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Cruising: Impact Factor Data.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19924523 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - November 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zucker KJ, Cantor JM Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Exhibitionism, Voyeurism, and Frotteurism.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I reviewed the empirical literature for 1980-2008 on exhibitionism, voyeurism, and frotteurism for the American Psychiatric Association's Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders Work Group in preparation for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). Very limited empirical support was found for major changes of the current DSM-IV-TR criteria sets for these paraphilias. Some of the criticism of current criteria and the balancing of false negatives and false positive diagnoses are examined. The report concludes with suggestions for possible diagnostic criteria changes for the DSM...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - November 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Långström N Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Erratum to: Sex Differences in Infants' Visual Interest in Toys.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19915970 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - November 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alexander GM, Wilcox T, Woods R Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Moderators of the Relationship Between Internalized Homophobia and Risky Sexual Behavior in Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Meta-Analysis.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Research on internalized homophobia (IH) has consistently linked it to both mental and physical health outcomes, while research on its relationships with other variables has been inconsistent. Some research and theory support the association between IH and risky sexual behavior, but much of this research has been plagued by methodological issues, varying measures, and has produced inconsistent findings. Coming to a better understanding of the utility of IH as a potential mechanism or predictor of risky sex in men who have sex with men (MSM) may help to inform future studies of HIV risk in this population as well as the...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - November 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Newcomb ME, Mustanski B Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Sexually Coercive Behavior in Male Youth: Population Survey of General and Specific Risk Factors.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion, several sociodemographic, family, and individual risk/protective factors were common to non-sexual and sexually coercive antisocial behavior in late adolescence. However, pro-rape cognitions, and sexual preoccupation, were sexuality-related, specific risk factors. The findings could inform preventive efforts and the assessment and treatment of sexually coercive male youth. PMID: 19888644 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - November 4, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kjellgren C, Priebe G, Svedin CG, Långström N Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Is a Diagnostic Category for Paraphilic Coercive Disorder Defensible?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There is a proposal to establish a paraphilic coercive disorder as a new paraphilia in the DSM-V. The empirical data do not, however, support the hypothesis that a distinct syndrome exists that comprises males who are sexually aroused by the coercive elements of rape per se. Purported evidence for this syndrome has centered on the results of phallometric studies. Higher plethysmographic responses of rapists to coercive rape scenarios may, however, be better explained by the failure of coercive elements to inhibit arousal to sexual aspects of the stimuli rather than by arousal specifically to the coercive elements. In a...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - November 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Knight RA Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Doing Gender in Sex and Sex Research.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Gender is central to sexuality, and vice versa, but there are a number of difficulties with the treatment of gender in sex research. Apparently, it is hard to find a balance between two conflicting needs. First, obviously, it is necessary to make distinctions between women and men, for political as well as research-technical and theoretical reasons. A second requirement, at odds with the first one, is the necessity to understand gender and its relation to sexuality and the body as much more complex than simplistically referring to two sets of individuals. This is all the more necessary when one realizes the possible dr...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vanwesenbeeck I Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Validation of the Sexual Excitation/Sexual Inhibition Inventory for Women and Men.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The purpose of the current investigation was to develop a scale that would assess propensity for sexual arousal in response to a broad range of stimuli and sexual situations in both men and women. In Study 1, data from a nonclinical sample of 481 male and female students (graduate and undergraduate) were submitted to exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in order to develop the Sexual Excitation/Sexual Inhibition Inventory for Women and Men (SESII-W/M), and gender differences on the subscales were tested. In Study 2, construct validity and test-retest reliability of the SESII-W/M were assessed with a second samp...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Milhausen RR, Graham CA, Sanders SA, Yarber WL, Maitland SB Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Methamphetamine Use, Attitudes About Condoms, and Sexual Risk Behavior Among HIV-Positive Men Who Have Sex with Men.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined attitudes about condoms as a moderator of the relationship between methamphetamine use and sexual risk behavior in a sample of 297 HIV-positive, methamphetamine-using men who have sex with men (MSM). To test for a moderating effect of attitudes towards condoms, an interaction term was included in multiple regression analysis along with age, income, negative condom attitudes, frequency of methamphetamine use, and Beck depression score. A post hoc analysis was conducted to determine the relations between methamphetamine use and unprotected sex for persons with more vs. less negative attitudes toward condo...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nakamura N, Mausbach BT, Ulibarri MD, Semple SJ, Patterson TL Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Women's Sexual Responses to Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotica: The Role of Stimulus Intensity, Affective Reaction, and Sexual History.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Past research has demonstrated that women do not show a "category-specific" genital response to erotic stimuli. That is, on average, heterosexual and lesbian women are indistinguishable in terms of their physiological genital responses to heterosexual versus lesbian erotica. In two studies with heterosexual women (n = 28 for Study 1; n = 30 for Study 2) and lesbians (n = 24 for Study 1; n = 25 for Study 2), results confirmed that, on average, women did not show category-specific genital responses or category-specific subjective sexual arousal. However, there was evidence of notable within-group variability; many women ...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Peterson ZD, Janssen E, Laan E Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

