Editing Sexual stimulation (section)

===Auditory===
Auditory stimulants may also serve to intensify sexual arousal and the experience of pleasure. Making sounds during sexual arousal and sexual activity is widespread among primates and humans. These include sighs, moans, strong expirations and inspirations, increased breathing rate and occasionally, at orgasm, screams of ecstasy. Many of these sounds are highly exciting to people, and act as strong reinforcers of sexual arousal, creating a powerful positive feedback effect.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Levin | first1 = R. J. | year = 1992 | title = The mechanisms of human female sexual arousal | journal = Annual Review of Sex Research | volume = 3 | pages = 1–48 | doi=10.1080/10532528.1992.10559874}}</ref> Thus, [[Female copulatory vocalizations|copulatory vocalisations]] are likely to serve mutual sexual stimulation for mating partners.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Hamilton | first1 = W. J. | last2 = Arrowood | first2 = P. C. | year = 1978 | title = Copulatory vocalizations of chacma baboons (Papio ursinus), gibbons (Hylobates hoolock), and humans | journal = Science | volume = 200 | issue = 4348| pages = 1405–1409 | doi=10.1126/science.663622 | pmid = 663622| bibcode = 1978Sci...200.1405H }}</ref>

Even when not coupled with "touching", sounds can be highly sexually arousing. Commercial erotic material (mainly produced for the male market) uses such sounds extensively. As early as the 1920s and 30s, several genres of singers turned to "low moans" for erotic effect. [[Vaudeville]] Jazz singers often incorporated sex sounds into the narrative of the lyrics. Even contemporary music such as [[Prince (musician)|Prince]]'s "Orgasm" or [[Marvin Gaye]]'s "[[You Sure Love to Ball]]" includes sounds of the female orgasm.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Corbett | first1 = J. | last2 = Kapsalis | first2 = T. | year = 1996 | title = Aural Sex: The Female Orgasm in Popular Sound| journal = TDR| volume = 40 | issue = 3| pages = 102–111 | doi=10.2307/1146553| jstor = 1146553 }}</ref> Research has shown music to be an auditory sexual stimulant. In one mood induction study, exposure to certain music resulted in significantly greater [[penile tumescence]] and subjective sexual arousal for men.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Mitchell | first1 = W. B. | last2 = DiBartolo | first2 = P. M. | last3 = Brown | first3 = T. A. | last4 = Barlow | first4 = D. H. | year = 1998 | title = Effects of positive and negative mood on sexual arousal in sexually functional males | journal = Archives of Sexual Behavior | volume = 27 | issue = 2| pages = 197–207 | doi = 10.1023/A:1018686631428 | pmid = 9562901 | s2cid = 28731412 }}</ref> In a similar experiment, women did not show significant physiological responses to certain types of music but did report higher levels of sexual arousal.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Laan | first1 = E. | last2 = Everaerd | first2 = W. | last3 = Van Berlo | first3 = R. | last4 = Rijs | first4 = L. | year = 1995 | title = Mood and sexual arousal in women | journal = Behaviour Research and Therapy | volume = 33 | issue = 4| pages = 441–443 | doi=10.1016/0005-7967(94)00059-s| pmid = 7755530 }}</ref> Further studies have looked at the connection between auditory stimulation and the experience of sexual pleasure. Whilst the highest levels of physiological and subjective arousal were found for visual stimuli, spoken-text was found to elicit sexual arousal in men, implicating sounds as a means of sexual stimulation.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Julien | first1 = E. | last2 = Over | first2 = R. | year = 1988 | title = Male sexual arousal across five modes of erotic stimulation | journal = Archives of Sexual Behavior | volume = 17 | issue = 2| pages = 131–143 | doi=10.1007/bf01542663| pmid = 2456050 | s2cid = 41278617 }}</ref> [[Phone sex]] is one type of arousal inducer that makes use of this effect.