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Recently¹ we demonstrated a delay in effect of sublingual testosterone on both physiological and subjective sexual arousal in women. The delay for these effects was approximately 4 hours. We suggested that under the condition of testosterone administration, there were increases in physiological sexual responding during successive measures, and that the increase in subjective sexual excitement resulted from a heightened awareness of these alterations in genital arousal.

This letter presents results from an additional experiment in which we critically tested some implications decisive for this hypothesis. Herein, the same experimental design was used as in our earlier study,¹ with the exception that we did not repeatedly expose subjects to erotic visual stimuli. Only once, at 4.5 hours after the intake of 0.5 mg of testosterone (or placebo) sublingually with cyclodextrines as the carrier, were the women exposed to the same 5-minute neutral and erotic film excerpts as the fifth trial of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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