor and learn how to give a scalp massage — they are ridiculously pleasurable.
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But we are just as likely to lose, which is always much more painful than winning is pleasurable.
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"Not because it's necessarily healthier for you, but because it's actually more pleasurable, more erotic, and more fun."
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With every pleasurable bite, I had to remind myself that I was in Ridgewood and not Campania, Italy.
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Here are some ways to have the most pleasurable sex party experience, whether it's your first or 50th.
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In time, Eli and Charlie catch up with John and Hermann, leading to the most sustained pleasurable interlude.
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The stylish, stylized paintings in "Desert Wind" are wry, lush and pleasurable in their beauty and their brains.
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It was a pleasurable sensation that people were talking about it, that it made an impression on people.
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Every woman is different, and I cannot guarantee that whatever I find pleasurable, all other women do, too.
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Onto the show — the Opry was one of the most pleasurable music performances I've attended in recent memory.
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Villa Design Group's strength seems to be their ability to conjure both pleasurable and painful images of desire.
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There's something very pleasurable about the pure theatricality of this transformation, and the audience really lapped it up.
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Studies show that anticipating something good to come is a significant part of what makes the activity pleasurable.
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Healthy eating should be pleasurable eating, and this depends on a nurturing food environment, not a punitive one.
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It's time to start selling healthy food as tasty, so that the healthy choice becomes the pleasurable choice.
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On its own, the fact that a pleasurable activity involves dopamine release tells us nothing else about it.
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"The sculptures are beautiful and pleasurable, but there's an ugliness and unease that comes with them," Ryan says.
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His looking scared makes her feel like a scary woman, and the feeling is both repugnant and pleasurable.
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The dictionary described a "pleasurable climax" but, understandably, gave no real sense of how this might be achieved.
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"It's pleasurable to receive language stripped of its basic function—to reduce it back to sound," he says.
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And simply cruising around these climes with CHVRCHES and M83 on the "radio" is quite the pleasurable time.
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If something's become tired and repetitive, was there a specific moment where it jumped from pleasurable to insufferable?
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The thing to remember is that food is meant to be a pleasurable, enjoyable, and satisfying part of life.
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Here, Riverdale nails what all darkly pleasurable high school stories are really about: nothing is ever as it seems.
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What unites all of these critics is a fascination with the challenging, pleasurable activity of writing about visual art.
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It was only after I started communicating with my partner that sex became really pleasurable—for both of us.
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Maybe this survey will inspire people to explore their fetishes in a safe, pleasurable, and of course, consensual way.
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Now if we could just get Prius drivers to platoon, too, the roadways would be a lot more pleasurable.
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It was pleasurable in the sense that I felt close to him, and knew that we respected each other.
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In excitatory TMS sessions, participants reported music being up to 20 percent more pleasurable compared to sham TMS sessions.
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Eating is such a fundamental, pleasurable activity that people will assume you're doing it, even when no one's watching.
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High-stress situations can lower those same endorphins, which makes the pleasurable sensations attached to eating feel more pronounced.
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"It can be so embracing, so pleasurable, to be able to give your spouse real deep pleasure," he says.
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Holidays are fun, even saying the word "holiday" is a pleasurable experience; it has a certain lilt to it.
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What was moments ago pleasurable—to a degree that males would go to tremendous lengths to achieve—becomes disagreeable.
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Men are also more likely to say that a degree of sexual banter and horseplay at work is pleasurable.
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Unfortunately, Geminis would rather their mouths for prattling on and on than doing something more pleasurable for their partners.
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So if you stimulate the prostate gland, it kind of speeds up that process and makes it more pleasurable.
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However, having sex as a newbie can be intimidating, awkward, and not the most pleasurable experience in the world.
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Automated cars may indeed make commuting more pleasurable while preventing accidents and saving tens of thousands of lives — someday.
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Each pill brings on a euphoric eight-hour blast, one that zaps boredom and can make repetitive labor pleasurable.
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Sex is one of the most primal, most pleasurable, and — from an evolutionary standpoint — most essential of human functions.
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The warm and nasal intonations of Portuguese, its smooth rises and falls, are both comforting and pleasurable to me.
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WHEN IN ROME, SPLURGE STRATEGICALLY Trying the local cuisine, Ms. Bauer said, is a pleasurable part of any vacation.
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Other earbuds like the Sennheiser True Momentums offer higher fidelity, but the Pros nail a consistent, pleasurable listening experience.
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Scheduling pleasurable activities — what is known as behavioral activation — is a technique that has been found to boost mood.
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Many users will tell you there is something strangely pleasurable about holding a cigarette pack or a mobile phone.
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I find this moral system very pleasurable to read; it ignites a warm glow of intellectual snobbery in me.
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Even a few hours of pleasurable activity a day, she said, could evoke a feeling of being on vacation.
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Update There is no shortage today of new apps and services aimed at making travel more convenient, even pleasurable.
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Feeding her all that expensive food felt pleasurable to me: I was taking care of a person I loved.
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The reaction to these Ribeira Sacras was mixed, which was surprising to me, as I find them so pleasurable.
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This time, she was actively looking, and the process has been "a lot more pleasurable and fun," she said.
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The Kilbanes banish rape from the narrative in favor of pleasurable sex, and shape the story with female voices.
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Such dislocation is not only pleasurable, but also unsettling in ways that can be both psychologically and socially illuminating.
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How far are we until your VR life is far more interesting, far more pleasurable, than your real life?
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We all need to eat, and we all want that eating to be tasty and pleasurable on some level.
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Having a relaxed body means having a relaxed anus, which will make the whole experience more pleasurable for everyone involved.
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The foundations of healthy, happy, satisfying, and pleasurable sexual experiences are trust, effective communication, and of course, consent between people.
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Even broken into more digestible segments, in totality it can be draining to take in, though in a pleasurable way.
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Never nice words to hear, which is quite the opposite of this song which, is very pleasurable for the ears.
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Get your desires out in the open before you climb on top, to ensure the experience is pleasurable for everyone.
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Some people say that bottoming can be a pleasurable, out-of-body experience, and that it gets better every time.
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But Whisperlodge forces you to play along, which is exactly why it can't really translate into a pleasurable IRL experience.
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On the flip side, what's it to us if someone wants to make cleaning their home a more pleasurable experience?
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And, while orgasms are by definition pleasurable when we do reach them, they're not all made equal: Some are unforgettable.
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It's the kind of loose-limbed movie that you visit more than you watch, and it's an awfully pleasurable stay.
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What that means is that some people find spending money to generate pleasurable brain activity while others find it painful.
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The term quickly caught on, as people finally had a way to reference the pleasurable feeling they had been experiencing.
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"Like most pleasurable experiences, we try to seek it and we would be reluctant to let it go," DeMaria says.
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Namely, practicing consent doesn't just make for ethical, safer sex, but when done well, makes for more pleasurable sex, too.
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In other words, the pleasurable feeling of an orgasm would encourage a woman to return to the man for more.
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So if I start, my body is just going to keep telling me these are pleasurable and I want more.
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While my orgasm didn't necessarily feel "heightened," as promised, the whole masturbating experience felt more sensual, loose, arousing, and pleasurable.
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The reward center is the part of the brain that responds to pleasurable stimuli, like food treats or being petted.
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Carter says McCall not only helped keep the family safe, but he also made their checkpoint experience pleasurable and memorable.
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Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, also simply referred to as "that unknown feeling," creates tingles and pleasurable shivers in susceptible listeners.
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You need to synchronize it to less than a millisecond of accuracy to have it be a really pleasurable experience.
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In the meantime, though, there are a few ways to make sure your sexual experiences are as pleasurable as possible.
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But here's the truth: Lube makes sex more pleasurable for lots of women, regardless of their age or medical status.
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The facial was actually a really pleasurable experience, and the bird poop application was only a small segment of it.
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Let's think about how the very idea of the bass drop fits into our notions of the visceral, the pleasurable.
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We do know that interventions encouraging individuals to focus on pleasurable experiences are associated with increased self-reported well-being.
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Researcher Debby Herbenick of Indiana University's famed Kinsey Institute assured me that women can have pleasurable experiences without an orgasm.
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While elderly life may be restricted in some ways, there is no reason that it cannot be, on balance, pleasurable.
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The marketing of flavors by JUUL and other companies (such as Cotton Candy, Tutti Fruiti) is found pleasurable among youth.
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Whether or not a climax is involved, oral sex can be totally pleasurable, and it can increase intimacy between partners.
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For the first several hundreds of years enslaved in this country, our ancestors couldn't focus on living a pleasurable life.
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The eBags Packing Cubes make the entire ordeal more pleasurable by allowing you to fit more stuff into your luggage.
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As these neurotransmitters are triggered, they initiate a cascade of changes throughout the body involving hormones that create pleasurable sensations.
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We've spent the year creating guides to help you explore your body in the most pleasurable and safest ways possible.
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Big beat was more focused on somewhat brainless fun—a post-modern melange of pleasurable sounds independent of deeper meaning.
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But does the human mind necessarily interpret the pleasurable redundancy of a perfectly pruned boxwood as an encapsulation of love?
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Australia Fare Paul Carmichael, the chef, delivers a profoundly pleasurable experience at the Sydney location of David Chang's restaurant group.
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And that adults using condoms were as likely to rate their sexual experience as pleasurable as those not using them.
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Each day, I agonized over what to wear: The ritual of dressing up had gone from pleasurable to nerve-wracking.
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For some reason, in film, being upended can be a very pleasurable experience, where in real life it often isn't.
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The most obvious reason is the dense, luxuriant black-and-white cinematography, which is very pleasurable in its own right.
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Fans return to their favorite "ASMRtists," like the Reese whisperers, for the intensely pleasurable tingles or chills these sounds produce.
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He opened the Folklore Center in April 20043, and it quickly became a mecca for pleasurable activity of all kinds.
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With killing this shocking, this jarring, this pleasurable, this thrilling, this grotesque, this climactic, who would want it to stop?
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But with a robot, no matter how convenient or pleasurable it might be, you know, deep down, that it's programmed.
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And if you find that food tasty and pleasurable, well, no matter your other differences, you both like to eat.
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But for those who aren't ready to take on the challenge, it can make an otherwise pleasurable experience turn sour, fast.
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It's weird, pleasurable, almost like a brain orgasm of sorts, even though the stimuli have very little to do with sex.
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"There is no particular form of foreplay needed other than an activity that is pleasurable and stimulating to you," Chavez says.
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It has the pliability that makes a straw so pleasurable to use and you can chew on it all you want.
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While the former are more pleasurable, the latter must be relished as a valuable part of life, especially in Silicon Valley.
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No matter what your quickie looks like, Lilla and Chase have tips to make it as meaningful (and pleasurable) as possible.
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The agency found that 46% of men and 51% of women surveyed agreed that food could be as pleasurable as sex.
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They're every bit as splendid and as pleasurable as they were imagined in Steve Ditko and Stan Lee's original comic books.
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As such, B8ta aims to create a pleasurable, low-pressure store experience for the consumer, encouraging interaction and engagement with products.
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WALLACE: Yeah, it doesn't have any of the nourishment of real food, but it's real pleasurable masticating and swallowing this stuff.
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The prostate has a spot akin to the G-spot, which means that playing with that spot can be extra pleasurable.
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"Not only are we not teaching about how sex can be pleasurable, we are teaching that sex is painful," Hancock said.
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As a woman amongst women, sex was never discussed in a way that suggested to me that it was physically pleasurable.
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I am skeptical that most fast-food side salads are pleasurable, but this is a logistics problem, not a categorical one.
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"We call it 'pathological wanting,' the idea that you're very much jonesing and having a preoccupation that isn't pleasurable," Fong says.
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The researchers interpreted this as suggesting that "simply being in a committed relationship is insufficient to derive benefits from pleasurable activities".
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ON A Sunday afternoon, George Orwell believed, nothing is more pleasurable than to settle down with a good, true, murder story.
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Some of them may be, but some are performed — which, don't get me wrong, can be pleasurable for both partners involved.
