Sometimes life is so painful

Already more than thirty years ago, Spano and Lamont (1975) introduced a circular model of dyspareunia in which it was assumed that pain during penetration, or memories of that

related fear, as induced by a threat to receive painful stimuli during exposure to an erotic stimulus, will adversely affect genital arousal and subjective reports in women with

The main findings can be summarized as follows: (1) Appraisal of a sexual stimulus (erotic film fragment) appeared to modulate genital arousal responses and evaluations of

To assess whether automatic negative associations are involved in this sexual pain disorder, women with superficial dyspareunia (n = 35) and a control group (n = 35) completed

The present study sought to determine the role of cognitive-emotional variables regarding sexuality, the experience of chronic pain, and relational as well as individual well-being

All three studies clearly demonstrated that women with dyspareunia did not differ from sexually functional women in genital responsiveness while being exposed to various kinds of

Effects of experimentally adopted sexual schemas on vaginal response and subjective sexual arousal: A comparison between women with sexual arousal disorder and sexually healthy

Aangezien zowel vrouwen met als zonder dyspareunie reageerden met eenzelfde daling in genitale opwinding op de experimentele manipulaties in alle drie psychofy- siologische