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1. Johnson, Z. (2013, October 16). Donald Glover talks Community exit, biggest fears: “I’m afraid people hate who I really am.” Retrieved from http://www.eonline.com/news/470719/donald-glover-talks-community-exit-biggest-fears-i-m-afraid-people-hate-who-i-really-am

Gil, V. E. (1990). Sexual fantasy experiences and guilt among conservative Christians: An exploratory study. Journal of Sex Research, 27, 629–638.

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3. Freud, S. (1990). Creative writers and day-dreaming (J. Strachey, Trans.). In A. Dickson (Ed.), Art and Literature (pp. 129–141). London: Penguin Books.

Guttmacher Institute. (2017, August 1). Sex and HIV education. Retrieved from https://www.guttmacher.org/state-policy/explore/sex-and-hiv-education

2. Under the PLISSIT model of sex therapy, the first two steps involve providing clients with permission to engage their desires (as long as they’re safe and consensual) and offering sex education that addresses their unique concerns.

Annon, J. S. (1976). The PLISSIT model: A proposed conceptual scheme for the behavioral treatment of sexual problems. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 2, 1–15.

3. “[Addyi] was rejected by the FDA once in 2010 and again in 2013, citing ineffectiveness and a too-high risk for side effects…. In clinical trials, somewhere between 9% and 14% of women taking the drug responded to it. And these women had on average an increase of 0.5 to 0.7 ‘sexually satisfying events’ per month compared to placebo.”

Walton, A. G. (2015, August 15). Why libido drug Addyi is not the “female Viagra.” Forbes. Retrieved from https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2015/08/19/fda-approves-addyi-but-it-is-not-the-female-viagra/

4. The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (https://ncsfreedom.org) has fielded hundreds of requests for resources and referrals in child custody and divorce proceedings from persons who had their sexual desires or practices (most commonly, BDSM and polyamory) held against them.

2. Wegner, D. M., Schneider, D. J., Carter, S. R., & White, T. L. (1987). Paradoxical effects of thought suppression. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 53, 5–13.

3. According to the CIA World Factbook, the median age in the United States is 37.9 years old.Central Intelligence Agency. The world factbook. Retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html

4. A 2015 YouGov poll featuring a demographically representative US sample found that one-third of young Americans (under age thirty) said that they weren’t completely heterosexual.

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5. According to CDC data, the average age of first vaginal intercourse among both men and women is approximately seventeen. According to the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior, most American adults ages eighteen to fifty-nine have sex either a few times per month or a few times per week. According to 2010–2012 data from the General Social Survey, Americans report an average of 11.22 sexual partners since age eighteen.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2017, August 14). Key statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics/s.htm

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Reece, M., Herbenick, D., Schick, V., Sanders, S. A., Dodge, B., & Fortenberry, J. D. (2010). Sexual behaviors, relationships, and perceived health among adult men in the United States: Results from a national probability sample. Journal of Sexual Medicine , 7 (s5), 291–304.

Twenge, J. M., Sherman, R. A., & Wells, B. E. (2015). Changes in American adults’ sexual behavior and attitudes, 1972–2012. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44, 2273–2285.

1. Research on heterosexual college students’ attitudes toward and experiences with threesomes indicates that men are much more interested in WWM than MMW scenarios, whereas women show similar interest in both WWM and MMW threesomes.

Thompson, A. E., & Byers, E. S. (2017). Heterosexual young adults’ interest, attitudes, and experiences related to mixed-gender, multi-person sex. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46 (3), 813–822.

2. Kross, E., Berman, M. G., Mischel, W., Smith, E. E., & Wager, T. D. (2011). Social rejection shares somatosensory representations with physical pain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108 (15), 6270–6275.

3. For example, the experience of physical pain increases subsequent awareness of taste sensations, thereby making those sensations more intense.

Bastian, B., Jetten, J., & Hornsey, M. J. (2014). Gustatory pleasure and pain: The offset of acute physical pain enhances responsiveness to taste. Appetite, 72, 150–155.

4. A large body of social psychological research has found that fear and other strong emotions are often mistaken for sexual feelings. For instance, men walking across a high and shaky suspension bridge are more likely to call a woman they met on that bridge than are men walking across a stable bridge that is close to the ground.

Dutton, D. G., & Aron, A. P. (1974). Some evidence for heightened sexual attraction under conditions of high anxiety. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 30 (4), 510–517.

