Or hornier than other types?
Or hornier than other types?
Can only speak for myself for direct experiences. Yes. Though: closeted and politely so as not to risk lives. In the past, I realized that my extreme attitudes weren't received well and backfired (on my health in particular - guess why I'm SP last) so I tamed them. On the other hand, I don't spare certain people in my private existence, they know the full extent. That's all I disclose.
Theory-wise, SX/SP might more genuinely hornily expressed than SX/SO because of social last's no filter attitude + SP needs-meet-o-meter. SX/SO would rather "peacock", probe, and tease than go to the bodily SP level (in fact, they eschew it), unless you have some / lead with this stacking (Cuivienen might be SEE so it applies, do you see what I mean?). Though both have a certain level of need for stimulus going on constantly, and contrary to other types they will not ignore it, that makes the difference. Instincts are priorities. Add hormones of a specific age range to make it work, see @idontgiveaf.
Being "horny" is related to hormones so no. lol
Sexual subtypes are not to be confused with having a healthy sex drive or being sexy, which is a common reason for many people misidentifying themselves as SX-primaries. The name of this instinct is misleading as, in the end, all instincts play into sexuality. SP is the body-to-body part - cuddling, sensuality, autonomic regulation. SX is riding the waves of energy, the invisible forces of attraction between the people, but it doesn't need to be actively physical. In a union, all three instincts combine—warmth (self-pres), energy (sexual), affection (social). One can have the sexual instinct operating in a group of friends—being in the heat, stimulated, energized, engaged. In relationships, there is a desire for endless engagement and fascination.
http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin/content.php/133-Instinctual-StackingsThe first instinct is the strongest force in the personality. It is usually where most of our "unexplainable" bad behaviour occurs. We focus on all 3 elements of this instinct.
With the second instinct, we focus on maybe 2 of the 3 elements of it. We sometimes use the strategy of the first instinct to meet the needs of the second instinct. This rarely goes well.
The third (last or bottom) variant in the stack is can be called one's “blind spot”—it is akin to an unused muscle that on occasion feels sore. One believes that this area is uninteresting and unimportant, that one can do without it. At the same time, there is shame associated with the 'blind spot' variant - a sense of deficiency. One constantly feels like one is lacking skills and refinement in the areas pertaining to your last instinct.
Often a negative reaction develops in response to seeing your last instinct operate in others. For example, SP-last people might grow impatient with those who devote a lot of time and effort into making themselves well fed and comfortable - fiddling with the room temperature, checking seat cushions, arranging their bottled water, etc. SP-last people can grow bored if they find themselves trapped in a conversation about food, home decorations or furniture, local deals, home prices, salaries. SX-last people might feel uneasy when they see people openly demonstrating their sexuality, gender orientation or sexual preferences, engaging in PDA, discussing private feelings and experiences, etc. SO-last people might get impatient with 'shallow' socialite chit-chat, get frustrated when required to network, and wonder how others can keep up with so many acquaintances. One takes the dominant instinct as a given and believes that everyone should be this way, hence people become surprised and even frustrated when they meet others who show no concern for their primary area of preoccupation.
There are 6 stackings: SP/SO, SP/SX, SO/SP, SO/SX, SX/SP, and SX/SO. Below are descriptions of the six stackings, but these are meant as general, across-the-board summaries of the tone or concerns of each stacking. However, instincts are always combined with our enneagram type which changes the tone or is relative to the type.
Self-Preservation dominant, Social 2nd, Sexual blindspot (SP/SO)
- Mindset: "If I can maintain position and inclusion in the group/world, I can make sure of and keep my orderly and pleasing lifestyle." (May try to be just appealing and connected with groups enough for everyone to get out of their hair)
- Private, reserved, serious, want to make useful connection that support their goals of attaining material security
- Loyalty is important
- Can lack interpersonal warmth, can sometimes seem selfish
- Drawn to groups with likeminded individuals
- Dress in inconspicuous appropriate fashion to match their status in life
- Can have direct blunt communication style
- Archetypes: The Land Surveyor, farmer, patriot, businessman
- Missing SX water/fire, have a sober quality, not led down the road of fantastical/addictive, arid
- Emotionally difficult to reach with regards to self-revelation and exchanges around theirs and others’ personal messy underbellies
- Lack of psychological nudity
- Less likely to flash their eccentricities, not susceptible to impractical highs
- Pragmatic, looking for resources/political advantage
- Less likely to mark the environment as their own
- Tend towards the patriotic/nationalistic exclusive of the personal, native land SP combines with social mores SO, righteousness and loyalty to higher principals, history, social theme
- Physical space SP is subject of communal protective drive SO
- Has a sense for being appropriate in social situations. Protects themselves through following and insisting upon civility, general politeness, or professional norms. Doesn't modulate their personal energy widely. Keeps even, consistent, and sturdy. Has a tracking instinct for the underbellies ('shadowside') of society and governments with respect to finance and resource mismanagement. What they take in through their senses gets filtered through cynicism. Savers, collectors, people who find ways to make contributions to (or oppose) their community without being conspicuous or to have genuinely transgressed. Has a more refined sense of implementing reverse crowd psychology than SP/SX.
