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Annamaria Giraldi, Ellids Kristensen, Michael Sand, Response and Rebuttal of “Endorsement of Models Describing Sexual Response Men and Women with a Sexual Partner: An Online Survey in a Population Sample of Danish Adults Ages 20–65 Years”, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Volume 12, Issue 9, September 2015, Pages 1981–1982, https://doi.org/10.1111/jsm.12984
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Can an Endorsement Be Problematic?
We thank the authors of the comment for their interest in our article “Endorsement of models describing sexual response in men and women with a sexual partner.”
Human sexuality is influenced by bio-psycho-social factors and is as such not a static condition but varies over the life of an individual, in different contexts, with psychological and somatic state and with the individual's perception of its own sexuality. Furthermore, the way we conceptualize the sexual responses changes over time and is influenced by norms, theory, empirical data, and popular culture. So one could ask whether it is possible at all to investigate sexual responses in a quantitative study? It is difficult to apply quantitative research on sexual responses and models describing them, as we have done in our study. In order to do so, it is necessary to make a decision how to approach the question raised, in our article: Which model best describe men and women's sexual response at this period of their life? In the process, it has been necessary to make decisions and simplify what is unquestionably a complex experience in order to be able to do the research. But we feel quite confident that the study is adding valuable knowledge to our understanding of men and women's sexual responses taking into consideration that the responses are not static and may change, which is also emphasized in the article. We are therefore surprised that the authors of the comment indicate that we think sexual responses are not changing as we clearly state that the model you endorse may change over life and also overlap.
