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4 SYMPATHOADRENOMEDULLARY ACTIVITY, DIURESIS AND EMOTIONAL REACTIONS DURING VISUAL SEXUAL STIMULATION IN FEMALES AND MALES

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4 SYMPATHOADRENOMEDULLARY ACTIVITY, DIURESIS AND EMOTIONAL REACTIONS DURING VISUAL SEXUAL STIMULATION IN FEMALES AND MALES

Levi, Lennart
Journal of Internal Medicine , Volume 191 (S528) – Dec 12, 1972
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0954-6820
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10.1111/j.0954-6820.1972.tb06361.x
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4 SYMPATHOADRENOMEDULLARY ACTIVITY, DIURESIS AND EMOTIONAL REACTIONS DURING VISUAL SEXUAL STIMULATION IN FEMALES AND MALES By Lennart Levi about catecholamine excretion during sexual 4.1 The problem As already repeatedly pointed out, it has long arousal, probably because of the difficulties of been known that sympathoadrenomedullary re- inducing such feelings in controlled experiments. actions accompany the emotional reactions of Further indications of a possible relationship anger and fear (Cannon, 1929). A similarity be- between sympathoadrenomedullary and sexual tween the physiological concomitants of these function can be derived from the experiments in emotions and those accompanying sexual arousal rabbits reported by Markee et al. (19.52) sug- has been noticed by several authors (MacLean, gesting that “an adrenergic substance is liberated 1 965). For example, tachycardia, hyperventila- following mating”, because “if certain of the tion, pupillary dilatation, perspiration, and in- activities of adrenaline are blocked during the creased arterial blood pressure have been shown first minute after mating, ovulation is prevented”. to occur not only in anger and fear but also Finally, there is some scanty evidence that a during sexual arousal (Bartlett, 1956; Bernick chronic increase in sympathetic tone (e.g. evoked et al., 1968; Klumbie and Kleinsorge, 19.50; Lan- by unreleased

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Published: Dec 12, 1972

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