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I never have to stray beyond the 12PM mark on the volume knob to get a pleasurable and loud music experience.
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Keynes probably underestimated how much safer and more pleasurable many jobs have become, but he made another, perhaps even greater, miscalculation.
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The effect was to draw visual attention to the pleasurable discipline and suffering that go into creating a dancer's perfect form.
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Winkler's greatest strength as a writer is his capacity to convey detailed legal arguments in surprisingly pleasurable prose—no small accomplishment.
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"I'll go back, see my daughter, unpack, repack, mimic a normal life, which is extraordinarily pleasurable to me," said the star.
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"Everyone was looking was a more all-around pleasurable masturbation experience too — they just hadn't felt they could ask for it."
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Letting someone with more experience take the lead initially is easier, and learning by example is pleasurable to say the least.
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Watching it is like having my brain stroked to a very low-grade, consequence-free orgasm — a pleasurable sort of noninvolvement.
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The best scenes are uniquely pleasurable for both parties involved, whether that's happening in lifestyle play or in a professional context.
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Some of the steamiest sex scenes you'll ever see on a TV show — scenes that look intensely pleasurable for both partners.
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But since the end result was extra slippery, pleasurable sex, my partners generally seemed enlightened and appreciative of my lube usage.
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This was real, Russell's gaze, and the flattered sickness in me was so pleasurable, I could barely keep hold of it.
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Tarbard says that getting inked was kind of pleasurable—this particular tattoo didn't hurt at all, the way previous ones had.
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The act of imagining how certain scenes or effects might be achieved has its own kind of pleasurable magic and appeal.
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"No one seems like it's a pleasurable thing to use the phone, but it's a nice thing for communication," Forstall said.
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"Three Quarter-Tone Pieces" is perversely pleasurable, leaving me with the beginnings of a headache yet unable to tear myself away.
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If you're in New York City or San Francisco, where fewer people are smoking, it's just not as pleasurable to smoke.
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Gollan includes meditation in a larger therapeutic strategy called behavioral activation that employs pleasurable activities as a way to motivate people.
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Part of what makes Jack-Jack's scramble with the (conveniently clawless) raccoon so pleasurable is its playfulness and relatively small scale.
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He once described sleeping in homeless shelters as a "much more pleasurable experience" because his team improved conditions during his tenure.
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At Moogfest, the technology, in turn, pointed toward ideas about what happens at the human-machine interface: scientific, spiritual, pleasurable, dystopian.
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Making out for ages first can make sex feel even better and of course, it's super-pleasurable on its own too.
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I do not overcome or manage my pain in the hopes of "reigniting" pleasurable sex or a connection to my body.
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Some types of well-being, Lomas writes, don't come in purely pleasurable packets — they're ambivalent, containing both positive and negative valences.
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Yet the renewed interest in Dworkin is a sign that for many women, our libidinous culture feels neither pleasurable nor liberating.
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Many of Lee's viewers also report an autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), a unique, pleasurable feeling triggered by specific digital media stimuli.
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In this regard, sex, especially if it was pleasurable and lasted for a sufficient amount of time, had a real spiritual dimension.
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You'll find your gear is more pleasurable to use as well as longer-lasting if you take time to do this regularly.
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That an album hardly meant for aesthetic contemplation turns out so pleasurable regardless is proof plenty that the intentional fallacy is evil.
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Many adults fear that if we acknowledge to young people that sex might be pleasurable, it will encourage them to have it.
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These conferences, Smith says, gave the industry an excuse to put out grabby press releases about tobacco as pleasurable rather than addictive.
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The irony has less to do with kitsch or facile consumption than it does with a meaningful and pleasurable expression of appreciation.
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Ms. Houdyshell's bubbly humor and warmth are, as always, immensely pleasurable; like Mr. Birney, she's incapable of a dishonest word or action.
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As Taryn Crosby, a sex educator and therapist in Brooklyn, remembers it, no one even told her that sex should be pleasurable.
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The Interesting Finds site had a modern, clean look-and-feel that made it a more pleasurable way to browse Amazon's products.
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This is why you might find intercourse or penetration with a toy or fingers so pleasurable, the pressure sensitive nerves are ignited.
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It also misses a point that Mr Johnson understands very well: the thing about sinful behaviour is that it is often pleasurable.
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Image: CC0Dipping bread in a bowl of fresh, extra virgin olive oil ranks as one of the most pleasurable gastronomic experiences possible.
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At sufficient doses, the drug reduces opioid withdrawal symptoms and the desire to use, while also decreasing pleasurable effects of other opioids.
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FOR DEVOTED election-watchers the onslaught of on-the-ground reporting and analysis from 30,000 feet that acccompanies a campaign is pleasurable.
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The aim wasn't just to make the writing and the imagery beautiful — the book itself had to be pleasurable to look at.
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Lore's plan had been to serve customers with tremendous choice and a pleasurable experience while building a stronger economic model than Amazon.
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It's part of the whole depression package, a profound disinterest in the world—an inability to experience pleasure in things once pleasurable.
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"Whether you're using hands or a toy, lube is going to add sensation and make everything slicker and more pleasurable," she says.
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Some women may harbor that fantasy, and that's fine, but making that our collective benchmark for healthy, pleasurable sex is practically criminal.
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Our breasts can be supremely sexually pleasurable, and they can also be a source of anxiety about "measuring up" to cultural expectations.
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Once couples engage in more equitable behaviors in the kitchen and living room, more pleasurable embraces in the bedroom may well follow.
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Somehow, they weren't pressed on the paradox of making one's penis ostensibly more pleasurable to female partners when there are none around.
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In the video, Masterson said vaginal kung-fu is an ancient Taoist practice that can lead to more intense and pleasurable orgasms.
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This is simply not so at THNK1994's, where you can explore all things weird, delightful, and yes, pleasurable—no explanation necessary.
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Self-driving cars, robotaxis aside, on the other hand, will be a discretionary purchase by consumers, aimed at making journeys more pleasurable.
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Otherwise, this honest, revealing and funny book is as deeply pleasurable as the soup dumplings Platt learned to love as a boy.
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A few drops can calm a baby's heart, release opiates in her brain, and settle her neural activity into a pleasurable pattern.
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If you bought something fantastic on your vacation that evokes pleasurable memories, bring it to work, because when you're happy, you're productive.
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In order to give you a pleasurable ride, I also searched through your history and determined your preferences … all of your preferences.
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A South African judge is under fire for allegedly suggesting that black men in the country see rape as a "pleasurable" pastime.
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That said, sampling local specialties is a pleasurable part of any trip, so feel free to indulge in them but in moderation.
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Finally, I was no longer willing to sacrifice many necessary and pleasurable activities, like walking to a store or visiting a museum.
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At the same time, Rossos will be easier to drink and more pleasurable on release than Brunellos, which generally requires some aging.
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It's not casual because when you have sex with somebody, and it's pleasurable, it drives up the dopamine system in the brain.
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The delightfully gentle movements of Parreno's balloons were as hypnotic and pleasurable as the experience of watching fish swimming in a tank.
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But whatever you do, don't conflate the pleasurable experience of real shopping with the dreary task of finding a health insurance plan.
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One afternoon, I draped myself on my couch and felt an influx of mental silence that was both disturbing and hallucinatorily pleasurable.
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That's the land of never-was and might-have-been, of the ache of lost illusions that we massage into something pleasurable.
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We and our children are "addicted" to new technologies because, for the most part, they improve our lives or are simply pleasurable.
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Later, he said families extended shelter stays because they were "pleasurable," even as residents complained of rodents, dirty rooms and spoiled food.
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Our human experience of friendship, including the intensely pleasurable feelings of connection and the agony of rejection, stems from this ancient biology.
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Healthy, non-drug-abusing subjects with fewer D443 receptors experienced the stimulant drug as pleasurable, while those with more found it aversive.
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Another pleasurable perk, and one of Mr. Ives's many departures from the original plot, is the ball of confusion continually flattening Cliton.
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As the sun and Venus connect with Jupiter, it's easy if not pleasurable to express your thoughts about these things with others.
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" They're foods that have a "refreshing and pleasurable taste experienced through the body rather than by a sense of smell or taste.
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This feels decadent right now, because it is not about the work being a commodity, it's about the pleasurable experience of looking.
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"The best way to ensure that anal sex is pleasurable and painless is to focus on communicating effectively with your partner," Driver says.
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The most likely explanation is that a person is exposed to something unusual or exotic during an especially pleasurable sexual experience, Lehmiller says.
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Treating them with respect can increase your chances of a pleasurable trip at a time when most people are stressed out, she said.
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It only seems appropriate that we pass the time waiting for season 4 of Broad City in, well, the most pleasurable way possible.
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Many of the people Bijoux Indiscrets spoke to said that moaning or screaming was the only way to know if sex was pleasurable.
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A small study published in March 2019 found that marijuana helped women have more pleasurable sex and more satisfying orgasms, Insider previously reported.
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He lives out his notion that pain can be "beneficial and pleasurable"; his credo is that shortcuts make any endeavour "superficial" and pointless.
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As a holding tank of its own, Climats Artificiels contains a rather pleasurable pantomime sensibility based on manipulations of the miniaturization of landscape.
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A new study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior suggests that you might actually find sex to be a little less pleasurable.
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Those who had described their sex life as "extremely pleasurable" or "extremely satisfying" were at an even greater risk than their dissatisfied peers.
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Bose, Audio-Technica, Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, and Sony — which just launched an Extra Bass series — each have models that emphasize that pleasurable low end.
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I was more impressed by the improvements in the Robin's software, which was much smoother and more pleasurable to use on this occasion.
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When sleep deprived, participants had higher levels of endocannabinoid 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG), a chemical signal that makes foods, particularly junk foods, pleasurable.
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As you will see, limiting the time will make it more pleasurable and help you feel more in balance at the same time.
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Softer and less aggressive both socially and in business, Canadians are pleasurable to work with, which is worth a lot in my book.
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For my sisters and me, discussing design plans and paint chips became a pleasurable way to reconnect after long stretches of time apart.
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"Floating there, it's actually really pleasurable after a little while," NASA astronaut Sunita Williams previously told CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
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My experience of writing is a giddy, pleasurable one, and does not feel like being trapped inside a cage that is on fire.
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But the journey may be more lastingly pleasurable than the destination, and maybe there's no need to be so results-oriented about it.
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More pleasurable and less dangerous, actually empowering rather than a way to validate self-worth, less fraught with pressure, and frankly, more fun?
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There are footballers who hate football, actors who hate acting — making a living is never as pleasurable as it looks to the outsider.
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And just as pleasurable is the access we gain to the narrator's mind—a comprehensive literary intelligence sorting through a lot of data.
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The 2015 movie, from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, already played like a tight, brief season of TV, in the most pleasurable way.
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"If you're in New York City or San Francisco, where fewer people are smoking, it's just not as pleasurable to smoke," he added.
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"You want to create a pleasurable tactile experience for people," said Catherine Connolly, the chief executive of Merida, a rug company in Boston.
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And because reading aloud is pleasurable, parents and teachers reinforce a child's habit of reading because they create a positive association with it.
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Equally pleasurable are encounters with several modern artists: The feathers of Angela Gladwell's Brown Kiwi mother and chick gleam silkily off the page.
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Having one of these in your kitchen will make chopping and dicing, not to mention sandwich assembly, so much easier and more pleasurable.
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At times, the scantiness of narrative segments in favor of long, explanatory chapters makes Rock Steady a less "pleasurable" read than its predecessor.
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We know drugs are a cheap way for people unhappy, or unsatisfied, with this reality to escape to a (temporarily) more pleasurable one.
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Makes sense that the soft touch of a pillow (or giant Scooby Doo plushie) might be more pleasurable than the jackhammering of a vibrator.
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Users also share tips and tricks from articles and resources around the web that make sex with a diagnosis or disability more pleasurable. 'Seriously!
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That might sound far fetched, but feasting upon human flesh honestly sounds like a more pleasurable promotional strategy than playing a showcase at SXSW.
