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Title: Determinants of Sexual Arousal and the Accuracy of Its Self-Estimation in Sexually Functional Males.
Author : The Journal of Sex Research
Release Date : January 01, 2004
Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
Pages : * pages
Size : 251 KB

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Discordance between objective and subjective reports of arousal seems to distinguish men with sexual dysfunction from sexually functional males. Beck, Barlow, and Sakheim (1982) reported that compared with sexually functional males, men with erectile disorders presented diminished correlations between tumescence and subjective arousal and perceived themselves as less able to control tumescence, despite the lack of absolute differences on objective arousal (tumescence) compared to the nonclinical group. Rowland and Heiman (1991) also found a substantial disparity between ratings of subjective and physiological arousal in males with erectile disorders. The authors demonstrated that contrary to men without sexual problems, men with erectile difficulties tended to rely more on mental than on physical cues to estimate their levels of subjective arousal. Additionally, studies with women have found high levels of discrepancy between subjective and genital arousal in samples with and without sexual dysfunction (Geer, Morokoff, & Greenwood, 1974; Heiman, 1977, 1980; Morokoff & Heiman, 1980; Palace & Gorzalka, 1990; Wincze, Hoon, & Hoon, 1977). Laan and Everaerd (1995) as well as Korff and Geer (1983) suggested that compared to men, women in general may rely less on physiological cues to estimate their sexual arousal, and that this fact might explain why the discordance between subjective and physiological arousal is greater among women. Moreover, similar to men, women with sexual dysfunction tend to present lower levels of concordance between subjective and objective measures of sexual arousal compared to women without sexual problems (Morokoff & Heiman, 1980; Palace & Gorzalka, 1992). Morokoff and Heiman (1980) showed that despite the lack of significant differences in physiological sexual arousal responses to erotic materials in women with and without sexual dysfunction, those with sexual dysfunction rated their subjective sexual arousal as significantly lower.

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