What is Paramount to Pleasure?

Nothing.

Pleasure is the ultimate mental reward. There may be something to the idea that there are degrees of pleasure, but I think that zooms in too much for my purpose at-hand. As far as I can understand, it's a binary system; either you are pleased or you are not.

Things that do not please come to mind readily:
    -Poking yourself in the eye with a pencil
    -Failing a test
    -Confidently climbing a ladder and in your haste, missing a rung with your foot

The list of things that do not please has no end. Are there as many things that please as those that do not? I don't think so. I believe that displeasure is the default. Pleasure is a sign of non-displeasure. It's a signal indicating a potential for more things that may please you. We taste salt and it makes us want water. And what is water but the very physical foundation of our existence? So salt is a pleasing thing.

I'm just chipping at the fascia of an enormous monolith. Wish me luck.