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Women's sexual desire--disordered or misunderstood?
Full Abstract
A new model of women's sexual response moves the focus from spontaneous drive with its markers of sexual thoughts, fantasies, and conscious urge to be sexual to an inherently responsive cycle. The model reflects intimacy-based sexual motivation, processing of sexual stimuli to arousal, cognitive, and affective appraisal of that arousal. Sexual desire to continue the physical experience is accessed later. Providing that the outcome is emotionally and physically satisfying, emotional intimacy with the partner is increased. Any spontaneous sexual drive augments this intimacy-based cycle. Analysis of one or many breaks in the cycle has therapeutic implications.
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Author information
Author/s: Basson, Rosemary (R);
Affiliation: UBC Departments of Psychiatry and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vancouver Hospital and Health Sciences Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Journal of sex & marital therapy (J Sex Marital Ther), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-; vol 28 Suppl 1 (issue ) : pp 17-28
Dates: Created 2002/03/18; Completed 2002/09/04; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 11898699, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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