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Sure, making a partner feel good can be deeply pleasurable and consistently ranks as one of people's biggest turn-ons (particularly for straight men).
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The league is right to tweak rules that make games a more pleasurable watch, and teams and players will adjust as they always do.
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In 1943 Myers distilled these ideas into "a series of pleasurable and provocative questions", formulated to assign people to one of 16 personality types.
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It's not quite the pleasurable "click" of a set of mechanical key switches, but it was more fun to type on than my laptop.
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People who feel shame because what they find pleasurable is something that is different then the typical heteronormative conversation we have in sex education.
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This is why it's become common for people to observe Lent by avoiding one pleasurable thing in particular, like chocolate, alcohol, or social media.
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We're paying attention to any kind of spontaneous association, and then we're giving them a pleasurable creative activity to do together for the afternoon.
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But the white stone of this particular house rippled as if reacting to a hand that had found its most pleasurable point of contact.
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She insists motherhood can be an incredibly pleasurable, fulfilling experience, but "it's just that those benefits are elusive," at least from a scientific perspective.
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" The duo embraces technology as a means to propose "palliative strategies" that will help us make our apocalypse "more mutual, comfortable, maybe even pleasurable.
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Sex positivity is the understanding that all consensual sexual activities are healthy, pleasurable, and should be encouraged, whether that's the kinky stuff or not.
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Accordingly, the buzzkill USDA, which issues (sometimes conservative) guidelines on the ingestion of pleasurable substances, recommends cutting yourself off at 400 milligrams per day.
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It's worth noting that if sex workers develop intimacy with their clients, and this can feel pleasurable, it follows that the opposite can happen.
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This seems to have been a pleasurable experience for him, and he had the idea of creating a full-evening ballet to Strauss's score.
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The first theory was that, because stories are innately pleasurable, they make us less aware of, or even make us avoid, our negative thoughts.
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It'd be just as pleasurable to make the recipe for Jordan Marsh's blueberry muffins, which Marian Burros brought to The Times back in 1987.
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Sagittarius is a fiercely independent sign that explores worlds beyond their own, and now it's all the more pleasurable to push over and beyond.
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But, as it turns out, sometimes it's pleasurable enough just watching the most unlikely American comedy star since Bill Murray slip into a groove.
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Being a woman became much more fun with a newfound sense of "glamour," and sex became even more pleasurable the better I could move.
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This involves a little work, but the film's sheer loveliness and its ideas are so inviting and expansive that the experience is intensely pleasurable.
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They don't have a lane reserved for themselves — just reminding them that there's so much capacity that they'll have a more pleasurable driving experience.
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They demonstrate what it might look like if everyone relaxed about their gender presentation and stopped trying to police what other people find pleasurable.
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And because the glibness of the dialogue matches that of the character, there's a feeling of momentary pleasurable alignment whenever Mr. Kudisch is speaking.
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Missionary, but you're on the phone to his mother the entire time, relaying exactly how pleasurable the encounter is on a ten-point scale.
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Unlike some cooks who are embracing the time to cook at home, preparing food is not cathartic or pleasurable for her at the moment.
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And yet part of what's pleasurable about "Destroyer" is that Kusama doesn't try to turn the movie into a finger-wagging lesson about gender.
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But at their intermittent best those plays were so hilarious that the work was not work — or if work, then the highly pleasurable kind.
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It is hard to imagine the past half-century of pleasurable reading without the many strange books that clattered forth from Mathews's linguistic contraptions.
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Instead, they give up watching TV, their social media accounts, drinking soda, alcohol or other pleasurable activities until the fasting ends on Holy Saturday.
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"People are generally deniers especially when it comes to pleasurable habits or when a life style change is recommended for their health," Winawer added.
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Adler was lawyerly, certainly, running down Kael's every repeated trope and overused word, but her attack was as humorless as Kael's reviews are pleasurable.
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These works, including the sublime two-panel "Dipped Dick: Adam and Eve After Cranach" (22018), are boldly pleasurable explorations of color, pattern and perspective.
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However you describe it, 'Duplicity' is superior entertainment, the most elegantly pleasurable movie of its kind to come around in a very long time.
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A study from 2016 found that it's not harmful to have what researchers called "planned hedonic deviations," or scheduled pleasurable detours from your resolutions.
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I'd been taking hits off my friends' vapes for months, only after I'd had enough to drink that smoking became pleasurable instead of disgusting.
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Some leaders are strongly rumored to get treats from Russia, ranging from tchotchkes to stuffed suitcases that make paying the home mortgage more pleasurable.
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It's fitting that with "Sequential Drawings," McGuire has given us another original and pleasurable work, as freewheeling, artful and exuberant as the artist himself.
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Both sugar and addictive substances stimulate the release of a neurotransmitter called dopamine, producing an intensely pleasurable sensation that our brains crave to repeat.
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With the support of the college, the Olin students designed the "DESCENT" ramp for beauty and for the maximum potential of pleasurable wheeled movement.
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Her words are so pleasurable to read, you won't realize you've blown through nearly 22017 pages by the time you reach the story's end.
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On account of this, they readily supply us with bizarre situations and scenarios that ignore logic in order to give us accessible and pleasurable escapes.
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When I transitioned out of sex work, I began seeking everything my intimate life was missing: I wanted sex that was pleasurable and non-exploitative.
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Anyone who's masturbated knows it can be a ridiculously pleasurable experience, but it can be challenging to find ways to turn yourself on at times.
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By contrast, the world outside the house elicits an onslaught of the senses, which is often pleasurable, and even when it's not remains worth experiencing.
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Shohat-Ophir told Gizmodo it's hard to tell what specifically the fly found pleasurable, whether it was ejaculation or the activation of the abdominal neurons.
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Each hit delivers a few minutes of a pleasurable euphoric effect, leaving addicts wanting more, according to a report by the Organization of American States.
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Taking on Spotify by offering a better design is a viable angle, as Spotify can feel more utilitarian at times, rather than pleasurable to use.
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Working those muscles can definitely make sex even more pleasurable (as well as make your core workouts more effective and encourage a better childbirth experience).
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It, first of all, taps into the agonizingly pleasurable notion of nostalgia; bringing back the words and music of the—sometimes not so distant—past.
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Teach them the correct name for their body parts, and tell them that it is OK if they find touching their penis or vagina pleasurable.
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There's no such thing as a "bad" sex resolution, as long as it works towards making sex more comfortable, pleasurable, and exciting for everyone involved.
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Perhaps because the player knows how challenging real-life commuting is, it's more pleasurable seeing it from afar and not being in that crowd yourself.
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While Facebook has become a core utility by bringing your real world identity to the Internet, Instagram is the pleasurable escape from that real world.
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And even if you can't actually see your clitoris, but you can feel pleasurable sensations around that area, you probably have found it, she says.
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" She points out that Americans have been puritanical eaters since the literal Puritan era, and we still tend to associate any pleasurable experience as "sinful.
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Seeing 20 percent of your portfolio go up in smoke would be more painful than a 20 percent rise in its value would be pleasurable.
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Isn't it simply logical, then, that a headphone with a bias toward bass would feel more pleasurable for the listener, all other things being equal?
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Welcome to the quirky world of Japanese Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR)—the phenomenon of inducing pleasurable chills and shivers in responsive listeners via sounds.
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But once the sound goes all the way in, to where my prostate is, then it starts to be more pleasurable in the traditional sense.
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The inventors behind LELO HEX hope the condoms will reduce unintended pregnancies and STI transmissions by providing a more secure, more pleasurable type of protection.
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When buying a gift for someone with an acute case of wanderlust, consider the items that can help make their travels easier and more pleasurable.
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"This discounts the importance of advocating for enjoyable, pleasurable sex — which is something that, unless we learn to discuss openly, will never be common knowledge."
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I love these headphones with my favored electronic music, but they're just as pleasurable with Rage Against the Machine's hard rock or Schubert's classical compositions.
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Mercifully, Kessler's choice to present his case studies in a flowing, often personal narrative uninterrupted by footnotes makes for pleasurable, enlightened reading for the layperson.
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But you can still have a fulfilling, pleasurable sex life without orgasms, because they don't have to be the finish line of every sexual experience.
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In apps, the format of swiping can intensify pleasurable chemical reactions in the brain, and the "infinite scroll" persuades users to continue swiping into perpetuity.
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Our small part -- at its most basic, perhaps unconscious and even (by design) pleasurable level -- is to carry on our DNA to the next generation.
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One is a very dark and fluffy chocolate tart, so pleasurable it must have been a reward for some good deed I'd done by mistake.
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While the feelings of euphoria and creativity can be pleasurable for some, others leave behind a trail of ruptured relationships, bad decisions and neglected responsibilities.
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But some women say they can still have pleasurable sex with few or no difficulties, even after undergoing the most extreme forms of FGM/C.
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Now "Miles for Mary," which opened on Saturday night at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, asserts its claim to belong among such painfully pleasurable company.
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Preference for one group or another — tribalism — is consistently pleasurable to human brains, even when we know that there is no real reason for it.
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"When people get away from their everyday responsibilities, they can focus on their pleasurable needs, which include sexuality," sex therapist Sari Cooper has told Refinery29.
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While a "pleasurable tale of justice and revenge," the rape-revenge narratives forgets to do one thing, Stache writes: actually address the problem of rape.
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On "Platform," she endeavored to make songs meant to trigger autonomous sensory meridian response, or A.S.M.R., which is usually experienced as a pleasurable, involuntary tingling.
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The pleasurable payoff is in the music, harking back to the 1980s era of Michael Jackson's vocal harmonies and Prince's synthesizers, all sweet, glassy smoothness.
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And Bill was there with a book of W.S. Merwin poems and a gluten-free doughnut whose sandy texture somehow made it even more pleasurable.
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In these stories, the evocation of childhood fears mixes with pleasurable memories of childhood pop culture, adding a bit of sweet to horror's usual bitterness.
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The tragically powerful but infinitesimally nuanced resonances of "Trilogie" are as enthrallingly pleasurable to listen to as observing glistening icicles melting in the winter sun.
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Amid the yeah, we sure did do that mechanics is a lot of magic — pleasurable stuff whose rib-tickling and cultural acuity defy easy explanation.
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And you probably want your first time having sex, whatever that means to you, to be fun and pleasurable for both you and your partner.
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Speaking strictly from a wine point of view, when rosé crossed over to become a symbol of pleasurable summer living, it was time to beware.
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And to round out the pleasurable experience of shopping there, in place of crunchy reusable shopping bags are French marketbaskets designed by La Ligne. clovergrocery.
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Any one or a combination of these can help you reset your mindset toward exercise by making it more pleasurable and less of an effort.
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But while beautifully made, I don't think of the "The Handmaid's Tale" as deeply pleasurable -- a show about ritualized rape is often tortuous to watch.
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Still others have concentrated on a specific emotion, such as Jonathan Balcombe in "Pleasurable Kingdom" (2006) and Barbara J. King in "How Animals Grieve" (2013).
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Obviously time passed a lot different in the 70s and early 80s than it does now, so reading was a very pleasurable thing for me.
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Now, she's staying away from any hormonal birth control—instead, she's using condoms with her fiancé, although it's not ideal or as pleasurable, she says.
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Historically, the white gaze has been harmful—but rather than reifying existing power dynamics, if BDSM can be pleasurable, why not turn the gaze against itself?
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Michael E. Long: In the early experiments that focused on dopamine, the finding was that when something pleasurable happened, there would be a spike of dopamine.
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"One of the most pleasurable aspects of my life has been to see him become a father, because he's a wonderful father," he says of John.
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Nah. But it's a surprisingly pleasurable standalone film that nevertheless continues a decades-old story in a way that draws in fans both old and new.
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This all constitutes a body of work that feels transitional, a collection of immensely pleasurable ideas without a central thesis rather than a true artistic statement.
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Food's primary function is fuel, but pleasure is a close second, and Samin Nosrat is having a great time teaching viewers about what makes food pleasurable.
