The current study used an online self-report survey to examine libido, promiscuity, heavy drinking, and anxious attachment as predictors of sexting in college students. Participants were 178 University of Rochester undergraduates (82% female) from the psychology subject pool. Before accounting for our controls of relationship status and unlimited texting, libido was significantly associated wit...

ALTHOUGH HE HAD BEEN USING the term for some years prior, Freud formally introduced the concept of narcissism into psychoanalytic theory in 1914 on the heels of Jung's painful defection from the psychoanalytic community. The theory of narcissism was largely a response to the conceptual challenge posed by Jung's critique of Freudian theory. Freud's libido theory had provided a powerful and compe...

Measures of implicit power and affiliation motivation, libido, and sexual intercourse were administered three times to 36 women and 18 men (mean age: 22.17 years, SD 1⁄4 2:25) and then aggregated. Reports of sexual intercourse correlated positively with the power motive (r 1⁄4 :28, p < :05) and negatively with the affiliation motive (r 1⁄4 :47, p < :0005). These correlations tended to be strong...

The medical and surgical management of BPH/ LUTS can affect erectile function (EF), cause ejaculatory dysfunction (EjD) or affect libido. Five alpha reductase inhibitors, such as finasteride and dutasteride have good efficacy for benign prostatic hyperplasia, however they have also sexual side effects including loss of libido, erectile dysfunction and decreased ejaculatory volume. Also, alpha a...

Estrogen-containing hormone therapy (HT) is the most widely prescribed and well-established treatment for menopausal symptoms. High quality evidence confirms that estrogen effectively treats hot flushes, night sweats and vaginal dryness. Progestins are combined with estrogen to prevent endometrial hyperplasia and are sometimes used alone for hot flushes, but are less effective than estrogen for...

In last week’s lecture we came across an example, from Field (2013), about the drug Viagra, which is a sexual stimulant (used to treat impotence), which is supposed to make men better lovers. Suppose we tested this belief by taking three groups of people and administering one group with a placebo (such as a sugar pill), one group with a low dose of Viagra and one with a high dose. The dependent...

Drawing on recent claims in the study of relationships, attachment, and emotion, the authors hypothesized that romantic love serves a commitment-related function and sexual desire a reproduction-related function. Consistent with these claims, in Study 1, brief experiences of romantic love and sexual desire observed in a 3-min interaction between romantic partners were related to distinct feelin...