Quantitative sensory testing (QST) protocols assessed touch and pain thresholds and warmth detection and
heat pain thresholds at a control site (forearm) and three to four penile sites (glans penis, midline shaft, proximal to midline shaft, and foreskin, if present).
Not exact matches
They have tried to document changing
pain thresholds with quantitative sensory tests, like the so - called cold pressor test Hutchinson witnessed in the methadone patients in Australia, or contraptions that apply
heat or pressure to the skin.
The authors reported that the
pain, warmth detection, and
heat pain stimuli likely activate nerve fibers more relevant to sexual pleasure than touch
thresholds, which has been the focus of previous research.