Turned on in the blink of an eye–your body is getting ready for sex before your brain!
Ah sex. Such an awesome science topic. You get to discuss something that is often spoken in hushed tones in the name of science. So you think you know when you’re turned on? Guess what … your body is already getting primed for sex before you are even conscious of it. How’s that for unconscious desire!
According to the sequence put forward in the mid-20th century by the pioneering sex researchers William Masters, Virginia Johnson and Helen Singer Kaplan, a sexual encounter begins with desire, a craving for sex that arises of its own accord and prods a person to seek a partner. That encounter then leads to sexual arousal, followed by sexual excitement, sex, climax and resolution.
In a series of studies at the University of Amsterdam, Ellen Laan, Stephanie Both and Mark Spiering demonstrated that the body’s entire motor system is activated almost instantly by exposure to sexual images, and that the more intensely sexual the visuals, the stronger the electric signals emitted by the participants’ so-called spinal tendious reflexes. By the looks of it, Laan said, the body is primed for sex before the mind has had a moment to leer.
Moreover, she said, arousal is not necessarily a conscious process.
Source: ThirdAge
I’m sure the study participants enjoyed participating in the study, but really it goes to show how complex we really are. Even take out the part about sex, this is almost a “Spidey sense” isn’t it? You are “aware” of something and your body is priming up for it before you know it.
It makes you wonder if the idea of pre-cognition is really just science fiction doesn’t it?
Tags: sexual desire, sex, sex science
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