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Note that these, in particular, are usually situations in which you have quite a bit of privacy...
Heh, I was kind of waiting for someone to say that. I have a hard enough time getting physically aroused starting from neutral; I don't think starting from angry would work at all. Frankly, I'm also a little creeped out by the idea of being physically aroused while very upset. It's an association I don't especially want to have.
(Also, I don't have enough focus to have a good orgasm and stand upright at the same time, which rules the shower out for safety reasons. :P)
Yeah, that is definitely the kind of thing that doesn't work for everyone.
More abstractly, though, the idea would be to deliberately induce misattribution of arousal - not necessarily to something sexual, just something that isn't angering.
(I'd expect that "make-up sex" would be related to this psychological quirk.)
Oh, weird. That's interesting, thank you. I'll think about other ways I could direct that energy--although I'm not yet sure that that alone would discourage the bad mood.
Maybe you won't be able to avert the "bad mood" itself, but you might also be able to displace your anger to a different target if you would prefer not to be angry at someone or something in particular. "Eat shotgun shells, demon scum!"
Haha. Yes, but any time that kind of distraction is available, so would various other nonviolent things. :)