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Into pain
Published in Stephen Buetow, Rethinking Pain in Person-Centred Health Care, 2020
Despite inter-individual variability,24 love can also increase resilience to pain, for example, by synchronizing brain waves.25 Through sensory and emotional stimulation, even the passive presence of a romantic partner can buffer affective distress, reduce the threat value of pain and lower pain ratings.26 Entwined with love is eroticism. Especially in persons with high erotic plasticity,27 erotic imagery28 can develop erotic intelligence – as a state of bodily awareness, information and emotional skills – that empowers persons to love pain itself.
The Consumption of Pornography Scale – General (COPS – G)
Published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 2023
S. Gabe Hatch, Charlotte R. Esplin, H. Dorian Hatch, Aeriel Halstead, Joseph Olsen, Scott R. Braithwaite
One surprising finding was that, despite accounting for addition variance above and beyond the general factor, neither general factor nor subfactors accounted for more variance than a single-item frequency measure of pornography in predicting gender. One theoretical explanation falls in line with the Theory of Erotic Plasticity (Baumeister, 2000). This theory suggests that a female’s sexuality is more socially malleable than males. Several studies investigating opposite-sex couples have found that when females view pornography, they often view it with a male partner (Bridges & Morokoff, 2011; Maddox et al., 2011). It could be that although males consume pornography more frequently than females, females quickly adopt the viewing preferences of their male partners. This would suggest that after controlling for the frequency of exposure, few differences between the sexes would exist.
Predicting sexual satisfaction in Iranian women by marital satisfaction components
Published in Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 2023
Farideh Dehghani Champiri, Akram Dehghani
Since the participants of the present study were women, there are also both biological and socio-cultural reasons to expect women to rely on “top-down processing” (i.e. greater relationship satisfaction results in greater sexual satisfaction) more than men in determining their sexual satisfaction. From the socio-cultural standpoint, Baumeister (2000) stated that women display a higher erotic plasticity; therefore, their sexual behaviors and attitudes are more likely to change due to contextual factors, such as education level and religiosity. More specifically, the current theory suggests that women might show stronger relations between initial relationship satisfaction and future sexual satisfaction, because they tend to rely more heavily on context mainly when revealing sexual satisfaction (Diamond, 2003)
In Pursuit of Pleasure: A Biopsychosocial Perspective on Sexual Pleasure and Gender
Published in International Journal of Sexual Health, 2021
Ellen T. M. Laan, Verena Klein, Marlene A. Werner, Rik H. W. van Lunsen, Erick Janssen
In an influential paper, Baumeister (2000) argued that women’s sexuality is more malleable in response to sociocultural and situational factors, concluding that the observed gender difference in erotic plasticity results from men’s sexuality being mainly determined by physical factors resulting from evolutionary selection. Alternatively, men’s seemingly lesser malleability with respect to sexuality may also be a function of men, across cultures, having a lesser need to adapt to sociocultural and situational factors, as these factors are more in their favor or as they have more power (either actively pursued or granted habitually) to bend situational factors in their favor. This model of power-inequality negatively affecting people’s sexual expressions fits with findings that male dominance is not the only form of social injustice that is likely to influence sexual expressions. Poverty, race, disease, statelessness, are equally or perhaps even more influential in shaping the human sexual experience (Eshuis, 2020).