J Sex Med January 2007 PMID 17233778

Thermography as a physiological measure of sexual arousal in both men and women.

Tuuli M Kukkonen, Yitzchak M Binik, Rhonda Amsel, Serge Carrier

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Abstract in brief

  • The study found that thermal imaging effectively measures sexual arousal by detecting increased genital temperature in both men and women during sexually explicit videos, compared to neutral or humorous content.
  • Genital temperature rise was strongly linked to participants' subjective feelings of arousal, indicating that thermal imaging reflects actual physiological responses.
  • Thigh temperature did not significantly vary across different video conditions, suggesting that genital thermal increases are more specific to sexual arousal, making thermography a promising, non-invasive tool for this purpose.

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@kanzlerin_grchk https://t.co/gwB2aOy8bf https://t.co/JRRGeMhr5D статьи 2007 и 2012 годов

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