Article: Understanding Women's Sexual Desire: The Role of Sexual Agency.(Section II: Clinical Sexology)(Brief Article)

Article: Men's heterosexual initiation: sexual agency and ...
The Journal of Men's Studies;  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... scholars in dealing with sexual agency during heterosexual ... what makes men's sexual agency an enduring feminist ... women in her study said sexual desire was even the impetus ... highlighting women's lack of sexual agency. She argued that men ...

Article: Reading female sexual desire in Alice Munro's ...
CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction;  January 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... any reading of Western women's sexual desire: "Women's sexuality is primarily ... loss for an image of woman's sexual agency" (83). Even feminist critical ... reading the plot of Del Jordan's sexual desire I chart her negotiations of the ...

Article: "Undesirable relations": same-sex relationships and the meaning ...
Feminist Studies;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... rejecting Victorian standards of girlhood virtue to lay claim to sexual desire, erotic expression, and social autonomy." However, it ... nineteenth-century predecessors was their recognition of the sexual agency of young women and their concern that young women's sexuality ...

Article: Sexual desire in later life.
The Journal of Sex Research;  May 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... chronic illnesses reduce or eliminate sexual desire and sexual behavior. This literature ... such a model to the understanding of sexual desire in women and men over the age of 45 ... this study is to examine how levels of sexual desire are associated with these biopsychosocial ...

Article: THE ROLE OF SEXUAL DESIRE AND SEXUAL ACTIVITY IN ...
Social Behavior and Personality;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... indicates that adults believe that sexual desire and sexual activity play different ... to examine empirically (1) whether sexual desire and sexual activity co-occur in dating ... maintenance. The results revealed that sexual desire and sexual activity were moderately ...

Article: HORMONAL CORRELATES AND CAUSES OF SEXUAL DESIRE: A ...
The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT: This review defines sexual desire, distinguishes sexual desire from other sexual experiences (e.g. arousal ... activity), discusses common operationalizations of sexual desire, and then examines empirical research on the ...

Article: Is there an early-30s peak in female sexual desire? ...
The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... functions of an early-30s peak in female sexual desire. One hypothesis is that an early ... that women's early-30s peak in sexual desire increases reproduction through promiscuous ... future investigation. Keywords: Female sexual desire Sexual desire peak Evolutionary ...