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- Causes of sexual arousal during cold weather
- 1. Everyone wants to warm the body
- 2. The female body becomes more attractive in winter
- 3. Men's libido peaked during cold weather
- 4. Cold weather makes people vulnerable to depression so that they seek comfort in others
- 5. Emotional ties are stronger in winter
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The rainy season is often cited as the mating season. Because the cold weather makes people rush to find warmth, for example by hiding behind a blanket, brewing hot tea, or hugging a partner. This applies also to couples (couples) who become increasingly intimate when the weather is cold. How could that be? Find the answer in the following review.
Causes of sexual arousal during cold weather
According to Marisa Cohen, Ph.D., a psychology professor from St. Francis College in Brooklyn who is also the author of From First Kiss to Forever: A Scientific Approach to Lovepeople who feel cold tend to want warmth and intimacy. This then raises the desire to pair up and have sex. This condition is called a phenomenon cuffing season, namely the desire to establish a relationship in winter.
The following are some of the reasons why you are more eager to have sex during cold weather.
1. Everyone wants to warm the body
Cohen has studied a theory of how humans feel their bodies are closely related to their way of thinking. Cohen found that human social interactions tended to decline in the winter. Because, people usually become more lazy to go out of the house and choose to curl up behind a blanket.
However, the lack of this interaction actually makes the body physically feel cooler. This theory is also supported by a study in 2008 which found that participants who were exiled from their social environment had cooler body temperatures than before the study.
In essence, you will tend to feel cooler when you are alone. That is why you will look for activities or other things that can increase body temperature, including sex.
2. The female body becomes more attractive in winter
According to a study from the University of Wroclaw in Poland in 2008, men viewed a woman's body becoming more attractive in the winter. This does not usually occur during the summer.
The study involved 114 Polish men who were asked to rate their attractiveness in a woman's face, breast and body photos during the winter. The results show that photos of women's breasts and bodies look more attractive in winter.
Researchers suspect that men are more interested and desirous of women who show less skin surface because they are covered with sweater or warm clothes. Unlike the case in the summer, men are used to seeing women who dress minimal and show their body shape in the summer.
3. Men's libido peaked during cold weather
Reporting from the page of Men 's Health, researchers found that male testosterone levels peaked in December or during the winter or rainy season. This is presumably due to changes in climate patterns and sleep patterns. Testosterone is one of the hormones that regulate male sexual arousal. The higher the testosterone level, the higher the libido or sexual arousal.
4. Cold weather makes people vulnerable to depression so that they seek comfort in others
When the weather is cold, humans are not exposed to much sunlight. This turned out to affect male sexual arousal.
The brain plays a role in producing the hormone serotonin, which is a neurotransmitter (chemical in the brain) that affects happiness. Serotonin production is influenced by how much the body gets sunlight. If there is little sun exposure due to cloudy weather, a sensation of loneliness and depression will appear. As a result, moods tend to be unstable because the days feel shorter. This condition is also called seasonal affective disorder.
According to Dr. Justin LeMiller, a psychologist from Harvard University, changes in mood can invite a desire to have sex with a partner. That is why cold weather can increase couples sexual desire to have intercourse.
5. Emotional ties are stronger in winter
Still according to LeMiller, the winter which often coincides with the holiday season makes people spend more time at home to rest. This break time is used by couples to get closer to each other emotionally, for example by watching a romantic film, talking from heart to heart, to sexual intercourse.
These activities can help increase the levels of oxytocin and endorphins in the brain that regulate happiness. The more emotionally close you are with your partner, the more intense sex can occur. Regular sex can also help improve the body's immune system, one of which helps fight flu which is vulnerable to winter.
