a new study found seven percent of women
and 10.3 percent of men have difficulty
controlling their sexual urges and these
numbers appear to be rising hi i'm greg
and me honey tick tock is now full of
out of nowhere thirst traps instagram is
officially porn and we also have literal
hookup apps on our phone does it not
feel like in these times we are
constantly inundated with opportunities
to be horned up so what is happening to
our brain and body when we are horny and
why are some people hornier than others
and are we constantly losing control of
our brain by flooding the deck with
horniness let's get into some horny
science to start academics don't say
horny they say sexually aroused boo
boring now you may think sexual arousal
is related to your genitals but it is
actually a lot more complicated than
that and follows these larger steps one
neuronal processing of relevant
information aka your brain and neurons
experience a sort of desire you see a
tick-tock video of hot person bouncing
you catch someone's eye on the street
and your central nervous system is truly
like wait a second is this sexy to
arousal but in the general sense
neuronal excitation in your brain and
body begins without you even realizing
it and you may start to sweat become on
high alert and in some instances get
hard nipples
three incentive motivation consciously
or subconsciously deciding if you are
going to do something about your newly
excited state of arousal if involving
someone else this is where intimacy and
risk assessment comes in leading to the
question is it gonna get genital four
genital response boner engorged labia
and clitoris this is where the gorgeous
orgasm can come in and five resolution
once you're done the deed your body now
physiologically feels different all of
these steps are controlled by neuronal
firing in your brain and hormones
throughout your body in the brain whilst
in the process of horniness we see
firing in the inferior frontal lobule
the parietal lobules the insula the
frontal cortex and the cingulate gyrus
now these horny parts of your brain are
active due to hormones but they also
control the release of hormones
throughout your body and this is where
horniness gets very complex and very
juicy juicy the initial response of
desire and arousal is said to be mostly
controlled by testosterone and estrogen
these hormones conveniently are released
from the ovaries and testes which is
very sexy imo which means in my opinion
there is some research to say that men
who are hornier have higher baseline
levels of testosterone and women who are
hornier have higher baseline levels of
testosterone and estrogen in their
bodies when reading these studies i
found them very compelling but they all
ended by saying we cannot say this for
sure now once our horniness has gone
genital this is when the hormones such
as norepinephrine and dopamine come in
and things start to feel real good
dopamine from the hypothalamus is
released when we eat food so yeah it's
making the brain go yummy yummy
norepinephrine can make you feel giddy
energetic and euphoric but also decrease
appetite and insomnia so yes you can be
so horny you can't sleep also these
hormones and their effect on the brain
is directly related to decreased
self-awareness and non-rational behavior
it's why during sex you can sometimes do
or say things that later you are like
giggle giggle i cannot believe i ever
said that the orgasm occurs when your
central nervous system hormones and
sensory stimulation pass a certain
threshold in women this can result in
one second motor contractions of the
pelvic floor followed by two to four
seconds of repeated uterine and vaginal
smooth muscle contraction okay i'm
feeling real hot after reading that the
post orgasm for men and women involves a
release of serotonin which can lead to
mood stabilization and even a mood boost
hence the pleasure we see in movies
posts sexy times oxytocin is another
hormone not directly related to the
process of horniness but is integral to
the motivation to take horniness to the
genitals this hormone is necessary for
feelings of bonding which for many
people is a precursor to horniness and
sex we now need to talk with a wet hard
and gorged elephant in the room is our
constant inundation of horny images
making these neuronal pathways fire more
is this bad and the answer may be yes
a lot of the brain regions and hormones
involved in sexual arousal are similar
to that of when you binge eat sweets do
literal cocaine or watch lots of porn
the increased dopamine signaling can
change your brain and lead to changes in
the dorsal ventral cingulate cortex
which can lead to horniness problems
this is known in the academic community
as hypersexuality disorder
hypersexuality is the term for people
who seem to have changes in their brain
and endocrine system that make them too
horny this is most likely due to
exposing themselves to too much sexual
arousal masturbation or sex which has
changed the literal shape of their brain
but hypersexuality is hard to understand
and is under-reported and
under-diagnosed recent research said
that two to six percent of people admit
to having a hypersexuality disorder it
is more common in men than women and
using kinsey's old threshold diagnosis a
way to understand if you have one is
that you've had seven or more orgasms
per week for six months that's one
orgasm per day for six months again this
is kinsey he's an old-fashioned kind of
guy you can take with this what you will
another way to view this disorder is if
you have uncontrolled sexual behaviors
you can't stop masturbating you can't
stop having sex even though you want to
stop it's thought that the age of onset
of hypersexuality is 18.7 years of age
but it's not usually diagnosed until
people are 37. by studying 19 subjects
with hypersexuality and 19 healthy
subjects it was found that when shown
sexual imagery there was increased
activation in the lower parietal lobe
and the cingulate cortex in people with
hypersexuality disorder also increased
firing in the dorso ventral cingulate
cortex leading to increased dopamine
release it is thought that people who
have this uncontrolled horniness have
actually partaken in so many sexual
activities that they physically altered
their brain that now they are more horny
more often and maybe can't control their
sexual arousal they've changed their
brain to crave sexual arousal more and
more another study got some people
sexually aroused by showing them porn
others were sadly not shown porn they
were then surveyed and it was found that
the sexually aroused people found
non-sexual aspects of the question
sexual and were more likely to say
they'd engage in unsafe sex another
study found that people diagnosed with
anxiety and depression are overall less
horny but being in an anxious state can
lead to increased horniness it's why
sometimes you might be really nervous
about doing something and think i gotta
go to the bathroom and jerk the chicken
i made this video because as a gay man
sometimes i think do me and all my gay
friends have hyper sexuality disorders
but seriously i think it's a super
fascinating topic because every time
these thirst traps appear on our phones
i realize that we're physiologically
altering our bodies and i think this is
worth talking about i then obviously
became obsessed with researching the
science of horniness i hope this video
was educational to you maybe made you
think about things in a different way
who knows maybe it turned you on i
shouldn't take off my shirt i would
never share this with your horny friends
and family and we will see you next week
for a new science video thanks for
watching
peace