Women's Sex-Related Dissociation: The Effects of Alcohol Intoxication, Attentional Control Instructions, and History of Childhood Sexual Abuse

This study examined influences of alcohol intoxication, attentional control, and CSA severity on sex-related dissociation. Sex-related dissociation is defined here as dissociation (e.g., feeling as if the world is unreal and feeling disconnected from one's body) during sexual activity or in the presence of sexual stimuli. 

Women (N = 70) were randomized to a 2 (alcohol condition: none, .10% peak breath alcohol concentration) x 2 (attentional control instructions: none, "relax and maximize" sexual arousal) experiment and exposed to sexual stimuli. 

Alcohol intoxication was positively associated with sex-related dissociation. CSA severity and sex-related dissociation were positively associated in the no instruction condition but not in the "relax and maximize" condition. 

For some women, efforts to relax and maximize sexual arousal may buffer the association between CSA and sex-related dissociation.

  

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By:  Bird ER1, Gilmore AK2, Stappenbeck CA3, Heiman JR4, Davis KC5, Norris J6, George WH1.

• 1 University of Washington, Psychology , Seattle , United States.
• 2 Medical University of South Carolina , Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Science , Charleston , United States.
• 3 University of Washington, Psychiatry , Seattle , United States.
• 4 Indiana University and the Kinsey Institute, Psychological & Brain Sciences , Bloomington , United States.
• 5 University of Washington, School of Social Work , Seattle , United States.
• 6 University of Washington, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute , Seattle , United States.
• J Sex Marital Ther. 2016 Jan 6:0.  

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