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Quotes About Arousal

The authors first replicated this effect, showing that watching a short film clip of something physically disgusting made subjects more morally judgmental—unless they had washed their hands after watching the film. Another study suggests that the washing decreases emotional arousal, as it decreased the diameter of subjects' pupils.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
You could have sniffed once or twice," Karla said. "It said in an article I read that the smell of women's undergarments is very exciting to most men.
~ Larry McMurtry
The heat building inside her burst into flames.Her ass clenched,her breasts tightened into sensitive buds and she felt her pussy cream right before him.
~ Laura Wright
As Pierre Bourdieu signalled as long as two decades ago, coercion has by and large been replaced by stimulation, the once obligatory patterns of conduct by seduction, the policing of behaviour by PR and advertising, and normative regulation by the arousal of new needs and desires.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Your high arousal also fuels negative and judgmental thinking, which further fuels negative emotional arousal—a vicious cycle.
~ Alan E. Fruzzetti
Morin's now-famous "erotic equation" states that "attraction plus obstacles equal excitement."6 High states of arousal, he explains, flow from the tension between persistent problems and triumphant solutions.
~ Esther Perel
It is the very absence of psychological complexity that fuels his arousal.
~ Esther Perel
Imagination—that's the key word here. With your affairs, the arousal starts on your flight over there. You don't need the blue pill because what turns you on is the plot, the planning, the carefully chosen clothes. All the anticipation is what fuels the desire. When you come home and the first thing you do is take off your nice clothes and put on old sweatpants, nobody's going to get turned
~ Esther Perel
Imagination—that's the key word here. With your affairs, the arousal starts on your flight over there. You don't need the blue pill because what turns you on is the plot, the planning, the carefully chosen clothes. All the anticipation is what fuels the desire. When you come home and the first thing you do is take off your nice clothes and put on old sweatpants, nobody's going to get turned on.
~ Esther Perel
As she slid into sleep one fact remained with her, a fact that would not be dismissed. When he had held her in his arms, and moved into her, she had felt nothing, even though she was aware of his arousal. That would be the way of it now.
~ Anita Brookner
Do you want me? she whispered, licking him again. She felt very warm, and slightly drunk with her feminine power. Desire was unfurling inside her, opening like a flower. Her breasts throbbed, and she rubbed them against his leg. He gave a strangled laugh, almost undone by her natural sensuality. Look a few inches to your right and tell me what you think.
~ Linda Howard
In their propaganda today's dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationalization—the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationalization of passions which may be used in ther interests of the Party or the State.
~ Aldous Huxley
I bow my head submissively and see that my chest is heaving, already dotted with the telltale flush of sexual arousal.
~ Donna George Storey
Why would a person want to be beaten, humiliated, ordered around and otherwise inconvenienced so that you can feel big? Well, because bottoming is very, very sexy too. There is tremendous luxury in giving up responsibility and power to a top, in being small, possibly childlike, in having your behavior controlled, in getting nurtured while being subjected to all kinds of intense stimulations. Fear can be arousing…
~ Dossie Easton
minds had not only detected this subtle sign of arousal," she continued, "but had known it for what it was. And had even managed
~ Douglas E. Richards
Come on, baby, light my fireTry to set the night on fire.
~ Jim Morrison
Painter's mouth dropped down to my ear, catching it in his teeth just tight enough to hurt. I felt the hardness between his legs grinding into me as need exploded through my body. He smelled so good . . . My hips twisted, desperate for more. Painter groaned.
~ Joanna Wylde
Among the short-lived races, pleasure slaves became emotionally unstable after a few years. It took decades among the long-lived races, but eventually the combination of aphrodisiacs and constant arousal without being allowed any release twisted something inside the males. After that, with careful handling, they still had their uses, but not as pleasure slaves. Daemon had been a pleasure slave for most of his life.
~ Anne Bishop
The age-old defense of men, blaming the woman for acting on the desire he had deliberately aroused.
~ Anne Gracie
Emotions are the complex conjunction of physiological arousal, perceptual mechanisms, and interpretive processes; they are thus situated at the threshold where the noncultural is encoded in culture, where body cognition, and culture converge and merge.
~ Eva Illouz
People may chuckle appreciatively at a male turkey that tries to mate with a poor rendition of a female's [suspended] head, but if you then point out that many a human male regularly gets aroused after looking at two-dimensional representations of a nude woman, they don't see the connection.
~ Robert Wright
Decaf is like masturbating with an oven mitt!
~ Robin Williams
rippling response stroking over his cock.
~ Lora Leigh
You aroused his . . . that surely was very indiscreet.
~ Ronald Firbank