The Brain’s Role in Erotic Pleasure

QUESTION: Is it possible to climax with the brain alone?

RESPONSE: Sex education pros sometimes like to tell you that erotic pleasure actually happens in your brain. In a certain sense, this is true. Still, it’s not the entire truth. Pleasure and orgasm register in that mysterious, powerful region between your ears, just like all other sensory input and bodily experience.

Yes, you can become so aroused mentally that you will experience a kind of orgasmic release—in your mind—without physically ejaculating.

While it is possible to climax mentally, this is really just a kind of intensified fantasy that reaches a certain threshold and triggers a release of the built-up erotic tension with the kind of powerful oblivion that usually accompanies an actual ejaculation. Curiously enough, you can also ejaculate at times, in a somewhat disengaged manner, without having a full mental and emotional release. This is not an either/or situation. Still, for the most rewarding erotic pleasure—which is potentially limitless—it works best to involve the actual connection of your brain with your genitals.

Without the actual stimulation of the pleasure-receptors that grow in concentration upon your penis, and many other parts of your body that can produce pleasurable sensations such as your nipples, inner elbows, behind your knees, between your toes, your abdomen, navel—your mental experience can prove limited and shallow without the actual, direct sensations your body can produce.

In fact, one reason edging is such a powerful experience, and valuable practice is because it works best by paying extremely close attention to how near you are to that mystery called “ejaculatory inevitability,” so you can surf along that edge indefinitely. This brings the mental and genital realms close together, where they belong.

You are designed to connect your mental sphere into a seamless whole with the sensory input of your body, and this ultimately rewards you with not only limitless ecstasy, but also good self-esteem, the emotional reward of loving yourself, and this helps you to become a happier person who also appreciates other people.

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BRUCE P. GRETHER is the “BateMaster”. Mr. Grether’s lifelong love of penises and masturbation has led him to achieve a level of mastery and understanding of masturbation that is at once unique and extremely rare. He is renowned for both his ability to achieve seemingly endless states of prolonged and intense masturbatory pleasure as well as his skill in passing this knowledge on to his students. Mr. Grether has made it his life’s mission to encourage men to take their practice of masturbation to new levels of personal enrichment and self-discovery.

Mr. Grether is a globally recognized masturbation activist, an accomplished masturbation coach, and a tireless facilitator of masturbation workshops. In 2001 he coined the now popular term “Mindful Masturbation”. He is the author of a best-selling book, The Secret of the Golden Phallus, plus the erotic fantasy novels The Moontusk Chronicles. His website can be found at www.eroticengineering.com.

A note from The Batemaster: I’m honored that the guys at Bateworld have asked me to respond to some questions from male masturbators around the world every week.

Always check with your doctor about any issues you might be experiencing with your sexual organs. Prompt diagnosis and treatment are important. This article’s purpose is to inform and entertain readers and is not a substitute for medical advice or treatment.