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The Dissenter · 2026-09-07 · 42 min · 5,653 words

#1303 Charmaine Borg: Sexual Arousal, Sexual Disgust, and Sexual Dysfunction

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Hello, everyone. Welcome to a new episode of The De Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopez, and today I'm joined by Dr. Charmin Borg. She is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Gröning. She's a certified psycho sexologist and an expert in clinical and experimental psychology, and today we're going to talk about sexual arousal, sexual disgust. psychopathology and other related topics. So Doctor Borg, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to everyone. Thank you for the invite and it's a pleasure for me to be here as well. Okay.

So uh I would like to start by asking you about sexual arousal before we get into the part of your work where you explore sexual disgust and how it can have an interplay with sexual arousal. So How do people get sexually aroused? What triggers it? So Sexual arousal is triggered when the brain interpreted a stimulus as a sexually relevant or rewarding stimulus.

Mm. This can happen through different pathways as you know yourself. Um it can be visual cues that seeing someone at Uh walking next to you that you are um Triggered by that trick. by the sexual stimulus now, um, which is a common trigger I believe. But arousal can be also

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