In this research on sexual psychophysiology in The Netherlands is reviewed. Research is conducted in three centers (Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Groningen). The research is concerned with three main areas in sexual psychophysiology, i.e. the identification of sexual stimuli, determinants of sexual arousal and applications of sexual psychophysiology in sexual medicine. 

During the past 25 years a considerable number of studies in the field of social sexology have been done in the Low Countries. Initially, research was focused on problems resulting from a restrictive sexual morality. During the 1970s attention shifted to the rapid process of sexual liberalization and its practical...