The Roles of Body Image, Sexual Motives, and Distraction in Women’s Sexual Pleasure

Poovey, Kendall; Jong, David C. de; Morey, Kasey E.

doi:10.1007/s10508-021-02210-6

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“…Although the GSI can directly influence intimacy, attention, and trust during sexual intercourse, 17 women with negative GSI can maintain an active sex life to avoid personal insecurities, negative emotions, and partner conflicts. 18 …”

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Relationship Involving Sexual Function, Distress Symptoms of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, and Female Genital Self-Image

Arruda,

Paines,

Silva

et al. 2023

Rev Bras Ginecol Obstet

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Objective To assess the relationship involving sexual function (SF), the distress symptoms caused by pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD), and female genital self-image (GSI). Materials and Methods We assessed the GSI, SF and PFD distress symptoms by the Female Genital Self-Image Scale (FGSIS), the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), and the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory (PFDI-20) respectively. Data were analyzed by multiple linear regression. Results Among the 216 women (age: 50.92 ± 16.31 years) who participated in the study, 114 were sexually active in the previous 4 weeks. In the total sample (p < 0.001; adjusted R2 = 0.097) and among sexually active women (p = 0.010; adjusted R2 = 0.162), the distress symptoms caused by pelvic organ prolapse (POP) were related to the GSI. Among sexually active women, sexual desire also was related to the GSI (p < 0.001; adjusted R2 = 0.126). Conclusion The findings of the present study provide additional knowledge about female GSI and suggest that SF and POP distress symptoms should be investigated together with the GSI in the clinical practice.

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confidence: 99%

Relationship Involving Sexual Function, Distress Symptoms of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, and Female Genital Self-Image

Arruda,

Paines,

Silva

et al. 2023

Rev Bras Ginecol Obstet

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“…The embodiment model of positive body image (Menzel & Levine, 2011), objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997), and cognitive models of sexual functioning (Silva et al, 2016) propose that a positive body image promotes sexual satisfaction, because it protects women from self-objectification (i.e., seeing oneself as an object to be looked at and evaluated on the basis of appearance; Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) and from having appearance-related distracting thoughts during sexual activity, which in turn facilitates sexual satisfaction. Empirical findings support this assumption by showing that appearance-related self-consciousness during physical intimacy at least partially mediates the relationship of positive body image with sexual pleasure and satisfaction (Carvalheira et al, 2017;Poovey et al, 2022;Van den Brink, 2017). In this paper, thin-ideal internalization is proposed to be a potential factor preceding the relationship between positive body image and sexual satisfaction through lower appearance-related self-consciousness during physical intimacy.…”

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confidence: 94%

Young women’s sexual satisfaction in danger: the significance of thin-ideal internalization, positive body image, and appearance-related self-consciousness during physical intimacy

Brink¹,

Vollmann²

2022

Health Psychology Report

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BackgroundPrevious research indicated that a positive body image is indirectly related to young adult women’s sexual satisfaction through protecting them from appearance-related self-consciousness during physical intimacy. The aim of the present study was to investigate thin-ideal internalization as a potential factor associated with positive body image, and subsequently ap-pearance-related self-consciousness during physical intimacy and sexual satisfaction.Participants and procedureUsing a cross-sectional design, 250 young adult Dutch women (age: M = 22.98, SD = 2.98) filled in an online survey measuring the relevant variables.ResultsA path analysis revealed that lower thin-ideal internalization was related to greater sexual satisfaction through a more posi-tive body image and less appearance-related self-consciousness during physical intimacy, and also consecutively via both.ConclusionsThese findings suggest that thin-ideal internalization may trigger processes that are detrimental to sexual satisfaction in women. Consequently, strengthening sociocultural pressure resistance skills in young adult women could facilitate the de-velopment and maintenance of positive sexual experiences.

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“…the degree to which one trusts interoceptive signals) or, more specifically, body mistrust (i.e. not trusting internal sensations) in disordered eating (Brown et al, 2020;Poovey et al, 2023). We consider these experiences behavioural manifestation of interoceptive prediction errors.…”

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Disturbed interoception in body dysmorphic disorder: A framework for future research

Jenkinson,

Rossell

2023

Aust N Z J Psychiatry

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Body dysmorphic disorder is a severe psychiatric condition characterised by a preoccupation with a perceived appearance flaw or flaws that are typically not observable to others. Although significant advances in understanding the disorder have been made in the past decade, current explanations focus on cognitive, behavioural and visual perceptual disturbances that contribute to the disorder. Such a focus does not consider how perception of the internal body or interoception may be involved, despite (1) clinical observations of disturbed perception of the body in body dysmorphic disorder and (2) disturbed interoception being increasingly recognised as a transdiagnostic factor underlying a wide range of psychopathologies. In this paper, we use an existing model of hierarchical brain function and neural (predictive) processing to propose that body dysmorphic disorder involves defective interoception, with perceived appearance flaws being the result of ‘interoceptive prediction errors’ that cause body parts to be experienced as ‘not just right’. We aim to provide a framework for interoceptive research into body dysmorphic disorder, and outline areas for future research.

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The Roles of Body Image, Sexual Motives, and Distraction in Women’s Sexual Pleasure

Cited by 7 publications

References 54 publications

Relationship Involving Sexual Function, Distress Symptoms of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, and Female Genital Self-Image

Relationship Involving Sexual Function, Distress Symptoms of Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, and Female Genital Self-Image

Young women’s sexual satisfaction in danger: the significance of thin-ideal internalization, positive body image, and appearance-related self-consciousness during physical intimacy

Disturbed interoception in body dysmorphic disorder: A framework for future research

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