Disgust versus Lust: Exploring the Interactions of Disgust and Fear with Sexual Arousal in Women.

Sexual arousal is a motivational state that moves humans toward situations that inherently pose a risk of disease transmission. Disgust is an emotion that adaptively moves humans away from such situations. Incongruent is the fact that sexual activity is elementary to human fitness yet involves stron...

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Main Authors: Diana S Fleischman, Lisa Dawn Hamilton, Daniel M T Fessler, Cindy M Meston
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4479551?pdf=render