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But then again, there are a lot of pleasurable toys that look painful upon first glance, and some people are into having their back clawed up.
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The A-spot, the Anterior Fornix Erogenous zone, is an area of pleasurable sensitivity located at the very back end of the clitoris (the internal part).
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"Plenty of women don't love the actual sensations of oral sex because they don't find it pleasurable, or they just don't like the experience," Marin says.
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While anal sex from behind can feel marvelous (and indeed provides fairly easy butthole access), it's neither the only nor the most pleasurable position for everyone.
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Even today, our brains reinforce these norms by releasing pleasurable chemicals when our actions generate social approval (hello, dopamine!) and unpleasurable ones when they generate disapproval.
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Besides its obvious benefits of making sex more pleasurable, lubricant is also widely believed to prevent the spread of STDs when used in combination with condoms.
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" While porn itself isn't the problem, Mintz says that, "through watching porn, people may try to role model things that aren't even really accurate or pleasurable.
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Spiegel says her audio-only format is "actually more pleasurable, more erotic, and more fun" than something like PornHub, which attracted 33.5 billion visits in 2018.
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But mostly, it is a fun ride, accompanied with enough utility in the Clubman John Cooper Works to make a weekend trip or overnight drive pleasurable.
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"Heartworn Highways" is warm and pleasurable, alternating between performance footage and shots of Clark and his friends lounging about—drinking, idly plucking guitars, shooting the shit.
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Mr. McInerney has had many pleasurable meals using this tactic including on a recent trip to Milan, where a bus driver recommended his favorite pasta place.
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The majority of those surveyed reporting that orgasms were less pleasurable (and at times, weaker, painful, and emotionally disconnected) during these negative but consensual sexual encounters.
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Ultimately, some of the most pleasurable moments were the most unexpected, and the ones that most fully disproved my father's warning against returning to the familiar.
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Women who averaged less sleep per night over the two-week period tended to report greater "anhedonic" depression symptoms, or the inability to enjoy pleasurable things.
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Despite what people might think, that this would be very satisfying and pleasurable to watch, it is immensely mentally draining to watch porn in these quantities.
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For me, Tanner's words ring true: Pulling my hair out is pleasurable—self-soothing, almost, like biting your nails or twirling your hair when you're nervous.
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Whatever we choose to believe about this, we should be suspicious that there is something about beauty that is not just pleasurable but immanent in us.
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If you're not in possession of a prostate, it can be hard to visualize why massaging a marble-sized gland in your asshole might be pleasurable.
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A competition sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sought ideas for more pleasurable condoms in 2013 but has not yet brought one to market.
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That audience is primarily elsewhere, and I can't help but think how much America might benefit from this profoundly pleasurable expression of African and Caribbean foodways.
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It's ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response), a type of video full of sounds that evoke texture and feeling to create a calming or lightly pleasurable effect.
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The joy shines through, particularly the stunning final 20-ish minutes, which for my money are among the most pleasurable available at the movies this year.
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As pleasurable as that was to witness, the means by which Queen Bey, as many of her fans call her, has achieved her success worried me.
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On the positive side, bosses can enhance skills, make daily work more pleasurable and may even find themselves the boss all future bosses are compared to.
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Surprising as it may sound, many people who have cut back on sugar say they find their new eating habits more pleasurable than their old ones.
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Apparently that's enough to intensify the THC, but it left me with a warm-bath lethargy, which was pleasurable but kept me from being able to socialize.
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They look fun and simple and there's nothing more deviously pleasurable than watching your friends squirm as you make them pick sides between two things they love.
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These things -- good health, strong relationships, healthier children, pleasurable experiences -- should be on offer for all women, not just those who can afford to plan their pregnancies.
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Your server works hard to make sure you have a pleasurable experience so you should repay the kindness by making sure they receive the tip they deserve.
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Additionally, touching, licking, and using genital-safe items on the labia, clitoris, and around the vaginal opening can also be pleasurable and would not require vaginal penetration.
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As GQ noted in 183, extreme violence is a major trend in tweets today, but pop culture has been slowly embracing references to pleasurable violence for years.
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"The sculptures are beautiful and pleasurable, but there's an ugliness and unease that comes with them," Ryan said, in a recent profile for the New York Times.
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She also had some pro tips for the best ways to use lube, and sage advice for making sure sex is safe and pleasurable for everyone involved.
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Activist Fannie Sosa does video work that reminds us that low-body dances have been done for their pleasurable, fertility-boosting, and even abortive powers for centuries.
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Others, like Schneider Electric, are more animated by the pleasurable prospect of profit—from new kinds of industrial materials to equipment for the mass-electrification of energy.
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There are reassuring, pleasurable ways to go about anal sex, though, and it can be glorious if you know what you're doing — and so preparation is key.
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But, like many of the best memes, it does indirectly illuminate something larger: humanity's incredible capacity to act against its best interests, especially for something momentarily pleasurable.
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For all of Porto's natural and architectural beauty, fine food and wine, and pleasurable pastimes, it's surprisingly affordable — a monthly budget for a couple runs to $1,550.
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The researchers also found that praise triggered the dogs' "reward center," the portion of their brains that responds to pleasurable stimulation like food, sex, or being petted.
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Scans showed that praise activated the dogs' reward center, the part of the brain that responds to pleasurable stimuli, such as as food, sex, and being petted.
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"AND PER SE AND" allows for a strange and pleasurable cognitive dissonance, and leaves you wondering what use there ever was in having binaries to begin with.
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Curiously, the dogs' reward center, which is a part of the brain that processes pleasurable stimuli, was only activated when praise words were spoken with positive intonation.
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"They're discounting the importance of advocating for enjoyable, pleasurable sex – which is something that, unless we learn to discuss openly, will never be common knowledge," Fine said.
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It was very fraught, and I wanted to be as honest as possible about this in the book: It was not pleasurable, to not make any money.
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Focusing on the pleasurable aspects of healthy foods can also be a more effective way to eat more of them than focusing on how "healthy" they are.
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Sloan researched different techniques for making PIV more pleasurable, such as the Coital Alignment Technique, a method that suggests vertical penetration and thrusts to maximize clitoral stimulation.
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According to a Harvard study, it causes neural activity in areas of the brain most associated with the pleasurable feelings linked to sex, cocaine, and good food.
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Decision-makers need only the will to keep pace with private-sector innovators in order to make operating and interfacing the government a secure — and pleasurable — experience.
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It's shamelessly partial but also warmly pleasurable, partly because Mr. Linklater is an engaging and humble conversationalist who moves easily to the beat of his own soundtrack.
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When an adolescent uses drugs, those substances hijack the limbic system, the part of the prefrontal cortex that reinforces good or pleasurable behavior and discourages the opposite.
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In fact, Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich noted that all pleasurable sensations are characterized by the flow of blood from the center of an organism to its periphery.
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Sure, it hurt to get smacked a bit, but the pain felt very surface level, while the pleasurable sensations were felt longer and deeper within my body.
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It wasn't "junk food gaming," a phrase I tend to reserve for games that are empty time killers or else are pleasurable for their cheesiness or baseness.
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Such a remedy sounds like an easy, painless way to lose weight, but it would probably make one of life's great pleasures a lot less, well, pleasurable.
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But when the British colonized India, they imported "a great discomfort with all things pleasurable and sensual," said Devdutt Pattanaik, the author of several books on mythology.
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The chef takes inspiration from Japanese cuisine and its love of fish bits, and he hopes to prove that they can be pleasurable to a Western palate.
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They can feel a bit obvious, at least in comparison to the disturbing tapestry that surrounds them, which makes the fact that they offer pleasurable relief frustrating.
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If it does not quite have the potential of St.-Joseph to truly excel, it certainly can rise to the occasion of solid, pleasurable wines of place.
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Frugal Traveler The unavoidable proceeding of going through airport security is about as pleasurable as a trip to the dentist's office, and sometimes takes just as long.
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The indulgence of hatred is, for a certain kind of person — not an uncommon type, either — extraordinarily pleasurable, as is the expression of outrage, disgust, and indignation.
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The theory is that risk-taking activity releases dopamine — a neurotransmitter that floods the brain with pleasurable sensations most often felt after a good meal or sex.
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She mentions the sometimes pleasurable tension in her choosing between a penchant for youthful men's wear and the "professional" attire her work and environment seem to dictate.
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Now, the medial orbitofrontal cortex is also active when we find something pleasurable or rewarding, which isn't surprising either, since you'd expect beautiful experiences to be both.
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Life is more pleasurable when it's shared, and it's a lot easier to cope with the slings and arrows of life with three people facing the problem.
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Whether you start with a preassembled sewing kit or put together your own, having good tools will make sewing more pleasurable and can produce better final results.
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" On painting a wall: "When I'm in the middle of some practical task, there is nothing pleasurable about it, I just want to get it over with.
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Most systems use motion parallax—mostly because it's easier to program—despite the fact it can make the VR experience far less pleasurable or immersive for women.
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Like the MRI sex video, or the revelatory films of Masters and Johnson, the technology provokes ire because of its borderline relationship to practices both medical and pleasurable.
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So when a neutral action (clicking on Grindr) is paired with a pleasurable response in the brain (orgasm), humans learn to do that action over and over again.
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They hold out hope that the next pull will give them the pleasurable sound of coins clanking against a metal bin, and they end up pulling for hours.
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Barring issues with anatomy, sex can also hurt if either you or your partner aren't ready or haven't been taught how to make sex pleasurable for everyone involved.
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They're meant to show the pleasurable actions of the body—what the body can be and do—and to take your eyes into that space of sensual potential.
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The link between addiction and love is especially strong for opioids, because our natural opioids—the endorphins and enkephalins—are critical for making human contact attractive and pleasurable.
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Swimming is one of the most pleasurable things you can do on a vacation, and the experience is even more special if you're doing it in the buff.
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Doctor Strange has occasional issues with this, but the sheer amount of visual information thrown at the viewer makes that confusion more pleasurable than it probably should be.
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A woman in a headscarf stood up, mic in hand, and discussed her inability to have pleasurable sex, due to severe vaginal dryness following stem cell cancer treatment.
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I tried on various philosophies and gods: some found in the new age stores, others in the forms of sex, food, the internet, and anything else remotely pleasurable.
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The reality, though, is that different women may find very different kinds of stimulation pleasurable and there isn't just one "right" or "correct" path to the female orgasm.
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Oftentimes, using hands during blowjobs not only makes the experience more pleasurable for the one getting their dick sucked, but for the one doing the sucking, as well.
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My pleasurable experiences with mirror-touch have supported the longevity of my career as well as my ability to work full time in such a physically demanding field.
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Even without the guns, bullets, and ruby glass guys, Superhot would still be a pleasurable ballet simulator, with you dodging strings of red, in a fleet footed dance.
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It is very pleasurable to do things that are designed, I like that, but also I think there's an importance to having design be an element of storytelling.
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But alas, in the same way that RAW pictures don't look as lovely as nicely processed images, raw music rarely sounds its most pleasurable on the HD 800.
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Still, for a doomsday play, "Ruins" is remarkably pleasurable: well paced, well spoken and very deft in planting slyly placed clues as to what the future will be.
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The show was conceived by Johanna Burton, one of the brightest curatorial minds at work today; expect an exhibition in which the political and the pleasurable are intertwined.
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They lie in bed playing cards or sit against the headboard, reading or watching TV. Rudy's notebooks are increasingly focussed on mortality—"Death may be pleasurable"—and money.
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Conversely, parents who back growth attenuation tend to believe that maximizing pleasurable experiences and minimizing unpleasant ones is the best way to serve a child with extreme disabilities.
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You can hardly even see the cum, but, if you frame it properly, you can see a guy's reaction, and it looks like real sex that's really pleasurable.
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I spoke with sex therapists, friends, and a bunch of men I wanted an excuse to say "heyyy" to about their tips and tricks for making fingering pleasurable.
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This stimulates the dopamine system, which tries to reward life-sustaining activities with pleasurable feelings, but in these cases are thought by some to cause an addictive euphoria.
