Open AccessPhenomenology of female sexual feelings
Author(s) -
Марина Геннадьевна Ефанова,
Д. В. Бердников,
P.V TKACHENKO
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
obozrenie psihiatrii i medicinskoj psihologii im. v.m. behtereva/obozrenie psihiatrii i medicinskoj psihologii imeni v.m. behtereva
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2713-055X
pISSN - 2313-7053
DOI - 10.31363/2313-7053-2018-2-62-69
Subject(s) - feeling , orgasm , shame , psychology , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , sexual dysfunction , psychoanalysis
We present data of studying female sexual feelings. Hypothesis: sexual feelings have a complicated multilevel structure reecting the individual’s sexual experience with peculiarities of evaluating satisfaction and regulation of behavior. 429 women aged 18-60 years (mean age — 28,69±0,42 years) have been studied, among them 291 (67,83%) were married and 138 (32,17%) were single. Te mean age of starting sexual life was 18,22±0,12 years. 365 (85,08%) women experienced orgasm, while 64 (14,92%) did not. We used our authorial questionnaire including an instruction and a list of 204 signs characterizing emotions, states, qualitative descriptions of comprehension. Te women noted the signs corresponding to their ordinary experience during an ordinary sexual act. Sexual feelings were found to have a multilevel structure of estimating the person’s sexual experience presented by the correlation of satisfaction, sexual interest, internal comfort, shame, disphoria, intensity emotional reacting, non-corresponding to expectations, acuity of rectption, physical discomfort and distaste. Teir manifestation reects the expressions of self-relation, of states with regard to attaining the goal and communication with the partner.