THEORY AND SCIENCE
INTRODUCTION
Sex on the wrong brain, or sowb, is what happens when impatient satisfaction-demanding sex energy interferes with brain functions that require patience and objectivity. Sowb is caused by masturbation with the right hand, which is connected to the left brain hemisphere. Motion of the right hand is controlled by and can stimulate activity in the left hemisphere. By default, most humans in modern developed societies have their first sexual experiences with the wrong hand. Continued sex with the right hand can program long lasting neural pathways that may continue to divert sex energy to the left brain long after real sex begins. Sowb (as in robe) stimulates neural circuitry that increases greed and fear (see Certainty Deficit Disorder), rewards conformity, and inhibits creativity. It has been normalized in most modern human societies and may be referred to as ‘human nature’. Although susceptibility to particular sowb symptoms may be inherited, the most important factor increasing individual levels of sowb may be left brain dominance and lack of right brain use.
COMMON SYMPTOMS Certainty Deficit Disorder (CDD) Impatient satisfaction-demanding reproductive impulses create a need for certainty that can supersede fact or reality. Certainty ends thinking and brings ‘satisfaction’ through closure, finality, and premature conclusion. The irrational need for non-existent certainty requires avoidance of natural ever-present uncertainty which increases anxiety and fear and motivates a wide range of short and long-term coping strategies, such as denial and authoritarianism (see CDD table below). Humans may cultivate thought patterns that reward lying and denial in order to create certainty and reduce uncertainty. Rationalization of certainty and denial of reality requires engaging the right hemisphere which releases trapped 'sex energy' as a reward. Certainty can become more important than truth. Researchers studying 50 years of psychological profiles of conservatives identified 'avoidance of uncertainty' as a defining motivation ( Political Conservatism As Motivated Social Cognition, Jost, J.T., et al, 2003, May, American Psychological Association's Psychological Bulletin). Authoritarianism is sometimes measured with the Uncertainty Avoidance Index, or UAI.
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“Sex On the Wrong Brain” by Ard Falten, weaves sex on the wrong brain symptoms and implications into science fiction comedy.
SOWB INCREASES:
feargreed certainty intolerance authoritarianism sexual dysfunction
SEX ON THE WRONG BRAIN VS DEMOCRACY Democratic forms of organization can counter authoritarianism and other negative symptoms of sowb but are often thwarted before large scale implementation of the simple sex education lesson that can end large scale sex on the wrong brain. Sex on the wrong brain offered survival benefits in times of scarcity and conflict and may explain right handed dominance in humans. Now, however, it threatens the planet with greed and authoritarianism.
DENIAL OF GLOBAL WARMING/CLIMATE CHANGE
For many humans the certainty of denying global warming is easier than facing the uncertainties represented by complex solutions and changing predictions.
Humans evolved with natural weather uncertainty. Clothing, caves, and living structures help us reduce some of that uncertainty.
FEMALES HAVE LESS SOWB Along with differences in sexual organs there are mechanical differences in hand, finger, and arm motion motion and technique for masturbation. Those differences will effect the degree of connection between the hand and brain, brain components involved, neural associations, and degree of activity. Use of a vibrator could reinforce and complicate hand-brain connections. Females would also be more likely to involve both hands or try the non-dominant left hand. Such differences might help explain evolution of gender differences in brain function and organization, as well as the timing of laterality in brain development observed in humans passing through adolescence and into adulthood.
GREED, OBJECTIFICATION, MATERIALISM, AND 'FREE MARKET' CAPITALISM Definitions of "greed" commonly begin with “desire for.....” With sowb, potent energy that’s meant to fuel love and desire for a mate can interfere with brain functions involved in counting, quantifying, measuring, classifying, comparing, and putting things in order. That can cause obsession for objects and greed for more, bigger, and faster. Satisfaction, pleasure, and beauty may be measured in numbers, dollars, and inches. Unregulated free market capitalism is a sowb-based strategy for reducing uncertainty while satisfying greed. Complicated social and environmental issues can be ignored or simplified with absolutes and numbers and 'market demand' can be used to replace democratically determined regulation with monopolistic greed and authoritarianism.
