The phrase "arousing thoughts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to describe something that stimulates or provokes ideas or feelings in someone's mind.
Example: "The artwork was so captivating that it left the audience with arousing thoughts about the nature of existence."
Alternatives: "provoking ideas" or "stimulating reflections".
Between 8 and 13 years old, children develop the cognitive ability to differentiate and employ abstract versus arousing thoughts in order to distract their minds from the reward and thereby increase the delay.
On a psychophysiological level similar findings have been reported in thought suppression experiments showing elevated electrodermal responses after suppression of arousing thoughts in subjects scoring high in the WBSI [33].
Sure, women can be attractive, and their images can inspire arousing thoughts, but the important thing to remember is that women are so much more.
We want our thoughts aroused and our feelings engaged.
But there are people out there, cuckolds, who are aroused by these thoughts.
Sexual fantasies are any thoughts that one finds arousing.
Sometimes we would hike out to a waterfall or cliff and stand wordlessly thinking about how much the pure and simple lines of the other's body resembled the waterfall or cliff, and become aroused at this thought.
The split-second, almost subliminal scene of some sexy girls dancing in little skirts inserted into a montage of violent mayhem, presumably so we'll all start to subconsciously become sexually aroused by the thought of death, and end up committing all manner of horrific atrocities because it's the only way we think we'll ever receive any form of love.
Maybe you're aroused by the thought of having kids and starting a life with someone you love.
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"Autogynephilia," a term coined by sex researcher Ray Blanchard in 1989, refers to the phenomenon of a person (in Blanchard's formulation, a natal male) being sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a woman (Blanchard, 1989; see also Blanchard, 2005).
