Gender-Specificity of Genital Response and Self-Reported Sexual Arousal in Women Endorsing Facets of Bisexuality

Bouchard, Katrina N.; Timmers, Amanda D.; Chivers, Meredith L.

doi:10.1080/15299716.2015.1022924

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“…Our findings are only partially consistent with observations from the genital arousal literature in which homosexual and bisexual women both had gynephilic responses, but where heterosexual women had non-specific responses 23 – 25 . We found significant biases in ventral striatum responses toward female stimuli among homosexual women, but with more indifferent patterns among heterosexual and bisexual women.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…It is also possible that bisexual women’s arousal patterns differ from those observed in heterosexual women. Consistent with this possibility, recent studies suggest that women with bisexual interests tend to be more aroused by female than by male erotic stimuli 23 – 25 . Perhaps for some women with female-biased arousal patterns, this bias can motivate non-heterosexual feelings, behavior, and identity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 79%

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Neural Correlates of Sexual Orientation in Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Homosexual Women

Safron

Sylva

Klimaj

et al. 2018

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We used fMRI to investigate neural correlates of responses to erotic pictures and videos in heterosexual (N = 26), bisexual (N = 26), and homosexual (N = 24) women, ages 25–50. We focused on the ventral striatum, an area of the brain associated with desire, extending previous findings from the sexual psychophysiology literature in which homosexual women had greater category specificity (relative to heterosexual and bisexual women) in their responses to male and female erotic stimuli. We found that homosexual women’s subjective and neural responses reflected greater bias towards female stimuli, compared with bisexual and heterosexual women, whose responses did not significantly differ. These patterns were also suggested by whole brain analyses, with homosexual women showing category-specific activations of greater extents in visual and auditory processing areas. Bisexual women tended to show more mixed patterns, with activations more responsive to female stimuli in sensory processing areas, and activations more responsive to male stimuli in areas associated with social cognition.

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confidence: 84%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Neural Correlates of Sexual Orientation in Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Homosexual Women

Safron

Sylva

Klimaj

et al. 2018

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“…Bisexual women reported highly stable desire over time. Moreover, bisexuals reported higher sexual desire and arousal for women than heterosexuals and lesbians, while lesbians reported lower sexual arousal and desire with men than the other groups [12,13].…”

Section: Bisexual Women and Menmentioning

confidence: 90%

Sexual Desire and Fantasies in the LGBT+ Community: a Focus on Bisexuals, Transgender, and Other Shades of the Rainbow

Nimbi

Ciocca

Limoncin

et al. 2020

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Purpose of Review The purpose of this review is to summarize the current knowledge on sexual desire expressions, sexual orientation, and identity in understudied groups inside the LGBT+ community. Recent Findings Sexual desire and related problems have unique expressions in LGBT+ people which influence their sexual health. Emerging sex-positive approaches might be powerful and prominent tools to provide support and education on behalf of safer sex practices and marginalized sexualities. The importance of deepening LGBT+ sexualities and relationships, not only in lesbian women and gay men but also in all the other shades of the rainbow (bisexual, transgender, asexual, fluid, and non-binary/ genderqueer identities), is strongly highlighted. Summary A lack of literature regarding sexual desire in LGBT+ people is reported. Results are controversial and research is still limited on this topic, with little information available about sexual and health needs of sexual minorities beyond gay and lesbian people.

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“…Especially, with regard to the often reported female non-specificity (e.g., Bouchard, Timmers, & Chivers, 2015;Dawson & Chivers, 2016) the CPAP is a promising approach-as at least antisaccade errors showed female sexual specificity in our study-to investigate interest-specific processing at an automatic level. Most importantly, however, future studies should confirm reliability and validity of the CPAP and replicate findings in larger and more strictly defined samples in terms of sexual interest specificity.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Development of a Cued Pro- and Antisaccade Paradigm: An Indirect Measure to Explore Automatic Components of Sexual Interest

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Gender-Specificity of Genital Response and Self-Reported Sexual Arousal in Women Endorsing Facets of Bisexuality

Cited by 25 publications

References 48 publications

Neural Correlates of Sexual Orientation in Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Homosexual Women

Neural Correlates of Sexual Orientation in Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Homosexual Women

Sexual Desire and Fantasies in the LGBT+ Community: a Focus on Bisexuals, Transgender, and Other Shades of the Rainbow

Development of a Cued Pro- and Antisaccade Paradigm: An Indirect Measure to Explore Automatic Components of Sexual Interest

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