Log in | Sign up

  • 1 Post
  • 296 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: January 22nd, 2024

help-circle







  • Article points out that having a moral issue over porn is a much, much stronger prediction of perceiving problems than levels of use. The headline writer and introduction conclude that porn addiction isn’t real, but I think the detail of the article suggests more that behaviour only really gets properly out of control in the presence of self-disapproval.

    I think a more consistent summary for that content is “Mainly only religious people seek help from psychologists for what they perceive as porn addiction, but overwhelmingly their behaviour doesn’t fit the professional thresholds for addiction”.


  • Some people did a thing with a specially configured tens machine where the woman would turn it the levels up and up until it was at the level of their normal period pain and then the man would go through the same levels stages and be gasping and writhing before it got there.

    Turns out men have been massively underestimating period pain for centuries.

    That said, some women experienced far, far higher levels than normal and were encouraged to take that data to a non-dismissive healthcare professional.





  • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlDear USians
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    23
    ·
    edit-2
    16 days ago

    And back in real life rather than your imagination, we’ve got the actual rapist versus the guy who once smelled someone’s hair. Yeah definitely both the same. /s

    Yeah, America is a capitalist hellhole, but the false equivalence you folks are pushing is absolutely astonishing.






  • I think I can smell progesterone, in some women, and in some months (far more than others/other times). Being male, this is absolutely is not something I can collect a lot of data on very quickly, and I don’t know whether the strength or clarity for me correlates with women who have higher levels than normal, but I do know it correlates really well with this chart in terms of timing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Estradiol_and_progesterone_%25_changes_across_the_menstrual_cycle.tif

    So often I know that it’s a week and a half before your period, and I know what that means, but I promise you that I have never ever used this knowledge, partly because I’m pretty shy, but not even with my wife (who doesn’t know I can tell) when we were aiming for pregnancies, because that was a very busy time indeed in that arena and I saw no reason to reduce that in any way whatsoever.