Does postnut clarity really exist? And

the answer is absolutely yes. And as we

dive into the neuroscience of postnut

clarity, we'll discover that the effects

of postnut clarity are even more

profound than most people realize. And

so the way I sort of think about postnut

clarity is it's not just postnut

clarity, it's also pre-nut fog. So prior

to orgasm, our brain has so many

different dimensions that impair our

thinking, impair our ability to even act

and be motivated in the right way.

Because if people have experienced

postnut clarity, you kind of know that

after you nut, right, your mind is super

clear. You're able to focus on tasks.

You're not nearly as distracted. There's

really this profound sense of like

clarity and direction and motivation.

And the really fascinating thing is as

we dig into the neuroscience, we'll see

how each of those things that we

experience is actually tied to specific

circuits in the brain. So the first

thing is that the neuroscience of orgasm

is complicated. Okay, what we know is

that orgasm is primarily mediated by a

flood of opioids in the brain and in the

body. So when you have an orgasm, you

sort of have this experience of being

like blissed out. You feel kind of

floaty. And this is a different kind of

pleasure from dopamine. When I feel like

really really engaged with something,

let's say I'm playing a video game or

I'm competing in sports or I'm gambling,

right? And I win big. The kind of

pleasure that I get feels like a rush,

not like a floating in a blissed out

kind of way. And as we dig into the

effects of an opioid flood in our brain,

we actually see that one of the most

profound effects is a reduction in

dopamine signaling. So let's explain

that for a second. Okay. So, dopamine is

the neurotransmitter that does things

like creates cravings, gives us

pleasure, gives us behavioral

reinforcement. When dopamine is super

active in our brain, we want things. So,

if we think a little bit about pre-nut

fog, why are we not thinking clearly

before we nut? Because it's like, okay,

I I I really want to write this book,

let's say, or I want to focus on this

project. I want to learn how to paint.

But instead, my mind keeps thinking

about playing video games, keeps

thinking about watching pornography,

keeps thinking about lust. Loneliness is

at an all-time high. Sexlessness is at

an all-time high. Relationships are

probably in the worst state they've ever

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one of the fogs that we experience is

that instead of being like clear towards

our goals, our dopamineergic circuitry

is pulling us in a thousand different

directions. It kind of induces this

brain rot. What's really scary is when

our dopamine system is activated just

how much it impairs our decision-m and

impairs our ability to assess risk. So

overall, numerous studies have shown

that when our dopamine circuits are

activated, we don't assess risk in the

right way. Okay? And this is important

to understand because post-nut clarity

is not just about lust. Postnut clarity

is about clarity in all of the other

dimensions of our life. And what we know

from some of the some of these studies

on on dopamineergic activation is that

once our dopamine system is activated,

it impairs our decision-m in unrelated

fields as well. So first thing impairs

decision-m we make bad bets in

blackjack. Second thing about the

dopamineergic circuitry is how little

sexual stimuli we need to activate this

dopamineergic circuitry. So once it

becomes activated, we don't think

clearly and it takes very little to

actually activate it. There's a really

cool study that basically showed a

benign image for 474 seconds

milliseconds. Okay, so almost half a

second and for 26 milliseconds it showed

a sexually explicit image. Now when we

show a sexually explicit image for 26

milliseconds, this is not enough for our

brain to consciously register. You won't

even know that you saw a sexually

explicit image. You won't be consciously

aware of it. But that small amount of

stimulus is all it takes for your brain

to actually light up. Right? So we need

very little sexual stimuli to trigger

these lust pathways. And then what's

really scary is once these pathways are

triggered, the degree of alteration in

our decision-making, this is a really

cool study that was done out of MIT by

Daniel Arieli, who's written multiple

bestselling books, but he basically

showed people like explicit images. And

then he asked people all kinds of

questions like, would you be willing to

have sex with a 40-year-old woman,

50-year-old woman, 60-year-old woman,

would you be willing to have sex with

someone that you hate? Would you be

willing to have sex with a man? And what

what's really scary about all these

questions is once someone gets exposed

to these images, how drastically it

alters their decisionmaking. Their

willingness to engage in sexual behavior

goes up by a statistically significant

amount in so many different directions.

Once you are turned on, two fundamental

things happen. One is that for the

things that you're attracted to, your

willingness to sacrifice for them,

engage with them, pursue them, actually

goes up by a statistically significant

amount. And even things that you

normally don't find attractive, like do

you think women's shoes are erotic? Once

you expose someone to a sexual image,

their thinking about that changes

drastically. So what's really kind of

profound about this is not so much the

post-nut clarity, but the pre-nut

horniness, the pre-nut fog drastically

changes the way that we see the world,

what we're willing to pursue, and the

risks that we're willing to take. So

that's the dopamineergic circuitry. But

when we get this flood of opioids, we

are also recruiting other systems. So we

also see an increase in serotonin

transmission with the flood of opioids

with an orgasm. Floods of serotonin are

associated with improved self-esteem.

