Feelings of Disgust and Disgust-Induced Avoidance Weaken following Induced Sexual Arousal in Women

By Charmaine Borg and Peter J. de Jong

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Saliva, sweat, semen and body odours are among the strongest disgust elicitors. This results in the intriguing question of how people succeed in having pleasurable sex at all.

Scientific evidence that subha and asubha perceptions are indeed antagonistic.

Published in 2012 in PLoS ONE by Public Library of Science.

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@article{borg-charmaine-et-al2012-feelings-of-disgust-and-sexual-arousal,
    title={{F}eelings of {D}isgust and {D}isgust-{I}nduced {A}voidance {W}eaken following {I}nduced {S}exual {A}rousal in {W}omen},
    author={Charmaine Borg and Peter J. de Jong},
    publisher={Public Library of Science},
    year=2012,
    month=sep,
    journal={PLoS ONE},
    volume=7,
    number=9,
    pagecount=8,
    keywords={feeling,sex,asubha},
    doi={10.1371/journal.pone.0044111},
    openalex_id={W2095459225},
    ranking={rank3},
    url={https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0044111&type=printable}
}

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