Chapter 39
Lust
People Affected: men
Type of Emotion: sensory coercion
Sensory Trigger: absence of penile orgasm
Mental Effect: negative
Sensory Stop: penile orgasm
Key Feature: effect grows stronger with time
Type of Emotion: sensory coercion
Sensory Trigger: absence of penile orgasm
Mental Effect: negative
Sensory Stop: penile orgasm
Key Feature: effect grows stronger with time
Purpose
Lust encourages men to copulate.
Lust provides additional motivation to mate, but only when necessary. Sexual pleasure always encourages men to mate. Lust also encourages men to mate, but only when they have not mated recently. The alternative to temporary lust is permanently stronger sexual pleasure, which would cause men to mate too much. Sex would always be better than eating.
Female lust did not evolve. Female lust did not evolve because male lust did. Only one gender needs to seek the other for mating to occur.
Women do not commit crimes or spend money to stop lust. Women do not rape. Women do not need to be told no. Women are not regular customers of prostitutes or strip clubs. Women do not accumulate large collections of pornographic magazines.
Women do desire infatuation. Women’s desire to feel this strong positive effect is mistakenly believed to be female lust.
Sensory Trigger
Lust is triggered by the absence of penile orgasm. Ideally, lust would be triggered by the absence of copulation. Unfortunately, men cannot detect the difference between copulation and other methods of achieving penile orgasm.
Mental Effect
Lust encourages men to copulate.
Lust provides additional motivation to mate, but only when necessary. Sexual pleasure always encourages men to mate. Lust also encourages men to mate, but only when they have not mated recently. The alternative to temporary lust is permanently stronger sexual pleasure, which would cause men to mate too much. Sex would always be better than eating.
Female lust did not evolve. Female lust did not evolve because male lust did. Only one gender needs to seek the other for mating to occur.
Women do not commit crimes or spend money to stop lust. Women do not rape. Women do not need to be told no. Women are not regular customers of prostitutes or strip clubs. Women do not accumulate large collections of pornographic magazines.
Women do desire infatuation. Women’s desire to feel this strong positive effect is mistakenly believed to be female lust.
Sensory Trigger
Lust is triggered by the absence of penile orgasm. Ideally, lust would be triggered by the absence of copulation. Unfortunately, men cannot detect the difference between copulation and other methods of achieving penile orgasm.
Mental Effect
Lust varies with time. The longer a man has felt lust, the stronger the negative effect.
Lust grows stronger as necessary to ensure mating. As lust grows stronger, men are more motivated to overcome obstacles to mating.
Sensory Stop
Lust is stopped by penile orgasm.
Lust grows stronger as necessary to ensure mating. As lust grows stronger, men are more motivated to overcome obstacles to mating.
Sensory Stop
Lust is stopped by penile orgasm.
Happiness Dissected is a more practical version of The Origin of Emotions.
