Two prospective investigations of periodicity of sexual behavior, well-being and testosterone (T) levels in women using and not using oral contraceptives (OCs) found no relationship between daily ratings of sexual desire and well-being across one pill and menstrual cycle. T, but not estradiol or progesterone, was positively correlated with sexual desire and sexual enjoyment in OC-users when T levels were below normal menstrual values. Other evidence suggested on association between post-ovulatory decreases in T and sexual desire in women. A bias to attend to sexual stimuli on a dichotic listening task was associated with sexual arousability in men. Moreover, task performance indicated T may enhance attention to relevant stimuli. While social variables are clearly important determinants of sexual behavior, these findings suggest a relationship between T and cognitive aspects of sexual behavior in young, healthy individuals.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references.

L’histoire de la sexualité dont il est question ici commence donc au tournant du siècle. Les écrits sur la sexualité se multiplient et si tous n’ont pas le succès de l’ouvrage du médecin vaudois Auguste Forel (1848 – 1931), en 1905, ils témoignent de l’intérêt du public pour ces questions. Cette période marque donc le début d’une véritable clinique de la sexualité, qui, si elle demeure cantonnée à des consultations privées, n’en pose pas moins les bases de ce qui va devenir une discipline enseignée à l’université à la fin des années 1960.Dans les premières décennies du siècle, les théories analytiques marquent profondément le champ des sciences du psychisme en Suisse. Outre les apports théoriques des doctrines freudiennes, on voit émerger un véritable front d’action en faveur de l’hygiène mentale agrégé au mouvement pour l’hygiène sociale et morale qui ne tarde pas à s’intéresser aux couples hétérosexuels. Mais les écarts à la norme ne sont pas pour autant délaissés et de nombreux travaux consacrés aux paraphilies contribuent dès les années 1940 à l’édification d’un dispositif médico-légal d’encadrement des « déviant.e.s ».À partir de année 1950, la sexologie gagne progressivement les institutions académiques. Cette évolution doit se comprendre à l’aune des dynamiques sociales et politiques qui caractérisent les années 1960. Alors que les luttes en faveur du droit à l’avortement et à la contraception donnent une résonance importante aux questions sexuelles, on observe une relative libération des mœurs. Il s’agit saisir les étapes de cette institutionnalisation en nous intéressant non seulement aux contenus scientifiques proposés mais aussi à leurs portées politiques. Le développement de la sexologie et son intégration au système de santé ne sauraient s’envisager indépendamment de l’agenda politique des autorités en matière de famille, de natalité ou de criminalité, pour ne prendre que quelques exemples. / The history of sexuality presented here starts at the end of the 19th century when the number of medical books on sexuality increases. In French speaking Switzerland, Auguste Forel is already a well-known psychiatrist when he is publishing The sexual question. During this period there are not only books, which are published, but also numerous private clinics are treating ordinary sexual disorders.During the first decade of the 20th century psychoanalysis and others sciences of the psyche have a great influence on the knowledge of sexuality. In the same time many reformers are spreading a program of Social Hygiene among the population but also among the sanitary authorities. This program includes a struggle for the defence of the family, which seems to them threated by many dangers – including divorce. In this context the sexual pleasure becomes central. An important part of the sexologists are focusing on the heterosexual couple. But this must not hide that some people remain in the margin because of their “abnormal sexuality”. Far from ignore them, the medical science take an active part in the politics of regulation and normalisation of sexuality.During this century, the specialists of sexuality participate in many debates on social and political issues related to their field. This process includes a kind of specialisation and at the end of the sixties sexuality becomes an area of studies in the universities of Lausanne and Geneva.

My dissertation explains how the scientific study of sexuality became laden with emotions and the unforeseen results of this process. It begins with a scholarly tradition, forged during the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, which privileged sentimental articulations of feelings. This tradition helped inspire the late nineteenth-century foundation of sexology, or sexual science. Sexologists, as their discipline developed alongside the modern rational bureaucratic nation-state, maintained attention to emotive expressions. Sexologists also helped shape the interpretation and enforcement of laws against same-sex acts. While they built authority, however, sexologists lacked consensus. During the first third of the twentieth century, sexologists helped compile defendants' detailed sexual histories, replete with affective articulations of sexual desires, which led to calamitous consequences under National Socialism. Nazi technocrats utilized these same sexual histories, offered by same-sex attracted persons describing their feelings and actions before 1933, to prosecute them after a 1935 legal revision, which expanded the law's reach from specific acts to general expressions of feelings. My dissertation provides a genealogy of sexual research and the unexpected uses of its findings. It also revises the biography of sexology as an interdisciplinary field, braided with a history of emotions, tracing its previously underappreciated origins, tumultuous apex, and contested legacy.

The thesis was designed to determine sexual attitudes, as measured by the Reiss 12 Item Sexual Permissiveness Scale, and sexual practices, as measured by an eight item sexual behavior inventory, of undergraduate students at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.The sample for the study consisted of 617 undergraduate students selected using the method of stratified random sampling with proportional allocation of five percent from each of the four college levels. A biographical questionnaire was mailed to each of the subjects with a total return of 60 percent. Due to the low rate of return the respondents were declared to be the population of the study and no longer a randomly selected sample.Reliability coefficients were obtained through use of the Kuder-Richardson formula Number 20 on the sexual permissiveness scales and on the sexual behavior inventory. The reliability coefficient of the sexual permissiveness scale was found to be .8676, and .9215 was found to be the coefficient of the sexual behavior inventory.The returned questionnaires were subdivided into males and females and data were reported for each respondent on the scale that was the same sex as the respondent (women on the female scale and men on the male scale). For each group, the data were analyzed, through use of the chi-square test, according to age, academic field, college year, membership in fraternities or sororities, religious affiliation, whether religiously active or inactive, place of residence, cumulative grade point average, yearly income of parents, and marital status to determine their independency of the dependent variables of sexual attitudes and sexual behavior. Findings revealed that although some significant (.05) differences were found in the permissive attitudes of the students in relation to their biographical variables, there is little evidence from the study that would generally support a true dependency of sexual permissiveness on the biographical variables of the students, with the exceptions of the variables of sex and religious activity. Males were found to be more permissive in attitude than females, and the more permissive individuals were found to be religiously inactive rather than religiously active. In relationship to permissive behavior on the part of the subjects, although some significant (.05) differences were found, there is little evidence from the study that would support a true dependence of premarital coital experience on the biographical variables of the students. The investigation revealed that over 50 percent of the females studied and over 68 percent of the males studied had experienced premarital sexual intercourse.The relationship between sexual attitudes and sexual behavior was determined through use of the point biserial correlation. Findings revealed that there is evidence of some significant (.05) negative attitudes and what they stated as their actual sexual behavior. The significant negative findings indicated that there was a tendency for more males and females to be in accordance with permissive attitudes than were actually experiencing the behavior.

Diss. (sammanfattning) Uppsala : Uppsala universitet, 2005. / Härtill 4 uppsatser.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references.