The relationship between the menstrual cycle and female sexual interest in women with PMS complaints and volunteers

Dennerstein, Lorraine; Gotts, Gordon; Brown, J. B.; Morse, Carol; Farley, Tim; Pinol, A.

doi:10.1016/0306-4530(94)90067-1

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“…It is supposed to rise during sexual arousal and peak during orgasm in women and in men, which is possibly the response to areolae or genital tract stimulation. As previous studies demonstrated, there are variations in OXY levels as well as of female sexual interest during the menstrual cycle [3]. OXY peaks at time of ovulation and remains significantly elevated in the follicular phase when compared to the luteal phase [4].…”

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confidence: 76%

The Role of Oxytocin in Relation to Female Sexual Arousal

Blaicher¹,

Gruber²,

Bieglmayer³

et al. 1999

Gynecol Obstet Invest

170

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Oxytocin is clearly involved in human reproduction and serves an important role in sexual arousal. Oxytocin serum levels were measured before and after sexual stimulation in 12 healthy women. Values of oxytocin 1 min after orgasm were significantly higher (p < 0.05) than baseline levels. This finding supports the hypothesis that oxytocin plays a major part in human sexual response both in neuroendocrine function and postcoital behavior.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 76%

The Role of Oxytocin in Relation to Female Sexual Arousal

Blaicher¹,

Gruber²,

Bieglmayer³

et al. 1999

Gynecol Obstet Invest

170

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“…These data suggest (albeit indirectly) that deficiencies of sex hormones could underlie a decrease in sexual function in both men and women. Second, some basal hormone studies have observed correlations between blood levels of sex steroids and sexual functioning, while other studies have observed lower sex hormone levels in subjects with decreased sexual function compared with asymptomatic control groups (Schiavi et al, 1991;Cawood and Bancroft, 1996;Santoro et al, 2005;Basar et al, 2005;Modelska et al, 2004;Travison et al, 2006;Beutel et al, 2005;Kennedy et al, 1997;Nyunt et al, 2005;Dennerstein et al, 1994Dennerstein et al, , 2002Slob et al, 1996;Adams et al, 1978;Bancroft et al, 1980;Meuwissen and Over, 1992;Doering et al, 1974). Finally, several longitudinal studies have demonstrated the reduction of sexual function under the following circumstances: after medical or surgical castration; after the development of hypogonadism secondary to a variety of medical illnesses; after the administration of medications that inhibit sex hormone production (Marberger et al, 2006); and during age-related reproductive senescence (Dennerstein et al, 2002;Koster and Garde, 1993).…”

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confidence: 99%

Pharmacologically Induced Hypogonadism and Sexual Function in Healthy Young Women and Men

Schmidt

Steinberg

Negro

et al. 2008

Neuropsychopharmacol

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Studies fail to find uniform effects of age-related or induced hypogonadism on human sexual function. We examined the effects of induced hypogonadism on sexual function in healthy men and women and attempted to identify predictors of the sexual response to induced hypogonadism or hormone addback. The study design used was a double-blind, controlled, crossover (self-as-own control). The study setting was an ambulatory care clinic in a research hospital, and the participants were 20 men (average ± SD age ¼ 28.5 ± 6.2 years) and 20 women (average ± SD age ¼ 33.5 ± 8.7 years), all healthy and with no history of psychiatric illness. A multidimensional scale assessing several domains of sexual function was the main outcome measure. Participants of the study received depot leuprolide acetate (Lupron) every 4 weeks for 3 months (men) or 5 months (women). After the first month of Lupron alone, men received (in addition to Lupron) testosterone enanthate (200 mg intramuscularly) or placebo every 2 weeks for 1 month each. Women received Lupron alone for 2 months, and then, in addition to Lupron, they received estradiol and progesterone for 5 weeks each. The results of the study: in women, hypogonadism resulted in a significant decrease in global measures of sexual functioning, principally reflecting a significant decrease in the reported quality of orgasm. In men, hypogonadism resulted in significant reductions in all measured domains of sexual function. Testosterone restored sexual functioning scores in men to those seen at baseline, whereas neither estradiol nor progesterone significantly improved the reduced sexual functioning associated with hypogonadism in women. Induced hypogonadism decreased sexual function in a similar number of men and women. No predictors of response were identified except for levels of sexual function at baseline. In conclusion, our data do not support a simple deficiency model for the role of gonadal steroids in human sexual function; moreover, while variable, the role of testosterone in sexual function in men is more apparent than that of estradiol or progesterone in women.

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“…Other studies have reported that heterosexual women's sexual desire varies during the menstrual cycle (Rupp & Wallen, 2007;Wallen, 2001). For instance, during the follicular phase, heterosexual women reported more interest in sex (Schreiner-Engel, Schiavi, Smith, & White, 1981;Slob, Bax, Hop, Rowland, & van der Werff ten Bosch, 1996;Stanislaw & Rice, 1988;Zillmann, Schweitzer, & Mundorf, 1995) and increased sexual desire in diary studies (Bancroft, Sanders, Davidson, & Warner, 1983;Dennerstein et al, 1994). During the ovulatory phase heterosexual women were more likely to initiate sexual intercourse (Adam, Gold, & Burt, 1978;Bullivant et al, 2004;Van Goozen, Wiegant, Endert, 8 Helmond, & Van de Poll, 1997) ; reported more auto-sexual activity (Harvey, 1987); were more sexually aroused by erotic films (Slob, Ernste, & van der Werff ten Bosch, 1991); rated men other than their current partner as more sexually attractive (Larson, Pillsworth, & Haselton, 2012); and were more prone to fantasize about or have sexual intercourse with men other than their primary partners (Gangestad, Thornhill, & Garver, 2002).…”

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Gender-Specificity in Viewing Time Among Heterosexual Women

Rahman

Zheng

2016

Arch Sex Behav

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Measures of sexual interest tend to be more gender-specific in heterosexual men than in heterosexual women. Cognitive measures, such as viewing time to attractive stimuli, may also show similar patterns of gender-specificity or non-specificity among men and women, and thus serve as useful adjuncts to more direct measures of sexual interest. The objectives of the present research were to determine the extent of gender-specificity in women's viewing times for female pictures (varying in their perceived physical attractiveness) and explore the influence of social comparison of physical appearance on these patterns of responses. In Study 1, we recorded only women's viewing times for pictures of both genders, measured self-reported menstrual cycle phase, and manipulated the waist-to-hip ratio of the women in the female pictures. In Study 2, we recorded women's and men's viewing times, self-reported sexual attraction to pictures of males and females, and physical appearance social comparison.Study 1 found that heterosexual women's viewing time towards female pictures was not associated with manipulation of the perceived attractiveness of those pictures. Study 2 found that heterosexual men were more gender-specific than heterosexual women in their viewing time patterns. We also found that reported sexual attraction and physical appearance social comparison were associated with heterosexual women's viewing times for female pictures, while heterosexual men's viewing times were associated with sexual attraction only. Our results are discussed in relation to the utility of viewing time as an indicator of visual attention towards attractive or sexually appealing visual stimuli.

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The relationship between the menstrual cycle and female sexual interest in women with PMS complaints and volunteers

Cited by 79 publications

References 25 publications

The Role of Oxytocin in Relation to Female Sexual Arousal

The Role of Oxytocin in Relation to Female Sexual Arousal

Pharmacologically Induced Hypogonadism and Sexual Function in Healthy Young Women and Men

Gender-Specificity in Viewing Time Among Heterosexual Women

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