The sexual arosal or excitement process

 Mental and physical erotic feelings exist together, and both go through the same stages in the process of being sexually exited:

- You usually get aroused by something reminding you about sex: Seeing a nice boy, girl, man or woman. Feeling some type of sensual smell. Seeing the picture of a beautifull person or some nice body parts. Hearing words reminding you of something sexually pleasant. By just thinking freely and remembering something sexy. You now feel that your genital organ gets filled with blood and engorges. A woman gets wet between her legs, a man may feel prostate fluid comming own the urethra - so called  pre-cum.

-Then you act to stimulate yourself: Looking more actively. Beginning to masturbate. Involving in sexual activities with a partner. Both the psychological feelings and the physical sensations now increase, and you get into the next state of sexual excitement. In this state the whole physilogy of your body changes: The heart is  beating faster. The digestive process slows down. The skin and muscles of your whole body get filled with blood. This altered physiology give you sensations in your whole body. You feel warmer, feel the heartbeats through your body, feel pleasurable waves flowing upp through your body.

-As you persist in the sexual activity, you get into a state of sexual ecstacy. In this state your sexual feelings and thoughts directly connected to the pleasure are even stronger, and these thoughts and feelings are the only thoughts, and feelings that you sense in your mind and body.

-During all these stages, you have the consistent urge or drive your excitement to even higher levels. This urge make you  stimulate yourself consistently and steadily more intensely.

--The feelings culminate in the orgasm,

-After the orgasm, you still feel sexual pleasure, but on a lower level, and in a calm and satisied way And you do not any more feel the urge to intensify your actions and feelings.

The anatomy and physiology of sexual arousal

The central organ of sexual arousal is the limbic system, a part of the brain situated deep inside and far down in the cerebrum or great brain. The limbic system is connected by nerve tracks to higher brain areas responsible for thought processes and with nerve tracks going down through the spinal cord to the sexual organs and other sexually excitable body areas.

Sexual thought processes trigger signals to be sent to the limbic system that then gets excited, The escitement in the limbic system trigger signals back to the higher brain areas that stimulate even more sexual thought processes. This signalling back and forth excites the limbic system steadily more towards the orgasm.

Sexual thought processes will stimulate sexual actions. These actions stimulate sensorial bodies in the genitals and other sexual body parts.

Sexual body parts that are stimulated will send signals up to the limbic system. Also these signals trigger excitement in the limbic system. The excited limbic system then sends signals back to the sexual body parts that react by erection and other bodily excitement reactions. Then even more signals are sendt up to the limbic system that gets steadily more excited towards the orgasmic climax.

Mental or psychological feelings and processes

The mental feelings and thoughts can be divided in several components:

-There is an intellectual component in that you are thinking about some object that give you sexual pleasure, fantasizing about some sexual actions or planning what to do.

-You have the feeling of  excitement.

-You have the feeling of urge or hunger to get more and more.

-And you also have a component of beeing glad.
 

The physical feelings

 The physical components of the sexual arosal, are those feelings that are situated in specific body parts.

-Pleasure felt in your genital area.

-Pleasure felt in other parts of your body connected to altered physiological body processes.

-Periodic waves or ticking thrills going through your body.

What triggers the  feelings of sexual arosal and pleasure

Stimulations that trigger mental erotic feelings will also to some extend cause physical feelings. Also feelings of pleasure trigger each other. Mental excitement trigger physical sensations in your genital, and genital pleasure trigger teh mental components of the arousal. Component triggering the mental arosal are:

-Seeing something sexually attractive

-Hearing some sound reminding you of sexual pleasure.

-Thinkig about sexual situations.

-Some smells are highly arosing, for example: Smells from a perons genital or rectal region, smell of secretions from some persons skin, smell from some types of spice or perfume.

-Some sorts of taste trigger arosal, for example the taste of a parters secretions, the taste of some spices

-Mechanical stimulation of the genitals, the buttocks or anal region, the preast nipples, the navel.

-Mechanical stimulation of the lips and thongue by kissing and oral sex.

-The engorgement of the genitals and the perineal region during sexual arosal give a strong stimulation to sensorial bodies in this region.

-Substances in many herbs and spices stimulate the mental and physical arousal chemically. Examples are herbs like ginseng, epidemium, hawthorn, damiana, johimbe, cayenne, basilicum, kofee, tea.

What decreases arousal and sexual pleasure
 

Factors that are a hinderance to sexual arosal, are many, but these are the most usual.

-Bad physical condition from lack of physical exercise.

-Obesity.

-Overeating or the opposite - hunger.

-Unhealthy food or too less food.

-Depression.

-Sad thoughts.

-Exhaustion from to hard sporting activities or from too hard work.

-Distractions, for example being reminded about work and duties the whole day.

-To sexual partners do not agree on what they like, what to do or haow to do it

-To partners want to have sex at different times or periods of the day.

-Systemic circulatory problems.

-Circulatory problems in the genital region that make engorgement and erections difficult.

-Digestive problems that make you constipated, or inflated. This will press on the genital region and disturbe the genital physiology.

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