An Explanation for the Shape of the Human Penis.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19851854 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 22, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bowman EA Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Vaginismus.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Vaginal spasm has been considered the defining diagnostic characteristic of vaginismus for approximately 150 years. This remarkable consensus, based primarily on expert clinical opinion, is preserved in the DSM-IV-TR. The available empirical research, however, does not support this definition nor does it support the validity of the DSM-IV-TR distinction between vaginismus and dyspareunia. The small body of research concerning other possible ways or methods of diagnosing vaginismus is critically reviewed. Based on this review, it is proposed that the diagnoses of vaginismus and dyspareunia be collapsed into a single dia...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 22, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Binik YM Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

From Mental Disorder to Iatrogenic Hypogonadism: Dilemmas in Conceptualizing Gender Identity Variants as Psychiatric Conditions.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The categorization of gender identity variants (GIVs) as "mental disorders" in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association is highly controversial among professionals as well as among persons with GIV. After providing a brief history of GIV categorizations in the DSM, this paper presents some of the major issues of the ongoing debate: GIV as psychopathology versus natural variation; definition of "impairment" and "distress" for GID; associated psychopathology and its relation to stigma; the stigma impact of the mental-disorder label itself; the unusual charact...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 22, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Meyer-Bahlburg HF Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Reactions to Self-Sampling for Ano-Rectal Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Qualitative Study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In this study, we examined experiences of self-sampling for ano-rectal STI among men who have sex with men (MSM) in a midwestern community in the U.S. A total of 75 MSM were recruited from community venues throughout Indianapolis, Indiana. Participants completed semi-structured interviews, were asked to obtain ano-rectal self-sample in a private restroom, and were asked open-ended questions about their experiences with ano-rectal self-sampling for STI. Participants included 35 White, 27 Black, and 13 Latino MSM who ranged in age from 18 to 57 years. Regardless of sexual practices, most participants who obtained an ano-rect...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 21, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rosenberger JG, Dodge B, Van Der Pol B, Reece M, Herbenick D, Fortenberry JD Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Gender Identity Disorder in Children.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article addresses criticisms of the GID criteria for children which, in my view, can be addressed by extant empirical data. Based in part on reanalysis of data, I conclude that the persistent desire to be of the other gender should, in contrast to DSM-IV, be a necessary symptom for the diagnosis. If anything, this would result in a tightening of the diagnostic criteria and may result in a better separation of children with GID from children who display marked gender variance, but without the desire to be of the other gender. PMID: 19842027 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zucker KJ Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Gender Identity Disorder in Adolescents and Adults.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Apart from some general issues related to the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) diagnosis, such as whether it should stay in the DSM-V or not, a number of problems specifically relate to the current criteria of the GID diagnosis for adolescents and adults. These problems concern the confusion caused by similarities and differences of the terms transsexualism and GID, the inability of the current criteria to capture the whole spectrum of gender variance phenomena, the potential risk of unnecessary physically invasive examinations to rule out intersex conditions (disorders of sex development), the necessity of the D criteri...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cohen-Kettenis PT, Pfäfflin F Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Dyspareunia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The DSM-IV-TR attempted to create a unitary category of dyspareunia based on the criterion of genital pain that interfered with sexual intercourse. This classificatory emphasis of interference with intercourse is reviewed and evaluated from both theoretical and empirical points of view. Neither of these points of view was found to support the notion of dyspareunia as a unitary disorder or its inclusion in the DSM-V as a sexual dysfunction. It seems highly likely that there are different syndromes of dyspareunia and that what is currently termed "superficial dyspareunia" cannot be differentiated reliably from vaginismus...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Binik YM Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Effects of Attractiveness and Social Status on Dating Desire in Heterosexual Adolescents: An Experimental Study.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study examined to what extent adolescent dating desire is based on attractiveness and social status of a potential short-term partner. Further, we tested whether self-perceived mate value moderated the relationship between dating desire and attractiveness of a potential partner. Data were used from a sample of 1,913 adolescents aged 13-18. Participants rated the importance of various characteristics of a potential partner and also participated in an experimental vignette study in which dating desire was measured with either low or high attractive potential partners having either a high or low social status....
