In the program "Sans rendez-vous" on Wednesday on Europe 1, the psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc delivers all the secrets of the erogenous zones of our body.

For the sex therapist, these areas do not provide the same sensations depending on the person.

They also feed off personal stories.

The sensitivity of each person's erogenous zones is a recurring subject in the field of sexuality.

In the program Sans rendez-vous Wednesday on Europe 1, the sexologist and psychoanalyst Catherine Blanc described the functioning of the erogenous zones and delivered all their secrets.

The chronicle of Catherine Blanc

"Our whole body is crossed by a nervous system and therefore reacts from head to toe to any stimulation. An erogenous zone will be a zone crossed by this nervous system, therefore reactive, but on which we will put an emotion and a related emotion to relationships, to others and to their environment.

Erogenous zones are therefore not specific to sexuality since childhood is discovered through erogenous zones.

The child discovers his relationship to the other through these areas, starting with the mouth.

It is there that he will nourish a kind of feeling and understanding of the world and through this understanding of the world, an understanding of the relationship to the other. 

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Do we all have the same erogenous zones?

We develop through the same erogenous zones, so starting, as I said, with the mouth.

Then there will be the anal area, then the genital area.

But obviously, according to our personal stories - the way we have been asked, pleasantly or unpleasantly, precisely or unfairly, that is to say appropriately or not - our sensations diverge.

Our personal stories will lead us to invest more particularly in certain areas.

Imagine a mom who, when a child goes to bed wherever she is going to go, strokes her scalp or braids her hair for a little girl.

It can be very erotic.

When I say eroticized, it's not sexual, but we're going to titillate something and that tells about a treatment.

It tells of a tenderness.

One can even find things erogenous that might seem painful.

When you take care of your children, the fact of suddenly having attention towards them, of treating a small sore for example, can request something eroticized in the sense of warmth, exhilarating.

This will allow the individual to build himself up and gradually take into account his body and the possibilities of this body. 

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Are the erogenous zones the same between men and women?

No, because, for example, to speak of the nipples, there are women who are extremely sensitive at the level of the side of the breast and not at all of the nipple.

But for others it's the nipple and nothing else.

It doesn't depend on the size or the gender.

There are men who are very sensitive to nipples and others who do not like it at all.

It also raises the question of whether they are sensitive or not.

Or are they, but it's disturbing to be, because it refers to something of a more feminine imagination?

The same goes for women.

Women are very sensitive at the level of the nipple, but as this refers them to a maternal function, they do not like to be solicited at this level.

They have the feeling that it cannot mix well with a sexual act. 

Can the anal margin be an erogenous zone?

For the child, this is a very important moment since he will be able to control his sphincters.

It is then something extremely jubilant.

And then, of course, we will find pleasure in our adult life.

The pleasure first of all to be able to defecate, to be able to free oneself.

But some, in their sexuality, heterosexual or homosexual, will stimulate this area which is an area with an extremely powerful nervous system.

And luckily, otherwise we would get over it.

These people will invest it and suddenly, obviously, it will participate in contact with the other.

This offers a possibility of penetration and phantasm too.

Thus, all people can possibly be containers and not just contents.

A man, when he is in heterosexual sexuality, penetrates, therefore he is contained.

There, the anal zone allows to fantasize something of the order of the possibility of the container. "