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Women's sexual responses to heterosexual and lesbian erotica: the role of stimulus intensity, affective reaction, and sexual history.
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Results of this study highlight the complexity of women’s sexual identities and sexual responses; many women did respond to the stimuli in a category-specific manner, including affective responses to the erotic stimuli and sexual history.Abstract:
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 physiological genital responses to heterosexual versus lesbian erotica. In two studies with heterosexual women (n = 28 for Study 1; n = 30 for Study 2) and lesbians (n = 24 for Study 1; n = 25 for Study 2), results confirmed that, on average, women did not show category-specific genital responses or category-specific subjective sexual arousal. However, there was evidence of notable within-group variability; many women did respond to the stimuli in a category-specific manner. Heterosexual women were more likely than lesbian women to demonstrate category-specificity. Findings also revealed that category-specificity was associated with multiple factors, including affective responses to the erotic stimuli and sexual history. Results of this study highlight the complexity of women’s sexual identities and sexual responses.read more
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Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
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Agreement of Self-Reported and Genital Measures of Sexual Arousal in Men and Women: A Meta-Analysis
TL;DR: This meta-analysis reviews research to quantify the extent of agreement between self-reported and genital measures of sexual arousal, to determine if there is a gender difference in this agreement, and to identify theoretical and methodological moderators of subjective-genital agreement.
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Physiological and Subjective Sexual Arousal in Self-Identified Asexual Women
Lori A. Brotto,Morag A. Yule +1 more
TL;DR: Genital-subjective sexual arousal concordance was significantly positive for the asexual women and non-significant for the other three groups, suggesting higher levels of interoceptive awareness among asexuals.
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The Specificity of Women's Sexual Response and Its Relationship with Sexual Orientations: A Review and Ten Hypotheses.
TL;DR: This review uses the Incentive Motivation and Information Processing Models as complementary frameworks to organize the empirical literature examining the gender specificity of women’s sexual response at each stage of sexual stimulus processing and response, and discusses 10 hypotheses that might explain variability in the specificity of sexual response among androphilic and gynephilic women.
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Effects of Gender and Relationship Context in Audio Narratives on Genital and Subjective Sexual Response in Heterosexual Women and Men
TL;DR: The results suggest that relationship context may be a more important factor in heterosexual women’s physiological sexual response than gender cues.
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as mentioned in this paper are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
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Experimental Design: Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences
A. S. Hedayat,Roger E. Kirk +1 more
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Experimental Design: Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences
TL;DR: This chapter discusses research strategies and the Control of Nuisance Variables, as well as randomly Randomized Factorial Design with Three or More Treatments and Randomized Block Factorial design, and Confounded Factorial Designs: Designs with Group-Interaction Confounding.
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Gender differences in erotic plasticity: the female sex drive as socially flexible and responsive
TL;DR: A large assortment of evidence supports 3 predictions based on the hypothesis of female erotic plasticity: individual women will exhibit more variation across time than men in sexual behavior, female sexuality will exhibit larger effects than male in response to most specific sociocultural variables, and sexual attitude-behavior consistency will be lower for women than men.