Nationality Canada Doctoral advisor J. Michael Bailey | Institutions Queen’s University Known for Female sexuality Institution Queen's University | |
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Influenced by Ray Blanchard, Kurt Freund |
Meredith chivers
Meredith L. Chivers is a Canadian sexologist noted for her research on female sexuality, sexual orientation, paraphilias, sex differences, gender identity, and the physiology of sexual arousal. She is a professor of psychology at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
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Education and career
Chivers attended the University of Guelph, the received her MA and PhD from Northwestern University

She is an elected member of the International Academy of Sex Research is on the Board of Directors for the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN) and a member of the Association for Psychological Science.

She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Sexual Medicine, and an editorial boardmember for the Archives of Sexual Behavior, The Journal of Sex Research, and the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.
Findings
She is interested in female sexuality, sexual orientation, paraphilias, gender identity, and the physiology of sexual arousal.

Chivers measures the biological and sexual responses of men and women to different types of pornography to analyze human sexual response patterns. By testing both heterosexual and homosexual men and women, Chivers found that men (both heterosexual and gay) respond with "category specificity" whereas women (heterosexual and lesbian) respond more broadly. In 2005, Chivers co-authored a study of bisexual men, in which the men's responses to heterosexual and homosexual photos were shown. Despite that the men reported being bisexual, most of them showed a substantially stronger response either one of the two sexes instead of roughly equal responses to both.

After reports that women respond with vaginal lubrication even to stimuli depicting rape, Chivers hypothesized that the lubrication might not relate only to female sexual desire, that it is also a separate system, an evolutionary adaptive one, that protect females from damage in sexual violence.
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