Iraglassceiling [she/her]

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Cake day: 2023年7月9日

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  • Sugar addiction is not the same as a drug that causes physiologic dependence, like cocaine or opiates.

    But

    You can become addicted to sugar, or anything that makes you feel good, because you’re basically hacking into the cocaine repository that’s already in your brain. Anything that triggers a hit of dopamine and/or noradrenaline - gambling, shopping, sex, food, weed - can cause addictive behavior, but you’re essentially addicted to your own neurotransmitters and not the thing itself.





  • I looked up the AGP in women paper and the methodology is unfortunately poor IMO.

    A questionnaire that included the ASW was distributed to a sample of 51 professional women employed at an urban hospital; 29 completed questionnaires were returned for analysis. By the common definition of ever having erotic arousal to the thought or image of oneself as a woman, 93% of the respondents would be classified as autogynephilic.

    They needed a bigger sample size than 29 and they didn’t address the self selection bias of the 29 out of 51 respondents.

    The conclusions might be right? But they might also be wrong, the paper itself seems pretty flimsy :/

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19591032/

    The original AGP research is probably fucked too, but I’m not diving into a stupid paper from 1989 to learn what I already know about the quality of gender research in the 80s.