The pleasure zone The article focuses on human sexuality, pleasure, and sexual health.

The article notes how men and women experience sexual activity differently, according to research by Herbert Samuels of the Foundation for Scientific Study of Sexuality. Topics include orgasm that leads to sleep, foods that increase sex drive, and sexual expression through masturbation. It also notes the role of emotional wellness in one's sexual life.

A brief update on the specificity of sexual arousal. In this article I review research on specificity of sexual arousal conducted since 2005. Three lines of investigation - sexual psychophysiology, visual attention and brain response demonstrate convergence; women's response is non-specific whereas men's is specific to preferred sexual stimuli. The implications of these findings, with respect to the nature of sexual features that elicit genital response in women, the relationship between sexual orientation and sexual arousal and the role of genital-subjective concordance in women's sexual functioning, are discussed.

Sociosexuality and sexual arousal This study investigated the relationship between sociosexuality--one's willingness to engage in uncommitted sexual activity--and heterosexual women and men's patterns of sexual arousal to stimuli varying by gender and relationship context. Assessments were made of 23 women's and 20 men's self-reported sexual arousal and genital arousal to conditions where the sexual targets were unfamiliar (i.e., strangers) versus familiar (i.e., friends and long-term relationship partners) to the participant and to relationship contexts that were uncommitted (i.e., strangers and friends) versus committed (i.e., long-term relationship partners). Sociosexuality was found to significantly predict genital arousal to partner familiarity for male and female sexual targets, and predicted genital arousal to relationship commitment where the sexual actor was male, but for women only. This may indicate that, under certain circumstances, gender cues are a salient factor in women's sexual responding; the relationship between gender cues and specificity of sexual arousal may be conditional upon individual differences such as sociosexuality and relationship context cues. Sociosexuality did not significantly predict women's and men's self-reported sexual arousal patterns. This is the first study to demonstrate that sociosexual orientation is related to patterns of genital sexual response

A brief review and discussion of sex differences in the specificity of sexual arousal The article offers a review and discussion of sex differences in the specificity of sexual arousal. According to the author, there are many sex differences in human sexuality including physical,

psychological, and psychophysiological variations. Topics include an overview of sex differences in the psychophysiology of sexual orientation, non-specificity of sexual arousal in women, and the implications of a non-specific and automatic sexual response system for female sexuality

A Sex Difference in the Specificity of Sexual Arousal Sexual arousal is category-specific in men; heterosexual men are more aroused by female than by male sexual stimuli, whereas homosexual men show the opposite pattern. There is reason to believe that female sexual arousal is organized differently. We assessed genital and subjective sexual arousal to male and female sexual stimuli in women, men, and postoperative male-tofemale transsexuals. In contrast to men, women showed little category specificity on either the genital or the subjective measure. Both heterosexual and homosexual women experienced strong genital arousal to both male and female sexual stimuli. Transsexuals showed a categoryspecific pattern, demonstrating that category specificity can be detected in the neovagina using a photoplethysmographic measure of female genital sexual arousal. In a second study, we showed that our results for females are unlikely to be explained by ascertainment biases. These findings suggest that sexual arousal patterns play fundamentally different roles in male and female sexuality.