Sexual arousal in women: A comparison of cognitive and physiological responses by continuous measurement
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- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Archives of Sexual Behavior
- Vol. 6 (2) , 121-133
Abstract
Six sexually normal women were exposed to a wide variety of erotic video tapes while vaginal, groin, and breast vasocongestion measures were taken. The women indicated their subjective level of sexual arousal while viewing the tapes by positioning a lever device along a calibrated scale. The results indicated highly significant positive correlations among the cognitive and physiological measures for five out of six individual subjects, although the pooled group data failed to show significance. The methodology described in this research shows promise as a diagnostic and research tool.Keywords
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