title: The female sexual response: a different model.
abstract: Clarification of women's sexual response during long-term relationships is needed. I have presented a model that more accurately depicts the responsive component of women's desire and the underlying motivational forces that trigger it. The variety of arousal/orgasm responses is also acknowledged. The purpose is both to prevent diagnosing dysfunction when the response is simply different from the traditional human sex-response cycle and to more clearly define subgroups of dysfunction. The latter would appear to be necessary before progress in newer treatment modalities, including pharmacological, can be made.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Basson
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007989:Libido / Q000502:physiology; D009948:Orgasm / Q000502:physiology; D011603:Psychophysiology; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology