It's the kind of overtly sexual imagery that's so overt in its attempt to seduce that it actually repulses, or at least sends the viewer into a state of sexual-ennui and a place where arousal seems about as likely as finding true love on Tinder.
Lust, in this formulation, resides in the subjective, the cognitive; physiological arousal reveals little about desire.
The fantasy — and her arousal — was about her perfect body.
The entire procedure from induction to arousal required about 3 min.
Methodological studies of emotionally salient processing of visual stimuli at rapid presentation rates (3 to 5 Hz) revealed an effect of affective arousal at about 150 ms after the stimulus onset [ 17].
I also teach them some basic anatomical information about arousal, for instance how the vagina stretches deep inside, how important lubrication is (for all kinds of sex) and how erections work (for the penis and clitoris).
It's all about arousal, and arousal is the common link between pleasure and feeling good.
Internalized stigmas about arousal issues, rapid ejaculation, sex addiction, jealousy, negative body image or other difficulties can compound the inherent problem by keeping the sufferer from relating them to a partner.
I ran into Schrager recently and mentioned that I'd read her (Sarah White's, rather) writing on Naked Therapy™ and was interested in it, both in regard to what she'd said about arousal and in terms of its being a completely strange performance-art project.
