The researchers were interested in the preference for touch and how it relates to other personality characteristics because of the previous research about how touch can convey emotions and feelings. Researchers conducted a pilot study to obtain scenarios that might be beneficial to use in creating a preference for touch scale. They developed the scale and posted the scale online as well as a li...

Adult undergraduate men (n=38) and women (n=33) were categorized as erotica "users" (n=34) and "non-users" (n=37) based on their responses to screening questions and completed computerized delay and probability discounting tasks concerning hypothetical money and erotica. Erotica users discounted the value of erotica similarly to money on three of the four erotica tasks; erotica non-users discou...

The author’s idea. idea of this photographic project was to create an erotic work, namely such images that contain elements fine art, which are closely intertwined with the myths and legends ancient Greece. Throughout history, both historical aspects stylistic visual art each era explored intersected.
 is based on story characters as Eros, three graces – Innocence, Beauty, Love. During dev...

The effects of fragrance on sexual response in women were investigated using subjective and physiological measures of sexual arousal and of mood. Responses were obtained from female participants in three different fragrance conditions (female fragrance, male fragrance, and a "blank" or neutral substance), as they viewed erotic and sexually neutral films, and fantasized about sexual situations. ...

Unconventional sensual, erotic, and sexual behaviors (herein referred to as kink behaviors) investigated by academia are based largely on clinical and criminal cases, and most published, peer-reviewed, quantitative research on these behaviors is based almost exclusively on male participants. For this study, information was collected and analyzed from 1580 female participants recruited from the ...

Colleges and universities provide academic and social opportunities for undergraduates. They also provide a context for students to explore romantic and sexual relationships, and to learn about sexuality. The menu of sexual learning opportunities provided by a college might be referred to as its erotic curricula. To understand if institutional cultures matter for the sexual development of young...

It has long been posited that among emotional stimuli, only negative threatening information modulates early shifts of attention. However, in the last few decades there has been an increase in research showing that attention is also involuntarily oriented toward positive rewarding stimuli such as babies, food, and erotic information. Because reproduction-related stimuli have some of the largest...

INTRODUCTION Transsexual phenomenon is very complex, which is confirmed in everyday practice with these patients. There are many reasons why we have chosen to present this patient's case report. CASE OUTLINE The aim of this case report was to indicate how our female-to-male (FtM) transsexual patient tried to change her own sexual drive with the purpose of showing high adaptation in social env...

Autogynephilia, an erotic interest in the thought or image of oneself as a woman, has been described as a sexual interest of some male-to-female transsexuals (MTFs); the term has not been applied to natal women. To test the possibility that natal women also experience autogynephilia, an Autogynephilia Scale for Women (ASW) was created from items used to categorize MTFs as autogynephilic in othe...

Individuals with gender identity disorder (GID), who are commonly referred to as transsexuals (TXs), are afflicted by negative psychosocial stressors. Central to the psychological complex of TXs is the conviction of belonging to the opposite sex. Neuroanatomical and functional brain imaging studies have demonstrated that the GID is associated with brain alterations. In this study, we found that...