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Victim Sexual Arousal During Nonconsensual Sex: A Sco** Review
Sexual arousal in male and female victims during nonconsensual sex is an understudied phenomenon with many potential psychological, clinical, and legal implications for survivors. The aim of this sco** revie...
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The Preparation Hypothesis Bristles
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The Empirical Status of the Preparation Hypothesis: Explicating Women’s Genital Responses to Sexual Stimuli in the Laboratory
Research conducted in our laboratory and in other laboratories has revealed that (1) women’s genital responses to visual and auditory stimuli are strongly affected by the presence of sexual cues, but that (2) ...
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Can the Vaginal Photoplethysmograph and Its Associated Methodology Be Used to Assess Anal Vasocongestion in Women and Men?
Forty years ago, researchers documented changes in vascular and muscular activity within the anal canal of women and men who engaged in sexual self-stimulation. Vascular changes were assessed using a photoplet...
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COVID-19 and the International Academy of Sex Research: We Will Be Back
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Use of the Bogus Pipeline Increases Sexual Concordance in Women But Not Men
Sexual concordance—the agreement between physiological (genital) and psychological (emotional) sexual arousal—is, on average, substantially lower in women than men. Following social role theory, the gender dif...
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The Role of Sex Research Organizations in Eliminating Sexual Harassment
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Genital Responses to Rape Vignettes Among Young Men: The Influence of Mood and Directed Attention
Although it is clear that men with a history of sexual assaults against women produce higher relative genital responses to rape vignettes in the laboratory than do men without such a history, it remains unclea...
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Assessing the Relationship Between Sexual Concordance, Sexual Attractions, and Sexual Identity in Women
On average, there is a gender difference in sexual concordance, with men exhibiting greater agreement between genital and self-reported sexual arousal, relative to women. Much less is known about the substantial ...
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Does Menstrual Cycle Phase Influence the Gender Specificity of Heterosexual Women’s Genital and Subjective Sexual Arousal?
Unlike men, heterosexual women’s genital arousal is gender nonspecific, such that heterosexual women show relatively similar genital arousal to sexual stimuli depicting men and women but typically report great...
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Sex Differences in Sexual Concordance: A Reply to Brody (2012)
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Feederism: An Exaggeration of a Normative Mate Selection Preference?
Quinsey and Lalumière (1995) suggested that some, if not most, paraphilias are exaggerated manifestations of more normative and functional mate selection preferences. The present study tested whether Feederism, a...
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Is Sexual Concordance Related to Awareness of Physiological States?
Sexual concordance refers to the degree to which two aspects of human sexual arousal (genital response and self-reported sexual arousal) correspond with each other. Researchers have consistently reported a sex...
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Sexual Fantasies and Viewing Times Across the Menstrual Cycle: A Diary Study
Recent research has revealed that many aspects of female sexuality change across the menstrual cycle. In this study, we examined changes in sexual fantasies and visual sexual interests across the menstrual cyc...
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Sex Differences in Patterns of Genital Sexual Arousal: Measurement Artifacts or True Phenomena?
Sex differences in patterns of sexual arousal have been reported recently. Men’s genital arousal is typically more category-specific than women’s, such that men experience their greatest genital arousal to sti...