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PSAS (Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome)
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Also known as: PSAS · persistent genital arousal · PGAD · persistent genital arousal disorder · involuntary arousal · Restless Genital Syndrome · permanent genital arousal · constant arousal without cause · RGS
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It does not stop. A genital arousal you did not want, arriving without sexual desire, not resolving with orgasm — or only for minutes before returning. It is not longing. It is not desire. It is a physical state that feels as though someone flipped a switch you can no longer switch back.
Medically, PSAS is described as a disorder of genital arousal without subjective desire — a misfiring in the nervous system that activates the arousal response even though no corresponding impulse is present. Those affected describe it as tormenting, shameful, isolating. It is the opposite of pleasure — it is a body doing something you do not want, and not stopping.
The psychosomatic question is not: why is your body aroused? It is: what inner pressure is so great that it discharges all the way into your most intimate bodily experience?
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