The Specificity of Women's Sexual Response and Its Relationship with Sexual Orientations: A Review and Ten Hypotheses.
Category-specific sexual response describes a pattern wherein the individual shows significantly greater responses to preferred versus nonpreferred categories of sexual stimuli; this pattern is described as gender specific for sexual orientation to gender, or gender nonspecific if lacking response d...
| Publicado en: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 46; no. 5; pp. 1161 - 1180 |
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Springer Nature
Jul2017
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