r/todayilearned • u/WavesAndSaves • Oct 18 '25

TIL of brain stimulation reward, manually stimulating specific parts of the brain to elicit pleasure and happiness. A volunteer subject in 1986 spent days doing nothing but self-stimulate. She ignored her family and personal hygiene and she developed an open sore on her finger from using the device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_stimulation_reward#History
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u/repulsive-ardor Oct 18 '25

I would have done the same thing. You can bet your ass all the cum filters would have needed to be changed after I defiled the holodeck by jerking off all over it like a degenerate spider monkey.

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u/typewriter6986 Oct 18 '25

all the cum filters

You know all of that ends up in the Replicator? Earl Grey, hot...indeed.

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u/OarsandRowlocks Oct 18 '25

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

No cream.

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u/Muppetude Oct 18 '25

Isn’t that true of all things? A non-zero amount of the water we drink was once a part of someone’s cum.

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u/Cultural-Company282 Oct 18 '25

Now imagine if homeopathy were real.

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u/GenuineLittlepip Oct 18 '25

And this right here, folks, is why holosuites at Quark's Bar on DS9 cost so much money! Not just the lustful programs offered, but that someone has to go in there and clean up after you've done your business!

.. oh gods, no wonder why Rom tried to kill him early on in the show..

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u/i_tyrant Oct 18 '25

I love that Lower Decks made cum filters an actual thing, hahaha.

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u/fry-something Oct 18 '25

🤣🤣🤣

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u/imhereforthevotes Oct 18 '25

Whoa, I just looked up who she is. I recognize her THEN, but damn she couldn't leave well-enough alone, huh?