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Sexual Arousal and Desire: Interrelations and Responses to Three Modalities of Sexual Stimuli
dc.contributor.authorGoldey, Katherine L.en_US
dc.contributor.authorvan Anders, Sari M.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-02T17:20:02Z
dc.date.available2013-10-18T17:47:30Zen_US
dc.date.issued2012-09en_US
dc.identifier.citationGoldey, Katherine L.; van Anders, Sari M. (2012). "Sexual Arousal and Desire: Interrelations and Responses to Three Modalities of Sexual Stimuli." The Journal of Sexual Medicine 9(9). <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93670>en_US
dc.identifier.issn1743-6095en_US
dc.identifier.issn1743-6109en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93670
dc.description.abstractIntroduction.  Traditionally, sexual desire is understood to occur spontaneously, but more recent models propose that desire responds to sexual stimuli. Aims.  To experimentally assess whether sexual stimuli increased sexual desire; to compare how sexual arousal and desire responded to three modalities of sexual stimuli: erotic story, unstructured fantasy, and the Imagined Social Situation Exercise (ISSE). Methods.  In an online study, participants (128 women, 98 men) were randomly assigned to one of four arousal conditions (ISSE, story, fantasy, or neutral), and then completed desire measures. In the ISSE, participants imagined and wrote about a positive sexual encounter with a self‐defined attractive person. Main Outcome Measures.  Sexual arousal (perceived genital, psychological, and perceived autonomic), anxiety, positive and negative affect, and state sexual desire via self‐report measures pre‐ and post‐condition; “trait” desire via the Sexual Desire Inventory post‐condition. Results.  All three sexual conditions significantly increased sexual arousal and positive affect compared with the neutral condition, with trends for higher arousal to unstructured fantasy than the ISSE or story conditions. Sexual conditions significantly increased scores on state measures of sexual desire. In addition, sexual context influenced measurement of “trait” solitary sexual desire in women, such that women reported significantly higher trait desire after the neutral and ISSE conditions vs. fantasy. Conclusion.  Results highlight the responsiveness of sexual desire, problems with measurement of desire as a long‐term trait, trade‐offs of using the ISSE and other stimuli in sexuality research, and the need to address context in discussions of women's and men's desire. Goldey KL and van Anders SM. Sexual arousal and desire: Interrelations and responses to three modalities of sexual stimuli. J Sex Med 2012;9:2315–2329.en_US
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Incen_US
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.en_US
dc.subject.otherFantasyen_US
dc.subject.otherOutcome Measurements of Desireen_US
dc.subject.otherGenderen_US
dc.subject.otherEroticaen_US
dc.subject.otherSexen_US
dc.subject.otherSexual Arousalen_US
dc.subject.otherSexual Desireen_US
dc.titleSexual Arousal and Desire: Interrelations and Responses to Three Modalities of Sexual Stimulien_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollowen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelUrologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHealth Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartments of Psychology & Women's Studies, Program in Neuroscience, Reproductive Sciences Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USAen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumDepartment of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USAen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/93670/1/j.1743-6109.2012.02845.x.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1743-6109.2012.02845.xen_US
dc.identifier.sourceThe Journal of Sexual Medicineen_US
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