Human Pheromones and Sexual Attraction

Pheromones and Human Sexuality

• Androstadienone (AND) is a testosterone-like substance found in male sweat, saliva, and urine.
• Estratetraenol (EST) is an estrogen-like substance found in female urine.
• I-pyrroline is a substance found in human semen, pubic sweat, and smegma.

Gustatory Experience

• People respond uniquely to stimulation of taste, which is influenced by sexual experiences and the significance of the erotic stimulus.
• Dopamine is the main facilitator of sexual arousal in both men and women.

Tactile Experience

• Human skin accounts for 16 to 20% of the body weight.
• Touch has elements of tactile, thermal, and vibrational sensations.
• Erogenous zones are areas of the body sensitive to touch, with primary zones being highly sensitive and secondary zones being supportive of the primary zones.

Auditory Experience

• Sexual activities involve verbal communication, with sounds providing additional context to sexual situations.
• Couples may use verbal erotic encouragement or verbal expressions of affection to trigger sexual responses.

Men and Masculinities

• Masculinity is a social, cultural, and historical construct dependent on factors like class, ethnicity, sexuality, age, and disability.
• Multiple masculinities exist across different cultures and periods of history.
• Hegemonic masculinity refers to the culturally dominant form of masculinity in a given setting, which is not the only form of masculinity present.

Sexual Behavior

• Sexual behavior is an action with sexual intention and context, involving erotic behaviors and primary or secondary erotic zones.
• Masturbation is a form of auto-erotic behavior.
• Homoerotic behaviors are sexual behaviors oriented to the same sex, while heteroerotic behaviors are oriented to the other sex.

Sexual Behaviors

• Ventral-ventral position refers to male and female species facing each other, while ventral-dorsal position refers to the abdomen of the male species facing the dorsum of the female species.
• Non-copulatory behaviors include hugging, kissing, and caressing.
• Fellatio refers to oral stimulation of the penis, while cunnilingus refers to oral stimulation of the vagina.
• Anal sex involves stimulation or penetration of the anal orifice.

Sexual Response Cycle

• The sexual response cycle is a sequence of events from arousal to orgasm to resolution of sexual tension.

Reproduction

• Reproduction is one of the ultimate goals of the sexual act, involving fertilization of the ovum by a sperm.
• Ejaculation is the process of a human male releasing sperm into the internal reproductive system of a human female.
• Copulatory behavior relates to the insertion of the penis into the vagina.