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-There is no way that either diagram accurately depicts the nipples (and breasts).
2. -"stimulation was neither felt painful nor elicited... any sexual arousal". I do not possess a clitoris, but I expect that even in the most clinical of situations, stimulation of my penis would, eventually, result in some sexual arousal. I see they used a scale to check for arousal: -10 being lots, +10 being none. The range: −7.5 to +8.
3. -there was a paper published in the mid-90s that had stimulated research in this area: Allison, T., McCarthy, G., Luby, M., Puce, A. and Spencer, D. D. (1996). Localization of functional regions of human mesial cortex by somatosensory evoked potential recording and by cortical stimulation. Electroencephalography and clinical neurophysiology, 100(2):126-40.
2. -"stimulation was neither felt painful nor elicited... any sexual arousal". I do not possess a clitoris, but I expect that even in the most clinical of situations, stimulation of my penis would, eventually, result in some sexual arousal. I see they used a scale to check for arousal: -10 being lots, +10 being none. The range: −7.5 to +8.
3. -there was a paper published in the mid-90s that had stimulated research in this area: Allison, T., McCarthy, G., Luby, M., Puce, A. and Spencer, D. D. (1996). Localization of functional regions of human mesial cortex by somatosensory evoked potential recording and by cortical stimulation. Electroencephalography and clinical neurophysiology, 100(2):126-40.
"localizing functional regions of the mesial wall, based on 47 patients studied intraoperatively or following chronic implantation of subdural electrodes. Somatosensory evoked potentials were recorded to stimulation of posterior tibial, dorsal pudendal, median, and trigeminal nerves."
The foot sensory area occupied the posterior paracentral lobule, while the genitalia were represented anterior to the foot sensory area, near the cingulate sulcus."
It is true that there are few decently conducted studies of the the somatosensory mapping of the genitalia, so I think this study is worthy of mention since it is not an fMRI study but did suggest that the homonculitic representation of the genitalia were displaced towards (wait for it) the cingulate sulcus.
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-I stumbled upon this blog as a woman (with a biology background so I don't mind digging around on a neurology site) who finds her orgasms to be significantly heightened by having the bottoms of her feet held by her partner. It's like night and day, the sensation is so much more intense. I looked around online thinking surely there would be some sex sites with this little tip, but found nothing. I certainly don't know this body of literature, but is there any way that the proximity of the genitals to the feet in the homunculus could be responsible for this? It happens without fail, and I've had male sexual partners that report the same thing. Sorry to bother you with this, but I just can't find any information to explain this unexpected upside of my feet. (Nicole)
Anche sul canale di Pink Kandy viene affermato che la stimolazione mediante succhiamento dei capezzoli e dei piedi è in grado di provocare nella proprietaria del canale Youtube un orgasmo. La stimolazione del petto è generalmente riconosciuta, quella dei piedi solo in casi fortunati. Ci vuole del tempo, ma quando avviene produce grande piacere.