FACTORS INFLUENCING SOWB LEVELS
- degree of left brain dominance, use of right brain
- gender
- early sexual experience (establishing neural patterns)
- libido
- frustration
- sexual repression/freedom
- levels of titillation (eg. sex in advertising, access to pornography)
- access to privacy and leisure time (often increases with affluence)
- heredity, genetic susceptibility (explained later)
- socially enforced neural patterns and associations used to foster sowb-based value structures
COMPLICATIONS of moderate and severe sex on the wrong brain include:
- Preference for closure and certainty over facts and truth.
- High capacity for lying, denial, hypocrisy.
- Hypersensitivity to criticism.
- Fear of individuality, diversity, ambiguity, imagination, and creativity.
- Relative value systems that threaten certainty represent a constant source of frustration and fear.
- Obsessive need for order and control.
- Preference for known but painful pasts over change and exploration of new and uncertain futures.
- Attraction to leaders and binary value structures that offer opportunity to judge with certainty and closure.
- Preference for snap decisions with no thought for consequences.
- Rigid left brain intelligence that favors memory of detail is valued over creativity, imagination, objectivity, and wisdom.
LEFT BRAIN, RIGHT BRAIN, LATERALITY Most major brain functions utilize both hemispheres of the brain but emphasize one side more than the other. Language is mostly a left brain function, for instance.
‘Hemispheric asymmetries pervade practically all major neural systems of the human brain . There is hardly any perceptual, cognitive, or motor system that is not affected by left-right differences of at least some of its components.’- Güntürkün O & Ocklenburg S, ‘Ontogenesis of lateralization’, Neuron, 2017, 94, 249-263 The right hemisphere of the brain is usually associated with emotion in humans as well as primates, "suggesting an evolutionary continuity going back at least 30 to 40 million years" (Continuities in Emotion Lateralization in Human and Non-Human Primates - Lindell 2013). Orgasm is also usually associated with the right hemisphere. In a 2017 study of 10 women (right handed, because brain researchers know handedness can inflluence results), reaching and achieving orgasm showed activation in many different parts of the brain on both sides leading up to orgasm but the dominant activation unique for orgasm (during orgasm minus pre-orgasm) was on the right side (below), which is connected to the left hand. Would results be different for left handed women?
(Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging - fMRI - as viewed from below, feet to head).
From Wise, Frangos, Komisaruk, J Sex Med. 2017 Nov; 14(11): 1380–1391: Brain regions showed significantly higher activity during orgasm than immediately before orgasm. These included, all on the right side, the operculum (secondary somatosensory cortex regions 1e4) and the angular gyrus and the precuneus, BA 44 and 45, pre and post central gyri, and other regions of the frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital cortices
In the book "The Master and His Emissary, The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World", (2009) Iain McGilchrist argues that the left hemisphere is supposed to be the 'servant' to the right hemisphere, a better ‘master’, but the left hemisphere has become increasingly dominant in recent human history and humanity is suffering for it.