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Well, dear reader, we wish you a peaceful and pleasurable trip to work this morning however you're arriving, and here's something that might help you achieve that: meditation.
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These are pleasurable, well-wrought essays, though they sometimes feel like a throwback to a time when we were more easily charmed by the affable straight white man.
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Vaivode and Grinbergs, though, have been working on the Allure Art Kits for over a year, experimenting to find the most pleasurable (and washable) paints in the world.
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It also asked if people felt that using marijuana made their workout more pleasurable, upped or reduced their desire to work out, and possibly hastened their recovery afterward.
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Listening to anything remotely classified as 'new music' sat next to sex and food in the list of once pleasurable activities or hobbies that were no longer enjoyable.
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But prosecution witnesses have described Mr. Gilbert as a feckless young man interested mostly in pleasurable pursuits, who was furious with his father for reducing his spending money.
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" The Survival Research Laboratories performances generally come with unwieldy, gonzo titles, like "A Calculated Forecast of Doom: Sickening Episodes of Widespread Devastation Accompanied by Sensations of Pleasurable Excitement.
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Shopping is nearly as pleasurable an endeavor in Istanbul as eating, and the sprawling Kadikoy market is a must-see if you're around on a Tuesday or Friday.
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There are few phenomena more pleasurable to me than when the media that I'm watching, reading, and listening to sync up and seem to speak to one another.
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" They are thrown together on a project and one thing leads to another: lunch, drinks, feeding ducks, more explicitly feeding ducks and then "extremely sweet and pleasurable sex.
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But despite this — and the pleasurable, prickly chemistry between the two lawmen — "The Hollow Point" limps to a close without fully rewarding the effort expended on its making.
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"I probably had the most pleasurable professional experience of my life," Mr. Pedersen, still lithe at 81, said during a recent walk through the Shelter Island History Center.
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Not only are the scabs not particularly cute, but they turn things that should be pleasurable into painful tasks, like biting into a big, juicy burger or, uh, smiling.
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True high-res audio is an example of the thing that attracts us to follow the progress of personal technology: turning technical and engineering advances into a pleasurable experience.
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There's plenty to enjoy about a Caps win but nothing in the history of hockey will be more pleasurable than the Vegas Golden Knights being crowned Stanley Cup champs.
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Toiling at a major law firm is about spinning bullshit and making money, just like selling sex to millionaires, but at least the latter is sometimes interesting and pleasurable.
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It wasn't only that they hated him; hate, after all, is a pleasure in the world of Game of Thrones, and there wasn't anything pleasurable about the Sparrow's misdeeds.
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"Our culture views sex as primarily penetration-focused, or focused directly on the clit, and that's not necessarily the entirety of what has pleasurable sensations for genitals," she cautions.
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"There's lots of evidence that this fluent processing of information is pleasurable; that is, some familiarity with a work of art enables you to enjoy it more," he said.
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"The seam of the scrotum has a nice concentration of nerve endings, so lavishing that with attention can be super pleasurable," says Lisa Finn, a sex educator at Babeland.
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These vulvas are based on photos of actual women's genitalia and, when you touch them, they respond with audio feedback based on scientific research into what women find pleasurable.
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Richer, deeper, tastier, fluffier textures distinguish them, and that's not a copout answer – a genre that illustrates enjoyment of desire only works when the music is seriously physically pleasurable.
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Over the past six months, I've redirected my impulse to narrate my day into my journal, and it's a more forgiving and pleasurable medium to work out my material.
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Like our other erogenous zones (including the clitoris, penis, and nipples), the anus has heightened sensitivity and can generate a pleasurable sexual response, says certified couples counselor Annabelle Knight.
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That makes it imperative to create phones that are as cheap and, at the same time, as pleasurable to use as possible, which only serves to benefit Xiaomi's users.
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"Chronic pain 'highjacks' sensory nerve fibers, thereby making it harder or impossible for pleasurable stimuli to elicit a response," Murphy, who wasn't involved in the study, said by email.
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It seems that TV genres created and consumed by women are often lumped into the "guilty pleasure" category, while even the most insipid male-targeted programs are simply pleasurable.
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Many people with SCIs or other paralyses affecting their sex lives eventually find they can have pleasurable sex lives—even orgasms—without the use or feeling of their genitals.
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In other words, both women and men regretted casual sex when they felt disgusted by it, when it wasn't pleasurable, and when they experienced worries or concerns about it.
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"Our purpose was to understand more about women's experiences with ... the kinds of touch they find pleasurable and how clitoral and vaginal stimulation contribute to their orgasms," she explained.
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Todd: If there's one thing I find "pleasurable" in Handmaid's Tale (at least in the traditional sense of that word), it's the performance of Yvonne Strahovski as Serena Joy.
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Bad limoncello will cause 'Allappa' or thick tongueAccording to Micaela, bad limoncello will cause "allappa," which she described as "thick tongue" — "it's not a pleasurable feeling afterwards," she said.
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"Am I a Jo or an Amy?" is as pleasurable a question to consider, as it is revealing of the tight strictures that govern our understanding of womanly selfhood.
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My unwillingness to let go is often rooted in expectation, or at least, my desire to return to a pleasurable state of being that an activity once produced before.
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It means whatever you want it to mean: "It makes NO sense at face value and so it's incongruous with normal memetic referencing in a pleasurable way," he said.
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"But it's worth pausing to consider why a magazine like the Standard can be pleasurable and important, even to those who find its goals and methods noxious," Foer notes.
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I've found it difficult in Brisbane, in particular, to find the best everyday food — the local gems, the small edible wonders that make living in any city more pleasurable.
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Jonathan Gardner's wry, lush and pleasurable paintings; Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell's master works; two shows refiguring the future of new media; and Fin Simonetti on the myths of masculinity.
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So if in Wine School we want to try to understand something of Burgundy, even by dipping a toe at the highly pleasurable fringe, we have to buy Burgundy.
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Water heated to around 27 degrees Fahrenheit (about 225 degrees Celsius) and poured over the grounds will extract all of coffee's most pleasurable essences in a matter of minutes.
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I'm only halfway through, and so far it's as immersive and pleasurable as it is creepy, with a Pygmalion story that drifts unself-consciously (I think!) into "Lolita" territory.
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This local favorite also features a menu of Greek wines, and imbibing with a glass while sitting alfresco is a pleasurable way to pass an evening in the neighborhood.
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Therefore, evolution has left us with a brain that can reward itself; satisfying curiosity feels pleasurable, so you explore the environment even when you don't expect any concrete payoff.
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It used to be a pleasurable and efficient delivery method: a dozen or so tracks collected onto one long-playing disk and sold to consumers at a discounted price.
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Add lube If you're having sex that involves penetration, using lubrication will increase comfort, decrease the chance of any injury or pain, and even help sex feel more pleasurable.
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A bit in which Kenan Thompson and Tracy Morgan played Beyoncé's twin sons in the womb was pedestrian, but at least had the pleasurable jolt of seeing Mr. Morgan.
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As I snacked and sipped, I couldn't help but think that it's a strong business model to have wine for sale within arm's reach after such a pleasurable lunch.
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It can be helpful for partners to expand their ideas of what qualifies as pleasurable—like penetration, orgasm isn't everything, and not every sexual experience will be the same.
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In other words, the researchers wondered whether long, relatively gentle walks would make people happy and, if so, whether some types of walks would be more pleasurable than others.
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Instead of pleasurable and decadent, the harem becomes an asylum for the women inside it, who are driven mad by the restrictions placed on them by the original artist.
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It's enormously pleasurable when an evening stroll turns into a rhythmic saunter and then bursts into dance — think of Gene Kelly walking, tapping, stomping and exulting in the rain.
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A third team won the Peace Prize for trying to measure the pleasure of scratching an itch (itching in the ankle and back is way more pleasurable, they discovered).
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"The sublime is a region of pleasurable peril, a wondrous land with deep undertows and the pungent scent of suspense," writes guest curator Suzanne Ramljak in the exhibition catalogue.
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That's what 3D worlds are, artfully arranged collections of assets and scripts and interactions, and where the illusion works, it feels like a coherent world and a pleasurable experience.
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In conversation, however, it quickly became apparent that the bridge between these two selves is Goldin's conviction that mathematical reasoning and study is not only widely useful, but also pleasurable.
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The Underground Railroad is not only viscerally pleasurable to read — it's also filled with ideas that will swirl around in your head for weeks afterward as you mull them over.
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When we do something pleasurable, a bundle of neurons called the ventral tegmental area uses the neurotransmitter dopamine to signal to a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens.
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The battery life is there, the wireless specs might not be, but if they're practical and pleasurable to listen to, these new Audio-Technica headphones will find a receptive market.
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I'm surprised by my joy and seduction watching the dance because his empty bed photographs, cheap candy piles, and stoic paper stacks are always more painful than pleasurable for me.
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Previously, I had thought that the point of the burger, in general, was that it was a challenging, pleasurable ordeal — the unwieldy consumption of a big, greasy puck of cow.
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The appeal lay in observing the mysteriously pleasurable (and wasteful) wonder of seeing someone crumble as they struggle to slather one more layer of mascara on their quivering, encrusted eyelashes.
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For those who don't find cunnilingus pleasurable, however, or worse, find it downright painful, the disappointment and sense of isolation can be just as bad as the bad sex itself.
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Marketed as lighter, fluffier or simply more pleasurable than other books (think: Fifty Shades of Grey or Sweetbitter), beach reads often go overlooked when it comes to more academic critiques.
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In our opinion, your hand is the best tool you have to eat with and it is one of the most pleasurable things to eat with your hands and fingers.
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One study of school children showed focusing on pleasurable daily events, in this case recording them in a diary, reduced depressive symptoms, and the effect was maintained three months later.
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This leads Tepper and others to believe that orgasms are essentially a sensory overload: Enough of any pleasurable stimulation, embraced and followed without expectation, can tip you over that edge.
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Unfortunately, misinformation about sex (and safer sex) abounds, and too many people enter adulthood without the knowledge necessary to make sure the sex they're having is safe, consensual, and pleasurable.
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"You've really messed up everything," Thom Yorke sings in "Ful Stop," one of the album's few up-tempo songs, though it uses its insistent beat for jitters, not pleasurable motion.
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When we experience a cocaine high, these brain areas form memories of our pleasurable experience and the places or people that were involved in our experience of getting the drug.
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She was finely attuned to how much a person could take—how much pain and sadness could still be pleasurable, or at least stimulating—and to the physiology of persuasion.
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It's certainly pleasurable to watch the wild-eyed Patricia scuttle through the art-directed clutter of Dr. Klemperer's office and then pause to pick up a carefully placed Jung volume.
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For instance, for a 2013 article about efforts to craft more pleasurable condoms, I had to collect glow-in-the-dark condoms, piña colada-flavored condoms and vibrating condom rings.
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Combining technology with serious art, pleasurable entertainment with scientific exploration, the "double vision" of this show's title draws us into a space that is almost difficult to extract oneself from.
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It's valid to want different genitals, but it's also okay to love yourself—and have hot, pleasurable sex—if your body falls outside of the neatly defined categories, like mine.
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The most pleasurable to see was Miuccia Prada, who recast the black Pocone nylon on which she first made her reputation in the 1980s as big, boxy and covetable outerwear.
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The research surrounding attention suggests that our minds are biologically wired to focus on anything that's novel, pleasurable or threatening — and distractions can be an enticing cocktail of all three.
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" Add lube Lube can make sex feel even better: a 2009 study found that over 70% of women said that using lube made sex feel "very pleasurable and more comfortable.
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The companies that are paying this deemed tax are obviously stuck with the pleasurable issue of what they do with all these funds that they can now bring back here.
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Photograph by Elizabeth Renstrom for The New Yorker Babymetal · Yui Mizuno, 20143 · Suzuka Nakamoto, 18 · Moa Kikuchi, 16 · Genre: J-pop metal Babymetal has created a bizarrely pleasurable sonic mashup.
