The ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) is an important neural locus for the control of female-typical sexual behavior in vertebrates, and exogenous estrogen stimulates a strong increase in progesterone receptor (PR) in the VMH of adult females. Estrogen also regulates its own receptor (ER), though the direction of the response varies from species to species. In rodents and whiptail lizards, males ...

Sexual concerns and problems have drawn increased attention from health care providers and the general public in the last decade, in part due to the publicity surrounding Viagra, approved in 1998. Most research in the area of assessment and treatment of sexual dysfunction has targeted men. A Medline search of the term “sexual dysfunction” retrieves 9000 citations addressing female dysfunction a...

Sexual dysfunction can be defined as the inability to partake in or enjoy a sexual relationship with oneÕs partner as a result of underlying physical and/or psychological factors. Although there is an alteration in sexual response with aging, age is not a deterrent to enjoying and maintaining a normal, healthy sex life. The elderly are often subject to health problems, and their sexual activity...

Snowden, Wichter, and Gray (2008) demonstrated that an Implicit Association Test and a Priming Task both predicted the sexual orientation of gynephilic and androphilic men in terms of their attraction biases towards pictures of nude males and females. For both measures, relative bias scores were obtained, with no information on the separate response biases to each target gender. The present stu...

PURPOSE To identify correlates of sexual risk variations among African-American adolescents, and to examine the influence of prior sexual experience on response to a HIV risk-reduction intervention. METHODS Eight hundred seventeen African-American youth aged 13 to 16 years living in and around urban public housing in Baltimore were recruited to participate in a HIV risk-reduction intervention...

Reproductive functions in adult organism are known to be affected by different factors. Effects of social environment at the postnatal ontogenesis attract particular attention since it has deep impact on the development of physiological and emotional state of an individual. Effects of chronic social isolation at different ages on male sexual motivation, testosterone and corticosterone response ...

background: no study has been conducted yet on the process of adjustment of wives with their husbands’ erectile dysfunction in the transitional stages, and there is lack of understanding of this process in iran. objectives: a qualitative, grounded-theory study was designed to examine the process of adjustment of wives with their husbands’ erectile dysfunction in transitional stages. materials a...

objective: to determine the prevalence of sexual problems in iranian women and association of sexual dysfunction with menopausal symptoms. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 151 married women with the age of 40-60 yearsold who were referred for treatmentto department of gynecology in vali-e-asr hospital (tehran, iran) from april to july 2012, were recruited. they were evaluat...

One's self-views are powerful regulators of both cognitive processing and behavioral responding. Sexual self-schemas are cognitive generalizations about sexual aspects of the self. The bivariate sexual self-schema model, which posits independent effects of positive and negative components of women's sexual self-views, was tested. Three hundred eighteen female undergraduates completed anonymous ...