Genital arousal can occur without conscious awareness and conflict with subjective feelings of arousal. Studies found physical genital arousal in response to erotic stimuli even when participants reported no subjective arousal. Additionally, genital arousal did not always match self-reported preferences and was influenced by stress levels, with higher stress correlated with lower sexual functioning. However, arousal responses are fluid and can potentially be influenced through changing one's mental approach to retune the disconnect between genital and subjective arousal.

2.  Genital arousal occurs without mentally
acknowledging the engorged state
 Genital and/or Subjective arousal is not
realized or is ignored

3.  Suppression of sexuality
 Genital lubrication is a method to
fundamentally protect from injury
 Conflict concerning double standards
 Every day stress

4.  Emotions-positive & negative-compile
sexual excitement
 Psychological & emotionally desiring
sexual stimuli coupled with positive
emotional, cognitive feedback creates
a “turned on” state

5.  Increase of blood flow with vaginal
lubrication as a result of vaginal
engorgement
 VPA reflects changes in vaginal
engorgement with each heartbeat
 Occurs during the presence of sexually
erotic stimuli

6.  Subjective: conduct self-reports rating
erotic stimuli based on scales
 Genital: viewing sexual stimuli, vaginal
photoplethysmograph measured un-
engorged & engorged tissues
 Sexual stimuli contained non-erotic &
erotic films & pictures

7.  Physical arousal present with self-reports
indicating no arousal
 Increase in genital arousal to
chimpanzee coitus; self-report of no
arousal
 Subjective self-reports stating aroused
states to male-female acts
 Genitally, however, more aroused by
female-female erotica

8.  Contributing factor in disconnection
between aroused states
 Cortisol is released in stressful situations
 Higher cortisol levels lower sexual
functioning
 No correlation between cortisol levels &
genital arousal

9.  Disconnection does occur
 Displays a fluidity of arousal in levels of
sexual acts vs. preferred gender thus
generating conflict
 Stress negatively influences subjective
arousal

10.  One can manipulate a negative sexual
situation into a positive sexual
experience
 A lack of subjective arousal? Retrain
the thought process into a sexually
exciting phenomenon!
 Unconscious conditioning of genital
response is possible

11.  Will women desire to change their states
of arousal to a more enhanced sexual
experience?
 With the transformation of thought and
mentality, do women desire to renovate
their subjective arousal in accordance to
their genital arousal?