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Eh, at the same time our society is often very closed off about these things, such that I doubt just how much folk wisdom there might be floating around. For example, something very basic occurred to me not too long ago: if you orgasm to something repeatedly you will condition yourself to seek out more of whatever the situation was when you orgasmed. I wouldn't say it's downright Pavlovian, but it's not far off classical conditioning.

It'd be nice to get some studies etc. to back it up, because it's still just a hypothesis at this point, but now that I reflect upon this, it should have been like, stunningly obvious. It should be the sort of thing parents tell their kids at puberty, basic word of caution. Yet just typing it out triggered all sorts of "oh, that's socially taboo!" warning bells for me. You shouldn't speak about conditioning in humans, you shouldn't speak so openly about pornography, etc.