Sexual orientation, controversy, and science

JM Bailey, PL Vasey, LM Diamond… - … science in the …, 2016‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Ongoing political controversies around the world exemplify a long-standing and widespread
preoccupation with the acceptability of homosexuality. Nonheterosexual people have seen …

The specificity of women's sexual response and its relationship with sexual orientations: A review and ten hypotheses

ML Chivers - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2017‏ - Springer
Category-specific sexual response describes a pattern wherein the individual shows
significantly greater responses to preferred versus nonpreferred categories of sexual stimuli; …

Kisspeptin modulates sexual and emotional brain processing in humans

AN Comninos, MB Wall, L Demetriou, AJ Shah… - The Journal of clinical …, 2017‏ - jci.org
BACKGROUND. Sex, emotion, and reproduction are fundamental and tightly entwined
aspects of human behavior. At a population level in humans, both the desire for sexual …

Sexual arousal: The correspondence of eyes and genitals

G Rieger, BM Cash, SM Merrill, J Jones-Rounds… - Biological …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Men's, more than women's, sexual responses may include a coordination of several
physiological indices in order to build their sexual arousal to relevant targets. Here, for the …

Erotic subset for the Nencki Affective Picture System (NAPS ERO): cross-sexual comparison study

M Wierzba, M Riegel, A Pucz, Z Leśniewska… - Frontiers in …, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
Research on the processing of sexual stimuli has proved that such material has high priority
in human cognition. Yet, although sex differences in response to sexual stimuli were …

[HTML][HTML] Visual sexual stimuli—Cue or reward? A perspective for interpreting brain imaging findings on human sexual behaviors

M Gola, M Wordecha, A Marchewka… - Frontiers in Human …, 2016‏ - frontiersin.org
There is an increasing number of neuroimaging studies using visual sexual stimuli (VSS),
especially within the emerging field of research on compulsive sexual behaviors (CSB). A …

The neural basis of sex differences in sexual behavior: A quantitative meta-analysis

TB Poeppl, B Langguth, R Rupprecht, A Safron… - Frontiers in …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Sexuality as to its etymology presupposes the duality of sexes. Using quantitative
neuroimaging meta-analyses, we demonstrate robust sex differences in the neural …

The empirical status of the preparation hypothesis: Explicating women's genital responses to sexual stimuli in the laboratory

ML Lalumière, ML Sawatsky, SJ Dawson… - Archives of Sexual …, 2020‏ - Springer
Research conducted in our laboratory and in other laboratories has revealed that (1)
women's genital responses to visual and auditory stimuli are strongly affected by the …

Examining gender specificity of sexual response with concurrent thermography and plethysmography

JS Huberman, ML Chivers - Psychophysiology, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Men's genital responses are significantly greater to sexual stimuli of their preferred gender
compared to their nonpreferred gender (gender‐specific), whereas androphilic (ie, sexually …

Neural substrates of sexual arousal are not sex dependent

E Mitricheva, R Kimura, NK Logothetis… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
Sexual arousal is a dynamical, highly coordinated neurophysiological process that is often
induced by visual stimuli. Numerous studies have proposed that the cognitive processing …