Sexiest parts of the body revealed by neuroscientists

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http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/sep/07/neuroscientists-sex-brain


Jane Fonda is punished by Milo O’Shea in the Excessive Machine ‘orgasmatron’ in 1968’s Barbarella. Photograph: Rex/Everett Collection


The mind, said Raquel Welch, is an erogenous zone. And it is the brain, and how it organises our erogenous zones, that has intrigued scientists for decades. Why is a nuzzled neck sexy when few would be turned on by a nuzzled nose? And why do men seem to have fewer erogenous zones than women? A new study has measured just how erotic our body bits are – and there are a few surprises for neuroscientists.

The research, a joint project between two British universities and one in South Africa, is billed as the first "systematic survey of the magnitude of erotic sensations from various body parts".

Perhaps the biggest surprise was that feet were not considered sexually attractive by the 800 people, mostly from Britain and sub-Saharan Africa, who took part in the study.

Three quarters gave their feet the lowest, zero rating – alongside knee caps – which might disappoint those who have invested time and energy in developing their foot massage or toe-sucking techniques.

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1. This is what Foucault referred to when he spoke of the scientia sexualis...

The medicalization of human sexuality. The shifting away of the formation and maintenance of sexuality from self, from the I, to the medical text, the inanimate mind.

I do not believe that sexuality, so much a product of our consciousness, can be confined so crudely to the barriers within the mapping of the mind.

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2. "Neuroscientists, he said, had already come up with the optimal speed to stroke human skin ....

(5cm per second if you wish to test it out at home)."