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ha T, Overbeek G, Engels RC Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Sex-Dimorphic Face Shape Preference in Heterosexual and Homosexual Men and Women.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Studies have used manipulated faces to test the preferences of heterosexual individuals for sexually dimorphic facial cues. In contrast to previous studies, which have generally excluded homosexual participants, we directly compared homosexual and heterosexual male and female preferences for manipulated sexual dimorphism in faces (homosexual males: n = 311; heterosexual males: n = 215; homosexual females: n = 159; heterosexual females: n = 218). Prior studies on sexual orientation and preferences for faces that were paired with masculine and feminine behavioral descriptors suggest that homosexual men prefer more mascul...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Glassenberg AN, Feinberg DR, Jones BC, Little AC, Debruine LM Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Correlates of Forced Sex Among Populations of Men Who Have Sex with Men in Thailand.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Although forced sex is a correlate of HIV infection, its prevalence and associated risks are not well described among men who have sex with men (MSM) in developing-country settings. Between March and October 2005, we assessed the prevalence of forced sex and correlates among populations of MSM (this includes general MSM, male sex workers, and male-to-female transgender persons) in Thailand using a community-based sample. Participants were enrolled from venues around Bangkok, Chiangmai, and Phuket using venue day-time sampling. Handheld computer-assisted self-interviewing was used to collect demographic and behavioral d...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 14, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Guadamuz TE, Wimonsate W, Varangrat A, Phanuphak P, Jommaroeng R, Mock PA, Tappero JW, van Griensven F Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Family Structure as a Risk Factor for Women's Sexual Victimization: A Study Using the Danish Registry System.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study estimated the risk of sexual victimization associated with different family structures. Based on the Danish Civil Registration System, all female visitors to the Centre for Rape Victims (CRV) at the University Hospital in Aarhus, during a two-year period (January 2005 to December 2006) were identified (N = 214) along with a control group (N = 4,343) that was matched by age and residential location. The family structure in the preceding year was used as a predictor variable in a logistic regression model. Results indicted that, compared to those who were married with children at home, being single with children a...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Elklit A, Shevlin M Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

A Five-Year Follow-Up Study of Swedish Adults with Gender Identity Disorder.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion, almost all patients were satisfied with the sex reassignment; 86% were assessed by clinicians at follow-up as stable or improved in global functioning. PMID: 19816764 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Johansson A, Sundbom E, Höjerback T, Bodlund O Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Erratum to: Cognitive Representations of Sexual Self Differ as a Function of Gender and Sexual Debut.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19798564 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - October 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lindgren KP, Schacht RL, Mullins PM, Blayney JA Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Fetishism.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The historical definitions of sexual Fetishism are reviewed. Prior to the advent of DSM-III-R (American Psychiatric Association, 1987), Fetishism was typically operationally described as persistent preferential sexual arousal in association with non-living objects, an over-inclusive focus on (typically non-sexual) body parts (e.g., feet, hands) and body secretions. In the DSM-III-R, Partialism, an "exclusive focus on part of the body," was cleaved from Fetishism and added to the Paraphilia Not Otherwise Specified category. The current literature reviewed suggests that Partialism and Fetishism are related, can be co-ass...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kafka MP Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Coercive Paraphilic Disorder.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sexual coercion is a manifestation of sexual conflict that is not in itself pathological according to Wakefield's (1992) criteria because sexual coercion can increase a man's Darwinian fitness. There are, however, differences among men in their propensity to commit rape and this propensity is linked to antisocial personality characteristics and relatively more sexual interest in brutal rape depictions. If highly rape-prone men were to be considered pathological, it would be possible to develop diagnostic criteria to identify them. PMID: 19795203 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 30, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Quinsey VL Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

(Self-)Abusive Prophecies, Rigorous Science, and Discursive Templates: Commentary on Malón (2009).Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Self-)Abusive Prophecies, Rigorous Science, and Discursive Templates: Commentary on Malón (2009). Arch Sex Behav. 2009 Sep 26; Authors: Janssen DF PMID: 19784767 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 25, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janssen DF Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Female Orgasmic Disorder.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reviews the DSM diagnostic criteria for Female Orgasmic Disorder (FOD). Following an overview of the concept of female orgasm, research on the prevalence and associated features of FOD is briefly reviewed. Specific aspects of the DSM-IV-TR criteria for FOD are critically reviewed and key issues that should be considered for DSM-V are discussed. The DSM-IV-TR text on FOD focused on the physiological changes that may (or may not) accompany orgasm in women; one of the major recommendations here is that greater emphasis be given to the subjective aspects of the experience of orgasm. Additional specific recommendat...