A robust body of research has demonstrated shifts in women's sexual desire and arousal
across the menstrual cycle, with heightened desire and arousal coincident with heightened
probability of conception (POC), and it is likely that ovarian hormones modulate these shifts.
However, studies in which women are exposed to audiovisual sexual stimuli (AVSS) at high
POC (mid-follicular) and low POC (luteal) phases have failed to detect significant differences
in genital or subjective arousal patterns based on menstrual cycle phase. Here, we tested …