@article{ref1,
title="How Women’s Nonconscious Association of Sex with Submission Relates to Their Subjective Sexual Arousability and Ability to Reach Orgasm",
journal="Sex roles",
year="2006",
author="Kiefer, Amy K. and Sanchez, Diana T. and Kalinka, Christina J. and Ybarra, Oscar",
volume="55",
number="1-2",
pages="83-94",
abstract="Common cultural stereotypes promote women’s submission to men, especially within intimate heterosexual relationships. Mirroring these stereotypes, women possess nonconscious associations between sex and submission (Sanchez, Kiefer & Ybarra, 2006). Moreover, women’s sex-submission associations predict greater reports of engagement in submissive sexual behavior (Sanchez et al., 2006). In the present research, we again found that women associate sex with submission at a nonconscious level. Study 1 showed that women’s nonconscious sex-submission associations predict reduced subjective arousability. Study 2 further demonstrated that these associations predict impaired ability to reach orgasm among women. These findings suggest that sex-submission associations may adversely affect women’s sexual functioning.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0360-0025",
doi="10.1007/s11199-006-9060-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-006-9060-9"
}