scholarly journals The Erogenous Mirror: Intersubjective and Multisensory Maps of Sexual Arousal in Men and Women

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 2919-2933
Author(s):  
Lara Maister ◽  
Aikaterini Fotopoulou ◽  
Oliver Turnbull ◽  
Manos Tsakiris
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Arousal ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Internet Sample

Abstract Erogenous zones of the body are sexually arousing when touched. Previous investigations of erogenous zones were restricted to the effects of touch on one’s own body. However, sexual interactions do not just involve being touched, but also involve touching a partner and mutually looking at each other’s bodies. We take a novel interpersonal approach to characterize the self-reported intensity and distribution of erogenous zones in two modalities: touch and vision. A large internet sample of 613 participants (407 women) completed a questionnaire, where they rated intensity of sexual arousal related to different body parts, both on one’s own body and on an imagined partner’s body in response to being touched but also being looked at. We report the presence of a multimodal erogenous mirror between sexual partners, as we observed clear correspondences in topographic distributions of self-reported arousal between individuals’ own bodies and their preferences for a partner’s body, as well as between those elicited by imagined touch and vision. The erogenous body is therefore organized and represented in an interpersonal and multisensory way.

The erogenous mirror: Intersubjective and multisensory maps of sexual arousal

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manos Tsakiris ◽  
Lara Maister ◽  
Aikaterini Fotopoulou ◽  
Oliver Turnbull
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Arousal ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Internet Sample

Erogenous zones of the body are sexually arousing when touched. Previous investigations of erogenous zones were restricted to the effects of touch on one’s own body. However, sexual interactions do not just involve being touched, but also involve touching a partner and mutually looking at each other’s bodies. We take a novel interpersonal approach to characterize the self-reported intensity and distribution of erogenous zones in two modalities: touch and vision. A large internet sample of 613 participants (407 women) completed a questionnaire, where they rated intensity of sexual arousal relate to different body parts, both on one’s own body and on an imagined partner’s body in response to being touched but also being looked at. We report the presence of a multimodal erogenous mirror between sexual partners, as we observed clear correspondences in topographic distributions of self-reported arousal between individuals’ own bodies and their preferences for a partner’s body, as well as between those elicited by imagined touch and vision. The erogenous body is therefore organized and represented in an interpersonal and multisensory way.

Out-of-Body-Like Experiences are More Probable in People with Elevated Complex Partial Epileptic-Like Signs during Periods of Enhanced Geomagnetic Activity: A Nonlinear Effect

1995 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 563-569 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Persinger
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Coefficient ◽  
Geomagnetic Activity ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Nonlinear Effect ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Experimental Setting ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
Men And Women

The ratings of subjective experiences of the self “leaving” or of being detached from the body were obtained (over a 3-yr. period) for a total of 128 men and women who had been exposed only once to an experimental setting which enhances the awareness of cognitive processes. As hypothesized, the individuals who exhibited the greatest proportion of complex partial epileptic-like signs also reported the most intense experiences of detachment from the body; however, these occurred primarily when the geomagnetic activity on the day of the experiment exceeded about 15 nT but was less than about 45 nT. Geomagnetic activity for the day after or the three days before the experiment was not associated with these experiences. The effect was equivalent to a correlation coefficient ( eta) of .38.

scholarly journals Satisfaction with a Body Image as a Component of Subjective Well-Being of a Person

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 100-113
Author(s):  
A. V. Khavylo ◽  
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M. S. Sittseva ◽  
I. I. Eremina ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
The Body ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Subjective Happiness ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Men And Women

The article is concerned with the study of satisfaction with a body image as a component of subjective well-being of a person, and the analysis of interconnection of these phenomena. The sampling included 560 people aged from 16 to 42. The study used “the Scale of Satisfaction with Living Standards”, “the Scale of a Positive Affect and a Negative Affect”, “the Scale of Subjective Happiness”, “the Scale of Satisfaction with One’s Own Body”, and “the Body Image Inventory”. The study has revealed that satisfaction with one’s own body and its parts has a positive impact on the level of subjective well-being of men and women; satisfaction with body parts influences dissatisfaction with one’s own body on the whole with varied degree in both groups. There are differences in the connection of individual characteristics with satisfaction with one’s own body and the elements of subjective well-being of men and women.

9. Organ Donation and the Ownership of Body Parts

2020 ◽  
pp. 472-531
Author(s):  
Jonathan Herring
Keyword(s):  
Organ Donation ◽  
Organ Transplant ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Body Part ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Living Body ◽  
Tissue Act ◽  
Human Tissue Act

This chapter examines legal and ethical aspects of organ donation and body part ownership. Topics discussed include the Human Tissue Act 2004; liability for mishaps from organ transplant; the shortage of organs for transplant; xenotransplantation; selling organs; face transplants; and the living body as property. Running through this chapter is a discussion of whether it is preferable to see the body and parts of the body as property or whether they need their own system of legal protection through a statute. This debate ties into broader discussions about the nature of the self and what makes bodies valuable.

