ArticlePerspectives on sexual and reproductive health2009
Arousal loss related to safer sex and risk of pregnancy: implications for women's and men's sexual health.
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- Sexual Arousal Discounting: Devaluing Condom-Protected Sex as a Function of Reduced Arousal.Archives of sexual behavior · 2021Trial
- The higher they go the harder they could fall: The impact of risk-glorifying commercials on risk behavior.PloS one · 2019Trial
- Feasibility study of the Home-based Exercises for Responsible Sex (HERS) intervention to promote correct and consistent condom use among young women.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2021Article
- Adolescent Women's Sexual Self-Efficacy: Associations with Personal and Perceived Partner Beliefs that Condoms Interfere with Pleasure.American journal of sexuality education · 2020Article
- Sexual Concurrency and Contraceptive Use Among Young Adult Women.Demography · 2019Article
- Psychometric evaluation of the Condom Barriers and Motivations Scale (CBMS).Journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- The Strategies of Heterosexuals from Large Metropolitan Areas for Assessing the Risks of Exposure to HIV or Other Sexually Transmitted Infections from Partners Met Online.AIDS patient care and STDs · 2017Article
- The Role of Young Adults' Pleasure Attitudes in Shaping Condom Use.American journal of public health · 2015Article
- Addressing sexual health behaviour during emerging adulthood: a critical review of the literature.Journal of clinical nursing · 2015Review
- Dual method use at last sexual encounter: a nationally representative, episode-level analysis of US men and women.Contraception · 2014Article
- Pull and pray or extra protection? Contraceptive strategies involving withdrawal among US adult women.Contraception · 2014Article
- Contraceptive sex acceptability: a commentary, synopsis and agenda for future research.Contraception · 2014Article
- Providing for women's pleasure in the next generation of condoms.The journal of sexual medicine · 2013Article
- The relationship between perinatal psychiatric disorders and contraception use among postpartum women.Contraception · 2013Article
- Influences of situational factors and alcohol expectancies on sexual desire and arousal among heavy-episodic drinking women: acute alcohol intoxication and condom availability.Archives of sexual behavior · 2013Article
- Rethinking gender, heterosexual men, and women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS.American journal of public health · 2010Review
- Young women's joint relationship, sex, and contraceptive trajectories: Evidence from the United States.Demographic researchArticle
- The Sexual Acceptability of Contraception: Reviewing the Literature and Building a New Concept.Journal of sex researchReview
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Abstract
contextFew studies have examined arousal loss associated with safer-sex practices or the perceived risk of unintended pregnancy, let alone its associations with sexual risk practices.
methodsAn Internet survey conducted in 2004-2006 among 2,399 men and 3,210 women asked respondents about arousal loss related to the use of condoms or other safer-sex products and perceived unintended pregnancy risk. Regression analyses gauged associations between arousal profiles, unprotected sex in the last year and lifetime experience of unintended pregnancy.
resultsMany respondents reported arousal loss related to the use of safer-sex products (34%) or the risk of unintended pregnancy (46%). Participants who strongly agreed that use of safer-sex products can lessen their arousal were significantly more likely to have had unprotected sex in the last year than were those who strongly disagreed (odds ratios, 1.8 for men and 3.7 for women); those who strongly disagreed that pregnancy risk can lessen their arousal were significantly more likely to have been involved in an unintended pregnancy than were those who strongly agreed (2.0 for men and 1.4 for women). Arousal loss related to safer-sex practices was more strongly associated with unprotected sex among women than among men, whereas arousal loss related to pregnancy risk was more strongly associated with unintended pregnancy among men than among women.
conclusionsSome men and women are turned off by safer-sex practices or by pregnancy risk. Given arousal profiles' potential contributions to unintended pregnancies and STD transmission, they should be integrated into sexual health behavioral models, research and programming.
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