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Brave Love Great Sex – Couples Therapy Podcast

286: What Turns Women On? Female Sexual Cues

Brave Love Great Sex – Couples Therapy Podcast

Cloud10

Sexuality, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

What sexual cues turn women on? Here’s a hint—interest is sexy! 32% of women lack sexual interest, according to a research study by Meston & McCall, “Cues Resulting in Sexual Desire for Women.” The study found that increased sexual cues resulted in increased frequency for females. In this episode, we’ll talk about the many cues that trigger a woman’s desire!  Female sexual desire has a more emotional component to it; Women are more externally triggered in relationship factors and setting; connection and presence. What kind of cues increase her desire? Let’s get specific. In this episode, Laurie and George break down the cues from the study: emotional bonding cues, erotic/explicit cues, visual/proximity cues, and romantic/implicit cues.  “Cues Resulting in Sexual Desire for Women” (Meston & McCall): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2861288/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:02.2

George, let's talk about what turns women on, all the cues.

0:07.0

Anybody listening? I'm sure Watson knows something about this, Laurie.

0:13.7

Welcome to For Play Radio. Couples in Sex Therapy. I'm Laurie Watson, your sex therapist.

0:19.2

And I'm George Fallon, the couples therapist.

0:21.6

And we are passionate about talking about sex and helping you develop a way to talk to each other.

0:27.6

Our mission is to help our audience develop a healthier relationship to sex that integrates

0:33.9

the mind, the heart, and the body.

0:37.7

So there was this study and it was called cues resulting in sexual desire for women.

0:44.0

It was by two sex researchers, Meston and McCall. And I've done a lot of research in their

0:49.7

big in the field, so we appreciate them and thank them. You know, they thought about how do women

0:57.0

turn on and there's all kinds of books and articles that make up ideas about what's turning women on.

1:04.1

And 32% of women in this current study says, you know, women lacks sexual interest.

1:10.8

So really important here, if they're going to be in relationship to understand for themselves

1:15.7

and for their partners, like, what are the cues? How do they turn on? And I found the study

1:21.5

fascinating because I think there's a predictive value to it that we can learn sort of certain things,

1:28.4

certain pathways and rituals that we can do that reliably turn us on. And I thought, man,

1:35.5

this is gold. That's why I decided to do this podcast, Lori, to learn from you. I love this

1:41.6

nerdy side that jumps into the research and is such a wealth of information that can enrich all

1:47.5

of our lives. So I'm excited to read this and talk about it. Okay. Yes. I definitely have a nerdy

1:53.5

side. Did you know I used to be a software analyst, George? I did not. Yep. I worked on the stealth

1:59.7

bomber. How? That's impressive. I might be another episode, the stealth bomber. I don't know,

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