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Sexuality is defined as a multidimensional experience that involves genital, mental, and
bodily components. It is also assumed as a basic condition inherent to the human existence that
encourages the search for love, intimacy, sex, and proximity to others. The main objective of this study
is to assess the relationship between cues of sexual desire and sexual attitudes in Portuguese women.
This is a cross-sectional study with 804 Portuguese women to whom the protocol was applied. It
included an informed consent, a sociodemographic questionnaire, a questionnaire related to intimacy,
a scale of sexual attitudes, and the scale of cues of sexual desire. The protocol was applied via Google
Forms due to the current pandemic situation (COVID-19). Differences were found in sexual attitudes
and the cues of sexual desire in terms of sociodemographic characteristics, as well as in terms of
women’s intimacy. Significant correlations were found between the brief sexual attitudes scale (BSAS)
and the cues of sexual desire scale (CSDS). Age, sexual orientation, relation nature, sexual practices,
visual proximity cues, erotic explicit cues, and sensory explicit cues explain, altogether, 25% of the
total sexual attitudes. Additionally, age, sexual orientation, the relation’s nature, sexual practices,
visual proximity cues, emotional bonding cues, romantic implicit cues, erotic explicit cues, and
sensory explicit cues explain, altogether, 30% of the permissiveness. Sexual attitudes are developed
under the influence of sociodemographic variables, variables related to women’s intimacy, and cues
of sexual desire, which are new data in the study of sexual attitudes and have implications at the
level of gender issues.
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Keywords
sexual attitudes; cues of sexual desire; women; brief sexual attitude scale (BSAS); cues of sexual desire scale (CSDS)
Pedagogical Context
Citation
Silva, J.; Ferreira, S.; Barros, V.; Mourão, A.; Corrêa, G.; Caridade, S.; Sousa, H.F.P.e.; Dinis, M.A.P.; Leite, Â. Associations between Cues of Sexual Desire and Sexual Attitudes in Portuguese Women. Eur. J. Investig. Health Psychol. Educ. 2021, 11, 1292–1309. https://doi.org/10.3390/ ejihpe11040094
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MDPI