5. White, G. L., & Kight, T. D. (1984). Misattribution of arousal and attraction: Effects of salience of explanations for arousal. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 20 (1), 55–64.

7. O’Donohue, W. T., & Geer, J. H. (1985). The habituation of sexual arousal. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 14 (3), 233–246.

Meuwissen, I., & Over, R. (1990). Habituation and dishabituation of female sexual arousal. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 28 (3), 217–226.

8. Joseph, P. N., Sharma, R. K., Agarwal, A., & Sirot, L. K. (2015). Men ejaculate larger volumes of semen, more motile sperm, and more quickly when exposed to images of novel women. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 1 (4), 195–200.

9. Gebhard, P. H., Gagnon, J. H., Pomeroy, W. B., & Christenson, C. V. (1965). Sex offenders: An analysis of types . New York: Harper & Row.

10. Pfaus, J. G., Quintana, G. R., Mac Cionnaith, C., & Parada, M. (2016). The whole versus the sum of some of the parts: Toward resolving the apparent controversy of clitoral versus vaginal orgasms. Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology, 6 (1), 32578.

11. A study by Ariely and Loewenstein found that sexual arousal reduces disgust responses in men. A study by Borg and de Jong found similar effects in women.

Ariely, D., & Loewenstein, G. (2006). The heat of the moment: The effect of sexual arousal on sexual decision making. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 19 (2), 87–98.

Borg, C., & de Jong, P. J. (2012). Feelings of disgust and disgust-induced avoidance weaken following induced sexual arousal in women. PLOS ONE, 7 (9), e44111.

13. Aron, A., & Aron, E. N. (1986). Love and the expansion of self: Understanding attraction and satisfaction . New York: Hemisphere.

14. Baumeister, R. F., & Leary, M. R. (1995). The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. Psychological Bulletin, 117 (3), 497–529.

15. Lawrence, A. A. (2017). Autogynephilia and the typology of male-to-female transsexualism. European Psychologist, 22, 39–54.

16. Ogas, O., & Gaddam, S. (2011). A billion wicked thoughts: What the internet tells us about sexual relationships . London: Penguin.

Chapter 3

1. LeVay, S. (2016). Gay, straight, and the reason why: The science of sexual orientation . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

2. Bicks, J. (Writer), & Thomas, P. (Director). (2000). Boy, girl, boy, girl… [Television series episode]. In Star, D. (Executive Producer), Sex and the City. Beverly Hills, CA: Darren Star Productions.

3. Chivers, M. L., Rieger, G., Latty, E., & Bailey, J. M. (2004). A sex difference in the specificity of sexual arousal. Psychological Science, 15 (11), 736–744.

4. Adams, H. E., Wright, L. W., & Lohr, B. A. (1996). Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 105 (3), 440–445.

5. Baumeister, R. F. (2000). Gender differences in erotic plasticity: The female sex drive as socially flexible and responsive. Psychological Bulletin, 126 (3), 347–374.

7. Kuhle, B. X., & Radtke, S. (2013). Born both ways: The alloparenting hypothesis for sexual fluidity in women. Evolutionary Psychology, 11 (2), 304–323.

9. Ellis, B. J., & Symons, D. (1990). Sex differences in sexual fantasy: An evolutionary psychological approach. Journal of Sex Research, 27, 527–555.

10. On opening weekend, the audience for Fifty Shades of Grey was 68 percent female.

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12. Kilgallon, S. J., & Simmons, L. W. (2005). Image content influences men’s semen quality. Biology Letters, 22, 253–255.

13. Gallup, G. G., Burch, R. L., Zappieri, M. L., Parvez, R. A., Stockwell, M. L., & Davis, J. A. (2003). The human penis as a semen displacement device. Evolution and Human Behavior, 24, 277–289.

15. Dawson, S. J., Bannerman, B. A., & Lalumière, M. L. (2016). Paraphilic interests: An examination of sex differences in a nonclinical sample. Sexual Abuse, 28 (1), 20–45.

16. Byrnes, J. P., Miller, D. C., & Schafer, W. D. (1999). Gender differences in risk taking: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 125 (3), 367–383.

18. Grubbs, J. B., Exline, J. J., Pargament, K. I., Hook, J. N., & Carlisle, R. D. (2015). Transgression as addiction: Religiosity and moral disapproval as predictors of perceived addiction to pornography. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 44 (1), 125–136.

