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Meredith L. Chivers
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Impact of mindfulness versus supportive sex education on stress in women with sexual interest/arousal disorder
Low desire in women is the most common sexual difficulty, and stress has been identified as a significant predictor of symptoms. We evaluated a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) group treatment versus...
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Beyond Gendered/Sexed Sexual Response: Debunking Essentialism, Revisiting Experience, and Centering Women’s Sexual Pleasure
The experience of sexual pleasure is foundational to sexual arousal and desire. Despite a universal potential for experiencing sexual pleasure, sex is not equally pleasurable for everyone, in part because the ...
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Correction to: Gender/Sex, Sexual Attractions, and the Specificity of Women's Sexual Arousal: Challenges and Future Directions
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A Penny for Your (Sexual) Thoughts: Qualitative Analysis of Women’s Self-Described Reactions to Sexual and Nonsexual Stimuli
Women display a wide range of subjective (self-reported), physiological (genital response), and emotional responses to sexual stimuli. Sexual responses are often assessed using quantitative methodologies; qual...
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Prepared for Pleasure? An Alternative Perspective on the Preparation Hypothesis
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Cross-Cultural Variation in Sexual Orientation and Sexual Identity
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Notes on Romantic Orientation
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Stability and Fluidity of Sexual Orientation
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Dimensions of Sexual Orientation
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Defining Sexual Orientation
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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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Sexual Arousal
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Bringing More Voices to the Table: Community Responses to Our Sexual Harassment Guest Editorial
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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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Effects of Individual Difference Variables, Gender, and Exclusivity of Sexual Attraction on Volunteer Bias in Sexuality Research
Sexuality research is often regarded as more intrusive than other types of research, contributing to sample self-selection biases. Researchers have consistently found that volunteers and non-volunteers for sex...
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Exploring Comfort Levels and the Role of Compensation in Sexual Psychophysiology Study Participation
A number of devices have been developed to assess physiological sexual response. Some come into direct contact with the genitals (e.g., vaginal/clitoral/penile plethysmography [VPP/CPP/PPG], labial thermistors...
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Sexual Harassment in the Field of Sexuality Research
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Disgust, Sexual Cues, and the Prophylaxis Hypothesis
Women’s susceptibility to infection has been found to vary across the menstrual cycle. During the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, when progesterone levels are at their peak, women experience a downregulat...
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Gynephilic Men’s Self-Reported and Genital Sexual Responses to Relationship Context Cues
The current study examined men’s sexual responses to relationship context. Chivers and Timmers (2012) previously reported that heterosexual men’s genital and self-reported sexual arousal varied by gender but not ...
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Does Repeated Testing Impact Concordance Between Genital and Self-Reported Sexual Arousal in Women?
Women show a substantial variability in their genital and subjective responses to sexual stimuli. The level of agreement between these two aspects of response is termed sexual concordance and has been increasi...
