The present investigation was designed to provide the first empirical examination of the effects of acute dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) administration on subjective and physiological sexual arousal in women. The primary purpose was to assess whether DHEA influences vaginal blood flow response in sexually functional women. Subjective (self-report) and physiological (vaginal photoplethysmograph) ...

This study systematically manipulated both picture content and noise probe time in order to evaluate the effects of motivational salience (as distinguished from affective valence) on both early and late modulation of the startle response. Specifically, modulation was compared for erotic versus action/adventure scenes, and for direct threat versus victim scenes, at early (300 and 800 ms) and lat...

ion Machine / Erotic – The Voyeur of Light (1994) was a temporary site specific installation in a hotel room in Sydney, Australia. A text was generated by randomly drawing from a pre-authored database of textual fragments. The security eyepiece was inverted to let people view into the room from the hallway. Expecting to be a voyeur, the participant unpredictably saw a text presented via compute...

Although research tends to focus on the sexual and/or erotic aspects of consensual BDSM participation, there are many non-erotic and nonsexual beneficial outcomes arising from participating in BDSM. This aims elucidate those other meaningful that reach beyond order highlight their salience for practitioners ensure these participation not overlooked. Eleven regular took part customized in-depth,...