In this chapter, we provide an introductory overview of experimental and observational
methodologies used in sex research, including sexual psychophysiology, cognitive …

Laboratory‐based research on sexual response constitutes a significant component in the
current overall effort to understand human sexuality, and therefore it behooves the …

This chapter summarizes those variables, techniques, and conditions that are of general
importance in the measurement of sexual behavior in mammals. Emphasis is placed on …

Experimental sex research consists of the application of experimental paradigms and
laboratory metrics such as psychophysiological assessments, measurement of individuals' …

Most of the neuroimaging studies on sexual behavior have been conducted with male
participants, leading to men-based models of sexual arousal. Here, possible factors and …

Although sexual psychophysiology has made great strides over the past few decades, the
progress made has not been accompanied by much effort to integrate research findings or to …

In their Target Article, Ziogas et al.(2020) provided a comprehensive review of decades of
studies on neuroelectric correlates related to human sexuality. As they highlighted, this …

When Alfred Kinsey published his pioneering research on human sexuality in the middle of
the twentieth century, it immediately became the subject of great controversy, with many of …

Because of the privacy in which sexual behaviors are often enacted, the scientific methods
available to study these phenomena are limited relative to other topics. In the United States …

Sexual, as opposed to asexual, reproduction increases variability and provides a
mechanism for repair of DNA and possibly reduction of pathogen specialization. Sex …