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Sexual Arousal
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Sexual arousal is the process and state of an animal being ready for sexual activity.
Human sexual arousal
Unlike most other animals, human beings of both sexes are potentially capable of sexual arousal throughout the year, therefore, there is no human mating season. Things that precipitate human sexual arousal are colloquially known as turn-ons. Turn-ons may be physical, mental, or sexual fetish in nature. Given the right stimulation, sexual arousal in humans will typically end in an orgasm, but may be pursued for its own sake, even in the absence of an orgasm.
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Causes of human sexual arousal
Includes, but is not limited to:
- Natural feelings of desire
- The physical attractiveness, eye contact, smell, warmth, and touch of a (potential) sexual partner
Sexual foreplay
- Erotic thoughts, fantasies or dreams
- Presence of fetished objects
- Pornography
- Erotica
- Sex in advertising
- Masturbation
- Sexual roleplaying
- Voyeurism
Exhibitionism, particularly being flashed an otherwise taboo part of the body, such as the breasts, buttocks or genitalia - arousal in this case most often happens when a woman flashes a person or group of people of the opposite (or, in the case of lesbian viewers, sometimes the same) sex. Evidence of the popular extent of this arousal is evident in the popularity in Western society of the Girls Gone Wild enterprise and similar products. Teledildonics
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