The Erogenous Mirror: Intersubjective and Multisensory Maps of Sexual Arousal in Men and Women.

ABSTRACT: Erogenous zones of the body are sexually arousing when touched. Previous investigations of erogenous zones were restricted to the effects of touch on one's own body. However, sexual interactions do not just involve being touched, but also involve touching a partner and mutually looking at each other's bodies. We take a novel interpersonal approach to characterize the self-reported intensity and distribution of erogenous zones in two modalities: touch and vision. A large internet sample of 613 participants (407 women) completed a questionnaire, where they rated intensity of sexual arousal related to different body parts, both on one's own body and on an imagined partner's body in response to being touched but also being looked at. We report the presence of a multimodal erogenous mirror betw

SUBMITTER: Maister L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7641941 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature