Subliminal sexual stimuli facilitate genital response in women

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1073-1079

  Ponseti, Jorge ^a   Bosinski, Hartmut A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backward masking; Memory; Sexual arousal; Subliminal; Vaginal photoplethysmography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLICATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VAGINA; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EROTICA; FEMALE; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION; VAGINA; WOMEN;

EID: 77957752145     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-009-9587-2     Document Type: Article

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