Have you ever had a mental orgasm?

Anonus · 2016-01-30 06:04:35

I have had many mental orgasms. Among the things that have caused them: Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, discovering Yowp's blog, Cucumber Quest, Steven Universe, Undertale

Salix Babylonika · 2016-01-30 06:07:24

I don't even know what that would be and the concept honestly sounds kind of gross.

Anonus · 2016-01-30 06:09:47

It's not sexual really.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-01-30 06:10:45

it's the phrasing really

Imipolex G · 2016-01-30 06:18:06

this terminology is going to require explanation

One-Winged Eagle · 2016-01-30 06:27:01

get that sapiosexual shit outta here

One-Winged Eagle · 2016-01-30 06:27:37

Seriously speaking, I think I know what you're talking about, but I would never ever call it an "orgasm."

Anonus · 2016-01-30 06:28:12

What would you call it?

One-Winged Eagle · 2016-01-30 06:30:13

A sense of wonderment, being overwhelmed, blah blah blah.

Hexartes · 2016-01-30 14:34:26

"?!"
-Me, @ this thread

One-Winged Eagle · 2016-01-30 14:48:36

Kexruct said:
"?!"
-Me, @ this thread

Tachyon · 2016-01-30 15:12:44

i don't believe i've ever had a "mental orgasm"

(otoh i would say that a sufficiently moving story is better than an orgasm)

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-01-31 03:36:42

Technically, "orgasm" used to have two common uses: The sexual one, and a more general sense denoting a sudden rush of intense, overwhelming emotion, usually positive. Both come from a Greek word meaning the same thing.

That said, it's still a really awkward phrasing, to put it mildly, and unintentionally skeevy.

Tachyon · 2016-01-31 03:41:13

Sredni Vashtar said:
a more general sense denoting a sudden rush of intense, overwhelming emotion

there has to be a better term for this, surely

('the feels' springs to mind but that gets used so lightly, too lightly)

Tachyon · 2016-01-31 03:41:54

i guess just 'overwhelmed' works, maybe?

Imipolex G · 2016-01-31 03:42:19

in this moment, I am euphoric

Salix Babylonika · 2016-01-31 03:43:51

someone with a heavy geordie accent saying "gives me the feels" and gazing longingly into the distance

Tachyon · 2016-01-31 03:44:37

oh, yeah, euphoria was that word, wasn't it? and then reddit ruined it

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-01-31 03:46:30

Euphoria is indeed the word, although that describes the emotion better than the event.

Tachyon · 2016-01-31 03:52:42

i quite like 'catharsis' as a term, although that refers to a slightly different event

also a rather earthy term if one considers its origins, but Aristotle coined it, which makes it highbrow

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-01-31 04:51:14

I know, right?

One-Winged Eagle · 2016-01-31 05:26:45

We'll call it "euphoria" and that will be the end of it.

Hexartes · 2016-01-31 05:39:14

Tachyon said:
i quite like 'catharsis' as a term, although that refers to a slightly different event

also a rather earthy term if one considers its origins, but Aristotle coined it, which makes it highbrow

Based on thirty seconds of Googling I have the sinking feeling that catharsis came from a word meaning "to shit"

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-01-31 05:41:48

Kexruct said:

Tachyon said:
i quite like 'catharsis' as a term, although that refers to a slightly different event

also a rather earthy term if one considers its origins, but Aristotle coined it, which makes it highbrow
Based on thirty seconds of Googling I have the sinking feeling that catharsis came from a word meaning "to shit"

Sort of.

A cathartic is a purgative. It refers to spewing out a poison from the body, usually by those means.

Tachyon · 2016-01-31 05:44:29

not exactly

it came from a Greek word meaning purification, or purging; however, in Aristotle's day it was usually employed with reference to laxatives

ninja'd, it was what Sredni said

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