Is McGilchrist describing the effects of sex on the wrong brain and its acceleration during the last few thousand years? "the left hemisphere needs certainty and needs to be right. The right hemisphere makes it possible to hold several ambiguous possibilities in suspension together without premature closure on one outcome." p82
Re problem solving: "the right hemisphere presents an array of possible solutions, which remain alive while alternatives are explored. The left hemisphere, by contrast, takes the single solution that seems best to fit what it already knows and latches onto it. V.S. Ramachandran's studies of anosognosia reveal a tendency for the left hemisphere to deny discrepancies that do not fit its already generated schema of things." p41 "The left hemisphere is the equivalent of the sort of person who, when asked for directions, prefers to make something up rather than admit to not knowing." p81 "not only does (what we now know to be) the left hemisphere tend to insist on its theory at the expense of getting things wrong, but it will later cheerfully insist that it got it right." p82
Re problem solving: "the right hemisphere presents an array of possible solutions, which remain alive while alternatives are explored. The left hemisphere, by contrast, takes the single solution that seems best to fit what it already knows and latches onto it. V.S. Ramachandran's studies of anosognosia reveal a tendency for the left hemisphere to deny discrepancies that do not fit its already generated schema of things." p41 "The left hemisphere is the equivalent of the sort of person who, when asked for directions, prefers to make something up rather than admit to not knowing." p81 "not only does (what we now know to be) the left hemisphere tend to insist on its theory at the expense of getting things wrong, but it will later cheerfully insist that it got it right." p82
More on certainty deficit disorder, CDD The irrational need for certainty, or need to avoid uncertainty, may be the most serious problem caused by sex on the wrong brain.
When the brain analyzes and solves problems it's not supposed to crave satisfaction. It’s supposed to be logical and objective when it measures and compares and patient and fair when it judges its options.
Sex energy adds frustration and urgency to those brain functions and satisfaction comes from being certain. The feeling of closure and finality it brings may become more satisfying than the truth.
The inability to avoid general or particular uncertainties, such as unexplainable and uncontrollable aspects of nature, may create insecurity, stress, and fear. In order to avoid sources of uncertainty the left brain becomes more and more selective, limiting information and options and undermining objectivity. Input from the creative right brain is reduced, limiting the curiosity, intelligence, and wisdom of the whole brain.
Humans have developed belief systems to create certainty as well as control and reduce uncertainty. They are used to simplify the complex and bring order to chaos. Binary value structures are used to apply certainty to uncertain and chaotic aspects of life. They strive to provide order, control, and a predictable framework in which to find certainty. They offer opportunities for conformity and subjective correctness and a ready supply of reassuring answers. Being part of a larger group that can constantly judge the world with certitude in absolute terms of good/evil, black/white, winner/loser, and yes/no can be deeply comforting for those with a lot of sowb.
To protect the dominant value structures and the artificial certainty they provide anything that doesn’t fit or can’t be controlled may be attacked or ignored. Extreme levels of denial, hypocrisy, and injustice are possible.
When the brain analyzes and solves problems it's not supposed to crave satisfaction. It’s supposed to be logical and objective when it measures and compares and patient and fair when it judges its options.
Sex energy adds frustration and urgency to those brain functions and satisfaction comes from being certain. The feeling of closure and finality it brings may become more satisfying than the truth.
The inability to avoid general or particular uncertainties, such as unexplainable and uncontrollable aspects of nature, may create insecurity, stress, and fear. In order to avoid sources of uncertainty the left brain becomes more and more selective, limiting information and options and undermining objectivity. Input from the creative right brain is reduced, limiting the curiosity, intelligence, and wisdom of the whole brain.
Humans have developed belief systems to create certainty as well as control and reduce uncertainty. They are used to simplify the complex and bring order to chaos. Binary value structures are used to apply certainty to uncertain and chaotic aspects of life. They strive to provide order, control, and a predictable framework in which to find certainty. They offer opportunities for conformity and subjective correctness and a ready supply of reassuring answers. Being part of a larger group that can constantly judge the world with certitude in absolute terms of good/evil, black/white, winner/loser, and yes/no can be deeply comforting for those with a lot of sowb.
To protect the dominant value structures and the artificial certainty they provide anything that doesn’t fit or can’t be controlled may be attacked or ignored. Extreme levels of denial, hypocrisy, and injustice are possible.
SELF DESTRUCTING EMPIRES
In populations suffering high levels of sowb the collective need for certainty may override important survival considerations when choosing or tolerating leaders and futures. Leaders or ruling groups may be worshipped for the high levels of certitude they project while comparable levels of incompetence, hypocrisy, and cruelty in the same rulers are ignored. Rulers may supply certitude like a drug, using uncertainty and fear to increase its value.
