ANT211H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sexually Transmitted Infection, Sexual Stimulation, Preoptic Area
Document Summary
When there are problems in the expression of sexual hormones, then the development of sex organs can be different than the genetic sex. Film: discussion different types of problems of androgen and expression of sex hormones, as well as the differences in the brain morphology between sexes. Subjective sense of sexual excitement or arousal: it can be subjective. Particularly in humans, there is a lot of variability of what causes sexual arousal and sexual stimulation. But we know it is the interaction between many interactions in the body: sends signal to the brain that send cognitive signal to the brain. Then the brain mechanism will start to t initiate the mechanism of sexual arousal, or responses to that stimulation: ex: penile erection in males, or in females the lubrication in females. Interaction between: cognitive information processing, central brain mechanisms, peripheral physiological processes.
