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ReviewNature reviews. Urology2019

Understanding sexual arousal and subjective-genital arousal desynchrony in women.

Cindy M Meston, Amelia M Stanton

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Review in Nature reviews. Urology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Neural substrates of sexual arousal are not sex dependent.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  7. Bidirectional associations between daily subjective stress and sexual desire, arousal, and activity in healthy men and women.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025
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  12. Sexual Pleasure Matters - and How to Define and Assess It Too. A Conceptual Framework of Sexual Pleasure and the Sexual Response.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2023
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  20. Modeling Human Sexual Motivation in Rodents: Some Caveats.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cindy M MestonDepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. mestoncm@utexas.edu.
Amelia M StantonDepartment of Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Massachusetts General Hospital · USThe University of Texas at Austin · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sexual arousal in women comprises two components: genital arousal and subjective arousal. Genital arousal is characterized by genital vasocongestion and other physiological changes that occur in response to sexual stimuli, whereas subjective arousal refers to mental engagement during sexual activity. For some women, genital arousal enhances subjective arousal; for others, the two types of arousal are desynchronous. However, the relationship between genital and subjective arousal might not be relevant to the diagnosis and treatment of sexual arousal dysfunction. Studies have shown that not all women who report sexual arousal problems have decreased genital arousal, and only some women with decreased genital arousal have low subjective arousal. To develop efficacious treatments for female sexual arousal dysfunction, researchers need to differentiate the women for whom genital sensations have a critical role in their subjective arousal from those who are not mentally aroused by genital cues. The mechanisms by which women become aroused and the inputs into arousal have considerable implications for treatment outcomes.

Indexed as

AffectAnxietyArousalEmotionsFemaleHumansModels, TheoreticalSexual BehaviorSexual Dysfunction, PhysiologicalStress, PsychologicalTime FactorsVagina

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PMID30664743
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