Self-Preservation dominant, Sexual 2nd, Social blindspot (SP/SX)
- Mindset: "I can have merging/intensity without having to leave my orderly & pleasing lifestyle." (imagination, safe people and relationships, when the safety of these are challenged they withdraw)
- Earthy, mysterious, quietly intense, seem oblivious to the greater social world around them, favour personal interests
- Slow to commit, but when they do it is a life commitment to establish an impermeable bond
- Can attach to others at a root level in contrast to their surface formality
- Sanctuary of home, decorate spaces to reflect their taste/depth
- Want to live in secure comfortable environment where they can pursue their private interests in depth
- Archetypes: The Grave Digger, pirate, voodoo fetishist
- Missing Social, fresh air/sunlight
- Shrouded/hooded quality, cave dweller
- Can be oblivious to the collective good
- Communications are intimate, personal, no aura of the collective
- Friend-of-the-dark, non-judgemental with people’s underbellies/corruption
- The elements as metaphor: Downward death, decay/destruction, undertow, carcasses recycling into earth fertilizing
- Molten fire SX in earth’s core SP, volcanic, threat of eruption
- Psychic nudity/revelation threatens the SP/SX with self-destruction, or at least social self-destruction, which is all part of the distilling process toward the desired one-to-one bond.
Social dominant, Self-Preservation 2nd, Sexual blindspot (SO/SP)
- Mindset: "If I can establish an orderly and pleasing lifestyle, I can make sure of and keep improving my position and inclusion in the group/world."
- Comfortable in group settings, can be formal/awkward in one on one relations
- Natural political type, affiliate with groups/theories that best defend their social/material interests
- Can lack warmth and individual identity, could lead to problems forming relationships outside of a shared social interest
- Want to attain status within their social sphere
- Archetypes: The Bishop, witch hunter, ethnic cleanser, culture warrior
- Missing SX water/fire, has a sober quality, not led down the road of fantastical/addictive, arid
- Emotionally difficult to reach with regards to self-revelation and exchanges around theirs and others’ personal messy underbellies
- Lack of psychological nudity
- Less likely to flash their eccentricities, not susceptible to impractical highs
- Pragmatic, looking for resources/political advantage
- Less likely to mark the environment as their own
- Tend towards the patriotic/nationalistic exclusive of the personal, native land SP combines with social mores SO, righteousness and loyalty to higher principals, history, social theme
- Physical space SP is subject of communal protective drive SO
- SO/SP seems to want to "change the earth with the voice". (Earth=SP, Voice=air=SO.) And since SX is last, the interest is generally in pragmatic structural change. Regalness also comes through as a tone here. Air is high and mighty ("Putting on airs"). Has a dry deepness that can seem either warm, romantic, and resonant, or cold and cynical, depending on the mood and circumstance of the individual. With SX last, intimacy is an area of deficiency, and people of this stacking often struggle to some degree with maintaining romantic relationships. The central focus is on role within a group. The culture warrior
Social dominant, Sexual 2nd, Self-Preservation blindspot (SO/SX) "The Intense Appealer"
- Mindset: "If I can get close to people with merging/intensity, I can make sure of and keep improving my position and inclusion in the group/world."
