Vocalised sounds and human sex

Sexual and Relationship Therapy

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 99-107

  Levin, Roy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic sexual signals; Clitoral glans hypersensitivity; Coital vocalisations; Female and male orgasm; Genital muscular contractions; Hedonic amplification; Human sexual arousal; Hyperventilation; Linguistic and non linguistic sounds; Penile glans hypersensitivity

Indexed keywords

COITUS; EJACULATION; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MASTURBATION; NONHUMAN; ORGASM; REVIEW; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUALITY; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 32144440434     PISSN: 02674653     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14681990500438014     Document Type: Review

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