Remembered Pleasure

When you step outside your familiar routine and go for experiences a little outside your comfort zone, you reduce your anticipatory pleasure and maybe even your actual pleasure. Why? Because your anticipation will contain some degree of anxiety, and your actual experience may be both good and bad. Like going to a new restaurant or traveling to a foreign country, you don't know exactly what to expect and the experiences themselves can be challenging. There's risk involved - but there's also the potential for some wonderful surprises.

When you're willing to risk giving up some anticipatory and actual pleasure, you open the door to new and interesting experiences which often enrich your life and build memories. Taking it into the sexual arena, introducing novelty into your sex life creates memorable experiences that can bring you and your partner closer together. You can also draw on those memories to stimulate future desire. Maybe during those times when routine sex is all you want.