Sexual behavior: stimulation by painful electrical shock to skin in male rats.
A mildly painful electric shock lasting 0.5 second was delivered every 30 seconds to the skin of male rats while they were with a receptive female rat. Sexual behavior occurred, with brief latency, after shocks; thus, successive shocks resulted in a pacing of sexual behavior. This effect is attributed to periodic augmentation of sexual arousal by a periodic, nonspecific arousing stimulus (that is, shock).
D000818:Animals; D001143:Arousal; D004542:Ejaculation; D004597:Electroshock; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain; D051381:Rats; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D012867:Skin