Neuroscience of Arousal
The neurochemical cocktail of jealousy-arousal. Misattribution, sympathetic activation, threat response.
Threat Processing and Pair Bonding: The Neuroscience of Reclaiming
Reclamation sex — the intense sexual reconnection that often follows a partner's sexual encounter with another person — appears to engage the same neu
Sympathetic Nervous System Activation and the Erotic Transfer
The sympathetic nervous system — the branch of the autonomic nervous system responsible for fight-or-flight responses — activates a cascade of physiol
The Neurochemical Cocktail: Cortisol, Dopamine, and Testosterone in Cuckolding
The physiological experience of cuckolding arousal involves a specific neurochemical cocktail: elevated cortisol from the stress of perceived sexual t
Misattribution of Arousal: When Your Brain Confuses Fear for Desire
Misattribution of arousal is the psychological phenomenon in which physiological activation from one source — exercise, fear, anger, or novelty — is i
From Fight-or-Flight to Surrender: Nervous System Regulation in the Lifestyle
Nervous system regulation — the deliberate practice of moving between sympathetic activation (fight-or-flight) and parasympathetic rest (ventral vagal
Why Danger Heightens Sexual Response: The Evolutionary Wiring
Evolutionary psychologists propose that the coupling of danger and sexual arousal is not a malfunction but an adaptive response: organisms that could
The Cuckold's Brain: What fMRI Would Show If Anyone Studied It
No functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study has yet examined brain activation patterns in individuals who experience sexual arousal from a p
The Bridge Study That Explains Why Jealousy Makes You Hard
In 1974, psychologists Donald Dutton and Arthur Aron conducted an experiment on British Columbia's Capilano Suspension Bridge that would reshape how w