What Are The Psychological Aspects Of Human Sexual Behavior?
If you were to urge that the major sex organ is the brain, in a sense you would be right. Much of what is considered sexually arousing in our society has little or nothing to do with our genitals but instead is related to external stimuli which, through a process of learning, have come to be labelled as erotic, or sexually stimulating. Although people can learn to respond sexually to almost any stimulus, there is a good deal of agreement within a society or culture about what usually represents an erotic stimulus. In western society, large, full breasts a standard against which many males measure female appeal, but in many other cultures, breast size is irrelevant. For instance, in some cultures, plumpness is viewed as arousing, and in others, the female thigh is viewed as very erotic. Sexual fantasies also play an important role in producing sexual arousal. Men and women’s fantasies differ little from each other in terms of content or quantity. It is important to note that fantasies a
