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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
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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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Time course of effects of testosterone administration on sexual arousal in women.
Basson's model also addresses the biological and psychological factors that influence the processing of sexual stimuli, and in turn elicit sexual arousal. The crux of the model rests upon the sexual arousal to sexual desire link, which makes it differ fundamentally from early models of sexual response that predicate sexual arousal upon feeling sexual desire.
Another tenet of the model, which is corroborated by experimental findings, is that the information structures that support sexual arousal are built by conditioning.
Another 50 men who sniffed women's tears displayed physiological signs of reduced sexual arousal, such as a slow breathing rate and low salivary levels of the male sex hormone testosterone, relative to levels after sniffing a salt solution.
But initial experiments found that sniffing women's tears did not affect men's mood or empathy, but 'had a pronounced influence on sexual arousal.'" Sorry, ladies.
* Sexual arousal disorder: The persistent or recurrent inability to reach or sustain the lubrication and swelling reaction in the arousal phase of the sexual response to the point that it causes personal distress.
With sexual arousal disorders women may desire sex but do not become sufficiently aroused to complete the act.
NEW YORK -- The popularity of prescription-strength erectile dysfunction drugs has brought sexual arousal products into the mainstream and spurred the introduction of an over-the-counter segment dominated by a growing number of all-natural items.
The growing recognition of women's health and wellness has in turn prompted the debut of products that treat female sexual arousal disorder (FSAD).
Rather, PT-141 stimulates melanocyte receptors in the brain that play a role in sexual arousal. But ladies, don't throw out those little blue pills.
It quickly progressed to a scene about a naked man with a large manhood, a different man trying to hide his sexual arousal, and a woman who hinted that she had had sex with her brother.
-- Although the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders defines only one type of female sexual arousal disorder, there is now physiologic evidence that there are at least two subtypes of the disorder, Lori A.
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