IS THERE A CURE FOR SEX ON THE WRONG BRAIN? Masturbation can start early and needs to be part of standard sex education, and in particular, which hand to use.
More research is needed. You might be able to reroute unwanted established channels by switching hands. Use your right brain more, even in what are considered to be left brained only activities. Get creative.
Some ancient disciplines such as tantric yoga can be used to control sexual energy and specialists in those fields may be more help than the traditionally trained western professionals. Deep relaxation might help open connections between left brain and right brain and reduce some symptoms.
More research is needed. You might be able to reroute unwanted established channels by switching hands. Use your right brain more, even in what are considered to be left brained only activities. Get creative.
Some ancient disciplines such as tantric yoga can be used to control sexual energy and specialists in those fields may be more help than the traditionally trained western professionals. Deep relaxation might help open connections between left brain and right brain and reduce some symptoms.
MISOGYNY, PATRIARCHY, TOXIC MASCULINITY Lower sowb levels in females may be perceived as threatening sources of uncertainty that need to be controled. Long term general differences in sowb levels between genders has resulted in institutionalized misogyny and patriarchy.
EVOLUTION, RIGHT HANDEDNESS, AND THE ‘SOWB GENE’ Anthropologists believe early human ancestors started out about 50-50 right and left handed, like the chimps and apes of today, but have had little success explaining why humans became increasingly right handed. Eventually about 100,000 years ago humans settled into about 90% right handed. Right handed dominance is sometimes attributed to tool-making and language development but sex on the wrong brain has been part of human evolution for millions of years before those developments might have become relevant and may offer anthropologists and handedness researchers a better explanation.
Millions of years ago:
Life was short and reproduction began early, resulting in low levels of masturbation and sowb generally. Selection for sowb and right handedness would accelerate in areas where population densities and fluctuations in resources might cause conflict and favor authoritarian patriarchy over communal cooperation. Sowb would begin to distort basic hemispheric brain asymmetries as brain complexity and language use increased. Left hemispheric participation increases as right hemispheric participation decreases, limiting patience and objectivity in evaluation and conclusion. Integration and promotion of preferred sowb symptoms begins to influence social structure as well as brain structure and function. Hundreds of thousands of years ago: Longer life, higher population densities, and more conflict over resources. Sowb symptoms like greed, fear, intolerance, and authoritarianism increasingly won over curiosity, community, and democratic cooperation. Sowb accelerated as our ancestors progressively began to delay the age of reproduction. Sowb eventually becomes ‘human nature’ and normalized as left handed humans were increasingly ostracized and the proportion of right handed handed humans reaches a 90% dominance about 100,000 years ago. The last few thousand years: Longer life, more right handed masturbation and more sowb. Sex on the wrong brain became an increasingly dominant part of the long-lasting authoritarian civilizations which, by default and/or design, created social structures to enforce sexual repression and increase frustration. Populations and cultures could select for particular sowb symptoms that were advantageous for a particular situation or environment, such as for building armies. So-called civilized ‘Old World’ populations with centuries of sexual repression and frustration might be expected to have more sowb symptoms than ‘New World’ populations and their descendants today. Are differences in cultural attitudes toward nature, uncertainty, and greed apparent in brain function or structure consistent with more vs less sex on the wrong brain? The last hundred years: While democratic forms of social organization help growing populations reduce and regulate sowb symptoms like authoritarianism and greed, increased affluence allows more privacy and opportunity for masturbation. The problem is exacerbated by access to mass produced sources of sexual stimulation, such as pornograpy, and use of sexual stimulation for commercial purposes.
SOWB GENES? Do geographical, environmental, and cultural preferences for particular sowb symptoms may manifest as inherited characteristics in brain structure and function.?
SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION When sex goes wrong. The more sex energy that is diverted to the left brain the less there is for sexual pleasure and orgasm in the right brain, especially as overall quantities decline with age.