19. Blanchard, R., & Collins, P. I. (1993). Men with sexual interest in transvestites, transsexuals, and she-males. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 181 (9), 570–575; Hsu, K. J., Rosenthal, A. M., Miller, D. I., & Bailey, J. M. (2016). Who are gynandromorphophilic men? Characterizing men with sexual interest in transgender women. Psychological Medicine, 46 (4), 819–827.

20. Ogas, O., & Gaddam, S. (2011). A billion wicked thoughts: What the internet tells us about sexual relationships. London: Penguin.

21. Blanchard, R. (1993). Varieties of autogynephilia and their relationship to gender dysphoria. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 22 (3), 241–251.

22. Cameron, L. (2013, April 11). How the psychiatrist who co-wrote the manual on sex talks about sex. Motherboard. Retrieved from https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ypp93m/heres-how-the-guy-who-wrote-the-manual-on-sex-talks-about-sex

23. In a study of 232 male-to-female transsexuals followed for a year after surgery, “participants reported overwhelmingly that they were happy with their SRS [sex reassignment surgery] results and that SRS had greatly improved the quality of their lives. None reported outright regret and only a few expressed even occasional regret.

”Lawrence, A. A. (2003). Factors associated with satisfaction or regret following male-to-female sex reassignment surgery. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 32 (4), 299–315.

Chapter 4

2. Haldeman, D. C. (2002). Gay rights, patient rights: The implications of sexual orientation conversion therapy. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 33 (3), 260–264.

3. Hatemi, P. K., Crabtree, C., & McDermott, R. (2017). The relationship between sexual preferences and political orientations: Do positions in the bedroom affect positions in the ballot box? Personality and Individual Differences, 105, 318–325.

4. Smith, C. V., & Shaffer, M. J. (2013). Gone but not forgotten: Virginity loss and current sexual satisfaction. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 39 (2), 96–111.

5. A 2011 survey of 1,018 American adults found that one in ten men and one in four women reported having been sexually harassed in the workplace.

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6. Richters, J., De Visser, R. O., Rissel, C. E., Grulich, A. E., & Smith, A. (2008). Demographic and psychosocial features of participants in bondage and discipline, “sadomasochism” or dominance and submission (BDSM): Data from a national survey. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 5 (7), 1660–1668.

7. Devor, H. (1994). Transsexualism, dissociation, and child abuse: An initial discussion based on nonclinical data. Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, 6 (3), 49–72; Dulcan, M. K., & Lee, P. A. (1984). Transsexualism in the adolescent girl. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 23 (3), 354–361.

8. Bradford, J. M. W. (1999). The paraphilias, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder, and the treatment of sexually deviant behavior. Psychiatric Quarterly, 70, 209–219.

9. Perera, H., Gadambanathan, T., & Weerasiri, S., (2011). Gender identity disorder presenting in a girl with Asperger’s disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder. Ceylon Medical Journal, 48 (2), 57–58; Safer, D. L., Bullock, K. D., & Safer, J. D. (2016). Obsessive-compulsive disorder presenting as gender dysphoria/gender incongruence: A case report and literature review. AACE Clinical Case Reports, 2 (3), e268–e271.

10. Wismeijer, A. A., & Assen, M. A. (2013). Psychological characteristics of BDSM practitioners. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 10 (8), 1943–1952.

11. Allen, D. J., & Oleson, T. (1999). Shame and internalized homophobia in gay men. Journal of Homosexuality, 37 (3), 33–43.

Chapter 5

1. Fryar, C. D., Gu, Q., Ogden, C. L., & Flegal, K. (2016, August). Anthropometric reference data for children and adults: United States, 2011–2014. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Vital and Health Statistics Series 3, No. 39. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_03/sr03_039.pdf

3. Veale, D., Miles, S., Bramley, S., Muir, G., & Hodsoll, J. (2015). Am I normal? A systematic review and construction of nomograms for flaccid and erect penis length and circumference in up to 15,521 men. BJU International, 115 (6), 978–986.

4. Prause, N., Park, J., Leung, S., & Miller, G. (2015). Women’s preferences for penis size: A new research method using selection among 3D models. PLOS ONE, 10 (9), e0133079.

