Many younger females and, for that matter, a certain portion of the older and married female population, may engage in such specifically sexual activities as petting and even intercourse without discernible erotic reaction. (Alfred Kinsey)
Jane, that arousal covers many things from looks, type, opportunity. As a man I am not aroused simply by looks or ever. My lovers have been over a wide range. Using aroused within the physical I think is a mistake for both men and women.
I remember a beautiful black woman who spoke endlessly and adoringly of a man she knew and when we met him he was gangly, spotty and hardly a male model in the traditional sense. She saw what we couldn't see. There was a programme on TV I watched where a beautiful woman was set up with one partner but abandoned him to live with a much older man whose face was covered in tattoos. OK, I hate tattoos, but she clearly didnt. If people were interested only in specific glamourised types there'd be no children.
Thanks Stanley. I am not talking about sexual attraction. I am asking about the female erotic turn-ons that might cause arousal and orgasm. Men refer to women's crotch or penetrative sex. What causes women to orgasm with a lover. The mental arousal that men experience is rarely referred to in accounts of female sexual response. This gap in our knowledge is significant. I don't believe that women are aroused with a lover because they are always the receiver of male ejaculate. So they don't need to be aroused.