Women’s finger pressure sensitivity at rest and recalled body awareness during partnered sexual activity

Costa, Rui Miguel; Pestana, José; Costa, David da; Wittmann, Marc

doi:10.1038/ijir.2017.13

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“…Intensity of the awareness of the body before and after drinking was assessed by a visual analogue scale with a picture representing a human figure drawn with lines of different thickness. Responses relative to the figure vary between 1 (the least thick lines) and 7 (the thickest lines [ 2 , 28 , 46 – 48 ].…”

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The power of Dionysus—Effects of red wine on consciousness in a naturalistic setting

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There is lack of research on effects of red wine on consciousness when drank in wine bars designed to enhance the pleasurableness of the wine drinking experience. Effects of a moderate dose of red wine (≈ 40.98 g of ethanol) on consciousness were examined in a naturalistic study taking place in a wine bar located in one of the most touristic areas of Lisbon, Portugal. One hundred two participants drank in one of three conditions: alone, in dyad, or in groups up to six people. Red wine increased pleasure and arousal, decreased the awareness of time, slowed the subjective passage of time, increased the attentional focus on the present moment, decreased body awareness, slowed thought speed, turned imagination more vivid, and made the environment become more fascinating. Red wine increased insightfulness and originality of thoughts, increased sensations of oneness with the environment, spiritual feelings, all-encompassing love, and profound peace. All changes in consciousness occurred regardless of volunteers drinking alone, in dyad or in group. Men and women did not report different changes in consciousness. Older age correlated with greater increases in pleasure. Younger age correlated with greater increases in fascination with the environment of the wine bar. Drinking wine in a contemporaneous Western environment designed to enhance the pleasurableness of the wine drinking experience may trigger changes in consciousness commonly associated with mystical-type states.

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“…A variety of sexual touches have been identified from survey data (e.g., Willis & Rinck, 1983), indicating certain touch pressures, patterns and styles may be predictive of pleasure in sexual intercourse (Herbenick et al, 2018). Greater tactile sensitivity is related to increased sexual (penile vaginal) intercourse (Brody et al, 2008), as well as increased orgasms following penile vaginal intercourse and enhanced sexual arousal in females (Costa et al, 2017). Greater vibrotactile sensitivity is also related to better erectile function in men -suggesting that tactile sensitivity, across sexes, may be important to sexual arousal and function (Rowland, 1998).…”

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The Functions of Human Touch: An Integrative Review

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Stevenson

2024

J Nonverbal Behav

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There appears to be no attempt to categorize the specific classes of behavior that the tactile system underpins. Awareness of how an organism uses touch in their environment informs understanding of its versatility in non-verbal communication and tactile perception. This review categorizes the behavioral functions underpinned by the tactile sense, by using three sources of data: (1) Animal data, to assess if an identified function is conserved across species; (2) Human capacity data, indicating whether the tactile sense can support a proposed function; and (3) Human impaired data, documenting the impacts of impaired tactile functioning (e.g., reduced tactile sensitivity) for humans. From these data, three main functions pertinent to the tactile sense were identified: Ingestive Behavior; Environmental Hazard Detection and Management; and Social Communication. These functions are reviewed in detail and future directions are discussed with focus on social psychology, non-verbal behavior and multisensory perception.

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“…Higher scores indicated greater awareness of body and space. For example, the degree of bodily self-awareness during the last sexual encounter correlated positively with finger pressure sensitivity in women (Costa, Pestana, Costa, & Wittmann, 2017). Participants marked their sense of time passage through the questions "How intensively did you perceive time?"…”

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The Sense of Time While Watching a Dance Performance

2017

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Although the judgment of time is an important experience embedded in the context of cognitive and emotional appraisal of events, there are few studies concerning perceived time within an ecologically valid context. Watching a cultural event such as a dance performance is a paradigmatic situation in which viewers perceive time differently as a function of performance characteristics and viewers’ personal engagement. We staged two dance pieces that differed in speed of movement performed by a professional female dancer. Fifty-two participants watched both performances in counterbalanced order and rated their impressions, senses of self, and perceptions of space and time. On average, spectator-participants liked the faster dance better than the slower dance and felt more positive afterward. During the fast dance, participants focused more on the dancer’s breathing and less on their own body. Participant’s subjective perceptions were that time seemed to pass more slowly during the slow dance, but participants estimated the faster dance to have lasted longer. Path analyses revealed that paying attention to one’s bodily signals mediated the feeling of time. As typical flow states are characterized by positive feelings during an activity, as well as by a diminished sense of self and time, these results suggest that the participant’s average response reflected a relatively stronger flow state in the fast dance condition. Future studies might be encouraged assessing time perception in a variety of real-life situations. Participants’ responses could then be assessed with different methodological approaches.

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Women’s finger pressure sensitivity at rest and recalled body awareness during partnered sexual activity

Cited by 4 publications

References 25 publications

The power of Dionysus—Effects of red wine on consciousness in a naturalistic setting

The power of Dionysus—Effects of red wine on consciousness in a naturalistic setting

The Functions of Human Touch: An Integrative Review

The Sense of Time While Watching a Dance Performance

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