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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"sexual desire"”.
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An Analysis of the Development and Validation of the Decreased Sexual Desire Screener for the Diagnosis of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder
… of a brief diagnostic instrument, the Decreased Sexual Desire ScreenerÓ (DSDS), in order to diagnose HSDD by DSM-IV-TR criteria in general practice. The premise guiding this paper is that without a valid and reliable screening tool to diagnose HSDD, clinicians could not adequately or quickly …
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Role of Emotion and Attention in Variations in Sexual Desire
… about why individuals vary in their levels of sexual desire. Information processing models, like Barlow's model of sexual functioning, suggest that individuals with higher sexual desire attend more and respond with more pleasant emotions to sexual cues than individuals with lower levels of …
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Sexual Desire(s) and the Desire for Intimacy: An Autoethnographic Exploration
<p>Sexual desire has traditionally been approached and investigated through reductionist lenses that have usually overlooked its complexity. In the past 150 years, it has mainly appeared articulated within medical and sexological discourses that have actively attempted to demarcate, categorize, and …
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The effect of marital therapy on inhibited sexual desire: An outcome study.
… in which the women were experiencing inhibited sexual desire (ISD), were randomly assigned to Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT) or a wait-list control group condition. An additional 15 couples were recruited as a non-ISD comparison sample. The purpose of the study was to investigate …
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Let's talk about sex : a critical narrative analysis of hetrosexual couples' accounts of low sexual desire
Background: Low desire for sex is a common problem in the lives of women. It features in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.; American Psychiatric Association, 2013) as Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (FSI/AD) and often causes distress where there is a desire …
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The Role of Affect and Trait Sexual Desire in Sexual Response among Women with and without Symptoms of Sexual Interest and Arousal Disorder
According to the Incentive Motivation Model, sexual cue processing is influenced by both responses to the content of sexual cues, and by individual psychological factors, both of which may result in differences in sexual response. Affect to sexual cues has been shown to affect sexual response in …
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Making public politics private: A narrative study of apartheid racial ideology and its effects on white teenage female sexual desire in post-apartheid South Africa
… space for the reproduction of prejudice, where desire is seemingly coded in private tastes and not political ideologies. Theoretically I examine how historical public discourses come to function as personal norms, expressed as personal desire not political ideology. Literature has shown that …
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The Effects of Sexual Surrogacy on Satisfaction, Happiness, and Well-Being
<p>The study tested the effects of sexual surrogacy, which I define as the desire to fulfill sexual needs with a surrogate target (e.g., celebrity crushes), on sexual satisfaction, relationship, happiness, and well-being. To examine this topic, I conducted a cross-sectional experimental study. …
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Somatic murmurs: a narrative inquiry into how women with low libido in long-term relationships experience sensate focus
Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (FSIAD – DSM 5) or lack or loss of sexual desire (ICD 11) is regularly cited as the most common and complex of sexual dysfunctions (Brotto, 2017), with treatment options being either: medical and/or pharmacological intervention/s, education or individual …
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Psychoanalysis and Asexuality: An Exploration of The Phenomenon and Implications for Therapeutic Work Using A Psychoanalytic Theoretical Framework
… an apparent rise in individuals who identify as Asexual. Asexuality has been defined as the lack of sexual attraction to anyone or anything. The current thesis explores this phenomenon from a psychoanalytic perspective and considers the possible implications for therapeutic work with Asexual …
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Sex, drugs, and women's desire
Low desire is the most common sexual dysfunction in women. Pharmaceuticals are being developed to treat it, most notably Flibanserin, owned by Sprout Pharmaceuticals. Sometimes inaccurately referred to as "female Viagra," Flibanserin actually treats an entirely different problem. Viagra allows men …
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Partner-specific abstinence state change in adolescent women
… change over time is important to understanding sexual decision-making. In this longitudinal study of 365 young women, the influence of relationship quality, motivations for coitus, sexual relationship satisfaction, sexual self-efficacy, sexual conservatism, and religiosity were evaluated in a …
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Affective and Autonomic Responses to Erotic Images among Young Women with and without Sexual Difficulties
Existing models of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) are broad and do not provide information about how to improve existing interventions. The purpose of the current study is to extend the empirical application of a disgust model of FSD (de Jong, van Overveld, & Borg, 2013) to a population of young …
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Disgust Sensitivity, Sexual Trauma History, and Female Sexual Functioning
<p>Sexual dysfunctions are a common problem for women that negatively impact quality of life (Laumann, Paik, & Rosen 1999). A history of sexual trauma is associated with an increase in sexual difficulties (Neumann et al., 1996). One common reaction to unwanted sexual contact is disgust (Whealin & …
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"In Propria Persona": Artifice, Politics, and Propriety in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
… Confessio attempts to expose how discourses of sexual desire alienate subjects from their proper place in the political world, and produce artificial personae that only appear socially engaged. The first three chapters consider the creation of the personae in the context of medieval Aristotelian …
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Parental Communications and Young Women's Struggle for Sexual Agency
… qualitative study examined how 14 young women's sexual desire and agency was influenced by the messages communicated from their parents and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Previous research results were supported, such as: parents do not communicate about sex frequently, or only …
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Investigation of Glutamatergic Circuitry Underlying Copulatory Reward in Female Syrian Hamsters
… neurotransmission in this region during sexual behavior, the role of glutamate, although the major excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, has been disproportionately understudied. The goal of this dissertation work was to help close this gap in knowledge to further develop an …
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Circuits of Desire: Science, Therapy, Trauma, Femininity
… the diagnosis and lived experience of low sexual desire in women. In the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), two different low desire diagnoses are included: one for men (Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder), and one for women (Female …
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