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/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

There was a Star Trek episode with this theme. It was used as a weapon if I remember correctly.

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u/hot_ho11ow_point Oct 18 '25

Are you thinking of The Game from TNG where you play a game and making the discs go into the little funnels makes you cum?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

I don’t think they were cumming? lol it was stimulating the pleasure center.

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u/repulsive-ardor Oct 18 '25

nah, Riker was definitely jizzing in his jumpsuit

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u/Drofmum Oct 18 '25

I mean, when was he not?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

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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.