5. Heights and weights of models. UCLA College Statistics. (2002). Retrieved from http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~vlew/stat10/archival/fa02/handouts/modeling.pdf

6. Campbell, B. C., Dreber, A., Apicella, C. L., Eisenberg, D. T., Gray, P. B., Little, A. C.,… Lum, J. K. (2010). Testosterone exposure, dopaminergic reward, and sensation-seeking in young men. Physiology & Behavior, 99 (4), 451–456.

7. Krieg, G. (2016, March 4). Donald Trump defends size of penis. CNN. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/donald-trump-small-hands-marco-rubio/index.html

8. Carter, B. (2018, January 2). Social media mocks Trump for bragging about the size of his nuclear button. The Hill. Retrieved from http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/367160-social-media-mocks-trump-for-bragging-about-the-size-of-his

9. Hald, G. M., & Štulhofer, A. (2016). What types of pornography do people use and do they cluster? Assessing types and categories of pornography consumption in a large-scale online sample. Journal of Sex Research, 53 (7), 849–859.

10. Zajonc, R. B. (2001). Mere exposure: A gateway to the subliminal. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 10 (6), 224–228.

11. Channing Tatum height and weight: measurements. (n.d.) Celebrity Height and Weight. Retrieved from http://heightandweights.com/channing-tatum/

12. Scarlett Johansson body measurements. (n.d.) Celebrity Inside. Retrieved from http://celebrityinside.com/body-measurements/actress/scarlett-johansson-body-measurements-height-weight-shoe-bra-size-stats/

13. Antfolk, J. (2017). Age limits: Men’s and women’s youngest and oldest considered and actual sex partners. Evolutionary Psychology, 15 (1), 1–9.

14. Tan, N. (2016, May 13). The real “King Cobra” killer speaks out from prison, shares his thoughts on James Franco’s film. Gay Star News. Retrieved from https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/king-cobra-prison-joseph-kerekes/#gs.Bq06CoU

15. Singh, D., Dixson, B. J., Jessop, T. S., Morgan, B., & Dixson, A. F. (2010). Cross-cultural consensus for waist-hip ratio and women’s attractiveness. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31 (3), 176–181.

16. Butovskaya, M., Sorokowska, A., Karwowski, M., Sabiniewicz, A., Fedenok, J., Dronova, D.,… Sorokowski, P. (2017). Waist-to-hip ratio, body-mass index, age and number of children in seven traditional societies. Scientific Reports, 7 .

17. DeBruine, L. M., Jones, B. C., Crawford, J. R., Welling, L. L. M., & Little, A. C. (2010). The health of a nation predicts their mate preferences: Cross-cultural variation in women’s preferences for masculinized male faces. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 277 (1692), 2405–2410. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.2184

18. Galperin, A., Haselton, M. G., Frederick, D. A., Poore, J., von Hippel, W., Buss, D. M., & Gonzaga, G. C. (2013). Sexual regret: Evidence for evolved sex differences. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42 (7), 1145–1161.

19. Waldinger, M. D., Quinn, P., Dilleen, M., Mundayat, R., Schweitzer, D. H., & Boolell, M. (2005). Ejaculation disorders: A multinational population survey of intravaginal ejaculation latency time. Journal of Sexual Medicine , 2 (4), 492–497.

20. Rieger, G., Linsenmeier, J. A., Gygax, L., & Bailey, J. M. (2008). Sexual orientation and childhood gender nonconformity: Evidence from home videos. Developmental Psychology, 44 (1), 46–58.

Chapter 6

2. Sprecher, S., & Hendrick, S. S. (2004). Self-disclosure in intimate relationships: Associations with individual and relationship characteristics over time. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 23 (6), 857–877.

3. Laurenceau, J. P., Barrett, L. F., & Pietromonaco, P. R. (1998). Intimacy as an interpersonal process: The importance of self-disclosure, partner disclosure, and perceived partner responsiveness in interpersonal exchanges. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74 (5), 1238–1251.

5. Rehman, U. S., Rellini, A. H., & Fallis, E. (2011). The importance of sexual self-disclosure to sexual satisfaction and functioning in committed relationships. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 8 (11), 3108–3115.

6. Birnbaum, G. E., Mizrahi, M., Kaplan, A., Kadosh, D., Kariv, D., Tabib, D.,… & Burban, D. (2017). Sex unleashes your tongue: Sexual riming motivates self-disclosure to a new acquaintance and interest in future interactions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 43 (5), 706–715.

