Table of Contents

Contents

ERICK JANSSEN
Introduction

PART 1: Physiology & Neurobiology of Sexual Response

SERGE STOLÉRU and HAROLD MOURAS
Brain Functional Imaging Studies of Sexual Desire and Arousal in Human Males

ROY J. LEVIN
The Human Sexual Response - Similarities and Differences in the Anatomy and Function of the Male and Female Genitalia: Are they a trivial pursuit or a treasure trove?

JOHN BANCROFT
Discussant

GENERAL DISCUSSION

CINDY MESTON and ANDREA BRADFORD
Autonomic Nervous System Influences: The Role of the Sympathetic Nervous System in Female Sexual Arousal

TILLMANN H. C. KRÜGER, MANFRED SCHEDLOWSKI and MICHAEL S. EXTON
Neuroendocrine Processes during Sexual Arousal and Orgasm

JULIA R. HEIMAN and Kenneth R. Maravilla
Female Sexual Arousal Response using Serial MR Imaging with Initial Comparisons to Vaginal photoplethysmography: Overview and Evaluation

ROY J. LEVIN
Discussant

GENERAL DISCUSSION


PART 2: Theoretical Perspectives & Models

MARKUS WIEGEL, LISA A. SCEPKOWSKI and DAVID H. BARLOW
Cognitive-Affective Processes in Sexual Arousal and Sexual Dysfunction

MARK SPIERING and WALTER EVERAERD
The Sexual Unconscious

JAMES H. GEER
Discussant

GENERAL DISCUSSION

ERICK JANSSEN and JOHN BANCROFT
The Dual-Control Model: The Role of Sexual Inhibition and Excitation in Sexual Arousal and Behavior

SERGE STOLÉRU
Discussant

DAVID L. ROWLAND, WENDY TAI and KLYNT BRUMMETT
Interactive Processes in Ejaculatory Disorders: Psychophysiological considerations

Donald S. STRASSBERG
Discussant

GENERAL DISCUSSION


PART 3: Learning Processes, Subjective Experience and Genital Response

HEATHER HOFFMANN
The Role of Classical Conditioning in Sexual Arousal

JAMES PFAUS
Discussant

ELLEN LAAN and ERICK JANSSEN
The Determinants of Subjective Experience of Sexual Arousal

DONALD S. STRASSBERG
The Voluntary Control of Genital Response, Arousal, & Orgasm

WALTER EVERAERD
Discussant

GENERAL DISCUSSION


PART 4: Sexual Motivation & Arousal

STEPHANIE BOTH, WALTER EVERAERD and ELLEN LAAN
Desire Emerges from Excitement: A Psychophysiological Perspective on Sexual Motivation

JAMES PFAUS
Animals and Human Models of Sexual Motivation & Arousal

ERICK JANSSEN
Discussant

GENERAL DISCUSSION


PART 5: Sexual Function & Dysfunction

RAYMOND ROSEN, MARKUS WIEGEL and NOEL GENDRANO III
Sexual Dysfunction, Sexual Psychophysiology & Psychopharmacology: Laboratory studies in sexual psychopharmacology in men and women

MARCA L. SIPSKI
Disabilities, Psychophysiology and Sexual Functioning

JULIA R. HEIMAN
Discussant

GENERAL DISCUSSION


PART 6: Gender, Sexual Orientation, & Paraphilic Sexual Interests

JAMES H. GEER and JASON L. HICKS
Cognitive Processes and Gender Differences in Sexuality

RAYMOND ROSEN
Discussant

MEREDITH L. CHIVERS and J. MICHAEL BAILEY
Psychophysiological Assessment of Sexual Orientation

MICHAEL SETO
Psychophysiological Assessment of Paraphilic Sexual Interests

DAVID L. ROWLAND
Discussant

GENERAL DISCUSSION

FINAL DISCUSSION and CONCLUSIONS

Appendix

Conference Participants

Index