The relationship between pain and pleasure in human sexuality is as profound as it is intricate. It is a polarity that lives in each people and deserves our interest. Unfortunately, it is not unusual for us to shut down to situations that we fear will bring pain and pain. Replacing our propensity of avoidance with a capacity for marvel when it pertains to our pain associations with sex is eye-opening and has the potential to launch an untapped capacity for pleasure.
Each time I have sex I am struck by the ecstatic release of deep pleasure, which fires up an equivalent release of extreme pain. The pelvic cavity, among the most incredible wonders in the body, balancing both the capability to stroll set up and procreate, is a truth-teller for the majority of us. It is an internal area where the feeling is the leader and I have long wondered what begets what if it is the intensity of the pain that excites the pleasure or the other way around. So hard it is to tease out, that I have concerned believe that the pain/pleasure of our inmost sexual release is the same.
Love, sex, pain and violence all stimulate the release of comparable chemicals and hormonal agents in the body. Endorphins that are launched in uncomfortable experiences are typically perceived as pleasurable. Tension and pain can also stimulate serotonin and melatonin production in the brain, which changes unpleasant experiences into pleasure. The release of epinephrine and norepinephrine in pain can also trigger a satisfying ‘rush’. The typical human biological reaction supports the complex and strange link in between pain and pleasure, which we see in the runner’s high and the facial expressions during orgasmic release.
