title: Expressions of female sexuality.
abstract: Past commentaries in scientific literature on female sexuality extrapolate male psychosocial beliefs and anatomical data to the female form. A literature review of journals and books captures descriptive aspects of female sexuality and identifies a unique physiological and psychosocial system. Similarities between the sexes of arousal, desires, and response continue to lack scientifically definable constructs of validity and reliability. Research that validates the differences in women and unifies the documented fragments is imperative to understanding a distinct model of sexual dysfunction and to equalizing the balance of therapeutics offered, which can enhance female sexual expression.
authors.affiliation: jillyb@gateway.net
authors.forename: Jill L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Bean
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy