Assessing differences in physiologic subjective response toward male and female orientated sexually explicit videos in heterosexual individuals
| Autor: | Samantha Landry, Melissa K. Goncalves, Tuuli M. Kukkonen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Penile Shaft
Subjective response Sexual arousal 05 social sciences Labia 050109 social psychology Mean age 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Psychiatry and Mental health medicine.anatomical_structure medicine 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sex organ Psychology (miscellaneous) Analysis of variance Laboratory research Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. 25:208-215 |
| ISSN: | 2291-7063 1188-4517 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/cjhs.253-a4 |
| Popis: | The goal of the present study was to examine sexual response to male- and female- oriented sexually explicit films in heterosexual men and women. Forty participants (20 men and 20 women; mean age=29.42 years) attended three separate lab sessions. One 15 minute sexually explicit video was shown per session. For session one, all participants viewed a female-oriented film selected by the experimenters. The films used for subsequent sessions were counterbalanced male-oriented or female-oriented clips that had been previously studied. A thermographic camera measured temperature on the penile shaft for men and labia for women. Continuous and discrete self-reported sexual arousal was also obtained. Genital temperature was averaged into 15 one-minute bins and a repeated-measures ANOVA was conducted. Men demonstrated significantly greater increases in temperature over time than women, F (14, 980)=19.27, p=.000, however there were no significant differences between films or sex × film interaction. Women reported significantly higher subjective sexual arousal to the films than men, F (1, 69) range=3.89 to 9.67, p range=.01 to .05, but there were no significant differences between films or a sex × film interaction. Results suggest that film orientation has minimal impact on physiologic sexual responsiveness in men or women. Although both sexes demonstrated significant increases in sexual arousal for these pre-selected films, future laboratory research would benefit from examining whether participant-selected stimuli produces a greater response than experimenter-selected films. |
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