They're associated with an improved

sense of contentment. Right? So when we

think about the experience of orgasm,

there's that body rush of bliss. There's

that floatiness. And then we just feel

calm and contented. So this will

correlate with reductions in anxiety.

It'll correlate with improvements in

mood. Right? And this is also where I

want you all to think about. What is it

that makes it hard for you to function

on a daily basis? What is it that makes

it hard for you to be your best self?

What is it that clouds your mind? I want

to write a book, but I'm distracted by

video games. I'm distracted by

pornography. I'm thinking lustful

thoughts. Right? So, that's one form of

distraction. I can't just focus on the

book. But then also, I feel like I've

got low energy. I have all these

thoughts about, okay, well, what if the

book doesn't turn out good? it's a waste

of time. How do I make sure that all of

the energy that I'm willing to invest

results in something productive instead

of just being a failure? That's kind of

depress depressive thoughts, self-esteem

thought, low self-esteem thoughts,

anxiety thoughts. So here's a paper that

looks at trans orgasm and sexuality

which also sort of uh shows us that when

we experience these orgasmic states it

reduces our ruminative thinking which

kind of overlaps with this serotonin

flood that we see from the neuroscience

perspective. And this is what's also

really interesting when we enter the

state of orgasm it also changes the way

that we think about ourselves. So most

of the time as we navigate through the

world, we have a lot of self-referential

processing going on. What does that

mean? That means that if I'm thinking

about I see a cute girl at a coffee shop

and I want to go up and talk to her. But

as I go up and talk to her, my mind

starts hypothesizing. It starts looking

into the future and thinking, "Oh my

god, if I say this, I'm going to look

like an idiot." And it'll also start

thinking about the past. Oh yeah, there

was that one time two years ago where I

approached a cute girl at a coffee shop

and man, I really messed it up and it

was really awkward and she seemed really

uncomfortable. This flood of opioids

that we experience when we nut actually

shuts down all of this ruminative

self-reerential thinking. What we're

actually able to do is be more present

in the moment. So this paper refers this

to as an extreme sensate focus. Now what

does that mean? So if we sort of think

about the way that we live our lives,

right, that I'm living my life and then

there's a constant commentary in here

that's ruminative. Thinking about how I

could screw up, thinking about how I've

screwed up in the past and orgasm wipes

that away. So when it comes down to it,

postnut clarity is incredibly profound.

It affects our dopamineergic circuitry,

which in turn affects how much we want

things, how distracted we are by things,

our judgment and decision-making. It

affects our risk threshold. So, a lot of

the mistakes that we make are because

we're really thirsty or really horny,

right? So, it reduces all of that kind

of stuff. And remember that this

dopamineergic blunting exists outside of

realms that are related to sexuality.

So, even our draw towards video games

and other dopamineergic activities

because this doperic circuitry is

literally inhibited. So it doesn't

matter what the dopamineergic activity

is, all of it becomes inhibited. It

reduces our rumination. It reduces our

self-referential processing, which in

turn means that we're able to focus on

the tasks that we're passionate about,

that we're interested about. I don't

know if this makes sense, but when you

experience postnut clarity, it's almost

like you have an armor to all of the

things that normally cause you problems.

And that's the real nature of the

clarity. So, as we talk about postnut

clarity, there's a really common, you

know, question that people will will ask

me, which is like, what about nofap?

Right? So, like, if I start taking cold

showers, if I stop masturbating, if I

like don't watch pornography anymore,

will that induce the same state as

postnut clarity? Because often times

what people who are engaging with nofap

are doing is they're trying to wrestle

themselves away from the controlling

influence of horniness and lust. and

they're sort of right on the money. So,

here's a really cool paper from uh the

Buddhist tradition that sort of talks

about the baseline state of mind is

clear and when it is when the mind is is

clear like it's supposed to be then we

can focus on tasks. We can devote

ourselves to, you know, doing things

that are productive, we can stay on

task, our attentional performance

increases, right? This is good to have a

clear mind. It feels really, really,

really good. And what this paper also

says is that our baseline state is to

have a clear mind. And things like lust,

things like anger, things like

belligerance, these are the things that

cloud our mind. So the problem with

nofap is you can stop the sexual

activity, but as long as the lustfulness

is there, as long as the lustfulness is

activating that dopamineergic circuitry,

then the cloudiness will be there. So it

isn't sufficient to do nofap. What you

really have to do is like spiritually

progress to adopt a sense of

non-lustfulness.

And then the other challenge with nofap

is it isn't clear to me how it affects

those other neuroscientific mechanisms

like the serotonin mechanism, like the

rumination mechanism, like the

self-referential mechanism. And that's

the beauty of postnut clarity is that

you nut the or the opioid flood happens

and all of these things change on their

own.