The body parts touched by the avatar were: foot, knee, thigh, genitals, belly, breast, shoulder, head, forearm, and hand. Each trial started with the observation of the participant’s own virtual body. Then the touching avatar appeared and after about 1 s caressed a given body part. ...
So let's go back to those two beings conceived at the beginning of this talk. We have two beings, both conceived in the middle of 1979 on the exact same day. Let's imagine one of them, Mary, is born three months prematurely, so she's born on June 1, 1980. Henry, by contrast, ...
Embodying an artificial agent through immersive virtual reality (IVR) may lead to feeling vicariously somatosensory stimuli on one’s body which are in fact never delivered. To explore whether vicarious touch in IVR reflects the basic individual and soci
Just be aware it’s kind of hard to turn a friend with benefits relationship into a serious boyfriend/girlfriend thing. As long as you’re both honest about what you want from the affair, and what you don’t want, it’s going to be a lot of fun for the both of you. So, Which ...
Sexual arousal: The correspondence of eyes and genitals Biological Psychology 104, 56-64MC Stief, G Rieger, RC Savin-Williams Bisexuality is associated with elevated sexual sensation seeking, sexual curiosity, and sexual excitability Personality and Individual Differences 66, 193-198...
“nappy” and had to be pressed. Both my sisters were slimmer than me: my oldest sister was short and curvy, and my second oldest sister was thin and muscular, with a tiny waist and large breasts. With my brown hair, brown skin, brown eyes and thick thighs, I most closely resembled ...
Often, when a baby is born intersex — meaning that they were born with sex characteristics (including genitals, gonads, and chromosome patterns) that don’t fall within strict definitions of male or female — doctors recommend “normalising” surgeries to make their genitals look more like how ...
They met with the expectation that they should prefer a vaginal birth, depicted as a “natural” birth, where giving birth without pain relief –like the primal woman – was most idealized. They claimed that such expectations were expressed both from caregivers and people in their acquaintance. ...
It was the first marriage for us both. I still feel my heart quicken when I come home to him, and I still laugh with him every day. Since we met, I hear it echo in my head: I get to be happy. Some used to tell me I’d only find the “right person” when I was ready....
I once broke up with a girl because she couldn't ever decide on something. I would say, "Lets go to the movies" and I'd even ask what movie she wanted to see, and she would NEVER make up her mind. Drove me nuts.Turns out she had another boyfriend, and when I confronted her ab...