Human sex hormone production sites. Computer artwork showing the main areas in the human body that produce the hormones that primarily control sexual arousal and development. Upper left: pituitary gland in the brain (male and female); upper right: adrenal glands (male and female), lower left: ovaries (female only); lower right: testes (testicles, male only). Sex, or gonadal, hormones are steroid hormones that interact with androgen or oestrogen receptors in the body.