attachment and sex: sex that advances the plot

When Olivia was stressed, her interest in sex increased—and

ecstatic orgasm: you’re a flock!

Love/Emotional Bonding Cues, such as feeling a sense of love, security, commitment, emotional closeness, protection, and support in your relationship, and feeling a kind of “special attention” from your partner.

These are often influenced by culture, but have a great deal of universality, and they can be intentionally controlled to some degree, but not as much as you might think.

Excitement. As stimulation begins, her heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration rate increase, and her labia minora and the clitoris darken and swell, separating the outer labia. The walls of the vagina begin to lubricate and then lengthen. Her breasts swell and the nipples become erect. Late in excitement, she may begin to sweat. Plateau.

nonconcordance—now with orgasms!

The rats in chapter 2 linked lemons or jackets with sex because of the learning system. This is implicit learning—a

They require first that you become aware of the patterns, whether of thought or behavior, and then that you develop skills to replace those patterns with new ones.