Gender Differences in Reactions to Viewing Pornographic Vignettes: Essential or Interpretive?

Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 65-83

  Gardos, Peter Sándor ^a   Mosher, Donald L ^b  

^a Thrive Oxygen Media   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Ejaculation; Erotica; Gender differences; Pornography; Sexually explicit

Indexed keywords

EID: 28044471640     PISSN: 08907064     EISSN: 15408698     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J056v11n02_04     Document Type: Article

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