Desire,arousal and pain: psychotherapist Pamela Stephenson Connolly answers the questions most commonly asked by readers of the Sexual Healing columnSexual desire is normal for most people. The urge itself is a complex combination of intellectual ideas and fantasies. It is generally connected to a physiological response, but one that can theoretically be separated – for instance, or one’s body may become aroused in the presence of someone with whom it would be inappropriate to hold sex. The mental wish for sex – either a specific enthusiasm to be erotically connected with another being,a desire to masturbate or a more general longing without a specific object – can precede, follow or be simultaneous with actual physiological arousal.
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Source: theguardian.com