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Sure, there's a few bangers for good measure ("LesAlpx" and "Anasickmodular"), but it's a testament to Floating Points' talent that electronic music this baroque and challenging can be so pleasurable.
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Judging by its sober design, its small scale, and its large mortality mission, you might not guess that Duchamp's Last Day is as droll and as pleasurable as it is.
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Motion sickness, nausea, ill-fitting headsets—even if porn has been directed by inclusive filmmakers, how can VR porn possibly be conducive to a pleasurable or immersive experience for women?
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I still had to get past this mental piece, and what I was able to do to accomplish that was to tap into the fact that it's pleasurable for her.
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Pleasurable activities all activate a region of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, which plays a central role in the reward circuit, triggering the release of feel-good hormones like dopamine.
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Use Your Hands "A lot of really pleasurable non-penetrative sex moves are just good old fashioned things like kissing or hand jobs," wellness and culture writer Tiffany Lashai Curtis says.
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"One of the lead messages was that smoking adds pleasure to anything pleasurable you do — whether it's romance or meals or coffee or liquor or fun at the beach," Jackler says.
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No, it's not disrupting the travel business in a major way, but in my opinion, it will make planning your travel just a little more pleasurable, just like it should be.
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Yet there was electricity in the work's mutability, right up through the finale, when she emerged from a gyrating, climactic encounter with a chair to calmly wish us a pleasurable evening.
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The pudendal nerve explains how signals get from someone's genitals to their brain during sex, and then the brain releases dopamine and oxytocin, which causes a flood of happy, pleasurable feelings.
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This wasn't always recognized as a sexual cue, it led to sex less often, and half of the time it occurred, the partner found it irritating or annoying instead of pleasurable.
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So a lot of families fall back on entertainment to fill the silences, pass time with a pleasurable distraction, or just give everyone something less fraught and stressful to argue about.
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"Porn and masturbation should be a pleasurable part of a person's healthy sexuality," she declares, specifying that she just wants people of all genders to be safe when they jank it.
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The short film doesn't quite work as pleasurable drama, but as an experiment — can generic footage on the internet be spliced into drama — it feels like a step toward something new.
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Erin Pim, Bedpost Sex Show Porn is great for entertainment purposes, but the issue lies with folks who grow up watching porn before they've experienced what pleasurable sex is actually like.
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It's complicated Studies show pleasurable emotions are associated with broader and more creative thinking, and a range of positive outcomes including better resilience, social connectedness, well-being, physical health, and longevity.
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Then share it with a friend, because that's how these things work, corrupting one mind at a time, like some sort of punishment that becomes pleasurable when shared with someone else.
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With some experience, I've found that in addition to yarn and a hook there are crochet tools and accessories that make my crafting time more pleasurable and improve my final results.
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"As a really healthy reminder: not all people with vaginas are women, and these products are not only applicable to women, and can be pleasurable to tons of people," Mariah added.
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It could still be intensely pleasurable, but it'd likely be prohibitively pricey (the Orgasmatron's generator alone would likely cost $25,000) and invasive (think spinal surgery or wires running into your skull).
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"Not only will the quantity of semen readied for ejaculation on orgasm will be increased, the pleasurable contractions that occur with that release will be increased as well," Reitano tells me.
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But, while that may be pleasurable, I recently realized that TV and movies are just more information coming into my brain, pulling my awareness away from myself and onto something else.
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Even kanna's sexual effects are comparable to those of MDMA: Some say it enhances sex by making sensations more pleasurable, while others find that it impedes erection and orgasm, Giordano said.
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But it's a vastly different mental tug-of-war between the solver, setter and editor than the American-style crosswords I'm used to, and it's a very pleasurable break for me.
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That power was derived from its simple, bold and irrefutably true proposition — that black lives do not exist for pleasurable disposal in a society still mired in its white supremacist history.
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In his constraints, with his arms and legs spread as he stood before a mirror, the be-diapered Trump surveyed his humiliating position and tensed with the pleasurable anticipation of pain.
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But what makes the diverting and mostly pleasurable "Good Omens" especially timely is something that hasn't much changed: Armageddon seems as real a possibility now as it did three decades ago.
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The British actress did say the most pleasurable aspect of being part of the Potterverse was that it allowed her to bond more with her five grandchildren, according to the Standard.
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It's as if the book has been carefully cut apart and reassembled, its signatures sewn back together in an order that produces sparks of surprise and occasional bouts of pleasurable dizziness.
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But nearly two decades after the initial pigeon study, Watanabe and his team conducted another study, this time with Java sparrows, and spotted signs they experience a pleasurable feeling from art.
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So, we're helping to connect those dots by talking about the realities of sex, from how it's done to how to make sure it's consensual, safe, healthy, and pleasurable all at once.
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Making orgasm the sole goal leaves out the fact that the whole experience can be pleasurable, and stops us from having more nuanced conversations about sexual pleasure that go beyond demanding orgasms.
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It was an extremely rare case where Game of Thrones depicted sex as a consensual, pleasurable connection between people who actually like each other, as opposed to something transactional, violent, or both.
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The work provocatively denies me the comfortable and pleasurable position of being able to see a body, gauge its personality, and figure out what kind of attention it is asking of me.
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In my time writing on the Tiger Rapids with its bundled stylus, latency was commendably low and the screen had just the right amount of traction to make it a pleasurable experience.
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"People in the social media/digital space find that activity — circulating in that world, liking stuff, pushing it around, watching it — to be a pleasurable activity in and of itself," he said.
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You could draw a graph of this show, and that might be the most pleasurable way to consume it — tracking the way its time-hopping narrative ultimately comes together to make sense.
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The night sky could slowly give way to sunrise, creating a more natural way to wake up from your red-eye, and making for a much more pleasurable arrival at your destination.
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To celebrate the pleasurable profusion of the film's iconic trope that never seems to get old, we put together a round up of movies and shows where its legacy has lived on.
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Gay and bisexual men, for instance, did report a greater use of most drugs with sex, and more also reported using drugs to explicitly make sex more pleasurable in the past year.
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A team led by Professor Hui Liu found that older men who reported having frequent, pleasurable sex with a partner were at a higher risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular problems.
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As pleasurable and sometimes necessary as it might be for a Clinton supporter to expunge her Trump-loving cousin from her Facebook feed, social media breakups don't necessarily change hearts and mind.
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Clients with both conditions are deficient in the pleasurable brain chemical dopamine, responsible for the allure of good sex, the thrill of a runner's high, or the jolt of cocaine, says Kaplan.
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RELATED: 10 Ways to Improve Your Relationship Instantly Consume healthy fats You know how avocados are some of the most pleasurable foods to eat, with their rich taste and smooth, decadent texture?
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"It's a pleasurable, seductive fantasy partly because, as we have known from the start of cinema, the sight of a running horse is a beautiful thing," Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times.
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Music-induced frisson refers to the pleasurable chills that some people may experience while listening to a song, like the goosebumps or shivers that Billie fans often describe getting from her music.
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I often had trouble deciding what (aside from the sheer fun of being with friends) was the more pleasurable and memorable part of our trip to Alsace: the food or the art.
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These self-education avenues rarely if ever teach us how to communicate with our partners about sexual pleasure, and they barely skim over consent, two key components of healthy and pleasurable sex.
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Rules that might create a more pleasurable viewing experience could help, but the gems that draw — Maya Moore's picturesque jumper or Britney Griner's ferocity attacking the rim — are already present and underused.
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In a time where you can stream any song, order any widget from Amazon or get every bit of bad news in real time, it's pleasurable and rare to not have choices.
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This finding has been interpreted by behavioral economists as evidence for loss aversion: The loss of the mug was anticipated to be more painful than its gain was anticipated to be pleasurable.
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The beauty of sex is that there are so many things everyone can try—no matter how they identify or who they're into—to make it pleasurable for you and your partner.
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Instead, think of it this way: The time you spend on your phone is time you're not spending doing other pleasurable things, like hanging out with a friend or pursuing a hobby.
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Often you wish she would linger on a given topic a bit more, gave it more depth before zipping off, but it is hard to deny how pleasurable Ms. Rossellini's company is.
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It is a possibility that fills Federer partisans with something approaching existential dread — fear that the un-Federered life might not be worth living, or at least won't be nearly as pleasurable.
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In a study Komisaruk co-authored with Rutgers sex researcher Beverly Whipple, who coined the term "G-spot," they found that the pressure of pleasurable vaginal stimulation increased pain tolerance by 40%.
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Unlike the horrid dull roller blades I was used to as a child, the skates I was given were super cute, pink, and sparkly — which made the experience all the more pleasurable.
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I'm talking about those easygoing, enthusiastic guides who take you by the hand and show you that what you thought was impenetrable not only makes sense, but might also be improbably pleasurable.
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But it's a pleasurable fantasy, as well as a gentle, appealingly Utopian vision of a world in which men and women can slip from their traditional binds into new, excitingly freeing configurations.
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Some people will say, 'no that's not me' but most men masturbate roughly to porn, completely focused on the idea that they have to get to the orgasm—nothing pleasurable about it.
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They were simply an opportunity to spend time with a good storyteller, a droll soul with the skills to turn even the flimsiest bits of real-life anecdotage into pleasurable reading material.
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If she thinks sex is a drive-by and he thinks she lies there like a corpse, why did it take all these years to say that sex hasn't been pleasurable for them?
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The Brooklyn-based company, started by Fine and Janet Lieberman — an engineer who serves as cofounder and chief technology officer — aims to get people talking about consensual sex that is pleasurable for women.
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A 2007 study surveying hundreds of college students published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior found that men and women who reported unprotected sex as more pleasurable were less likely to use condoms.
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If the scientists gave them pleasurable stimulation while the rats were replaying a certain part of the maze during sleep, when the rat wakes up they tend to gravitate more toward that place.
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Quite literally, slow sex is all about slowing down the action with your partner so you can be more present and mindful of sensation, with the goal of an overall more pleasurable experience.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It's a rare writer that can make a book about death pleasurable, and yet Jennifer Firestone's third poetry collection, Gates & Fields, is nothing if not just that.
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The pit is soft and enveloping, thick enough to swim in; contact mics are placed underneath the structure, and it's weird and pleasurable to hear the warm, dry scratching of your own body.
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"Patience, communication, slowing down – all of these are pillars in a pleasurable anal experience," says Alicia Sinclair, sex educator and CEO of b-Vibe, a company that makes body-safe anal play products.
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This past weekend, I attended the first big Dota 2 tournament held in the UK, the $13 million Birmingham Major hosted by ESL One, and I got to experience two uniquely pleasurable things.
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What I understand now about my piano recitals was that they weren't supposed to be easy or pleasurable, but they had a goodness hidden inside them that made even the unpleasant parts meaningful.
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Another way would be to tinker with the neurons in the taste cortex of our brain to make our favorite things taste like something else less pleasurable [like make sweet things taste bitter].
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Reese's idea—that people will give up something pleasurable and familiar without the spark of something deeply felt, be it shame or compassion—relies on a very generous view of the human animal.
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Ultimately, a range of advances may be needed to support people for whom eating has mutated from a pleasurable experience to a solitary effort; one that's devoid of joy, but full of danger.
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You're craving freedom, so it's a fantastic time to gift yourself a sex toy (especially as Venus connects with electric Uranus on August 26) or something pleasurable that you've had your eye on.
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We sort odors into the familiar, which represent no threat, like the scent of our own homes, while the unfamiliar are brought to our conscious attention, whether as potentially pleasurable or possibly insalubrious.
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The feeling that your vagina isn't tight enough for pleasurable penetration — for either you or your partner — is valid, and many women notice significant changes in tightness after childbirth and as they age.
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Sex ed classes teach you that sex will riddle you with diseases and unwanted babies, but conveniently omit a lot of important stuff, like how to make it feel the least bit pleasurable.
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The occasion determines not the precise bottle we choose but the level of wine, which can range from easy, pleasurable and inexpensive to profound, contemplative and financially challenging, with many steps in between.
