Non-erotic thoughts: Content and relation to sexual functioning and sexual satisfaction

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 154-162

  Purdon, Christine ^a   Holdaway, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BODY IMAGE; COGNITION; EMOTION; EROTISM; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MORALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; THINKING;

EID: 33646755834     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224490609552310     Document Type: Article

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