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Meredith Chivers

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Nationality
  
Canada

Doctoral advisor
  
J. Michael Bailey

Fields
  
Sexology, Psychology

Institutions
  
Queen’s University

Known for
  
Female sexuality

Institution
  
Queen's University

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Influences
  
Ray Blanchard, Kurt Freund

Alma maters
  
University of Guelph (BSc hon), Northwestern University (PhD)

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Selected works

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  • Seto, M. C., Lalumière, M. L., Harris, G. T., & Chivers, M. L. (2012). The sexual responses of sexual sadists. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 121, 739–753. DOI: 10.1037/a0028714
  • Chivers, M. L., Pittini, R., Villegas, L., Grigoriadis, S., Ross, L. E. (2011). The relationship between sexual function and depressive symptomatology in postpartum women: A pilot study. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 8, 792–799.
  • Chivers, M. L. (2010). A brief update on the specificity of sexual arousal. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 25, 407–414.
  • Salonia, A., Giraldi, A., Chivers, M. L., Georgiadis, J., Levin, R., Maravilla, K., & McCarthy, M. (2010). Physiology of women’s sexual function: Basic knowledge and new findings. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 7, 2637–2660.
  • Chivers, M. L., & Rosen. R. (2010). PDE-5 Inhibitors and female sexual response: Faulty protocols or paradigms? Journal of Sexual Medicine, 7, 858–872.
  • Chivers, M. L., Seto, M. C., Lalumière, M. L, Laan, E., & Grimbos, T. (2010). Agreement of genital and subjective measures of sexual arousal in men and women: A meta-analysis. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 39, 5–56.
  • Chivers, M. L., Seto, M. C., & Blanchard, R. (2007). Gender and sexual orientation differences in sexual response to the sexual activities versus the gender of actors in sexual films. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 1108–1121.
  • Chivers, M. L., & Bailey, J. M. (2005). A sex difference in features that elicit genital response. Biological Psychology, 70, 115–120.
  • Rieger, G., Chivers, M. L., & Bailey, J. M. (2005). Sexual arousal patterns of bisexual men. Psychological Science, 16, 579–584.
  • Lawrence, A., Latty, E., Chivers, M. L., & Bailey, J. M. (2005). Measurement of sexual arousal in postoperative male-to-female transsexuals using vaginal photoplethysmography. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 135–145.
  • Chivers, M. L., Rieger, G., Latty, E., & Bailey, J. M. (2004). A sex difference in the specificity of sexual arousal. Psychological Science, 15, 736–744.
  • Chivers, M. L., & Blanchard, R. (1996). Prostitution advertisements suggest association of transvestism and masochism. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 22, 97–102.

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    References

    Meredith Chivers Wikipedia
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