8. Greene, K., Derlega, V. J., & Mathews, A. (2006). Self-disclosure in personal relationships. In A. L. Vangelisti & D. Perlman (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of personal relationships (pp. 409–427). New York: Cambridge University Press.

12. Aron, A., Melinat, E., Aron, E. N., Vallone, R. D., & Bator, R. J. (1997). The experimental generation of interpersonal closeness: A procedure and some preliminary findings. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 23 (4), 363–377.

Chapter 7

1. Steadman, H. J., Mulvey, E. P., Monahan, J., Robbins, P. C., Appelbaum, P. S., Grisso, T.,… Silver, E. (1998). Violence by people discharged from acute psychiatric inpatient facilities and by others in the same neighborhoods. Archives of General Psychiatry, 55, 393–401.

2. Although most people are aware of women’s ability to have multiple orgasms, at least some men are capable of them, too. As recounted in a 1998 paper published in the Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, a thirty-five-year-old father of four gave a firsthand demonstration of this ability to a team of scientists by orgasming and ejaculating six times in thirty-six minutes as he sat in a laboratory watching porn.

Whipple, B., Myers, B. R., & Komisaruk, B. R. (1998). Male multiple ejaculatory orgasms: A case study. Journal of Sex Education and Therapy, 23 (2), 157–162.

3. Frederick, D. A., Lever, J., Gillespie, B. J., & Garcia, J. R. (2017). What keeps passion alive? Sexual satisfaction is associated with sexual communication, mood setting, sexual variety, oral sex, orgasm, and sex frequency in a national US study. Journal of Sex Research, 54 (2), 186–201.

4. Monteiro Pascoal, P., Cardoso, D., & Henriques, R. (2015). Sexual satisfaction and distress in sexual functioning in a sample of the BDSM community: A comparison study between BDSM and non-BDSM contexts. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 12 (4), 1052–1061.

5. Frappier, J., Toupin, I., Levy, J. J., Aubertin-Leheudre, M., & Karelis, A. D. (2013). Energy expenditure during sexual activity in young healthy couples. PLOS ONE, 8 (10), e79342.

6. Haake, P., Krueger, T. H., Goebel, M. U., Heberling, K. M., Hartmann, U., & Schedlowski, M. (2004). Effects of sexual arousal on lymphocyte subset circulation and cytokine production in man. Neuroimmunomodulation, 11, 293–298.

7. Davey Smith, G., Frankel, S., & Yarnell, J. (1997). Sex and death: Are they related? Findings from the Caerphilly Cohort Study. British Medical Journal, 315, 1641–1644.

8. Maunder, L., Schoemaker, D., & Pruessner, J. C. (2016). Frequency of penile-vaginal intercourse is associated with verbal recognition performance in adult women. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 46, 441–453.

9. Wilson, T. D., & Gilbert, D. T. (2003). Affective forecasting. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 35 , 345–411.

10. Miller, R. S. (1997). Inattentive and contented: Relationship commitment and attention to alternatives. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73 (4), 758–766.

11. Sagarin, B. J., Cutler, B., Cutler, N., Lawler-Sagarin, K. A., & Matuszewich, L. (2009). Hormonal changes and couple bonding in consensual sadomasochistic activity. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 38 (2), 186–200.

12. Among the documented cases of BDSM-related deaths are an Ohio man who choked on a sex toy while he was bound and gagged and a Pennsylvania woman who was electrocuted by her husband while using electric nipple clamps.

Lehmiller, J. (2013, October 7). Death by sex: Five of the most unusual sex-related deaths [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://www.lehmiller.com/blog/2013/10/7/death-by-sex-5-of-the-most-unusual-sex-related-deaths

13. Doctor, R., & Prince, V. (1997). Transvestism: A survey of 1,032 cross-dressers. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 26 , 589–605.

14. Prause, N., Steele, V. R., Staley, C., Sabatinelli, D., & Hajcak, G. (2015). Modulation of late positive potentials by sexual images in problem users and controls inconsistent with “porn addiction.” Biological Psychology, 109 , 192–199.

15. Sagarin, Cutler, Cutler, Lawler-Sagarin, & Matuszewich. Hormonal changes and couple bonding in consensual sadomasochistic activity.