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 25, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Graham CA Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Sexual Aversion Disorder.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sexual Aversion Disorder (SAD) is one of two Sexual Desire Disorders in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) and is defined as a "persistent or recurrent extreme aversion to, and avoidance of, all or almost all, genital sexual contact with a sexual partner" which causes distress or interpersonal difficulty. This paper reviews the short history of the diagnosis of SAD as well as the existing literature on its prevalence and etiology. Kaplan (1987) emphasized the phobic qualities of individuals with SAD who are highly avoidant of all forms of sexual contact. Much has also been written about the...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 25, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brotto LA Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Paraphilia Not Otherwise Specified.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reviews the literature on Telephone Scatologia, Necrophilia, Zoophilia, Urophilia, Coprophilia, and Partialism. Based on extant data, no changes are suggested except for the status of Partialism. Partialism, sexual arousal characterized by "an exclusive focus on part of the body," had historically been subsumed as a type of Fetishism until the advent of DSM-III-R. The rationale for considering the removal of Partialism from Paraphilia NOS and its reintegration as a specifier for Fetishism is discussed here and in a companion review on the DSM diagnostic criteria for fetishism (Kafka, 2009). In the DSM-IV and D...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kafka MP Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder in Women.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reviews the diagnosis of HSDD in prior and current (DSM-IV-TR) editions of the DSM, critiques the existing criteria, and proposes criteria for consideration in DSM-V. Problems in coming to a clear operational definition of desire, the fact that sexual activity often occurs in the absence of desire for women, conceptual issues in understanding untriggered versus responsive desire, the relative infrequency of unprovoked sexual fantasies in women, and the significant overlap between desire and arousal are reviewed and highlight the need for revised DSM criteria for HSDD that accurately reflect women's experiences...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brotto LA Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article reviews and critiques the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for Female Sexual Arousal Disorder (FSAD). An overview of how the diagnostic criteria for FSAD have evolved over previous editions of the DSM is presented and research on prevalence and etiology of FSAD is briefly reviewed. Problems with the essential feature of the DSM-IV-TR diagnosis-"an inability to attain, or to maintain...an adequate lubrication-swelling response of sexual excitement"-are identified. The significant overlap between "arousal" and "desire" disorders is highlighted. Finally, specific recommendations for revision of the criteria for DSM-...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 23, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Graham CA Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Sparse Evidence for the Association between Lack of Condom Use and Better Mental Health: Reply to Costa and Brody (2009).Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19760499 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 16, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mota N, Cox BJ, Katz LY, Sareen J Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Reports from the DSM-V Work Group on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19760144 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zucker KJ Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Transvestic Fetishism.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper contains the author's report on transvestism, submitted on July 31, 2008, to the work group charged with revising the diagnoses concerning sexual and gender identity disorders for the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). In the first part of this report, the author reviews differences among previous editions of the DSM as a convenient way to illustrate problems with the nomenclature and uncertainties in the descriptive pathology of transvestism. He concludes this part by proposing a revised set of diagnostic criteria, including a...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Blanchard R Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The DSM Diagnostic Criteria for Pedophilia.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper contains the author's report on pedophilia, submitted on June 2, 2008, to the work group charged with revising the diagnoses concerning sexual and gender identity disorders for the fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The author reviews the previously published criticisms and empirical research concerning the diagnostic criteria for pedophilia and presents criticism and relevant research of his own. The review shows that the DSM diagnostic criteria for pedophilia have repeatedly been criticized as unsatisfactory on logical or con...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 15, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Blanchard R Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Cognitive Representations of Sexual Self Differ as a Function of Gender and Sexual Debut.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This research evaluated the association between gender and sexual debut (initial sexual intercourse) and indirect measures of sexuality. A sample of 440 U.S. college students (pre-sexual debut: 144 women, 153 men; post-sexual debut: 49 women, 94 men) completed the Sexual Self-Schema Scale (SSSS), which assessed cognitive representations about sexual aspects of oneself, and three Implicit Association Tests (IAT), which measured the strength of the associations between the concepts of self + sex, women + sex, and men + sex. Results replicated previous findings that (1) men more strongly associated self + sex and women + ...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lindgren KP, Schacht RL, Mullins PM, Blayney JA Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Sexual Behaviors among Club Drug Users: Prevalence and Reliability.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