- Has strong one to one social skills but can be uncomfortable in group settings
- Cultivate many relationships, involved when in the presence of someone they’re interested in, but have difficulty sustaining these bonds when they are apart
- Seem flightly/rootless, willing to adapt and mirror others to connect
- May be political, but is more pragmatic and less partisan than SO/SP
- May be attuned to pop culture or latest trend
- Aren’t as concerned with having roots on land or material items of significance
- Want to create lasting connections with those they are interested in, the best friend
- Archetypes: The Strolling Minstrel, regalia, jester, the mayor
- Missing SP earth, lacking the dull weight, stick-in-the-mud quality of earth
- Butterfly, shimmer and sparkle unsullied by dirt and seriousness/mundane concerns
- Breakup of the monotony of hardened routines, incapacitation/difficulty moving forward in certain areas in life
- Practical immaturity, nomadic, no roots
- Wide, ubiquitous presence, hard to grasp, up-in-the-air, wishy-washy, wide-ranging passion and interest
- Inherent kind of intensity about others - engaging them, understanding them; seems to 'relax' among people, not necessarily engaging them just spending time with people for them is like being in a hot, relaxing bath
- Dangerously magnetic charisma, perfected, elegant social appearance & competence, ability to make everyone relax, often floats from group to group or person to person with grace and ease, feeling close to no one while inspiring others to feel close to them; selectivity within social sphere; inherent kind of social elegance makes for a pickier person
- Acute emotional perception and 'people awareness', they readily share these perceptions with others, so can make for spell-binding councelors, life-coaches, etc.
- The social world (i.e. culture, history, media) is asexual so, when stressed, the SO/SX can struggle to build romantic relationships. This can be confusing for other people because the intensity of intellectual and emotional connection i.e. friendship, may lend itself to romance but nothing happens
- The least sober stacking. SP imparts some grounding, so when it's last, it feels like there's not a place to plug into practicality. And SX/SO at least has some focused drive (even, perfectionism) from the SX-firstness.
- SO/SX is all about the narrative and symbiotic needs. Image story theater and, the story. Very clever and hyper-observant of others, can be constantly manipulative in an obsessive way, planing and working to gain what they want from others, networking on cruise control, happy to tell white lies and bend a story for a desired outcome. Honesty comes second to symbiotic needs. Skilled in the application of communication skills as a tool and charm and grace in a comforting way for people to relax and trust the interlace of the SO/SX. If one is compatible with the SO/SX in interests and shared values, they are one of the most insightful and interesting and entertaining people to converse with and truly care about other people and seek to share their understanding via gentle connection of mind and heart.
Sexual dominant, Self-Preservation 2nd, Social blindspot (SX/SP)
- Mindset: "If I can make (us) have an orderly & pleasing lifestyle, I can keep up and escalate all this merging/intensity."
- Internally conflicted, inconsistent behaviour
- SX blocked by SP, brooding, troubled
- Isolation vs. emerging
- Strictly personal outlook, not concerned with social consensus
- Searching for missing piece, soulmate, form a secret bond
- When stressed, severe sexual tensions may manifest as erratic behaviour
- Restless, torn between stable home and urge to wander/explore intensity
- Want the intensity of partner/pursuing personal interests with the stability and comfort of a home sanctuary
- Archetypes: The Alchemist, shaman, self-injurer, cutter, tattoo artist
- Missing Social, fresh air/sunlight, when you take away air you get death
- Shrouded/hooded quality, cave dweller
- Oblivious to the collective good
- Communications are intimate, personal, no aura of the collective
- Friend-of-the-dark, non-judgemental with people’s underbellies/corruption
- The elements as metaphor: Upward death, rebirth, metamorphosis, burned to death and born again from new elements
- Losing self to die in the other in upward peak of flame and ecstasy
- A lightning bolt captured in a bottle. The energy is always there but it's contained in a glass jar and only breaks free once in a while. The SX/SP is boxed in energy, self-contained, cutting, and focused. SX/SP types will often look angry even when they are not. There is a certain reality of emotion which they display that is due to their social obliviousness. Most SX's will be honest almost to a fault. SX/SP want to choose their friends wisely. A "with me or against me" attitude reminiscent of 6 and 8s. The least inhibited of all stackings. Cares less of what others think of them. The most likely to get into physical altercations, and may even enjoy fighting. Healthy SX/SP's will display a playful selfishness.
- SX/SP have a inner confidence which is not usually found in other stackings. However they may lack social confidence or just may not pay any attention to social rituals at all. Put a SX/SP in a busy bar and they will be confident in themselves. But make them sit at their parent-in-laws for a formal family dinner and you won't see that same confidence. It's inner confidence rather than social confidence of the SX/SO. May be very popular without knowing or putting emphasis on it, unlike SO types.
