The female sexual response: a different model.
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A model is presented that more accurately depicts the responsive component of women's desire and the underlying motivational forces that trigger it and to prevent diagnosing dysfunction when the response is simply different from the traditional human sex-response cycle.Abstract:
Clarification of women's sexual response during long-term relationships is needed. I have presented a model that more accurately depicts the responsive component of women's desire and the underlying motivational forces that trigger it. The variety of arousal/orgasm responses is also acknowledged. The purpose is both to prevent diagnosing dysfunction when the response is simply different from the traditional human sex-response cycle and to more clearly define subgroups of dysfunction. The latter would appear to be necessary before progress in newer treatment modalities, including pharmacological, can be made.read more
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The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): Cross-Validation and Development of Clinical Cutoff Scores
TL;DR: Cross-validate the Female Sexual Function Index in several samples of women with mixed sexual dysfunctions and develop diagnostic cut-off scores for potential classification of women's sexual dysfunction and discuss the results in terms of potential strengths and weaknesses of the FSFI.
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Why Humans Have Sex
Cindy M. Meston,David M. Buss +1 more
TL;DR: Individual differences in expressed reasons for having sex were coherently linked with personality traits and with individual differences in sexual strategies, supporting several previously advanced theories.
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Psychological and interpersonal dimensions of sexual function and dysfunction.
Marita P. McCabe,Stanley E. Althof,Pierre Assalian,Marie Chevret‐Measson,Sandra R. Leiblum,Chiara Simonelli,Kevan Wylie +6 more
TL;DR: The salient psychological and interpersonal issues contributing to sexual health and dysfunction are highlighted, an etiological model for understanding the evolution and maintenance of sexual symptoms is offered, and recommendations for clinical management and research are offered.
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Definitions of women's sexual dysfunction reconsidered: advocating expansion and revision.
Rosemary Basson,Sandra R. Leiblum,Lori A. Brotto,Leonard R. Derogatis,Jean L. Fourcroy,Kerstin S. Fugl-Meyer,Alessandra Graziottin,Julia R. Heiman,Ellen Laan,Cindy M. Meston,Leslie R. Schover,J.J.D.M. van Lankveld,Willibrordus Weijmar Schultz +12 more
TL;DR: Based on the review of existing evidence-based research, many modifications to the definitions of women's sexual dysfunctions are recommended and a recommendation is made that all diagnoses be accompanied by descriptors relating to associated contextual factors and to the degree of distress.
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Human sexual response.
TL;DR: The human sexual response to sexually arousing stimuli is a motivational incentive-based cycle comprising subjective experience and physiologic changes supported by a circular model of overlapping phases of variable order.
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Human Sexual Response
TL;DR: A report on clinical findings about human sexual response patterns and orgasmic expression was published in this article, which showed that human sexual responses are correlated with the number of orgasms and sexual arousal.
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Human Sexuality and Its Problems
TL;DR: The biological basis of human sexuality and the historical background an approach to treatment individual therapy group therapy the use of surrogate partners sexual aids surgical treatment management of the transsexual patient are discussed.
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Sex in America : a definitive survey
TL;DR: The first survey of its kind to offer truly reliable answers to the questions that are prone to so much speculation: how often do people really have sex, and with whom? How many (or how few) men define themselves as homosexual? How high is the incidence of marital infidelity? What sort of people are likely to carry a sexually-transmitted disease? Many of the answers to these questions go against the grain of conventional wisdom.
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Prevalence of sexual dysfunction in women: Results of a survey study of 329 women in an outpatient gynecological clinic
TL;DR: Age and relationship status were significant predictors of sexual satisfaction, with older women and singles reporting a higher incidence of sexual problems, and educational level, religious affiliation, and employment status were not predictive of sexual dysfunction in the present study.
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