16. Schmiedeberg, C., & Schröder, J. (2016). Does sexual satisfaction change with relationship duration? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 45, 99–107.

Chapter 8

1. Though marital happiness has declined for both men and women since the 1970s, the drop has been steeper for women. The number of men who described their marriage as “very happy” was 69.3 percent in 1974 and 62.8 percent in 2014. For women, the numbers were 68.4 percent and 57.4 percent, respectively.

Smith, T. W., Son, J., & Schapiro, B. (2015, April). General social survey final report: Trends in psychological well-being. Retrieved from http://www.norc.org/PDFs/GSS%20Reports/GSS_PsyWellBeing15 _final_formatted.pdf

2. Schonfeld, Z. (2013, July 2). Wives are cheating 40% more than they used to, but still 70% as much as men. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/07/wives-cheating-vs-men/313704/

4. Amato, P. R., & Previti, D. (2003). People’s reasons for divorcing: Gender, social class, the life course, and adjustment. Journal of Family Issues, 24 (5), 602–626.

5. Kantor, L., & Levitz, N. (2017). Parents’ views on sex education in schools: How much do Democrats and Republicans agree? PLOS ONE , 12 (7), e0180250.

6. Allen, M., Emmers, T., Gebhardt, L., & Giery, M. A. (1995). Exposure to pornography and acceptance of rape myths. Journal of Communication, 45 (1), 5–26; Tylka, T. L. (2015). No harm in looking, right? Men’s pornography consumption, body image, and well-being. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, 16 (1), 97–107.

7. Frederick, D. A., Lever, J., Gillespie, B. J., & Garcia, J. R. (2017). What keeps passion alive? Sexual satisfaction is associated with sexual communication, mood setting, sexual variety, oral sex, orgasm, and sex frequency in a national US study. Journal of Sex Research, 54 (2), 186–201.

8. Alford, S., & Hauser, D. (2011). Adolescent sexual health in Europe and the US (4th ed.). Advocates for Youth. Retrieved from http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/component/content/article/419-adolescent-sexual-health-in-europe-and-the-us

9. Weaver, H., Smith, G., & Kippax, S. (2005). School-based sex education policies and indicators of sexual health among young people: A comparison of the Netherlands, France, Australia and the United States. Sex Education, 5 , 171–188.

10. In the 2017 World Happiness Report, the Netherlands was ranked sixth and the United States fourteenth out of fifteen countries.

Gilchrist, K. (2017, March 20). These are the 15 happiest countries in the world. CNBC. Retrieved from https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/20/norway-ranked-worlds-happiest-country-as-the-us-gets-sadder.html

12. Weaver, Smith, & Kippax. School-based sex education policies and indicators of sexual health among young people.

13. Stanger-Hall, K. F., & Hall, D. W. (2011). Abstinence-only education and teen pregnancy rates: Why we need comprehensive sex education in the US. PLOS ONE , 6 (10), e24658.

14. Veale, D., Miles, S., Bramley, S., Muir, G., & Hodsoll, J. (2015). Am I normal? A systematic review and construction of nomograms for flaccid and erect penis length and circumference in up to 15,521 men. BJU International, 115 (6), 978–986.

15. Gailliot, M. T., & Baumeister, R. F. (2007). Self-regulation and sexual restraint: Dispositionally and temporarily poor self-regulatory abilities contribute to failures at restraining sexual behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 33 (2), 173–186.

16. Berlin, F. S., Maim, H. M., & Dean, S. (1991). Effects of statutes requiring psychiatrists to report. American Journal of Psychiatry, 148 (4), 449–453.

17. A Marist poll conducted around Valentine’s Day, 2011, found that 73 percent of Americans believed in the concept of a soulmate, up from 66 percent the previous summer. Persons under thirty had the highest rate of belief in a soulmate (80 percent).

“It’s destiny!” Most Americans believe in soul mates. (2011, February 10). Marist Poll. Retrieved from http://maristpoll.marist.edu/210-its-destiny-most-americans-believe-in-soul-mates/

19. Knee, C. R. (1998). Implicit theories of relationships: Assessment and prediction of romantic relationship initiation, coping, and longevity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74 (2), 360–370.

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21. Passion typically declines between six and thirty months after the start of a relationship, though it is possible to keep passion alive beyond this time period by continually introducing novelty into the relationship.

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