I have been thinking about a condition that only affects females, it’s a potential result of unprotected intercourse, in which a parasite starts forming in the female’s body, and if left untreated the parasite will induce physical and physiological changes that are both debilitating and, in some cases, harmful. After nine months the parasite grows large and the patient get hospitalized, and the parasite is removed, now a days painkillers and surgical equipment may be used to aid with the process. The crazy part is most females want to have this condition at some point. It’s not surprising since the parasite takes advantage of human neural circuitry and manipulates the female to keep it parasitizing her body. When the parasite is out of the female’s body, the neural and hormonal manipulations keep on working and the female keeps the parasite and actually takes care of it, now its parasitizing her food, effort and attention. Throughout evolution, females have selected f...
Let’s explore sadness, I noticed that sadness is a bit addictive, it feels somehow good to feel sad otherwise why would sad music, sad films and sad stories exist, there is a demand for sad content and for sure there is supply as consumer-media or real-world news, and it goes even deeper as one deliberately feels or stays sad, for instance when feeling physical pain we tend to prioritize stopping it, but when sadness is the “pain” we tend to sink into it, instead of pushing it away, why do people listen to sad music when they feel sad if the objective is to stop feeling sad?; music is just an obvious example, another examples might be looking through texts or pictures that cause a sense of sadness. One reason is, we deserve to feel this way, we suffer to show value, like breaking up with significant other causes emotional pain, but we often catch ourselves reminiscing over moments or looking through content that induces sadness, and we feel good about getting sad because it ind...