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your brain's applause for behaviors that once kept your ancestors breeding and breathing.
means A feeling of happy enjoyment or satisfaction, or the source of it.
from From Old French 'plaisir,' the verb 'to please' turned into a noun for the pleasing itself — that French infinitive ending still sits in the English spelling like a fossil. It traces back to Latin 'placere,' 'to please, to be agreeable,' which also gives us 'placid,' 'placate,' and 'complacent' — a whole family of words built on the idea of being soothed into agreement.
- same chemical
- Dopamine fires for sex, snacks, and slot machines
- the catch
- Brain dulls the reward to make you chase more
- pain overlap
- Spicy food and BDSM hijack identical neural circuits
- ancient root
- Latin placere meant simply to please
- pleasure center
- Rats self-stimulated theirs to death, ignoring food
hedonism — ancient greek philosophy of pleasure-seeking, formalized by epicurus in 307 bce athens
club med — all-inclusive resort chain founded 1950 focusing on leisure and pleasure travel across 65+ locations
las vegas strip — 4.2-mile entertainment district in nevada built around casinos, nightlife, and pleasure-seeking since 1941