- SX/SP does create a kind of isolationary tendency though even in extroverted types, an in-their-own-world vibe, kinda oblivious sometimes. But ironically they can also be extremely insistent and aggressive on issues they feel strongly about, which they go on about in the SO realms in ways that will cause stronger SO's to cringe, it's so rough and undiplomatic. They can fall in love with their soapboxes. They can tune out of conversations, reacting suddenly when someone says something interesting, then snapping back to their inner focus whenever it gets boring. Also, making the odd crude joke, in bad taste. Or a faux pas, where they don't know it's the wrong thing to say until afterwards, or don't care.
- SX manifests as strong drives towards pleasure, new experiences, personal transformations, spontaneity, being provocative and in the spotlight, flaunting to impress, extravagance, and unrealistic romantic fantasies and whims. But SP counters with worries, fears, practical downers, erecting walls, a need to hide and be secretive, and needs to conserve time, space, and energy.
Sexual dominant, Social 2nd, Self-Preservation blindspot (SX/SO) "The Sensual Player"
- Mindset: "If I can maintain position and inclusion in the group/world, I can keep up and escalate all this merging/intensity."
- Exudes raw charisma and sexual energy
- Identify with what they’re involved with, become the symbol of its core essence
- Can test boundaries and not content with status quo
- Can have social/spiritual cause
- Exploit and redefine sexuality to reflect their own colourful understanding of it
- Pulled between intensity and episodes of peaceful convention
- Want the intensity of partner/pursuing social interests, use the social realm to get what they need, up and out in the world, oriented toward people
- Archetypes: The Chanteuse, comet, flamenco dancer, shooting star
- Missing SP earth, lacking the dull weight, stick-in-the-mud quality of earth
- Butterfly, shimmer and sparkle unsullied by dirt and seriousness/mundane concerns
- Breakup of the monotony of hardened routines, incapacitation/difficulty moving forward in certain areas in life
- Practical immaturity, nomadic, no roots
- SX/SO is the "social revolutionary" stacking, leaning more toward cultural change than political change, though the two are obviously not mutually exclusive (SO/SP seems like the bigger player in the area of socio-political/governmental change). With the SO instinct in second position, SX-first energy is more phallic, a concentrated cluster of nerves leaning forward (SX), poking at the collective emotional space (SO); introducing heat which causes agitation in social groups, probing and forcing psychological exposure. And without the self-protective 'pullback' from SP concerns, it's a "no holes barred" scenario. The SO mid-position means that the social arena is a "neutral pool" ripe for seduction and seizure and big ebbs-and-flows of attraction and repulsion from SX. Depending on the enneatype, SP-lastness can make the SX/SO-person largely oblivious to the degree to which his revolution threatens his own survival. Thus, the person's subconscious attitude is 'full steam ahead'. Stick raw powerlines of SX-first into the electrically-conductive water of the social pool, and stagnant waters have no choice but to start poppin' and crackin'.
- Use of exhibitionism. Besides the use of literal (physical) exposure, difficult or unsettling types of psycho-emotional exposure proffer a charged vulnerability reminiscent of genital exposure (displaying what is sensitive) which has no choice but to be registered as 'sexual' in the subconscious of the observer. This then is a way to foist reactivity into the crowd.
- Energetic qualities associated with SX/SO: ripping, tearing, destroying, breaking, burning, disapproving, disobeying, dismissing, ridiculing, alienating, crowing, ranting, screaming, displaying, exposing, joining, embodying, asserting, confronting, changing, reinventing, transforming, breaking through, leaving behind, going overboard
“My typology is . . . not in any sense to stick labels on people at first sight. It is not a physiognomy and not an anthropological system, but a critical psychology dealing with the organization and delimitation of psychic processes that can be shown to be typical.” —C.G. Jung
Someone could have over-identified the act of having sex with the feeling of intimacy, see that act as the *only* reliable way to get intimacy, and thus over-focus on having sex, while self-identifying as seeking for intimacy?
Reason is a whore.
Time for sex ed? This is my Te quota for the day. I know the answer but I feel I can't answer it properly so I looked for some articles that weren't too dry and technical. The sea of them were overwhelming and several did a poor job of explaining the complexity without all the extraneous information.
It is more complex than just hormones but there has to be a balance of hormones. Testosterone is responsible more for male sex drive than women's. I am not even sure if studies actually confirm that testosterone is as important as othes in women. Women need a balance to really high testosterone so without balancing hormones it can lead to unwanted physical manifestations like increased aggression, facial hair and deeper voice (among other things).
