100 Posts About Pleasure
An Index
Photo by Marcel Eberle on Unsplash
Hello, my pleasure-loving readers! This is my hundredth post at The Pleasure Principle! An essay on pleasure almost every week? Really? How long can I keep it up? I truly don’t know. Sometimes I worry that the bucket has hit the bottom of the well. And then I scoop up some more water.
I do know that this writing practice has been personally transformative, helping me understand myself and pleasure better, increasing my writing fluency (and unleashing metaphors!), and sharpening my focus.
To say nothing of shaping my week. With my self-imposed Tuesday publication schedule, I often think and write on Sunday and find a photo and schedule the piece on Monday night. Then every Tuesday at 11:11, I get the piece back to me in my inbox, knowing that all my subscribers are getting it, too, which still seems miraculous. On Tuesday I get some reaction, which I love, though I don’t get a lot of it. Apparently, people in my demographic are less likely than others to “heart” or to comment. I’m developing the “liking” and commenting habit myself, knowing how happy just a heart can make a writer.
On Wednesday morning, Substack gives me my stats (likes, comments, opens), but my readers are likely to open and comment days and sometimes weeks afterwards. I love that. It means that they’ve saved my posts to read later. It would be all to easy to simply delete them!
The Tent of Pleasure is capacious, and I’ve written about all sorts of things, usually discovering my thoughts as I write. These posts fall into different categories, and I’ve provided links to some of my favorite posts . . . though they may not be yours! Within each category, they are listed in the order I wrote them. All 100 posts can be accessed at:
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/publish/posts
There, you can put any of the titles below into the search box and click to read the whole piece.
PLEASURE, GENERALLY
The Pleasure Principle Explained
*** Too Much Pleasure: https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/too-much-pleasure
Strange Pleasures
Pleasure in Danger
We Need Pleasure
The Problem with Pleasure
Vicarious Pleasures
Enchanting Act 1
SPECIFIC PLEASURES
Mind Games
The Pleasure of Clothing, Part 1
The Pleasure of Clothing, Part 2, with Chat GPT
The Pleasure of Reading a Newspaper
Marijuana 201
The Pleasure of Pockets
The Pleasure of Accents
Ignoble Pleasures
The Beach Car
Word Games
Why Women Love Lingerie
*** The Pleasure Dogs Bring
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/the-pleasure-dogs-bring
A Recipe for Pleasure
Nitrous Oxide
What’s in a Nickname?
The Pleasure of Cursive
The Pleasure of Playing with Kids
*The Joy of Running: Really? Oh, Come On!
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/the-joy-of-running
The Senses
Playing with Fire
Ah-choo!
Watching Water
Getting Into Hot Water
*** The Pleasure of a Pedicure
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/the-pleasure-of-a-pedicure
Skin Hunger
Human Beauty
Three Massages
The Sounds of Silence
Watching Birds
SLEEP
The Body in the Bed
The Silent Bed
Sweet Sleep
SEX AND LOVE
Biological Fireworks
The Gray Affair
*** Sex at Dawn
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/sex-at-dawn
The Big O
The Orgasm Gap
Love over Fifty
Humor and Eros
Do You Miss Making Out?
*** Is it Love or is it Adrenaline?
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/is-it-love-or-is-it-adrenaline
The Lost Art of Flirtation
*** Sexual Fantasy
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/sexual-fantasy
PHILOSOPHICAL/OTHER
Surprise!
Treasured Objects
*** The Pleasure of Virtue
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/the-pleasure-of-virtue
Transgression
Escaping Your Comfort Zone
Laughing About Old Age
Pet Peeves
Final Pleasures
Treasures from the Past
Anticipation
Waxing Nostalgic
The Incurable Optimist
Vindication
The Pleasure of Changing Your Mind
The Pleasure of Paradox
More than Pleasure
Just the Right Challenge
Damsel in De-Stress
*** Adult Children
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/adult-children
The High Contrast Life
SOCIAL LIFE
*** Shall We Dance?
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/shall-we-dance
Hello Neighbor
People Watching
Compliments
The Pleasure of Being Known
Flaunting Your Flaws
No Face-Time
*** Dinner Parties
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/dinner-parties
The Anxiety of Giving
Pleasure, Meet Patrice
Who Am I?
WRITING
The Pleasure of Creation
A short story at the end of Nitrous Oxide
*** Poem: 13 Ways of Looking at an Eclipse
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/13-ways-of-looking-at-an-eclipse
Confessions of a Word Geek
The Pleasure of Fiction
Generosity at the A & P
*** Writing and Editing
(In his newsletter, NY Times columnist Frank Bruni cited a sentence from this post in his feature, For the Love of Sentences. I don’t have to tell you which sentence: as a friend said, with disdain, “It’s very showy.”)
https://catherinehiller.substack.com/p/writing-and-editing
META: WRITING ABOUT THIS SUBSTACK
Introducing the Pleasure Principle
The Year of Writing Dangerously
The Pleasure of Writing a Substack
Why I Write About Pleasure
100 Posts about Pleasure: this very post!
100 posts on pleasure! What an accomplishment! May you continue to drench yourself in pleasure for the rest of your days. May we all :)
Impressive.