HIV prevention efforts require a focus on reducing high risk sexual behavior. Because these are self-reported, assessments that reduce memory bias and improve elicitation of data are needed. As part of a multi-site psychometric study of club drug use, abuse, and dependence, data were collected with a test-retest design that measured the reliability of the Washington University Risk Behavior Assessment for Club Drugs (WU-RBA-CD). Reliability was assessed separately by sex via kappa coefficients and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC); z tests compared coefficients by sex. A total of 603 participants were interview...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Shacham E, Cottler LB Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Influences of Mastery, Spousal Support, and Adaptive Coping on Sexual Drive and Satisfaction Among Chinese Gynecologic Cancer Survivors.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study investigated sexual drive and satisfaction of Chinese gynecologic cancer survivors. It also examined the extent to which personal mastery, adaptive coping, and perceived spousal support would exert direct and/or indirect influences on sexual outcomes. The cancer survivor group included 134 Chinese women who had received treatment for gynecologic cancer, while the healthy control group included 105 Chinese women who did not have a known history or current diagnosis of cancer. Compared to healthy women, cancer survivors reported lower levels of sexual drive and sexual satisfaction. Among sexually active participan...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - September 8, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tang CS, Lai BP, Chung TK Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Sexual Abuse History, Alcohol Intoxication, and Women's Sexual Risk Behavior.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We examined potential differences in women's likelihood of sexual risk taking in a laboratory setting based on alcohol intoxication and sexual abuse history. Participants (n = 64) were classified as non-sexually abused (NSA) or as having experienced sexual abuse in childhood only (CSA) or adulthood only (ASA) and randomly assigned to consume alcoholic (.06, .08, or .10% target blood alcohol content) or non-alcoholic drinks, after which participants read and responded to a risky sex vignette. Dependent measures included vaginal pulse amplitude, self-reported sexual arousal, likelihood of engaging in condom use and risky sex...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - August 31, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Schacht RL, George WH, Davis KC, Heiman JR, Norris J, Stoner SA, Kajumulo KF Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

"Sex Therapy": A Marginalized Specialization.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19705269 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - August 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nasserzadeh S Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Concerns Regarding Gender Change to Male in a 46,XY Child with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome: Comment on Kulshreshtha et al. (2009).Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 19705270 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - August 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Meyer-Bahlburg HF Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Assessment of Pedophilic Sexual Interest with an Attentional Choice Reaction Time Task.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Choice-reaction time (CRT) is an experimental information-processing paradigm. Based on an interference effect in visual attention, the CRT method has been shown to be suitable for measuring sexual orientation in men and women. The present study assessed the potential of the CRT to identify deviant (i.e., pedophilic) sexual interest. Participants were patients from forensic-psychiatric hospitals: 21 child molesters and 21 non-sex offenders. The dependent variable was reaction time in an ostensible seek-and-locate task (i.e., identifying the position of a dot superimposed on a picture of a person). There was an interact...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - August 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mokros A, Dombert B, Osterheider M, Zappalà A, Santtila P Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Effect of Self-Reported Sexual Arousal on Responses to Sex-Related and Non-Sex-Related Disgust Cues.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examined whether sexual arousal, in contrast to general arousal, could selectively reduce reported disgust for cues that pilot participants identified as sex or non-sex related. Male undergraduates were randomly assigned to one of four viewing groups. One group viewed erotic female images, a second clad female images, a third pleasantly arousing images (e.g., skydiving), and a fourth unpleasantly arousing images (e.g., an aimed gun). After the viewing phase, all participants were exposed to pairs of real disgust elicitors (sex versus non-sex related) drawn from various sensory modalities. Participants in the ero...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - August 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stevenson RJ, Case TI, Oaten MJ Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Test-Retest Reliability and Predictors of Unreliable Reporting for a Sexual Behavior Questionnaire for U.S. Men.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Accurate knowledge about human sexual behaviors is important for increasing our understanding of human sexuality; however, there have been few studies assessing the reliability of sexual behavior questionnaires designed for community samples of adult men. A test-retest reliability study was conducted on a questionnaire completed by 334 men who had been recruited in Tucson, Arizona. Reliability coefficients and refusal rates were calculated for 39 non-sexual and sexual behavior questionnaire items. Predictors of unreliable reporting for lifetime number of female sexual partners were also assessed. Refusal rates were gen...