Modulators of Gendered Sexual Response

性别性反应的调节剂

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-04226
• 负责人: Chivers, Meredith
• 金额: $ 2.97万
• 依托单位: Queen's University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=631117
• 关键词: Modulators; Gendered; Sexual; Response

Sexuality is a fundamental aspect of our human nature. My laboratory is focused on understanding sexual arousal and desire. We do this by measuring people's physical and psychological responses to sexual stimuli, called sexual psychophysiology. Some aspects of sexual arousal are very similar for women and men, such as having a genital response when we see sexual stimuli, and others are profoundly different. For example, we have discovered that women respond sexually to a much broader range of sexual stimuli than men do, a pattern that contradicts prevailing theories about human sexuality and sexual response. We have also shown that, among women, the relationships between physical and psychological aspects of sexual responses are more variable, unlike the strong relationship found in men. Differences like these have also been observed using neuroscience and cognitive science methods as well, suggesting fundamental differences in the ways women and men perceive, experience, and respond to sexual stimuli. Most contemporary theories of sexuality, however, assume that women and men are similar in their sexual responding, an assumption that is wrong. My research program aims to make discoveries that will build new, gender-specific models of sexual response that better characterize the scientific data, and better reflect women's and men's experiences of their sexuality. This will be accomplished by investigating factors that influence gender differences in sexual response. First, we are conducting a series of studies to better understand the cues in sexual stimuli that are associated with women's and men's sexual responses. Second, we are investigating the relationship between cyclical reproductive hormones and patterns of women's sexual response. Last, using electroencephalography, we are assessing neural processes thought to be associated with sexual response. The results of our research have wide-ranging implications for all Canadians. This research continues a tradition of excellence in sexual science in Canada, training highly-qualified personnel in many laboratory techniques with broad applications in many areas of science such as psychology, neuroscience, physiology, and medicine. Understanding the basic operating characteristics of sexual response in women and men will also benefit research examining more complex sexual phenomena that have an impact on us all, such as the development of human sexuality, sexual risk-taking behaviours that expose people to sexually-transmitted infections and sexual assault, and the understanding and treatment of sexual functioning problems.

性是我们人性的一个基本方面。我的实验室专注于了解性唤起和欲望。我们通过测量人们对性刺激的生理和心理反应来做到这一点，称为性心理生理学。性唤起的某些方面对于女性和男性来说非常相似，例如当我们看到性刺激时会产生生殖器反应，而其他方面则截然不同。例如，我们发现女性对性刺激的反应比男性要广泛得多，这一模式与关于人类性行为和性反应的流行理论相矛盾。我们还表明，在女性中，性反应的生理和心理方面之间的关系更加多变，而不像男性中发现的强烈关系。神经科学和认知科学方法也观察到了类似的差异，这表明女性和男性在感知、体验和对性刺激的反应方面存在根本差异。然而，大多数当代的性理论都假设女性和男性在性反应方面是相似的，这是一个错误的假设。我的研究项目旨在发现将建立新的，性别特异性的性反应模型，更好地表征科学数据，更好地反映女性和男性的性经验。这将通过调查影响性反应性别差异的因素来实现。首先，我们正在进行一系列的研究，以更好地了解与女性和男性的性反应有关的性刺激的线索。第二，我们正在调查周期性生殖激素和女性性反应模式之间的关系。最后，利用脑电图，我们正在评估被认为与性反应有关的神经过程。我们的研究结果对所有加拿大人都有广泛的影响。这项研究延续了加拿大性科学的优秀传统，在许多实验室技术方面培养了高素质的人才，这些技术在许多科学领域（如心理学，神经科学，生理学和医学）具有广泛的应用。了解男女性反应的基本运作特征也将有助于研究对我们所有人都有影响的更复杂的性现象，例如人类性行为的发展，使人们暴露于性传播感染和性攻击的性冒险行为，以及对性功能问题的理解和治疗。