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Effects of positive and negative mood on sexual arousal in sexually functional males
W B Mitchell1, P M DiBartolo, T A Brown
1Sexuality Research Project, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA.
Archives of Sexual Behavior
|May 1, 1998
Abstract:
Effects of positive and negative musical mood induction on subjective and objective sexual arousal were examined in a group of sexually functional males (N = 24). Subjects evidenced significantly greater objective and subjective sexual response in the positive mood induction condition relative to both baseline and a neutral control condition. In contrast, the negative mood induction condition yielded significantly less objective sexual arousal than baseline and a neutral control condition. Data provide additional empirical support for the hypothesized impact of mood on sexual arousal.