"Psychological variables like stress, cultural inhibitions, religious inhibitions and relationship issues affect women's sexuality, " said Dr . Leonore Tiefer, an associate professor of psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine, who counsels people with sexual difficulties . " The problem is they are more difficult to assess and not amenable to a pill ."
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Herek and Glunt's ( 1993 ) national study of interpersonal contact and heterosexuals'attitudes toward gay men found that increased contact " predicted attitudes toward gay men better than did any other demographic or social psychological variable " ( p . 239 ); such variables included gender, race, age, education, geographic residence, marital status, number of children, religion and political ideology.
