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Notes:
Stimulation is what gets you aroused

Autonomic nervous system responds to signals from central nervous system(brain)

From Cancer & Sexual Health


 * sympathetic and parasympathetic systems
 * During physiological sexual arousal, the body prepares itself for sexual activity. It does this through the autonomic nervous system by engaging the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.
 * Controls:
 * blood flow to genital and erectile tissues and sympathetic blood flow from the heart
 * blood flow to smooth muscles that participate in sexual responses like increased breathing rate, heart rate, pupil dilation, and more
 * brain activation
 * When viewing visual stimuli, the medial prefrontal cortex of the brain was found to be active.

From Textbook of Female Sexual Function and Dysfunction

From The Psychology of Human Sexuality
 * Sexual stimulation factors
 * Societal
 * Psychological
 * Physiological


 * The limbic system plays a role in how sexual stimuli are received
 * "Electrical stimulation of the limbic system is highly pleasurable and can sometimes generate orgasmic responses."
 * Taste can be a source of stimulation
 * Some people enjoy the taste of natural bodily secretions (e.g., semen, vaginal fluids)
 * Some people find them the taste of natural bodily secretions a turn off.
 * They cover up any natural bodily tastes through the use of flavored lubricants, mouthwashes, and mints.

From Sexual arousal and orgasm in subjects who experience forced or non-consensual sexual stimulation – a review


 * Sexual arousal occurs simultaneously as a mental and physical state.
 * An unexpected but acceptable physical stimulus can lead to a near-instantaneous mental arousal.
 * Sexual stimuli from non-physical senses (hearing, vision, smell) and fantasy can initiate mental arousal.

From Men versus women on sexual brain function: Prominent differences during tactile genital stimulation, but not during orgasm

What I want to add:
 * during stimulation of the erect penis, the right claustrum (cerebral cortex), insula (sympathetic and parasympathetic systems), secondary somatosensory cortex, and occipitotemporal cortex were recruited
 * during clitoral stimulation, the main activations were in the left somatosensory area 2 as well as in the left primary somatosensory cortex
 * The amygdala was deactivated in men and in women

Added smell to the list of stimuli in the beginning

When sexual stimulation is perceived, there are systems in the brain that receive the stimuli and respond to it. During physiological sexual arousal, the autonomic nervous system responds to signals from central nervous system and prepares the body for sexual activity. The autonomic nervous system engages the parasympathetic and sympathetic systems, which are responsible for blood flow to genital and erectile tissues, and to muscles that participate in sexual responses. This results in responses like increased breathing rate, heart rate, and pupil dilation. The limbic system also plays a part in how sexual stimuli are received. A study done about pleasure and brain activity in men showed that electrical stimulation of the limbic system is highly pleasurable, and can sometimes generate orgasmic responses. During genital stimulation different areas of the brain are activated in men and women. For men, a study saw that genital stimulation caused part of the cerebral cortex and the insula, which is a part of the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems, to activate. For women, during clitoral stimulation parts of the secondary somatosensory cortex were activated. In both men and women the amygdala was deactivated.