Understanding the difference between pleasure and happiness is key.

Understanding the difference between pleasure and happiness is key. Pleasure will not make you happy. When pleasure and happiness combine they form joy, and the contentment of that memory will persist long after the pleasure sense of the memory fades.

Conflating pleasure with self care is one reason you are not operating at maximum capacity. Happy and high functioning individuals are going to be, on balance, more attractive and sexually viable.

This isn’t the only doorway to realizing your sexual drive, but it is an important one.