Instructions to rate genital vasocongestion increases genital and self-reported sexual arousal but not coherence between genital and self-reported sexual arousal

Journal of Sexual Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2219-2231

  Prause, Nicole ^a,b   Barela, James ^b   Roberts, Verena ^c   Graham, Cynthia ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITAL AUTHORITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotion Coherence; Genital Vasocongestion; Hedonic Processing; Sexual Motivation; Time Series; Vaginal Photoplethysmograph

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FANTASY; FEMALE; GENITAL BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; ORGAN BLOOD FLOW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL COHERENCE; UROGENITAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; VAGINAL PULSE AMPLITUDE;

EMOTION COHERENCE; GENITAL VASOCONGESTION; HEDONIC PROCESSING; SEXUAL MOTIVATION; TIME SERIES; VAGINAL PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AROUSAL; CUES; EMOTIONS; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; VAGINA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883554944     PISSN: 17436095     EISSN: 17436109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jsm.12228     Document Type: Article

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