Greater Tactile Sensitivity and Less Use of Immature Psychological Defense Mechanisms Predict Women's Penile-Vaginal Intercourse Orgasm

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 3057-3065

  Brody, Stuart ^a   Houde, Stephanie ^b   Hess, Ursula ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Masturbation; Orgasm; Psychological immaturity; Sexual intercourse; Tactile sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANILINGUS; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNNILINGUS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTURBATION; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGASM; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; TACTILE STIMULATION; UNIVERSITY STUDENT;

EID: 77956297456     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.01917.x     Document Type: Article

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