There are substantial differences between the sexual arousal patterns of men and women.
Men’s genital and subjective sexual arousal are category-specific; different sexual stimuli
elicit different degrees of arousal. Women’s subjective sexual arousal is also categoryspecific,
but their genital arousal is category-nonspecific; different sexual stimuli produce
similar arousal. Men also exhibit a high concordance or correlation between their genital and
subjective arousal, whereas women exhibit much lower sexual concordance. I conducted five
studies with 219 participants to further explore these sex differences and test different
explanations for their occurrence. The results confirm the existence and stability of sex
differences in arousal patterns, provide support for a functional explanation of the sex
difference in genital category-specificity, provide mixed support for an informationprocessing
model of sexual arousal in relation to sexual concordance, and provide no support
for the notion that sexual concordance is another manifestation of sex differences in
interoception. / xvi, 212 leaves ; 29 cm
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:ALU.w.uleth.ca/dspace#10133/3229 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Suschinsky, Kelly D |
| Contributors | Lalumière, Martin L. |
| Publisher | Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Psychology, 2012, Arts and Science, Department of Psychology |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Relation | Thesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science) |
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