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Effects of mindfulness training on body awareness to sexual stimuli: implications for female sexual dysfunction.
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- Vibrator-Assisted Start-Stop Exercises Improve Premature Ejaculation Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Archives of sexual behavior · 2020Trial
- Cognitive-affective neural plasticity following active-controlled mindfulness intervention.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2012Trial
- Associations Between Solitary Masturbation Parameters and Sexual Arousal in Partnered Sexual Activity.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Validation of the Spanish Version of the Body Awareness Questionnaire (BAQ) and an Exploration of Its Relationship to Meditation and Embodiment Variables.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Interplay between sexual excitation and inhibition: impact on sexual function and neural correlates of erotic stimulus processing in women.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Interoceptive experiences and ecological care: an embodied approach within therapeutical realms.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Young Adult Women and Sexual Awareness in the Digital Age: Examining Pathways Linking Online Dating Debut and Mindfulness with Sexual and Mental Health.Archives of sexual behavior · 2023Article
- Mindfulness in sex therapy and intimate relationships: a feasibility and randomized controlled pilot study in a cross-diagnostic group.Sexual medicine · 2023Article
- Assessment of the effect of mindfulness monotherapy on sexual dysfunction symptoms and sex-related quality of life in women.Sexual medicine · 2023Article
- A Scoping Review of the Influence of Mindfulness on Men's Sexual Activity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- A Case of Female Orgasm Without Genital Stimulation.Sexual medicine · 2022Article
- Linking Sexual Mindfulness to Mixed-Sex Couples' Relational Flourishing, Sexual Harmony, and Orgasm.Archives of sexual behavior · 2021Article
- Mindfulness in Sexual Activity, Sexual Satisfaction and Erotic Fantasies in a Non-Clinical Sample.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Treatment of Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder Among Women: General Considerations and Pharmacological Options.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2021Article
- Psychological Inflexibility as a Predictor of Sexual Functioning Among Women with Vulvovaginal Pain: A Prospective Investigation.Pain medicine (Malden, Mass.) · 2020Article
- Management of hypoactive sexual desire disorder in transgender women: a guide for clinicians.International journal of impotence research · 2020Review
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- Understanding heterosexual women's erotic flexibility: the role of attention in sexual evaluations and neural responses to sexual stimuli.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Article
- Understanding sexual arousal and subjective-genital arousal desynchrony in women.Nature reviews. Urology · 2019Review
- Mindfulness, Interoception, and the Body: A Contemporary Perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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objectivesTreatments of female sexual dysfunction have been largely unsuccessful because they do not address the psychological factors that underlie female sexuality. Negative self-evaluative processes interfere with the ability to attend and register physiological changes (interoceptive awareness). This study explores the effect of mindfulness meditation training on interoceptive awareness and the three categories of known barriers to healthy sexual functioning: attention, self-judgment, and clinical symptoms.
methodsForty-four college students (30 women) participated in either a 12-week course containing a "meditation laboratory" or an active control course with similar content or laboratory format. Interoceptive awareness was measured by reaction time in rating physiological response to sexual stimuli. Psychological barriers were assessed with self-reported measures of mindfulness and psychological well-being.
resultsWomen who participated in the meditation training became significantly faster at registering their physiological responses (interoceptive awareness) to sexual stimuli compared with active controls (F(1,28) = 5.45, p = .03, η(p)(2) = 0.15). Female meditators also improved their scores on attention (t = 4.42, df = 11, p = .001), self-judgment, (t = 3.1, df = 11, p = .01), and symptoms of anxiety (t = -3.17, df = 11, p = .009) and depression (t = -2.13, df = 11, p < .05). Improvements in interoceptive awareness were correlated with improvements in the psychological barriers to healthy sexual functioning (r = -0.44 for attention, r = -0.42 for self-judgment, and r = 0.49 for anxiety; all p < .05).
conclusionsMindfulness-based improvements in interoceptive awareness highlight the potential of mindfulness training as a treatment of female sexual dysfunction.
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