Relationships among pleasure, anxiety and physiological response patterns during the sexual sequence in normal and dispermic subjects.
We examined the reported subjective level of pleasure and anxiety usually perceived during the four phases of the sexual sequence by 18 dispermic patients and 18 normal subjects. Relevant differences exist between the two groups in their perception of both emotions. The role of pleasure and anxiety in modulating some reflexive biological responses of the sexual sequence is discussed.
D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001007:Anxiety / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009845:Oligospermia / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000502:physiology