Innervation, sexual response of women

The motor function It is the one that takes care that the muscles can contract and the sensitive function is the one that informs the brain of the tactile sensations, temperature, pressure ... of that territory and the autonomous function It is everything that refers to the control of the organs of an anatomical territory that do not depend on our will, but that occurs spontaneously and automatically such as sweating, vasodilation, hair erection ...

What happens in the pelvis

In the pelvis, innervation comes from a series of nerves that originate from the nerve roots of the spinal cord along the lumbar and sacral vertebrae. They innervate pelvic organs: uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes, urinary bladder, rectum, vagina and vulva. It is the stimulation of these nerve plexuses that is responsible for the women's sexual response: increased vaginal discharge and venous engorgement causing clitoral erection. And another very important function of these nerves is the coordination between the sphincter relaxation and muscle contractions that make it possible to voluntarily control urination and defecation.

This entire nervous network is complex, different nerve roots emerge from the spinal cord at the level of the lumbar and sacral vertebrae that combine with each other to form a network called plexus.

These plexuses are responsible for monitor the functioning of the pelvic organs over which we have no voluntary control, that is autonomic nervous system: The ovarian plexus is the one that originates higher, from the last dorsal vertebrae and innervates the ovary. Specialist in gynecology and obstetrics