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- Title: Elucidating Women's (Hetero)Sexual Desire: Definitional Challenges and Content Expansion (Report)
- Author : The Journal of Sex Research
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 302 KB
Description
As the most subjective and acutely amorphous component of sexuality, it is hardly surprising that desire was bypassed by Masters and Johnson (1966) in their quest to operationalize and measure the sexual response. Yet, without the construct of desire, ill-defined though it may be, the sexual response seems incomplete and automatic. It lacks agency, and it does not align well with the observed and self-reported complexity of human sexual experience. As such, desire is increasingly the focus of popular, scholarly, and clinical attention. It has also become a battleground for differing theoretical and political perspectives. The attention, however, is focused almost exclusively on the sexual desire of women, or supposed lack thereof. As Maurice (2007) argued, desire problems in men are "simply off the radar" (p. 182). The idea of men uninterested in sex is perceived to be an oxymoron by the general public and many health professionals. Inaccurate and unfortunate though these perceptions may be, the recent focus on women appears to emerge from the accumulation of data supporting the existence of quantitative and qualitative gender differences in desire.