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Most students — and not only the type of aggressive liberal activist once called a "Magic Marker terrorist" — like these standards, perceiving them as a way of making sex more pleasurable instead of less.
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From 2006 to 2010, the stylish stalls gave hundreds of thousands of pedestrians more pleasurable place to use the bathroom than the average porta potty, fully stocked with Charmin toilet paper, of course.
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Online retailers cater to this utilitarian drive, and we in turn forget there are other ways, that there is value in a pleasurable experience even if no item is delivered the next day.
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It was almost embarrassing how fervently George had believed that everything would continue to get better and better, life a steady accrual of successes, of moments becoming only more vivid and more pleasurable.
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Although Nevins is a Modernist, faithful to monochromatic structures in dialogue with architecture, she recognizes that contrast, balance and strategically deployed color are what make a garden as pleasurable as it is striking.
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This includes many physicians, some of whom are even offering G-spot amplification procedures like the so-called "G-spot shot," which they claim can make stimulation of this area even more pleasurable.
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This device doesn't render human tongues completely obsolete, as there's a distinctly pleasurable mouth moisture that a vibrator can't quite replicate, even if you slather it in the lube that comes with it.
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"It really does change your whole relationship with travel, when you take the most painful part of traveling and instead of that being a terrible experience, it goes from pain to pleasurable," Neistat says.
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While confusion doesn't necessarily excuse bad behavior, ignorance about gender roles in sex and consent has the potential to create precarious situations in which even seemingly consensual sex isn't necessarily wanted, let alone pleasurable.
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The simplicity isn't merely visually pleasurable; it makes a fast-paced game easy to read, like how the coming and going of mortal danger is communicated with vibrant glass lines stretching behind every bullet.
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For decades, his puritanical diet swept the nation into a bland fervor, with thousands abstaining from rich or pleasurable foods, like meat, caffeine, and even pepper, all in the name of eating themselves clean.
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What began as mutually pleasurable sex becomes violative due to Hugh's dramatic method for delivering Jay the bad news and his knowingly and maliciously preventing Jay from making an informed decision about her body.
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The ASMR Circus videos are part of a growing online community of people who get a pleasurable tingling sensation in the head, scalp, or back in response to certain auditory, visual, or tactile stimuli.
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While everybody has a pudendal nerve and can experience the release of dopamine and oxytocin that happens with sex, not everyone will experience that release as pleasurable or experience the same level of pleasure.
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If the text makes it past the Senate and the National Assembly later this year, French people's nights could soon be again dedicated to a more pleasurable activity than answering emails from your boss.
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Groch says this softness and ability to transfer heat is what makes the FC22 more pleasurable than a condom, because it doesn't feel like there is as much of a barrier between sexual partners.
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Leopold Sacher-Masoch (the author of Venus in Furs, from whom masochism derives its name) would pressure his wife into sleeping with other men so he could experience the pleasurable humiliation of being cuckolded.
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Romantic love can be blindingly pleasurable, and hell yes it deserves its own holiday where we hoist it upon our shoulders and parade it around with naughty conversation hearts and flowers delivered at work.
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But some sexual health advocates say internal condoms have pleasurable benefits, and they're also currently the only way for people who get penetrated during intercourse to have total control over their own sexual protection.
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Since meth releases high levels of dopamine that can last eight to 12 hours, it becomes highly addictive, and many users continually turn to the drug for the pleasurable "rush" it originally gave them.
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That means it's helpful to not get hung up on whether or not you're going to have an orgasm, and instead really savor and enjoy all the other pleasurable aspects of sex, she says.
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For me, heroin provided a sense of comfort, safety and love that I couldn't get from other people (the key agent of addiction in these regions is the same for many pleasurable experiences: dopamine).
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The poor novel, constantly asked to justify its relevance and defend its dignity under an onslaught of flashier modes of art and entertainment, seems as pleasurable and humanly true as ever in Hollinghurst's hands.
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" Following the launch in Rome, Ferrari said: "With its distinctive flair and style, the car is a contemporary representation of the carefree, pleasurable way of life that characterized Rome in the 1950s and 1960s.
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This can also be tricky, given we are typically geared toward instant gratification and struggle to connect the immediate rewards of pleasurable items such as food, alcohol and cigarettes, with their long-term consequences.
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Throughout the book, Rogers identifies Coppola as a "beguiler," someone who coaxes the viewer through pleasurable imagery into an uncanny sense of ease in order to unearth psychological and cultural norms in the unconscious.
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They've been able to address students' complaints that sex ed programs are outdated in that they fail to acknowledge sexually active students, non-heterosexual relationships, or even the fact that sex can be pleasurable.
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There's stigma here about condoms, too—lots of people with access to condoms refuse to use them because they don't think it's pleasurable, and they don't like to buy them because they feel judged.
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It delivers a level of pleasurable excess you might expect from a Chang restaurant, but set against the grounded moderation of the plantains, it provides elegant balance — porky treble to the dish's starchy bass.
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There is an upbeat story about racial progress and unity that is not only more pleasurable to believe but is more effective to believe if you want to, say, elect an African-American president.
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And that, to a certain portion of the opining, moviegoing public, is apparently almost as pleasurable an activity as drawing one's own conclusion, backed by reason and emphasized by the turn of a thumb.
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Sepah suggested that without such breaks, we become habituated to high levels of the chemical, so we feel the need to seek out ever-higher doses of stimulation to achieve the same pleasurable effect.
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That more or less describes the surprisingly pleasurable experience of the comedy in which Gary appears, Dan LeFranc's sweet and scary, lackadaisical and hypnotic "Rancho Viejo," which opened on Tuesday night at Playwrights Horizons.
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"The human reward system tends to be responsive to a variety of things that lead to a subjective pleasurable response," says Dr. Mauricio Delgado, associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers University.
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It may conjure up images of bondage, discipline, sadomasochism, dominance, and submission, but many BDSM practictioners attribute the pleasurable pain of their fetish to the endorphin rush that accompanies the acting out of their fantasies.
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She adds that it's key for young women to reject the traditions and beliefs that hold them back when it comes to enjoying a pleasurable sex life, such as patriarchal gender roles and ecclesiastical teachings.
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What's most fascinating and pleasurable for me about these columns is that, so often, the conclusion is that this seemingly useless, outdated technology actually has a very good reason for standing the test of time.
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Bondage, the sex act of restraining one's partner and all the pleasurable activities that come with it, is part of the basic foundation of kink and BDSM (which stands for Bondage, Domination, Sadism, and Masochism).
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While the analysis found great sex is risky for men in the survey, those who had sex one to three times a month and rated it less pleasurable had no increased risk for heart concerns.
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" —Robert Southey "I felt a highly pleasurable sensation of warmth over my whole frame, resembling that which I remember once to have experienced after returning from a walk in the snow into a warm room.
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When pleasure becomes a problem Dependence, addiction, bingeing and compulsive consumption can be thought of as risky or harmful uses of otherwise pleasurable experiences, like using alcohol and other drugs, doing exercise and having sex.
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This flies in the face of the stereotype of intercourse as the be-all and end-all of sexual activity -- and suggests that couples should explore the whole range of pleasurable options for achieving climax.
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As Jupiter entered fellow fire sign Sagittarius, you experienced incredible growth and optimism and your love life and creative endeavors—your most pleasurable relationships brought you inspiration, even if it sometimes felt hard to read.
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Posting a new picture on Facebook or Instagram from your Apple iPhone and waiting for responses may indeed give you a hit of pleasurable brain chemicals, nudging you to use these products more and more.
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In some shows that leaves the viewer with a certain punch-drunk fatigue — "All right, let's get on with it; jerk me around with another surprise" — but the appealing cast here makes the pummeling pleasurable.
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The basic concept is simple: Instead of only using your breath as a focal point during mindfulness exercises like meditation and body scanning, you also concentrate on pleasurable sensations that ground you in your body.
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" Call it a cliché if you like, but ours is a culture that, for better and for worse, views seduction as a harmless and pleasurable game, dating back to the days of medieval "amour courtois.
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Dr. Sulzer pointed out that studies have shown that dopamine (a neurotransmitter linked to desire) is released when a pleasurable end is achieved, and that release can be "upstreamed" by cues related to the goal.
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Most significant — and touching — is that the simplicity of each language, with or without an accompanying story, is pleasurable to hear: a weather report in Navajo, a song about language in both English and Kaurna.
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A conversation that you had on February 19 pops back up again on or around Wednesday, helping to inform you about structuring your relationships to make room for the most fun and mutually pleasurable experience.
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Ms. Theron and Ms. Davis make a pleasurable, watchable pair — Ms. Davis is obviously happy to be the moon to Ms. Theron's sun — but "Tully" isn't really interested in the sustaining joys of female bonding.
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And while many of us do, in fact, find slumber to be a decidedly pleasurable pastime, according to a 2016 survey, nearly 68% of Americans — I among them — have regular trouble falling or staying asleep.
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Let me tell you about the Kentucky Derby, one of the longest and most pleasurable days in journalism — modern or otherwise — which I've been fortunate to cover now for 17 of the past 203 years.
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In essence, walking had been "more pleasurable" than not walking, even though the walks' duration had been long, says Martin Niedermeier, a professor of sport science at the University of Innsbruck who led the study.
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The historian and social critic Paul Fussell (1924-2012) wrote so many brisk and pleasurable books, of so many sorts, that singling out one for the purposes of this column is a headache-making task.
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Some online clips from the stage production suggest that it might have been pleasurable to watch Ms. Huppert and Mr. Garrel in person, and perhaps their charisma enlivened what comes across onscreen as impossibly stale.
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But fewer people talk about cities that way anymore: among contemporary urbanists, a dominant influence is Jane Jacobs, known for her lifelong commitment to the simple but radical notion that city life can be pleasurable.
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And during your treatment, don't be afraid to ask for more or less pressure during a massage, an additional blanket or towel if you're chilly or anything else that will make your service more pleasurable.
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Once I found it, I inserted the needle, pulled back the plunger to check for his blood, then pressed the drug into him before watching him fall back into the pleasurable void of the rush.
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Leading that charge is the artisanal chocolate space—but perhaps more pleasurable than the rest is High Love, a roasted coffee bean coated in dark weed-infused chocolate by the Colorado-based cannabis company 1906.
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Most Maghreb jewelry, by suggestively emulating nature's cycles and rhythmic movements, propounds something of the repetitious cadences observed in our own intertwining movements when we engage in the pleasurable activities of music, dance, and libidinousness.
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Usually, in-ear headphones of this price and technology tier are overburdened with multiple sound drivers or, as in Audeze's case, a huge 30mm planar magnetic diaphragm, and so wearing them for hours isn't too pleasurable.
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"Anal training is key to making sure you're going at your body's pace for a pleasurable experience," says Alicia Sinclair, sex educator and CEO of b-Vibe, a company that makes body-safe anal play products.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Policymakers should regulate the potency of cannabis products such as skunk and oil, aiming for a chemical balance that reduces the risk of psychosis without losing the drug's pleasurable effects, experts said on Thursday.
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I put the ribbed part around the base of my shaft, which it hugged with the perfect amount of tightness that not only provided pleasurable pressure but also kept the sleeve from moving around too much.
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Some experts also say that when people with penises have a full bladder, there's a mechanical pressure that their brain interprets as pleasurable sexual arousal, and causes an erection, says Laurie Watson, LMFT, certified sex therapist.
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Jordan Belfort (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) in The Wolf of Wall Street is probably the popular idea of the quintessential hedonist, where his extreme wealth allows him to indulge his insatiable hunger for all things pleasurable.
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The study also found that women who felt that they could talk with their partners specifically about what makes sex pleasurable for them are eight times—eight times— more likely to be happier in their relationships.
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Negative experiences resulted in less pleasurable or painful orgasmsIn addition to being asked if they had felt either externally or internally pressured to orgasm, participants were surveyed on the overall quality of their orgasm during sex.
