Empathic sexual responses in heterosexual women and men.

Two distinct empathic sexual responses have been mentioned anecdotally in the literature: (1) an increase in physiological sexual arousal in response to the sexual arousal of the partner (empathic turn-on) and (2) a decrease in physiological sexual arousal in response to lack of sexual arousal in th...

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Publicado en:Sexual & Relationship Therapy Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 325 - 345
Autores principales: Haning RV, O'Keefe SL, Beard KW, Randall EJ, Kommor MJ, Stroebel SS
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov2008
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          O'Keefe SL
          Beard KW
          Randall EJ
          Kommor MJ
          Stroebel SS
        affil: Adjunct Professor of psychology, Department of Psychology, Marshall University, Huntington, USA
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          Arousal Physiology
          Empathy
          Heterosexuals Psychosocial Factors
          Interpersonal Relations
          Orgasm
          Sexuality
          Adolescence
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          Aged
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          Coefficient alpha
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          Descriptive Statistics
          Female
          Interviews
          Kendall's tau
          Male
          Mann-Whitney U Test
          Middle Age
          Multiple Linear Regression
          One-Way Analysis of Variance
          Paired T-Tests
          Questionnaires
          Sex Factors
          Sexual Satisfaction
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          Two-Way Analysis of Variance
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          Adolescent: 13-18 years
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          Aged, 80 & over
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          Female
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      ab: Two distinct empathic sexual responses have been mentioned anecdotally in the literature: (1) an increase in physiological sexual arousal in response to the sexual arousal of the partner (empathic turn-on) and (2) a decrease in physiological sexual arousal in response to lack of sexual arousal in the partner (empathic turn-off), but to our knowledge this is the first systematic study of the phenomenon. There were 722 women and 415 men who participated in the anonymous computer survey. Of the total of 1137 participants, 90.5% agreed that they had experienced empathic turn-on, 69.1% agreed that they had experienced empathic turn-off, 64.4% agreed that they had experienced both empathic turn-on and turn-off and only 4.7% had experienced neither, [chi]2 (1, n = 1137) = 19.484, p < .001. Sexual satisfaction of participants was significantly lower at the levels of partner's orgasm likelihood below 0.5 than above 0.5 in both men and women when analyzed separately. Both men and women were more likely to express multiple or sustained orgasms (instead of single orgasms) with a good partner than while masturbating. Empathic sexual responses can modulate the sexual arousal of both men and women by increasing sexual arousal when the partner is aroused and decreasing sexual arousal when the partner is not sexually responsive.
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