Editing Sexual stimulation (section)

===Non-genital===
There are many areas through which a person can be sexually stimulated, other than the genitals. For example, the nipples, thighs, lips, and neck can all provide sexual stimulation when touched. 
[[File:Oral nipple stimulation small sharpened.png|thumb|Sexual stimulation of a nipple]]
; [[Nipples]]
: One study<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Levin |first1=Roy |last2=Meston |first2=Cindy |author-link2=Cindy Meston |year=2006 |title=Nipple/breast stimulation and sexual arousal in young men and women. |journal=The Journal of Sexual Medicine |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=450–454 |citeseerx=10.1.1.421.7798 |doi=10.1111/j.1743-6109.2006.00230.x |issn=1743-6095 |oclc=5154187115 |pmid=16681470}}</ref> administered a questionnaire about sexual activity to 301 participants and found that 81.5% of women reported that stimulating their nipples caused or enhanced sexual arousal and that 59.1% of them asked to have their nipples stimulated during sex. Furthermore, 51.7% of men reported that nipple stimulation caused sexual arousal, and 39% said that it enhanced their existing arousal. Research using<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Pappas |first=Stephanie |date=2011-08-05 |title=Surprise finding in response to nipple stimulation |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/surprise-finding-in-response-to-nipple-stimulation/ |access-date=2023-06-10 |website=CBS News |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite journal |last1=Komisaruk |first1=Barry R. |author-link=Barry R. Komisaruk |last2=Wise |first2=Nan |last3=Frangos |first3=Eleni |last4=Liu |first4=Wen-Ching |last5=Allen |first5=Kachina |last6=Brody |first6=Stuart |date=2011-10-01 |title=Women's Clitoris, Vagina, and Cervix Mapped on the Sensory Cortex: fMRI Evidence |journal=The Journal of Sexual Medicine |language=en |volume=8 |issue=10 |pages=2822–2830 |doi=10.1111/j.1743-6109.2011.02388.x |issn=1743-6109 |oclc=755915661 |pmc=3186818 |pmid=21797981}}</ref> [[Brain scan|brain-scanning technology]] found that stimulating nipples in women resulted in the activation of the genital area of the [[sensory cortex]]. The research suggests the sensations are genital orgasms caused by [[nipple stimulation]], and may also be directly linked to "the genital area of the brain".<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Levi |first=Roy J. |year=2006 |title=The breast/nipple/areola complex and human sexuality. |journal=Sexual & Relationship Therapy |volume=21 |issue=2 |pages=237–249 |doi=10.1080/14681990600674674 |issn=1468-1994 |oclc=360784295 |s2cid=219696836}}</ref> In women, one study indicated that sensation from the nipples travels to the same part of the brain as sensations from the [[vagina]], clitoris and cervix. Nipple stimulation may trigger uterine contractions, which then produce a sensation in the genital area of the brain.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" />
; [[Thigh]]s
: In 2012, the California Institute of Technology<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Gazzola |first1=Valeria |author-link=Valeria Gazzola |last2=Spezio |first2=Michael L. |last3=Etzel |first3=Joset A. |last4=Castelli |first4=Fulvia |last5=Adolphs |first5=Ralph |last6=Keysers |first6=Christian |author-link6=Christian Keysers |year=2012 |title=Primary somatosensory cortex discriminates affective significance in social touch. |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=109 |issue=25 |pages=1657–1666 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1113211109 |issn=0027-8424 |oclc=796036576 |pmc=3382530 |pmid=22665808 |doi-access=free}}</ref> measured brain responses in heterosexual males as they were having their inner thighs touched whilst being [[MRI Scanner|MRI scanned]]. They were either watching a video of a woman touching their thigh or a man touching their thigh. They reported more sexual pleasure when they thought it was the woman touching them than the man, and this was reflected in their MRI scans with greater arousal of their somatosensory cortex. It can be therefore concluded that the thighs are an area that can cause sexual stimulation when touched.
; [[Lip]]s
: Lips contain a huge number of [[nerve endings]] and are considered to be an erogenous zone. Women report experiencing more pleasure from the stimulation of their lips than men do (see below for sex differences in stimulation). In addition to stimulation of the lips by touching, men can be visually stimulated by looking at a woman's lips. It has also been<ref>{{Cite book |last=Symons |first=Donald |title=The Evolution of Human Sexuality. |title-link=The Evolution of Human Sexuality |publisher=Oxford university press. |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-19-987422-4 |location=New York |jstor=2825810 |oclc=729246375 |author-link=Donald Symons}}</ref> reported that men prefer women with fuller lips because they are an indicator of youth.
; [[Neck]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Turnbull |first1=Oliver H. |last2=Lovett |first2=Victoria E. |last3=Chaldecott |first3=Jackie |last4=Lucas |first4=Marilyn D. |year=2014 |title=Reports of intimate touch: Erogenous zones and somatosensory cortical organization |journal=Cortex |volume=53 |pages=146–154 |doi=10.1016/j.cortex.2013.07.010 |issn=0010-9452 |oclc=5902357995 |pmid=23993282 |s2cid=24804760}}</ref>
: A sample of 800 participants rated 41 different body parts on their erogenous intensity on a scale of 1–10 (10 being the most arousing). Females reported neck stimulation as being more arousing than men did.