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. 2015 Jun;3(2):90-8.
doi: 10.1002/sm2.58.

Viewing Sexual Stimuli Associated with Greater Sexual Responsiveness, Not Erectile Dysfunction

Nicole Prause  1 , James Pfaus  2
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Viewing Sexual Stimuli Associated with Greater Sexual Responsiveness, Not Erectile Dysfunction

Nicole Prause et al. Sex Med. 2015 Jun.

Abstract

Introduction: Time spent viewing visual sexual stimuli (VSS) has the potential to habituate the sexual response and generalize to the partner context.

Aim: The aim of this study was to examine whether the time spent viewing VSS is related to sexual responsiveness felt in the laboratory or with a sexual partner.

Methods: Nontreatment-seeking men (N = 280) reported their weekly average VSS viewing in hours. VSS hours were examined in relation to the sexual arousal experienced while viewing a standardized sexual film in the laboratory and erectile problems experienced with a sexual partner.

Main outcome measures: Self-reported sexual arousal in response to sexual films and erectile problems on the International Index of Erectile Function were the main outcome measures.

Results: More hours viewing VSS was related to stronger experienced sexual responses to VSS in the laboratory, was unrelated to erectile functioning with a partner, and was related to stronger desire for sex with a partner.

Conclusions: VSS use within the range of hours tested is unlikely to negatively impact sexual functioning, given that responses actually were stronger in those who viewed more VSS.

Keywords: Erectile Dysfunction; Erotica; Sex Stimuli; Sexual Arousal.

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Stronger sexual arousal reported to standardized sexual films with more hours of viewing sexual films at home. SE = standard error.
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More hours viewing sexual stimuli associated with stronger sexual desire both for a partner and for masturbation. SE = standard error.
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Types of publications in hypersexuality over time.
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Types of publications addressing hypersexuality from 2011 to 2013. DSM = Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
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