Introduction. Recently, McCall and Meston presented an assessment tool for empirically categorizing stimuli associated with sexual desire in women. Significant differences in cues resulting in sexual desire were found between women with and without hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD). Aim. The present study examined differences in cues resulting in sexual desire between preand postmenopaus...

A scientific nomenclature of erotic age preferences informed the mid- through late nineteenth century joint appearance of homosexuality and sexual abuse of minors on the medico-legal scene. Yet, even in the twenty-first century, legal, psychiatric and culture-critical dimensions of related terms are rarely cleanly distinguished. Review of primary sources shows the ongoing Western suspension of ...

INTRODUCTION Intrapersonal touch is a powerful tool for communicating emotions and can among many things evoke feelings of eroticism and sexual arousal. The peripheral neural mechanisms of erotic touch signaling have been less studied. C tactile afferents (unmyelinated low-threshold mechanoreceptors), known to underpin pleasant aspects of touch processing, have been posited to play an important...

Abstract Sexual motivation strongly influences mate choice and dating behavior can be triggered by merely viewing sexually arousing visual images, such as erotic pictures movies. Previous studies suggested that men, more than women, tend to search for sexual cues signal promiscuity in short-term mates. However, it remains tested whether sex differences the view observed using robust well-contro...

Inspired by the greatly stimulating psycho-dramas of gothic and erotic fiction revolutionary potential Surrealism, Dorothea Tanning renovates images which aim to go into nature feminine (and infancy) sensual corporal experience, falling down frontier between real world imagination pro a smooth inventive wherein all odds can imaginably exist. The most famous work art is perhaps one from 1940s wh...

This essay historically explores philosophical views about the nature and significance of human sexuality, starting with the Ancient Greeks and ending with late 20th-century Western philosophy. Important figures from the history of philosophy (and theology) discussed include Sappho, Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, the Pelagians, St. Thomas Aquinas, Michel de Montaigne, Rene Descart...