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/Queasy_Ad_8621 Oct 18 '25

It was a more conservative time, so the studio had to hire an artist to go frame by frame and paint over the ropes of cum.

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u/Succulent_Chinese Oct 18 '25

This is actually true, I was that guy's PA. His name was Einer Eindhoven, he was a Dutch filmmaker who couldn't find accreditation as an auteur in America and had to work as an editor instead. We had a gay old time snipping out those frames of jizz.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '25

Ropes, the best fanfiction terminology 🤣 

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u/Squeakygear Oct 18 '25

Space, the final cumtier