1. Neuroscientific Context
Sexual desire is defined as the behavioural drive that motivates individuals to fantasize about or seek out sexual activity. In contrast, sexual arousal is defined as the autonomic physiological processes that prepare the body for sexual activity (Toledano, Pfaus., 2006). It is important to make clear distinctions between the two definitions as confusion can occur due to, the often simultaneous occurrence of both mechanisms (Pfaus., 2009).
Sexual desire is the culmination of several different neural mechanisms, each is controlled in different areas of the brain and is activated at different times of the sexual experience. The euphoric and pleasurable experience of sex stems primarily from the limbic system. The colloquial term for areas including the amygdala, hippocampus and limbic lobe (dentate and cingulate gyrus). This area is common to all mammals and is considered one of the oldest areas of the brain. It regulates emotion and encourages the avoidance of painful of aversive stimuli and the repetition of pleasurable experiences.
From a physiological perspective sexual arousal is controlled by the parasympathetic portion of the autonomic nervous system and manifests itself as vasodilation in sexual organs along with several other physiological phenomena including an increase in heart rate. An orgasm and in particular male ejaculation is controlled by the sympathetic portion, this is also accompanied by deactivation of many areas in the brain relating to external stimuli in particular fear, allowing the mind to focus on the task at hand.
1.1 Testosterone and Oestrogen
Sexual desire is initially modulated by the release of sex hormones, for males testosterone and for females oestrogen, our levels of these hormones are understood to affect our behaviour. Recent studies how found that male testosterone levels increase by approximately 7.8% in males even though they do no consider her attractive. (van der Meij, 2011)
Testosterone, a member of the androgen family of steroids, is secreted in the testes of males and the ovaries of females as well as small amounts from adrenal glands. Arousal causes the cerebral cortex to signal the hypothalamus to stimulate the production of testosterone, the production is regulated by a complex chain of events known as the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis; Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is secreted by the hypothalamus, via the hypophyseal portal system, it travels to the anterior pituitary which then releases luteinizing hormone (LH) in order to stimulate the production of testosterone in the testes. Production levels are controlled by negative feedback.
Luteinizing hormones also stimulate the production of oestrogen in the ovaries, some oestrogens are also produced in other tissues such as the liver and adrenal glands. In females, oestrogen synthesis begins in cells in the ovaries by the synthesis of androstenedione, this compound then travels into the surrounding granulosa cells of the basal membrane where it is converted to oestrone or oestradiol, testosterone is also converted to oestradiol at this point.
1.2 Amygdala
Prior to the physical stimulation, comes sexual desire. Largely mediated by emotion through the limbic system, activation of the amygdala can trigger penile erection, sexual feelings,(Georgiadis and Holstege, 2005) sensations of extreme pleasure (Olds and Milner, 1954), memories of sexual intercourse (Gloor, 1986), as well as ovulation, uterine contractions, and orgasm.
The amygdala is sexually differentiated, males on average have a 16% larger cortico-medial area which is the area responsible for steroid uptake, specifically the male and female sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen. These are known to produce sex specific behaviours (Rhawn J, 2004). Males more then females, were found to have greater amygdala activation when presented with a sexually pleasing, visual stimuli (Hamann et al., 2004).
An increased density of enkephalins and opiate receptors can be also found in amydala. When experiencing a craving for pleasure inducing drugs these receptors becomes active. (Childress et al, 1999). This gives the amydala an ability to inducing extreme feelings of pleasure as well as motivating pleasure seeking behaviour.
Several case studies of subjects with lesions or tumors in areas proximal to the amygdala illustrated aggressive tendencies, became sexually preoccupied and experienced hyper religiosity thoughts similar to Kluver Bucy syndrome. (Devinsky, Sacks and Devinsky, 2010).
The amydala projects through three pathways to many areas of the brain, the stria terminalis, the amydalofugal pathway and the anterior commisure.These pathways influence hormonal and somatomotor aspects of behaviour and also emotional states. There is also increasing evidence that the central nucleus of the amygdala is responsible for pheromone detection given a large number of olfactory projections.
