How does the brain create the experience of joy and desire? That’s the subject of David Linden’s new book, The Compass of Pleasure. A professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of ...

Learning how the sexual brain-body connection works can help us work it better. Educating ourselves about sexuality and the critical role pleasure plays in healthy living is key.

We crave food and sex like other animals. Yet humans find pleasure in an assortment of unusual ways—why do we like scary movies so much? What’s the appeal of abstract art? And, how can we explain ...