Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

The Science of Sexual Arousal

27 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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A short recorded talk by Anne Truong MD explaining the physiology of sexual arousal. She describes how the five senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch) feed into the brain's arousal center, which processes emotion and releases stimulatory or inhibitory hormones that signal via nerves and the spinal cord to blood vessels and the corpus cavernosum muscle to produce arousal.

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We get aroused desire by the five senses that what you see, what you smell, what you taste, what you hear and what you touch, those are the five senses that feed into the brain, into the arousal center, which then process the emotion that you're in, which then releases stimulatory or maybe even inhibitory hormones in the brain, which then transmit to the nerve in the back of your head here down your spinal column, which then goes to the blood vessels, which then either open or close, and then go to the corpus cavernosa muscle.