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ABSTRACT
Objectives: The current study evaluated women's salivary testosterone and estradiol levels before and after exposure to sexual stimuli in a U.S. sex club. Methods: Behavioral data and salivary samples were collected from 19 women during semistructured interviews. Results: Findings demonstrate substantial individual differences in the magnitude and direction of women's hormonal changes following sexual activity. Conclusions: In an age of individualized medicine, these findings highlight the need to better understand factors shaping variation in physiological responses to sexual activity. Findings contribute to a relatively small and contradictory literature on women's hormonal responses to sexual stimuli.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank Sharon Young, Jacqueline Casey, Michael Giannini, Animikha Dutt, Heidi Manlove, and Fred Hadi for assistance in data collection. We also thank Nicole Cameron, Virginia Vitzthum, Kathryn Macapagal, Brandon Hill, Chris Reiber, and Julia Heiman for helpful comments and discussion. We are grateful to the Green Door adult social club for their gracious hospitality and support while we conducted research at their establishment.