[NSFW?] How do you sublimate your desires?

Freud originally described the concept of sublimation strictly in terms of libido, aka “Sex”. But I’ll use Harry Stack Sullivan’s definition:

”...unwitting substitution of a partial satisfaction with social approval for the pursuit of a direct satisfaction which would be contrary to one’s ideals or to the judgment of social censors and other important people who surround one.”

What is it that you sublimate, and how does it show up in your life? What makes you do it? Do you think that the consequences of acting on your desires are really so serious that if you behaved in alignment with your desires that you would be worse off?