An erogenous zone is a sexual hot spot-a place that's especially erotic when kissed, touched or fondled. There are many ofthem, some better known than others, but they've all got one thing in common: They're covered with skin. Skin, in fact, is the body's largest erogenous zone-the only one, really. All of the delicious body messages of sex come to you through the nerve endings that are nestled within your skin.

Some parts of the body, like the clitoris, the tongue and the nipples, have come to be known as erogenous zones because they're more richly endowed with nerve endings and thus more exquisitely responsive to the touch than other body neighborhoods. But the truth is that there's not a nook or cranny ofthe flesh, from the soles of the feet to the nape of the neck, that can't produce an erotic sigh.

"There is no part ofthe human body that is not sufficiently sensitive to effect erotic arousal and even orgasm for at least some individuals in the population," the late Dr. Alfred Kinsey observed. No kidding! Among the more than 12,000 people he interviewed for his books, Dr. Kinsey found a handful' of women who could reach orgasm merely by the kissing or fondling oftheir earlobes, a few men who could reach orgasm if a lover kissed their nipples and several women who could actually climax through the stroking of their eyebrows!

But it's wrong to think of erogenous zones as rigid, unchanging thing?, like the switches on a VCR. They may vary considerably from person to person and even vary from one day to the next.
"Women complain, 'He never varies in what he does!' And the man says, 'But you said that's where you like to be touched!' What's often ignored is that a person may like to be touched one way one day and somewhere else, differently, the next," says sex therapist Shirley Zussman, Ed.D., a director of the Associa¬tion for Male Sexual Dysfunction in New York City and former president of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists. "The key thing is to be sensitive to your partner, so that you know not only where they like to be touched but how. "