The amygdalofugal pathway connects the corticomedian nuclei of the amygdala with the thalamus, median hypothalamus, brain stem and nucleus accumbens. This pathway is thought to be responsible for pleasurable feelings. The stria terminalis has projections to and from the hypthothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and is thought to mediate threat monitoring and the stress response. It is thought to be responsible for sympathetic nervous system activation. The anterior commisure serves to connect the left and right amygdala. In a 1992 (Allen and Gorski) study it was thought to correlate to the sexual orientation of an individual as it was posited that male homosexuals had a anterior commisure more similar to a womans however this yet to be adequately supported by evidence.
1.3 Ventral striatum
Input travels from the basolateral nuclei of the amygdala along the amygdalofugal pathway to the ventral striatum, made up of the nucleus accumbens, putamen and parts of the caudate nucleus. The nucleus accumbens plays a role in pleasure and reward due to a large large of dopaminergic neurons from the VTA (ventral tegmental area).
Gert Holstege (2003) using Positron Emission Tomography measured cBF in males during orgasm and found "primary activation was found in the mesodiencephalic transition zone, including the ventral tegmental area......Parallels are drawn between ejaculation and heroin rush."
1.4 Orbitofrontal Cortex
The orbital frontal cortex (OFC) is located on ventrally along the frontal skull and superior to the orbits of the eye. The OFC has a large network of connections that project to a variety of areas in the brain, examples include; all somatosensory modalities, hippocampus, ventral tegmental axis and amygdala. The OFC has structural variability amongst individuals, three sub types have been identified; each sub-types contain different sulci locations (Kringelbach, Rolls., 2004). This is significant as disorders could potentially be linked to genetic factors due to the differences in each subtype.
In contrast to many other cortical regions, the OFC is still poorly understood. Currently it is understood that higher cognitive functions occur in this area, in particular, sensory integration "representing the affective value of reinforcers in expectation" and judgements based on reward and punishment(Kringelbach., 2005)
Orbitofrontal cortex shown in red
In terms of sexual desire, the OFC is thought to mediate reward and punishment and personal assessment, however. This relates to mate selection to whether an individual is perceived as desirable (Spinella., 2007). Evidence through studies into facial attractiveness and those involving males presented with a sexually attractive visual stimuli both support the OFC involvement in this role (O’Doherty et al., 2003, Stoleru.,2003).
Representing the reward value of sensory stimuli, beautiful faces andthe affective value of reinforcers in expectation (Ishai, 2007). The OFC is responsible for the disassociation of rewarding, adaptive value of a face can be disassociated from that of an aesthetically pleasing one. In effect mediating beauty for members of the opposite sex. Other functions of the OFC also include managing expectation, particularly based on memories modulated by projections from the hippocampus. These decisions, emotional states and perceived consequences are then used to modulate sexual desire and its related physiological responses
Patients with non functioning neurons in the medial orbitofrontal cortex were shown in several studies to have an increased sex drive and an inability to control their response to sexual stimuli, in extreme cases leading to hyper sexuality, drug use, gambling and an inability to empathise.
1.5 Vagus Nerve
Barry Komisaruk and Beverly Whipple researched *the phenomenon that is the orgasm in women, notably those who suffer from spinal cord injurie*s, to determine if there is a neural pathway from the genitals to the brain. In studies that included both upper level injuries (i.e. injuries that have affected T10 and above) and lower level injuries (i.e. injuries that have affected below T10) it was shown that it was possible for these women to perceive sensations in response to self stimulation of their genitalia. Along with this evidence, the women also reported discomfort during their menstrual cycle and those who were pregnant perceived uterine contractions. It was proposed that these sensations were taking a path to the brain that does not go via the spinal cord, that is the Vagus nerves.
The Vagus nerve is known to lead to the Nucleus Tractus Solitarii (NTS) in the Medulla Oblongata. Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Komisaruk and Whipple implemented a prior experiment (a sweet-salty-sour-bitter taste test) to stimulate the NTS to show its activation pattern. It was hypothesised that with self stimulation the NTS would activate, thus showing that the Vagus nerves are the path taken to the brain, bypassing the spinal cord (Whipple, 2008). Following this stimulation of the brain via the vagus nerve during orgasm there was a difference in activity between preorgasm and orgasm. Areas of activation during and after orgasm include the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN), midbrain central gray, amygdala, hippocampus, anterior cingulate, frontal, parietal, temporal and insular cortices, anterior basal ganglia, and cerebellum (Whipple, 2008). Although this may be the explanation for female orgasms, there is no evidence to suggest that this is the case for males.
http://neurosciencefundamentals.unsw...re+involved%3FSex drive and the brain
Sex drive is usually described as libido. There is no numeric measurement for libido. Instead, sex drive is understood in relevant terms. For example, a low libido means a decreased interest or desire in sex.
