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The Subtle Emotional Abuse That Happens in Intimate Relationships
The book Monsters In Love explains subtle forms of emotional abuse is relationships: sliming, overpowering, underpowering, optimistic gaslighting and spirit murder.
Hermes Solenzol
Jan 317 min read


In Defense of Scientism
Scientism, the idea that science is the best form of knowledge, is supported by the primacy of the scientific method and scientific worldview.
Hermes Solenzol
Jan 248 min read


Manuscript Analysis: How AI Edited My Novel ‘Cecilia Unleashed’
Manuscript Analysis is a feature of ProWritingAid that uses AI to edit novels. Here, I discuss its critique of my novel Cecilia Unleashed.
Hermes Solenzol
Jan 2126 min read


Woke Versus Liberal - A Quick Guide
Woke and liberal values in the Left are different in their stands on diversity, equality, inclusion, free-speech, rationality, wealth, health, sex, education and class.
Hermes Solenzol
Jan 36 min read


Dopamine D2 Receptor Downregulation Marks the Difference Between Drug Addiction and Compulsive Behaviors (Dopamine 5)
Compulsive behaviors like sex, exercise or gambling do not downregulate dopamine D2 receptors or produce changes in the brain similar to addictive drugs.
Hermes Solenzol
Nov 30, 202514 min read


Celebrating International Men’s Day
Misandry, the hatred of men, is invisible by manifested as a lesser value placed on the lives and interests of men compared to women.
Hermes Solenzol
Nov 19, 20255 min read


Dopamine D2 Receptor Downregulation Is the Hallmark of Addiction (Dopamine 4)
Dopamine D1 receptors mediate desire. The D2 receptors mediate self-control. Addictive drugs downregulate the D2 receptors, inducing the craving and impulsivity of addiction.
Hermes Solenzol
Nov 14, 202511 min read


Can dopamine be depleted from its synapses? (Dopamine 3)
The dopamine depletion that decreases mental energy can mean different alterations of the synaptic mechanisms that synthesize, store, release and eliminate dopamine.
Hermes Solenzol
Nov 6, 20259 min read


Pleasure Electrodes in the Brain (Dopamine 2)
Electrodes implanted in the reward pathway do not produce pleasure but craving.
Hermes Solenzol
Oct 10, 20257 min read


Does Sex Deplete Our Mental Energy? (Dopamine 1)
The idea of mental energy makes intuitive sense and is present in mystical traditions. However, there is little evidence that pleasure and sex decrease it.
Hermes Solenzol
Oct 3, 20258 min read


How to make a masochist rat
Pairing a painful stimulus with activation of the amygdala train rats to want the painful stimulus, possibly explaining why masochists desire pain.
Hermes Solenzol
Sep 8, 20252 min read


Debunking the Dopamine Myths
Professor Hermes Solenzol was interviewed in the Nicolas Procel Podcast about the dopamine myth prevailing in today’s culture.
Hermes Solenzol
Sep 6, 20252 min read


Is It True That Most Men Don’t Like Eating Pussy?
Scientific surveys show that most men like giving oral sex.
Hermes Solenzol
Jun 7, 202512 min read


In Defense of Adultery
Adultery can be excused when coercive monogamy leads to sexual deprivation.
Hermes Solenzol
Jan 29, 20255 min read


Is This the End of NATO?
Trump’s threats to annex Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal may result in the dissolution of NATO and the creation of an European Army.
Hermes Solenzol
Jan 28, 20259 min read


Cultivating Flow
Flow requires committing to a task with unbendable intention, abandoning the comfort zone and plugging power drains.
Hermes Solenzol
Jan 25, 202512 min read


Types of Ego
Ego types include survival, daring, caring, self-controlling, possessive, grandiose, wounded, victim and spiritual.
Hermes Solenzol
Jan 5, 202510 min read


What Happens in a Dominance/Submission Relationship?
Dominance-submission has the elements of obedience, surrender, service, discipline, demeanor, punishment and mind-fucking.
Hermes Solenzol
Dec 26, 202411 min read


Figging — the Kink of Putting Ginger Up Your Butt
Figging is inserting ginger in the anus or the vagina to produce a burning erotic sensation
Hermes Solenzol
Nov 30, 20248 min read


How the Rich Stole the Left
The Left has always been about decreasing economic inequalities and protecting the poor, but the rich subverted into wokeness.
Hermes Solenzol
Nov 24, 202416 min read
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