The relationship between female sexual arousal and response bias in women with and without provoked vestibulodynia

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 519-532

  Boyer, Stéphanie C ^a   Pukall, Caroline F ^a   Holden, Ronald R ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD FLOW; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; LIBIDO; ORGASM; PHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; SATISFACTION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; VAGINA; VASCULARIZATION; VULVODYNIA; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; LIBIDO; ORGASM; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; REFERENCE VALUES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VAGINA; VULVODYNIA; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866722790     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: 15598519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2011.604747     Document Type: Article

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