Reddit reviews Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose

There's a really interesting book I read a while back called Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose. It talks a lot about sexual instincts in a few of its chapters.

It mentions a study where scientists wanted to test the sexual instincts of turkeys. They made a life-like dummy of a female turkey, and the male turkeys fucked it. Then they removed a bunch of the feathers and distinguishing features, and the turkeys still fucked it. They kept removing features of the dummy, and the turkeys kept fucking it. Eventually it was pretty much just a stick attached to a platform, and still the turkeys fucked it.

Humans are more like that than we're willing to admit.

Bro, first of all stop with that "I hate myself" shit. Dopamine is the thing in EVERY human being, which creates a craving and desire for everything providing a dopamine spike, even though that thing is totally against your moral standards. It's the "fuck it, just go get it" neurotransmitter and the way EVERY human brain works.

Evolution has formed us in a way that we always strive for progression, just because this means a higher chance of surviving. As you started watching porn, even the softest videos provided a high dopamine spike just because your brain didn't even know about this kind of stimulus. But with time, your dopamine receptors got more and more desensitized, leading to you searching for novelty in porn just to get the same spike as when you started watching. Novelty means a new stimulus. The reasons why certain people may stop their journey at hardcore bondage porn and others get thoughts as you do can vary. But those reasons are the same which made you the person YOU are. It can be because of the genetical heritage of your anchestors, the way you were raised as a kid or the circumstances and people you got with during life. Those are the 3 determinisms Freud talked about. Things which are NOT in your power.

What I'm trying to point out is that there is totally NOTHING wrong with you, if I was born, raised and living the exact life that you did, i would be the same as you. That's the reason why the greatest spiritual leaders like Ghandi and else always told us not to judge people by any means, even a rapist. The one who knows, he understands.

What you have to do now is think about yourself rational rather than emotional. Get yourself some knowledge about sensitization of dopamine receptors. Heal your brain. Google about dopamine fasting.

Here is a book about the term called "supernormal stimuli", which helps understanding why people in modern civilization act in the way they do. There is a great chapter on porn
Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpose https://www.amazon.de/dp/039306848X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_.qwXCbTQGT4QK

And watch this, too
https://youtu.be/wSF82AwSDiU

While not 100% on topic here I found this book an interesting and related take on what animals will and won't attend to.

https://www.amazon.com/Supernormal-Stimuli-Overran-Evolutionary-Purpose/dp/039306848X

That's how Nature works in general, and those Stimuli can be hacked, and they are hacked everyday.

You'll enjoy this book:


https://www.amazon.com/Supernormal-Stimuli-Overran-Evolutionary-Purpose/dp/039306848X