This Is the Voice by John Colapinto

Author:John Colapinto
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2021-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

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Whether you’re straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or trans, certain acoustic changes to the voice are universal during erotic arousal. This is because the vocal tract behaves much like the sex organs—which is to say that, in the early stages of the sexual response cycle, the mucus membranes in the larynx (like those in the vagina) secrete lubricant, coating the vocal cords in sticky mucus that limits their efficiency in chopping the airstream and lends the voice a husky, breathy quality in both men and women. It also makes pitch control difficult, which is why your voice veers weirdly when you’re trying to talk to someone who is making your heart race with romantic and erotic excitement. Meanwhile, swelling in the tissues of the throat and tongue (much like that of the penis and vulva) softens the walls of the vocal tract’s resonance chambers, so that they absorb and muffle higher overtones, lending the voice a velvety texture. Our ears can detect, and interpret, these acoustic signals of desire—which is why, on a first date, you might be communicating more than you intend when you innocently ask for the salt.58

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