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Open AccessWalter Everaerd (1937–2019)
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Attentional and Affective Processing of Sexual Stimuli in Women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
Hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) is the most common sexual problem in women. From an incentive motivation perspective, HSDD may be the result of a weak association between sexual stimuli and rewarding ...
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Women’s Sexual Responses to Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotica: The Role of Stimulus Intensity, Affective Reaction, and Sexual History
Past research has demonstrated that women do not show a “category-specific” genital response to erotic stimuli. That is, on average, heterosexual and lesbian women are indistinguishable in terms of their physi...
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Open AccessAgreement of Self-Reported and Genital Measures of Sexual Arousal in Men and Women: A Meta-Analysis
The assessment of sexual arousal in men and women informs theoretical studies of human sexuality and provides a method to assess and evaluate the treatment of sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias. Understanding...
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Open AccessEffects of Appraisal of Sexual Stimuli on Sexual Arousal in Women with and Without Superficial Dyspareunia
This study examined the effects of appraisal of sexual stimuli on sexual arousal in women with superficial dyspareunia (n = 50) and sexually functional women (n = 25). To elicit different appraisals of an erotic ...
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Open AccessAutomatic and Deliberate Affective Associations with Sexual Stimuli in Women with Superficial Dyspareunia
Current views suggest that in women with superficial dyspareunia the prospect of penile–vaginal intercourse automatically activates fear-related associations. The automatic activation of negative associations ...
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Conscious Processing of Sexual Information: Mechanisms of Appraisal
To elucidate some of the activational mechanisms of sexual response, this study investigated the effects of conscious appraisal of sexual and neutral stimuli on a categorization task and on ratings of sexual a...