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - August 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Nyitray AG, Harris RB, Abalos AT, Nielson CM, Papenfuss M, Giuliano AR Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Alcohol Use and High-Risk Sexual Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Narrative Review.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This article is a review of empirical studies on the association of alcohol and high-risk sexual behavior in SSA, with a focus on measurable outcomes generated from quantitative data. A critique of the literature is provided, with attention to methodological concerns. Empirically based theoretical orientations were used to interpret the reviewed research and to stimulate discussion about how to improve the state of the current literature. Based on this discussion, a model of alcohol and high-risk sexual behavior in an African context is proposed in order to integrate the existing literature and highlight areas in need of c...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - August 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Woolf-King SE, Maisto SA Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The Relationship Between Dimensions of Love, Personality, and Relationship Length.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study examined the associations among participant demographics, personality factors, love dimensions, and relationship length. In total, 16,030 participants completed an internet survey assessing Big Five personality factors, Sternberg's three love dimensions (intimacy, passion, and commitment), and the length of time that they had been involved in a relationship. Results of structural equation modeling (SEM) showed that participant age was negatively associated with passion and positively associated with intimacy and commitment. In addition, the Big Five factor of Agreeableness was positively associated wi...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - August 24, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ahmetoglu G, Swami V, Chamorro-Premuzic T Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Women's Probability of Conception Is Associated with their Preference for Flirtatious but not Masculine Facial Movement.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Women's preferences for facial structure vary over the menstrual cycle. Little is known, however, as to how preferences for behavior may be influenced by hormonal factors. Here, we demonstrate that social properties of facial motion influence attractiveness judgments in the absence of other cues, and that women's preferences for these displays vary over the menstrual cycle, as has been demonstrated for structural traits of men's faces in static stimuli. We produced shape-standardized facial models that were animated with male movement and assessed for flirtatiousness by 16 women and attractiveness by 47 women. In ferti...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - August 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Morrison ER, Clark AP, Gralewski L, Campbell N, Penton-Voak IS Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Eye-Tracking of Men's Preferences for Waist-to-Hip Ratio and Breast Size of Women.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Studies of human physical traits and mate preferences often use questionnaires asking participants to rate the attractiveness of images. Female waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), breast size, and facial appearance have all been implicated in assessments by men of female attractiveness. However, very little is known about how men make fine-grained visual assessments of such images. We used eye-tracking techniques to measure the numbers of visual fixations, dwell times, and initial fixations made by men who viewed front-posed photographs of the same woman, computer-morphed so as to differ in her WHR (0.7 or 0.9) and breast size (...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - August 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Dixson BJ, Grimshaw GM, Linklater WL, Dixson AF Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

The Biogeography and Evolution of Female Homosexual Behavior in Japanese Macaques.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In certain Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata) populations, females routinely engage in same-sex courtship, mounting, and consortship activity. Drawing on behavioral, biogeographic, and genetic research, we suggest that female homosexual behavior may be associated with genetically distinct free-ranging populations of Japanese macaques. In addition, we briefly discuss the implications of this research for the evolution of female homosexual behavior in this species. PMID: 19688591 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior)
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - August 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vasey PL, Jiskoot H Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals

Partner Selection among Latino Immigrant Men Who Have Sex with Men.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This qualitative study explored partner selection in a sample of immigrant Latino men who have sex with men (MSM). In-depth interviews were conducted with men living in the greater New York metropolitan area who had been born in Brazil (n = 10), Colombia (n = 14), or the Dominican Republic (n = 9). One focus group was conducted with MSM from each of the three countries (9 Brazilian, 11 Colombian, and 5 Dominican participants). A grounded theory approach revealed three main themes relating to partner selection. The first concerned stereotypes of how Latino and Anglo-American men tend to behave in their sexual encounters...
Source: Archives of Sexual Behavior - August 17, 2009 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Bianchi FT, Shedlin MG, Brooks KD, Montes Penha M, Reisen CA, Zea MC, Poppen PJ Tags: Arch Sex Behav Source Type: journals