A paper just published in the journal Cortex discusses the nature of human erogenous zones: Reports of intimate touch
The results cast doubt on a number of popular theories about this topic – including one from a leading neuroscientist.
Oliver Turnbull and colleagues of Bangor University in the UK had 793 volunteers anonymously complete an online questionnaire. The participants were recruited from the UK and South Africa; they were mostly students. Volunteers rated each of 41 body parts on a scale of 1-10 for “ability to facilitate sexual arousal”.
It turned out that, across genders, sexual orientations, and nationalities, everyone agreed that the genitals were top, followed by mouth/lips, with nipples, nape of neck and thighs also highly placed. The correlation coefficients for average ratings across pairs of groups were extremely high at 0.9 or above: people agreed with each other.
Agreement on the most unerogenous zones was also strong: ...