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After a long period of dates and parties, love and money planet Venus enters your house of work and lifestyle Monday morning, making it pleasurable to snap back into your daily routine—a post-holiday godsend.
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" An English translation of the Tubi 60 label rather unhelpfully notes only that it is a 40 percent-alcohol "made with lemons, herbs, flower with tree extracts, specially designed for a refreshing, uplifting, and pleasurable experience.
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The problem TikTok has right now is that its For You page is working exactly as it should: It gives users a personalized and therefore pleasurable experience by showing them what they likely want to see.
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I feel the most pleasurable thing about being adult is enduring the busy day and then getting to retreat to a quiet house where you are free to be yourself and get work done without distractions.
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With all its inventive momentum, all its pleasurable beats, the fast pace of the race, the scenery unfurling, the novel ends up far from where it started, in a place of historical reckoning and colonial guilt.
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These come into play in a contrived, borderline cutesy setup that — once the parts have been snapped into place — relaxes into a pleasurable, meandering portrait of someone getting another shot, maybe the last one, at happiness.
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This is speaking directly to celebratory drinks, coffee dates and random parties that can tug on our conscience with obligation and guilt, but are founded on the conceit that they're leisurely, entirely pleasurable and optional activities.
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Tasting coordinator: Bernard Kirsch Recipe Pairing: Quinoa Salad With Swiss Chard and Goat Cheese The everyday Beaujolais wines in our tasting were proof that the gamay grape, under the right winemaker, creates pleasurable, food-friendly wines.
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The planet of love and money, Venus, moves into your house of higher knowledge and distant travels, making it more pleasurable to venture into unknown territories as you bravely go where you have never gone before.
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These areas of the brain — those that produce and respond to the neurotransmitter dopamine — are involved in just about any pleasurable activity: having sex, enjoying a nice conversation, eating good food, reading a book, using methamphetamines.
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But if I want a purely pleasurable morning where I don't need to do too much, then it'll be "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," by Muriel Spark, or "An Experiment in Love," by Hilary Mantel.
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YouTube TV sits on top of the same world-class technology stack as traditional YouTube, a service that has clearly cracked the code on how to deliver a pleasurable experience to over 1.5 billion users a month.
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Yes, you can eat ass reclined, but when the receiver is standing, they also have the ability to "sit" into your face a bit more, and this can be particularly pleasurable for receivers who have a penis.
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That means that we get to enjoy all of the pleasurable results of using vibes — as long as we know how to use them (like we said, they can have a lot of snazzy features these days).
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But the experience can be as painful as it is pleasurable: The movie's most horrifying scene shows a dancer trapped in a room of mirrors, her body breaking and contorting in a grotesque reflection of Susie's dance.
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This is certainly reflected in the earlier Pediatrics study, where 64 percent of teens reported dripping for a thicker cloud of vapor, 39 percent for a more pleasurable taste and 28 percent for a stronger throat hit.
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Another, the Peaceful Mind program, developed by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and elsewhere for patients with anxiety and dementia, simplifies traditional cognitive behavioral therapy and focuses on scheduling pleasurable activities and skills, like deep breathing.
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Anatomically, this region is wired up to be a hub for processing the value of risk and reward; it's richly connected to even deeper brain regions that provide a kick of pleasurable neurochemicals in the right circumstances.
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It's especially pleasurable to hear stories of Jewish activism around the battle for women's suffrage and the availability of birth control — both of which gave American women as a whole more agency and capacity for self-determination.
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Along the way, as sections of The New York Times accumulated on the floor, piles of paper for which trees had given their last twig, I was seized, along with my pleasurable wonderment, by a growing conviction.
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But if I had to guess, I'd wager, for the average person, it's more pleasurable to count the toes on a statue than it is to remember we all die and we have no idea what comes next.
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"Older men who found sex with their partner extremely pleasurable, or satisfying, had higher risk of cardiovascular events than men who did not feel so," said study author Hui Liu, associate professor of sociology at Michigan State University.
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"A lot of times when people call 911, it's not for something happy, and today – I always say 911 dispatchers save lives – today was very pleasurable to help start a life," fireman Chris Hurst told the news outlet.
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Power presents an alternative America that's more pleasurable for people of color, where its diverse characters side step institutional racism and sexism for an hour so that we can get lost in the pure thrill of the ride.
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ASMR is a trait some people have where certain sounds, like soft whispering, trigger a pleasurable tingling physical response in their brain, and there's an entire online community with hundreds of videos designed to elicit an ASMR response.
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It means that you can get a hybrid of both technologies, thus benefiting from the intensity that comes from heating up the contents of the oven, while also using hot air to make it more pleasurable to inhale.
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" The pleasurable awareness of a story being told courses through the collection like electricity, down to the knowing quality of a title like "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think.
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What I understand now about my piano recitals that I hated so much was that they weren't supposed to be easy or pleasurable, but they had a goodness hidden inside them that made even the unpleasant parts meaningful.
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Dopamine fasting is a hot Silicon Valley trend that involves taking a time-out from presumed "problematic" and "pleasurable" behaviors such as cruising through social media, gaming, masturbating, having sex, eating (especially the emotional kind), and thrill-seeking.
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 83%What critics said: "What makes the diverting and mostly pleasurable "Good Omens" especially timely is something that hasn't much changed: Armageddon seems as real a possibility now as it did three decades ago.
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The pleasurable image "Aux sources de l'énergie, Enseignes lumineuses, Paris" (1931) has a delightful Dada flavor to it, recalling some of the best moments of dazzling superimposition in the Dada masterpiece film "Entr'acte" (83), directed by René Clair.
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Their Shakespeare is sad and a little weary, but far from beaten down, evidenced by the movie's most pleasurable scene: An extended fireside chinwag between Will and his longtime crush, the Earl of Southampton (a wicked Ian McKellen).
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"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 73% What critics said: "Things move along at such an agreeably fast clip — particularly in the second half, when the mission gets underway — that it'll be a pleasurable experience for kids and adults alike.
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The first half of the title, "Wash and Park," plays with the sounds of the park's name while also revealing Reed's humor and invention, something he often relied on to transform perhaps ambivalent memories into pleasurable visual experiences.
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In the language of behavioral economics, this reflects the "prospect theory value function," in which receiving a large check from the government at tax time is very pleasurable, and writing a large check to the government very painful.
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And then, finally, it became something I did because it was pleasurable: because it was the one thing that made me feel physically graceful, because it was a way of both escaping my life and tunneling deeper into it.
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I mean, one of the things that is hard to bring back is how much people reflectively talked about TV as an embarrassing, shameful, harmful — but also kind of compulsive and pleasurable — habit, like chain-smoking or eating candy.
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Researchers say that the fact that Naong could predict whether different flavour combinations would taste good was key, as it shows "affective forecasting"—the ability to predict whether a situation will be pleasurable or not by remembering previous experiences.
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As the villainous Set, Butler struts and growls and bellows, like an angry bear suffering digestive trouble, but he lacks the ironic self-awareness and camp sensibility that might have made such an over-the-top performance more pleasurable.
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If I closed my eyes, I think I might have had a better time at "Cabin in the Sky" (although the shifting folk-art backdrop from the designer Anna Louizos is lovely), since the singing throughout is so pleasurable.
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We are rewarded with a pleasurable sensation for doing things and experiencing things that increase our survival probability, and have a negative or painful experience to make us avoid harmful behavior or warn us about potential danger or injury.
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"If sex education, more broadly, was teaching that there were many different kinds of sex that might be enjoyable (both solo and with someone else) then more people might be able to experience pleasurable sex more often," Hancock explained.
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And another way is to use pharmacological methods similar to what is used to get people addicted to drugs to not want their drug of choice: turn off the pleasure in our brain when we experience these pleasurable tastes.
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That made them safe and pleasurable: Books like The Hunger Games worked because they amplified cultural fears about capitalism and imperialism and celebrity culture and the sensationalism of violence to an enormous degree, and then shot arrows at them.
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The program that Saturday evening, which followed another all-Tchaikovsky concert two weeks before, featured favorites like the "Rococo" Variations for cello and orchestra and the "1812" Overture, in an unusual (and slightly guiltily pleasurable) version featuring full chorus.
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For most guys, it goes without saying that having an orgasm tends to be a pleasurable experience—unless you're one of the rare men who experiences what's known as orgasmic anhedonia, in which orgasm and pleasure are completely disconnected.
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Social realism in a symbolist key, "Dogman" is at times more pleasurable to look at than to experience, because it's so deterministic and because there's so little ordinary feeling beyond Marcello's uncomplicated love for his daughter, neighbors and dogs.
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In a 000 article in Psychological Science (title: "Waiting for Merlot"), researchers at Cornell University and the University of California, San Francisco, found that just the anticipation of experiences could be more pleasurable than the anticipation of buying merchandise.
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We cannot live in this world without participating in sexism, in racism, in predatory capitalism, and often we participate in those systems not just because we have to but because we find it convenient and pleasurable to do so.
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It's art for art's sake, a purely pleasurable feast for the senses that the Rosses accredit both to the swirly, far-out musical numbers of '70s variety programs and Walt Disney's wild experiments with color and sound in Fantasia.
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" He continued, "They'll want to enter the vehicle like a cocoon and have a very pleasurable experience getting to their destination, but that pleasure coming from using their telephone, their PC, discussing, and being totally oblivious to the distractions outside.
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DARGIS We've talked a lot about the big-studio releases that we've liked this year from "Trainwreck" to "Straight Outta Compton," which are pleasurable both as movies and as examples of what seems like a seismic industry shift toward inclusiveness.
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Recent work from Malenka's lab shows that the release of serotonin in a region of the brain's "reward circuit" — which reacts to pleasurable activities like eating and sex — can enhance social behavior in mice bred to have autism-like behaviors.
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Well, I don't think it's true in the sense that I think human beings are clearly capable of doing lots of things which they don't find pleasurable, because they believe that they are noble or just or valuable in some way.
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Not only does a butt-plug help warm up the rectum by relaxing the sphincter — which makes anal sex easier and more pleasurable — but you can wear it for pretty much as long as you want (15 minutes or all day).
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Michel and Fabian, who sell the Goûte spoon under their joint Michel/Fabian brand, say that by recreating the experience of licking food from your fingers (yes, Nutella-straight-from-the-jar-style), flavour is enhanced and eating becomes more pleasurable.
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In the hands of Pony Express, "ecosexuality" is something between an identity and an idea—it's a strategy for dealing with the world that we've created, a way to ease the end by making it more hedonistic and, perhaps, mutually pleasurable.
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The show, curated by Nina Tabassomi, only displays films that present alternative models to an anthropocentric ecology and explore the question of how to arrive at a "pleasurable responsive relationship" to our planet, as it is stated in the exhibition text.
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For example, one of the cruelties of rape is having your right to your own body stripped away; someone else takes control over your most intimate choices, and makes what should be voluntary and pleasurable into something violating and violent.
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Stage one, I think, would get transportation to be something where if an hour in the car is actually pleasurable, it's one of the best parts of the day as opposed to one of the worst parts of your day.
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Dame's focus is clearly on female pleasure, not male amusement; as a result, Eva is wearable vibrator that nestles in between the labia, offering women the added stimulation necessary to achieve orgasm without interfering with the other pleasurable aspects of sex.
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Whatever potential harm we now believe bread is doing, if it's so satisfying, so enjoyable, and so pleasurable to eat, why would we be quicker to doubt those impulses than the supposed "progress" that tells us how harmful it is?
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"When we do something pleasurable, a bundle of neurons called the ventral tegmental area uses the neurotransmitter dopamine to signal to a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens," Penn State University neuroscientist Jordan Gaines Lewis wrote in 2013.
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Sushmita Targett, 27, is retelling the moment that her son Roshan was born in Kent, England last month: Calm, pleasurable, and more like a sexual experience than the painful and frightening endurance test we've been conditioned (many through experience) to expect.
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" This first birth experience was "by no means pain-free" but she adds that, "given I managed without any pain relief, and was eventually left with a pleasurable sensation, I can safely say that I found it easier than anticipated.
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