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Jun 24, 2021 · Phase 1: Excitement. As you get excited, your heart beats faster and your breathing gets heavier. Your skin may redden. More blood flows to your genitals. The clitoris swells and the penis gets...
Sep 30, 2019 · Sex hormones: Androgens play a key role in both stimulating and maintaining sexual function in man, being critical for penile tissue development, growth, and maintenance of erectile function. Estradiol is responsible for the behavioral development of male mammals, acting either by increasing or decreasing male‐typical behaviors.
- Rocco S. Calabrò, Alberto Cacciola, Daniele Bruschetta, Demetrio Milardi, Fabrizio Quattrini, France...
- 10.1002/brb3.1389
- 2019
- Brain Behav. 2019 Dec; 9(12): e01389.
Excitement phase. The excitement phase (also known as the arousal phase or initial excitement phase) is the first stage of the human sexual response cycle, which occurs as a result of physical or mental erotic stimuli, such as kissing, making out, fantasizing or viewing erotic images, that leads to sexual arousal.
- William H. Masters, Virginia E. Johnson
- 1966
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The SRC is composed of four phases: Excitement: Activation of the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system defines the excitement phase; heart rate and breathing accelerates, along with increased blood flow to the penis, vaginal walls, clitoris, and nipples.
Sexual Response Cycle. The sexual response cycle is one model of physical and emotional changes that happens when you’re participating in sexual activity. There are four phases in this cycle. Orgasm is the shortest phase. What is the sexual response cycle?
Based on these observations, Masters and Johnson divided the sexual response cycle into four phases that are fairly similar in men and women: excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution (). The excitement phase is the arousal phase of the sexual response cycle, and it is marked by erection of the penis or clitoris and lubrication and expansion ...
Nov 11, 2022 · Phase 1: Excitement. General characteristics of the excitement phase, which can last from a few minutes to several hours, include the following: Muscle tension increases. Heart rate quickens...
