On Being Turned On
Before a comedy show producers often use a warm up man, a comedian who tells jokes in order to prime the audience. The idea is that the audience will laugh easily once they've been told a few jokes. The audience gets 'turned on' to humour.
Most men and women, and adolescent males in particular, can get 'turned on' sexually. Once 'turned on' everything has a sexual edge, in the same way as the audience warmed up with jokes sees the funny side of things. People can get turned in a number of ways and different people get triggered in by different things. After being exposed to heart-wrenching stories women particularly, but by no means exclusively, can get turned on emotionally. Some people can get turned on aggressively and primed into fighting. Smells or suggestions can turn on appetites, and advertisers use these triggers in order to persuade people to purchase their products.
The feeling is very real and is controlled by hormones. People with high sex drives can get a drug-like high from being turned on, other people can find the buzz of excitement from an adrenalin rush addictive, and people can even wallow in the 'soppy' emotional feeling.
Also, like a drug, these feelings can cause people to go to more extreme lengths to achieve the high. Extreme sports give an edge which more sedate activities lack and people have to go to more dangerous activities to get the same high. Sexually, people can be driven to more extreme sex acts in order to get turned on. I wrote previously how the orgasm in men can cause an energy relationship, sometimes in bizarre ways and as the individual becomes jaded, more extreme activities are necessary to achieve the same high.
On the other hand, people can get turned on by kindness. Its been noticed that people feel good after seeing films of Mother Teresa at work and other acts of kindness. Prayer, performed correctly, turns people on spiritually.
Most people are turned subconsciously without being aware of the triggers that cause them to feel and act in particular ways. They are ideal fodder for advertisers who manipulate feelings to suit their own ends. Throughout the day there are triggers, maybe just a word or a look, that cause you to react and you have to become aware of what these triggers are.
