ORIGINAL RESEARCH—ANATOMY/PHYSIOLOGY Associations Among Physiological and Subjective Sexual Response, Sexual Desire, and Salivary Steroid Hormones in Healthy Premenopausal Women
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Introduction. Few studies have examined how sexual arousal influences healthy premenopausal women’s hormones, limiting our understanding of basic physiology and our ability to transfer knowledge from clinical and nonhuman
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Associations among physiological and subjective sexual response, sexual desire, and salivary steroid hormones in healthy premenopausal women.
INTRODUCTION Few studies have examined how sexual arousal influences healthy premenopausal women's hormones, limiting our understanding of basic physiology and our ability to transfer knowledge from clinical and nonhuman populations. AIM To examine how sexual arousal and steroid hormones (testosterone [T], cortisol [C], estradiol [E]) were linked, to see whether hormone levels influenced and/...
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