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Sexual motivation

open access: yesJournal of Sex Research, 1987
We discuss the long‐standing “sex‐as‐drive‐or‐appetite” controversy—whether sexual desires may arise on their own, from internal states, or whether they only arise when attractive stimuli are presented.
Barry Singer, Frederick M. Toates
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Sexual Pleasure and Motivation

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 2008
Individuals engage in behaviors or partake of specific substances because it pleases them. Indeed, without the sensations of pleasure and displeasure we would be unlikely to repeat or restrict behaviors. Since repetitive sexual activity over the millennia has ensured the continuance of the human race, it is perhaps surprising that pleasure has received
Lori, Boul   +2 more
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Sexual Motives, Gender, and Sexual Behavior

Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2000
The roles of gender and the sexual motives of Love, Pleasure, Conformity, Recognition, Dominance, and Submission in numerous usual and unusual sexual behaviors were investigated. In a survey of 191 college undergraduates it was found that Love, Pleasure, Conformity, and Recognition motives, often in interaction with gender, were all important ...
J R, Browning   +3 more
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Sexual Sadism in Sexual Offenders and Sexually Motivated Homicide

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2014
This article gives a clinically oriented overview of forensically relevant forms of sexual sadism disorder and its specific relationship to sexual homicide. In sexual homicide perpetrators, peculiar patterns of sexual sadism may be a motivational pathway to kill. Sexual sadism increases the risk for reoffending in sexual offenders.
Peer, Briken   +2 more
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Measuring Sexual Motives: A Test of the Psychometric Properties of the Sexual Motivations Scale

The Journal of Sex Research, 2016
Sexual motives refer to functions served by sexual behavior. The Sex Motivations Scale (SMS) has frequently been used to assess sexual motives. At its development, the SMS demonstrated good internal consistency; convergent, divergent, and criterion validity; and configural invariance across sex, age, and Caucasians and African Americans. Yet the metric
Charles, Jardin   +2 more
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Implicit motives and sexual motivation and behavior

Journal of Research in Personality, 2003
Measures of implicit power and affiliation motivation, libido, and sexual intercourse were administered three times to 36 women and 18 men (mean age: 22.17 years, SD=2.25) and then aggregated.
Oliver C. Schultheiss   +2 more
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