Does menstrual cycle phase influence the gender specificity of heterosexual women's genital and subjective sexual arousal?

JA Bossio, KD Suschinsky, DA Puts… - Archives of sexual …, 2014 - Springer
Unlike men, heterosexual women's genital arousal is gender nonspecific, such that
heterosexual women show relatively similar genital arousal to sexual stimuli depicting men …

A comparison of male and female patterns of sexual arousal

DL Steinman, JP Wincze, Sakheim, DH Barlow… - Archives of Sexual …, 1981 - Springer
The structural patterns of sexual arousal are examined for eight male and eight female
heterosexuals. Comparisons are made in terms of physiological and subjective arousal. The …

A comparison of male heterosexual and male homosexual patterns of sexual arousal

DK Sakheim, DH Barlow, JG Beck… - Journal of Sex …, 1985 - Taylor & Francis
We examined both self‐reported and physiologically measured sexual arousal of male
heterosexual and homosexual subjects to explore various parameters of sexual response in …

Attention and emotional responses to sexual stimuli and their relationship to sexual desire

N Prause, E Janssen, WP Hetrick - Archives of sexual behavior, 2008 - Springer
Little is known about why individuals vary in their levels of sexual desire. Information
processing models, like Barlow's (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 54: 140 …

Revisiting the concept of sexual motivation

JG Pfaus - Annual review of sex research, 1999 - Taylor & Francis
Sexual motivation seems like a simple and straightforward con cept. It can be defined
broadly as the energizing force that generates our level of sexual interest at any given time …

The specificity of women's sexual response and its relationship with sexual orientations: A review and ten hypotheses

ML Chivers - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2017 - Springer
Category-specific sexual response describes a pattern wherein the individual shows
significantly greater responses to preferred versus nonpreferred categories of sexual stimuli; …

What is sexual satisfaction? Thematic analysis of lay people's definitions

PM Pascoal, ISB Narciso, NM Pereira - Journal of sex research, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Sexual satisfaction is an important indicator of sexual health and is strongly associated with
relationship satisfaction. However, research exploring lay definitions of sexual satisfaction …

Inferring sexual interest from behavioral cues: Effects of gender and sexually relevant attitudes

RM Kowalski - Sex roles, 1993 - Springer
Research has found that men impute more sexual meaning to others' behavior than do
women. However, little research has examined the possibility that men and women share …

Male bisexual arousal: A matter of curiosity?

G Rieger, AM Rosenthal, BM Cash… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Conflicting evidence exists regarding whether bisexual-identified men are sexually aroused
to both men and women. We hypothesized that a distinct characteristic, level of curiosity …

Emotions during sexual activity: Differences between sexually functional and dysfunctional men and women

PJ Nobre, J Pinto-Gouveia - Archives of sexual behavior, 2006 - Springer
The present study investigated the differences in emotional response to automatic thoughts
presented during sexual activity between sexually functional and dysfunctional men and …