@N33R Your body knows about the cure

@snacks @N33R nah brain activity doesn’t really decrease to that extent, and it’s simpler than that. warmth and sweating can both get you horny (vasodilation makes that easier) and feeling like shit makes you seek comfort.

@snacks @N33R stress also plays a role there but idk probably less so when chronic stress has been your baseline for decades

@snacks @N33R hasn’t been my observation. think that’s also more along the lines of basic comfort-seeking. which yeah is lizard-brain type stuff (i dislike the term because it’s not how it works but ykwim), just doesn’t involve higher functions shutting down.

but also (this is just my own experiences) when you don’t get enough sleep, it makes you irritable and your stress tolerance drops. so when you have a tendency to start ruminating on your life in the doggy dog world, or you just feel this general sense of unease before bed that you can’t do anything about, and you can’t sleep, masturbation can become a sort of… displacement activity? in addition to that. primarily something you do to get your nervous system to stfu and let you sleep. used to be pretty much compulsive for me before i went on hrt, and it sucked because at that point it’s just a chore and doesn’t even feel good.

@N33R Because horny is a disease that can only be cured with the bonk stick. Seriously though know tons of people who get that so maybe some biological response thinking you are gonna die to pass on genes or the disease trying to spread, I don't know but I do hope you feel better soon.