The Brain is the Most Powerful Sex Organ
When we think of sexual organs our minds tend to veer down to the naughty parts between our legs. Where our minds should be veering is... well... our minds. The real catalyst for sexual activity resides in the brain, not in any form of genitalia. That's why sexually-driven language and communication -- dirty talk -- is such an effective means of arousal. When partners talk dirty, they're in effect stroking the right organs.
Over at Medical Daily, Lizette Borreli does a great job summarizing a wealth of scientific research on the subject, as well as on the larger topic of the brain's role in sexual activity. For example, sex drive has been found to originate in the hypothalamus, where hormones like testosterone are produced. That men have larger hypothalami explains why their sex drives tend to exceed those of their women peers. Sexual partners who prefer to be submissive in bed do so because it stimulates the amygdala, one of the brain's fear centers.
Dirty talk, as with the previous examples, achieves arousal because it's fine-tuned to stimulate the right parts of the brain. It feeds both our need for intimate human conversation and our lust for sexual activity. Thus, it provides a multi-layered sexual experience that extends further than just physical touch. Dirty talk works because it's sex through suggestion, and to brains that love implication, suggestion can be just as powerful as full-on execution.
Read more at Medical Daily
Below, psychotherapist Esther Perel draws the line between sexuality and eroticism:
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