8. Organ Donation and the Ownership of Body Parts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Herring
Keyword(s):  
Organ Donation ◽  
Organ Transplant ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Body Part ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Living Body ◽  
Tissue Act ◽  
Human Tissue Act

This chapter examines legal and ethical aspects of organ donation and body part ownership. Topics discussed include the Human Tissue Act 2004; liability for mishaps from organ transplant; the shortage of organs for transplant; xenotransplantation; selling organs; face transplants; and the living body as property. Running through this chapter is a discussion of whether it is preferable to see the body and parts of the body as property or whether they need their own system of legal protection through a statute. This debate ties into broader discussions about the nature of the self and what makes bodies valuable.

scholarly journals A Novel Self-Intersection Penalty Term for Statistical Body Shape Models and Its Applications in 3D Pose Estimation

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaiqiang Wu ◽  
Wei Jiang ◽  
Hao Luo ◽  
Lin Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Pose Estimation ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
3D Pose Estimation ◽  
Penalty Term ◽  
Partial Derivatives ◽  
Shape Models ◽  
Low Dimensional

Statistical body shape models are widely used in 3D pose estimation due to their low-dimensional parameters representation. However, it is difficult to avoid self-intersection between body parts accurately. Motivated by this fact, we proposed a novel self-intersection penalty term for statistical body shape models applied in 3D pose estimation. To avoid the trouble of computing self-intersection for complex surfaces like the body meshes, the gradient of our proposed self-intersection penalty term is manually derived from the perspective of geometry. First, the self-intersection penalty term is defined as the volume of the self-intersection region. To calculate the partial derivatives with respect to the coordinates of the vertices, we employed detection rays to divide vertices of statistical body shape models into different groups depending on whether the vertex is in the region of self-intersection. Second, the partial derivatives could be easily derived by the normal vectors of neighboring triangles of the vertices. Finally, this penalty term could be applied in gradient-based optimization algorithms to remove the self-intersection of triangular meshes without using any approximation. Qualitative and quantitative evaluations were conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness and generality of our proposed method compared with previous approaches. The experimental results show that our proposed penalty term can avoid self-intersection to exclude unreasonable predictions and improves the accuracy of 3D pose estimation indirectly. Further more, the proposed method could be employed universally in triangular mesh based 3D reconstruction.

The Borders of the Self: Contamination Sensitivity and Potency of the Body Apertures and Other Body Parts

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Rozin ◽  
Carol Nemeroff ◽  
Matthew Horowitz ◽  
Bonnie Gordon ◽  
Wendy Voet
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Contamination Sensitivity

It’s My Body and I’ll Do What I Like With It

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 724-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Surrogate Motherhood ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Monetary Compensation ◽  
Clear Thinking ◽  
The Mind

What, if any, is the problem with treating bodies as objects or property? Is there a defensible basis for seeing bodies as different from “other” material resources? Or is thinking the body special a kind of sentimentalism that blocks clear thinking about matters such as prostitution, surrogate motherhood, and the sale of spare kidneys? I argue that the language we use does matter, and that thinking of the body as property encourages a self/body dualism that obscures the power relations involved in all contracts that cedes authority over the body. Recognising the self as embodied, however, also makes it harder to insist on sharp distinctions between activities that involve the body and those that “just” involve the mind, hence harder to justify refusing payment for explicitly body services while condoning it for those to which the body is more incidental. I therefore provide a modest defence of monetary compensation for those who “donate” bodily products or services. Compensation does not, however, mean markets for there is at least one sense in which the body is special. This is that more so, and more intrinsically than other markets, markets in body parts or bodily services depend on inequality. I use this to make a case against such markets.

Shared Mapping of Own and Others' Bodies in Visuotactile Bimodal Area of Monkey Parietal Cortex

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroaki Ishida ◽  
Katsumi Nakajima ◽  
Masahiko Inase ◽  
Akira Murata
Keyword(s):  
Parietal Cortex ◽  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Visual Responses ◽  
Motor Representation ◽  
Body Representations ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
The Brain

Parietal cortex contributes to body representations by integrating visual and somatosensory inputs. Because mirror neurons in ventral premotor and parietal cortices represent visual images of others' actions on the intrinsic motor representation of the self, this matching system may play important roles in recognizing actions performed by others. However, where and how the brain represents others' bodies and correlates self and other body representations remain unclear. We expected that a population of visuotactile neurons in simian parietal cortex would represent not only own but others' body parts. We first searched for parietal visuotactile bimodal neurons in the ventral intraparietal area and area 7b of monkeys, and then examined the activity of these neurons while monkeys were observing visual or tactile stimuli placed on the experimenter's body parts. Some bimodal neurons with receptive fields (RFs) anchored on the monkey's body exhibited visual responses matched to corresponding body parts of the experimenter, and visual RFs near that body part existed in the peripersonal space within approximately 30 cm from the body surface. These findings suggest that the brain could use self representation as a reference for perception of others' body parts in parietal cortex. These neurons may contribute to spatial matching between the bodies of the self and others in both action recognition and imitation.

Body images among men and women of different ages

1999 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 629-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER ÖBERG ◽  
LARS TORNSTAM
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Response Pattern ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Body Images ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Different Ages

The exterior territories, or surfaces, of the body have become symbols of the self in late modernity. People are increasingly overwhelmed with messages of youthful ideals: how to stay young or how to get old without signs of ageing. However, studies of the effects of these images on people's own experiences as they grow older seem to be lacking. The present paper reports an empirical study which focuses on body image for men and women of different ages. Four hypotheses, derived from social gerontological theories, are developed and tested against data: the female beauty hypothesis, the double marginality hypothesis, the ageing mask hypothesis and the ageless self hypothesis. The survey, undertaken by 2,002 Swedes, reveals a response pattern with basically positive body images that, for women, is increasingly positive with age. The results are, thus, in sharp contrast to the gerontophobic messages from consumer culture as well as contrary to some gerontological theories.

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