If the left brain is using large proportions of the available sex energy an isolated right brain may have difficulty getting and storing the amounts needed for sex drive and orgasm. People suffering sex on the wrong brain may routinely and unknowingly use brain switching mechanisms to transfer sex energy to the right brain when needed.
One common type of switching mechanism involves entering or creating a stressful or emotional situation to stimulate the underused right brain. Switching mechanisms vary widely and may involve irrational, risky, or bizarre behavior, ceremonies and rituals, pain, fear, and hate and may have very little obvious connection with sex. They can be used to transfer energy all at once for an immediate rush of satisfaction, or more gradually in smaller amounts. Long-lasting irrational hatred, for example, may be quite satisfying for sex on the wrong brain. Some left brain dominant people can become dependent on switching mechanisms and use them regularly during the day. A variety of chemicals may also used for switching.
Sex and violence. Combining sex and imagined, threatened, or actual physical violence with willing or unwilling partners may be a common way to trigger the emotions necessary to transfer sex energy to the right brain for pleasure. Satisfaction may be proportional to the intensity of the emotions created and the amount of sex energy transfered.
If the left brain is using large proportions of the available sex energy an isolated right brain may have difficulty getting and storing the amounts needed for sex drive and orgasm. People suffering sex on the wrong brain may routinely and unknowingly use brain switching mechanisms to transfer sex energy to the right brain when needed.
One common type of switching mechanism involves entering or creating a stressful or emotional situation to stimulate the underused right brain. Switching mechanisms vary widely and may involve irrational, risky, or bizarre behavior, ceremonies and rituals, pain, fear, and hate and may have very little obvious connection with sex. They can be used to transfer energy all at once for an immediate rush of satisfaction, or more gradually in smaller amounts. Long-lasting irrational hatred, for example, may be quite satisfying for sex on the wrong brain. Some left brain dominant people can become dependent on switching mechanisms and use them regularly during the day. A variety of chemicals may also used for switching.
Sex and violence. Combining sex and imagined, threatened, or actual physical violence with willing or unwilling partners may be a common way to trigger the emotions necessary to transfer sex energy to the right brain for pleasure. Satisfaction may be proportional to the intensity of the emotions created and the amount of sex energy transfered.
MISCELANEOUS TOPICS FOR RESEARCH Is sex on the wrong brain a major cause of mental stress? Do alcohol, cannabis/marijuana, and other substances reduce or contribute to sowb symptoms? Does sowb contribute to impotence, erectile dysfunction, or premature ejaculation in men? What proportion of women use two hands at once? Are women more likely to try the left hand and continue? Do the vibrations of a vibrator, held in the right hand, make the connection to the left brain even stronger? Do some right handed women divert a greater proportion of their sex energy to the left brain because they use a higher degree of manual dexterity than men? Does sex on the wrong brain help explain 'orgasm difficulties' with women? Are abstinence programs used to promote sex on the wrong brain? Are there historical records and artifacts that suggest some cultures recognized sowb was a way to make populations more fearful and controlable? If there recorded evidence that sexual repression, and polygamy for instance, were used to increase sowb in young men? Was sex on the wrong brain a reason for bias against left handed people? The Koran dictates that men can only have sex with their wives and "that which the right hand possesses", which scholars interpret to mean slaves and captives. But where did that leave males who could not afford a wife and did not have slaves and captives? How can that be interpreted today and how does it relate to radical islamic groups? How do sowb and sexual repression relate to extremism, racism, isolationism, and misogyny? How does sowb relate to disinformation and propaganda techniques and leadership styles? Left handed humans live in a right handed and sowb-dominated world. How do differences between left and right handed people relate to sowb? Are today's 'left handed' humans decended from ancestors who were more likely to adapt, conform, and blend in with right handed dominated populations? How would that relate to brain structure, thinking, and ambidextrousness? Note: in some people left and right brain generalities are reversed.