How many times have you asked yourself, what does it mean to be horny? Well, it’s time for you to have the definitive answer.

It has happened to several of us. We are in the comfort of our favorite chair while we watch the series or movie in which our crush Platonic appears. And we find ourselves caressing our sensitive parts while we fantasize about being in the arms of our imaginary love or someone who looks like him.

It may surprise us the first few times, but little by little we identify this sensation. We are hornyhot or horny. Beyond a feeling, this sensation is something more physical, which makes us pay attention to these carnal cravings.

This may be more present during puberty, when our emotions are on the surface and we discover several emotions that were not there before. A kissing session with our first love transforms, no longer into butterflies in the stomach, but into another part of the body that we didn’t notice was there before.

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Sometimes due to lack of information or trust in the family we turn to our friends and then we realize that we are not the only ones, that it is not a rarity, on the contrary, it is something more common than we expect.

Even the term is something that can generate controversy. It can be from the English word horny (its literal translation, ‘hot’) to the colloquial horny. But you have to be careful, since, in our wealth of expressions in Spanish, cachondo also means mocking, funny, fun or joking. So be careful when you apply the term.

What does it mean to be hot or horny?

For the hot Planned Parenthood organization or horny means ‘want to have sex or be excited or excited sexually’. Many contribute to this feeling: fantasizing about the celebrity you like, even having your period. It is also a hormonal issue. According to the 2013 study, Hormones and Behavior, changing levels of estrogen and progesterone affect sexual desire.

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