AROUSAL: This term refers to the emotional component of sexual response, the emotional reaction to interest. It does not have to be accompanied by any genital change. It is what some people call “HQ,” the Horniness Quotient.
This factor was also neglected in the early perspectives. Masters and Johnson described sexual response in terms of body cues (contractions, pulsations, emissions). Subjective experience teaches that ‘ ‘emotional arousal” does not have to lead to’ ‘evidence” of genital arousal, yet early in treatment, couples argued over the “fact” of arousal.
“You couldn’t be aroused,” said one wife. “You were as flaccid as a day-old noodle.”
“Neither were you aroused,” replied the husband. “You were as dry as a desert.” Both partners had been well indoctrinated in the early perspective of “you can’t feel it if you don’t show it.”
Both couples in the above two examples had not talked at all about the body to this point. They were talking about thoughts and feelings, two key aspects of the super sex paradigm.
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