The Specificity of Women’s Sexual Response and Its Relationship with Sexual Orientations: A Review and Ten Hypotheses

Archives of Sexual Behavior

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1161-1179

  Chivers, Meredith L ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genital response; Sexual arousal; Sexual desire; Sexual orientation; Sexual psychophysiology; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DIFFERENTIATION; GENDER; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODEL; MOTIVATION; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; STIMULUS; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WOMEN;

EID: 85009168091     PISSN: 00040002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-016-0897-x     Document Type: Article

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