The male libido lives in two areas of the brain: the cerebral cortex and the limbic system. These parts of the brain are vital to a man’s sex drive and performance. They are so important, in fact, that a man can have an orgasm simply by thinking or dreaming about a sexual experience.
The cerebral cortex is the gray matter that makes up the outer layer of the brain. It’s the part of your brain that’s responsible for higher functions like planning and thinking. This includes thinking about sex. When you become aroused, signals that originate in the cerebral cortex can interact with other parts of the brain and nerves. Some of these nerves speed up your heart rate and blood flow to your genitals. They also signal the process that creates an erection.
The limbic system includes multiple parts of the brain: the hippocampus, hypothalamus and amygdala, and others. These parts are involved with emotion, motivation, and sex drive. Researchers at Emory University found that viewing sexually arousing images increased activity in the amygdalae of men more than it did for women. However, there are many parts of the brain involved with sexual response, so this finding does not necessarily mean that men are more easily aroused than women.
Testosterone
Testosterone is the hormone most closely associated with male sex drive. Produced mainly in the testicles, testosterone has a crucial role in a number of body functions, including:
- development of male sex organs
- growth of body hair
- bone mass and muscle development
- deepening of the voice in puberty
- sperm production
- production of red blood cells
Low levels of testosterone are often tied to a low libido. Testosterone levels tend to be higher in the morning and lower at night. In a man’s lifetime, his testosterone levels are at their highest in his late teens, after which they slowly begin to decline.
https://www.healthline.com/health/mens-health/sex-drive.This is the effect that all hormones have on sex drive, generally:
1.Testosterone: Increases female libido. Testosterone is the hormone primarily responsible for sex drive in both men and women. When women with hypoactive sexual dysfunction disorder are treated with testosterone, for example, they often experienced increased sex drive.
Higher testosterone levels also enlarge the clitoris (good to know if yours is shy!), but unfortunately if other hormone levels do not rise along with testosterone, symptoms of hyperandrogenism such as facial hair and acne may manifest themselves. For this reason, testosterone supplementation is not an advisable method of increasing female libido.
2. Estrogen: Crucial at baseline for sexual function. It is also the primary hormone responsible for vaginal lubrication. However, estrogen is a testosterone antagonist, so the more estrogen a woman has in her system, the less testosterone she has available to pump up her libido. Estrogen dominance therefore is one of the greatest culprits in contemporary Western sexual dysfunction.
3. Progesterone: Another testosterone antagonist. Having elevated progesterone levels relative to the rest of the sex hormones prevents a woman from achieving orgasm.
4. Prolactin: Not talked about very often, since it’s primary role is in lactation, but it is also involved in pituitary-ovary signalling. Increasing prolactin levels increase vaginal lubrication and sex drive.
5. Luteinizing Hormone: Highly correlated with sex drive. LH is a pituitary hormone that triggers ovulation in a woman. Many researchers believe LH is one of the primary game-makers in sexual arousal.
Because of the role each of these hormones play in female libido, the menstrual cycle demonstrates a clear pattern in fluctuating libido for most women.
http://paleoforwomen.com/paleo-and-s...female-libido/
“My typology is . . . not in any sense to stick labels on people at first sight. It is not a physiognomy and not an anthropological system, but a critical psychology dealing with the organization and delimitation of psychic processes that can be shown to be typical.” —C.G. Jung
I agree with this but it doesn't mean they feel physically horny while doing it. It is fulfilling an emotional and psychological need to be intimate. I think this is common in sx first women who have emotional issues and psychological trauma as well. Not only sx first women are affected by those issues though. I have known sx second to as well. I have not thought about it much for men but I suppose they can also have sex for the intimacy and not actually be turned on, even if their body responds. If they feel empty after they probably need to see someone about that. :/
“My typology is . . . not in any sense to stick labels on people at first sight. It is not a physiognomy and not an anthropological system, but a critical psychology dealing with the organization and delimitation of psychic processes that can be shown to be typical.” —C.G. Jung
Yes. Rabbits yaknow. FFFFFFFFFFFF grass FFFFFFFFFFF grass FFFFFFFFFFFF
sx/sp at its splendor.
No. It's more desiring intensity and close connections with people. On a romantic level, it is desiring the same. This question shows most people do not eve understand what "SX" instinct even means.
