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Sexual Arousal
(redirected from Physiological arousal)

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arousal /arous·al/ (ah-rou´z'l)
1. a state of responsiveness to sensory stimulation or excitability.
2. the act or state of waking from or as if from sleep.
3. the act of stimulating to readiness or to action.

sexual arousal  physical and psychological responses to mental or physical erotic stimulation.

Sexual Arousal
A state of sexual readiness which has a mental component—increased cortical responsiveness to sensory stimulation—and physical component—increased penile sensitivity, neural response to stimuli, and sense of impending orgasm

sexual arousal
Horny/horniness, randy/randiness Physiology A state of sexual 'yellow alert' which has a mental component–↑ cortical responsiveness to sensory stimulation, and physical component–↑ penile sensitivity, neural response to stimuli, and sense of impending orgasm


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Additionally, chronic insomnia has been associated with increased physiological arousal.
Given that self-reported sexual arousal correlates reasonably well with physiological arousal (Haywood, Grossman, & Cavanaugh, 1990; Sakheim, Barlow, Beck, & Abrahamson, 1985), we expected that the two measures would remain related when men attempted to regulate sexual arousal.
We each function best and feel best at our own optimal level of physiological arousal.
 
 
 
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