Reduces stress levels
The same way meditation does.You know that feeling when your brain has seventeen tabs open at once? Work. Messages. To-do lists. Life.
Pleasure gives your attention somewhere completely different to go. Instead of analysing everything, you're brought back into your body, your breathing and what you're feeling right now.
That's exactly why that post-pleasure moment can feel so calm: for a few minutes, your body gets permission to stop performing and simply switch off.