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Sidney Glina, Oswaldo M. Rodrigues Jr, Alessandra H. Rellini, Morokoff, P. J., & Heiman, J. R. (1980). Effects of Erotic Stimuli on Sexually Functional and Dysfunctional Women: Multiple Measures before and after Sex Therapy, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Volume 7, Issue 8, August 2010, Pages 2633–2636, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-6109.2010.01947.x
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Morokoff and Heiman, in 1980, studied the sexual response to erotic stimuli in a group of women who presented low arousal, as a sexual dysfunction, before and after sex therapy, using a sample of adequate arousal women as a control group [1]. Their objectives were to explore both subjective and physiologic response to erotic stimuli in women experiencing arousal deficit and to find any changes following treatment of the sexual dysfunction.
They studied 22 married women. The study group, labeled the Clinical Group, was comprised of 11 women who had applied for sex therapy because an arousal deficit in their sexual relationships. The control groups, the Nonclinical group, was also composed by 11 women selected from the community and who did not complain of any lack of sexual arousal. Both groups were matched on age and years of marriage. The Clinical group was selected from clients of the Sex Therapy Center who volunteered in exchange of 10% reduction in their treatment fee. The Nonclinical sample was recruited from a newspaper announcement which offered $12.00 for their participation in a female sexuality research. All the applicants were interviewed by telephone and the entire experimental procedure was explained; approximately half of the women interviewed elected to participate in the study.
