Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• KIEFER, Amy K
• SANCHEZ, Diana T
• KALINKA, Christina J
• YBARRA, Oscar

Titel

How women's nonconscious association of sex with submission relates to their subjective sexual arousability and ability to reach orgasm

Ist Teil von

• Sex roles, 2006-07, Vol.55 (1-2), p.83-94

Ort / Verlag

New York, NY: Springer

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Common cultural stereotypes promote women's submission to men, especially within intimate heterosexual relationships. Mirroring these stereotypes, women possess nonconscious associations between sex & submission (Sanchez, Kiefer & Ybarra, 2006). Moreover, women's sex-submission associations predict greater reports of engagement in submissive sexual behavior (Sanchez et al., 2006). In the present research, we again found that women associate sex with submission at a nonconscious level. Study 1 showed that women's nonconscious sex-submission associations predict reduced subjective arousability. Study 2 further demonstrated that these associations predict impaired ability to reach orgasm among women. These findings suggest that sex-submission associations may adversely affect women's sexual functioning. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.