Patterns of Genital Sexual Arousal in Transgender Men
| Autor: | Gerulf Rieger, Tuesday M. Watts-Overall, Sheina Orbell, Erlend Slettevold, Jamie Raines, Dragos C. Gruia, Luke Holmes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Gender identity Sexual Behavior Sexual arousal 05 social sciences Gender Identity Men 050109 social psychology Sexual Arousal Transgender Persons 050105 experimental psychology Arousal Transgender Sexual orientation Humans Female 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Sex organ Genitalia Psychology General Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Science. 32:485-495 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9280 0956-7976 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0956797620971654 |
| Popis: | Most men show genital sexual arousal to one preferred gender. Most women show genital arousal to both genders, regardless of their sexual preferences. There is limited knowledge of whether this difference is driven by biological sex or gender identity. Transgender individuals, whose birth sex and gender identity are incongruent, provide a unique opportunity to address this question. We tested whether the genital responses of 25 (female-to-male) transgender men followed their female birth sex or male gender identity. Depending on their surgical status, arousal was assessed with penile gauges or vaginal plethysmographs. Transgender men’s sexual arousal showed both male-typical and female-typical patterns. Across measures, they responded more strongly to their preferred gender than to the other gender, similar to (but not entirely like) 145 cisgender (nontransgender) men. However, they still responded to both genders, similar to 178 cisgender women. In birth-assigned women, both gender identity and biological sex may influence sexual-arousal patterns. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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