I'm SP first and always horny. But I'm survival oriented so of course I'm horny a lot.
LSI-Se 836 Sp/Sx
Hormones are complex things. A certain amount of testosterone gets converted into the female hormone estradiol, so too much testosterone equals too much estradiol, which by the way, is thought to create hormone related unnecessary aggression in males, when their estradiol/estrogen level is too high, and also when you see body builders or the like with so called 'man boobs', that's because they are on too much injected testosterone which converts into estradiol/estrogen giving them said chest sensitive nipples etc.
A certain amount of testosterone gets converted into another steroid called DHT, which is about 3 times more potent than testosterone, and can't be hydrolized to convert into estradiol/estrogen, so some body builders will use this instead.
So it seems that regular aerobic exercise can cause the body to naturally up it's percentage of production of DHT like here https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3040039/ (no need to read, very convoluted and somewhat boring....)
But, for sexual activity, so many factors come in to play. Hormone balance. Weight too, excess body fat can affect hormones in men, causing more testosterone to convert into estradiol/estrogen. Also being overweight can affect blood pressure and diabetes which both can affect male sexual function.
So, it's a huge thing, not even doctors/chemists understand it all, but plenty of people can have lower than normal testosterone but it shows no signs, because of hormone balance and also because how much of that testosterone hormone is unbound in the blood stream.
I've spoke to guys before who have taken testosterone, and it's like they have to become miniature chemists. Lots of work, so no, not type related, and not even the gimmick of 'take extra T for that early rise feeling and fatigue removal' either, it's mostly just a marketing trick so people spend. Sure it might put an extra quarter of an inch of muscle on your arms, but is it worth it even for the layman for all the other monitoring and injecting that goes with it, I wouldn't think so, unless you have serious problems that aren't due to other factors like life stress, or lack of it, diet and such.
Sx is sex, like everything else. All the other instincts are self-deceptions. The world is created and destroyed through the union of opposites, also known as sex. This isn't even a metaphor. All longing is libido, and you can get what you want, but you can't want what you want. You don't even have an "instinct stacking." It's just Sx all the way down. Sx/Sx/Sx/Sx/Sx/Sx/Sx/Sx... Everything is burning burning burning
"http://www.the16types.info/vbulletin/content.php/133-Instinctual-Stackings"
Why can I not access this page?
Mostly, yes, especially when you have connected very deeply with a person.
C-EII-INFj 4w3 Sx/sp 479
Noooo way we're just expressive duhh
“My typology is . . . not in any sense to stick labels on people at first sight. It is not a physiognomy and not an anthropological system, but a critical psychology dealing with the organization and delimitation of psychic processes that can be shown to be typical.” —C.G. Jung
I think everybody is 'always horny' in a sense - especially males and our caveman animalism. But it's better and healthier I think to deny this urge as much as possible until you can't any more and you *have* to unleash your beast. Ironically, I think this too also helps cure perversions that are immorally wrong. It won't take much to get you going when your head is in a better spot. Otherwise you will develop sexual addictions and need bizarre/extreme things to turn you on which becomes ethically and societally problematic. Problem is also society just sucks, and often can't tell the difference between adult homosexuals who just want hot consenting sex between themselves and the jeffrey dahmers of the world. It's all the same thing to them.
Of course we are.
Not higher libido in general, but a higher extreme in it when it comes to their object of attraction than others, sx types fetishize their obsessions for their own pleasure. They look at their object like a deity of sex while frothing at the mouth. But sx types are also human so they usually mix in love with this, so it's not always apparent for the sx person. But the sexual instinct is actually a block for real love though, because we want to literally own the person because we want to integrate them in ourselves that badly. Think of when you see a cute puppy, and you want to squeeze it to death, you know? Thats related to our sexuality and the sexual instinct. We want to subconsciously push it into ourselves, own it, while we're taking no regard to how that little cute animal is actually feeling (if we were to squeeze it do death), we just find it so overwhelmingly cute that we want it. It's kind of the same thing with sx firsts and their obsession but with more obvious sexuality involved.
Sexual firsts are obsessed with one person more than the other stackings, it's like an addiction, and really its not about the other person its about you being selfish and trying to find your own high and satisfy yourself.
Last edited by maniac; 11-23-2017 at 11:32 AM.
...cus I'm weak.
And what's wrong with that????
https://youtu.be/txCCYBMKdB0