School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF10 3AT, UK.
Arch Sex Behav. 2013 Apr;42(3):475-85. doi: 10.1007/s10508-012-9920-z. Epub 2012 Feb 14.
Patterns of genital arousal to sexual stimuli are somewhat different between men and women. Heterosexual males and homosexual males show clear category specific arousal that is consistent with their self-reported sexual preference. However, heterosexual women do not show this category specificity. In the present study, we attempted to measure a person's automatic appraisals of stimuli with respect to the concept of sex via the use of implicit measures (the Implicit Association Test and the priming task). In three experiments, we showed that heterosexual females did not show a sex-related category specific response in favor of male versus female stimuli. However, this lack of specificity was not due to a lack of sex-related appraisals, but by equal appraisals of both male and female stimuli. On the other hand, heterosexual men, homosexual men, and homosexual women all showed automatic sex-related appraisals of stimuli that were category specific and in line with their self-reported sexual preference. The study shows difference in the pattern of sexual interest between genders at the earliest stages of the evaluation of a stimulus.
男性和女性的生殖器对性刺激的反应模式有些不同。异性恋男性和同性恋男性表现出明确的类别特异性反应，这与他们自我报告的性偏好一致。然而，异性恋女性并没有表现出这种类别特异性。在本研究中，我们试图通过使用内隐测量（内隐联想测验和启动任务）来衡量一个人对性概念的自动评价。在三个实验中，我们表明，异性恋女性对男性和女性刺激没有表现出与性相关的类别特异性反应。然而，这种缺乏特异性并不是因为缺乏与性相关的评价，而是因为对男性和女性刺激的评价相等。另一方面，异性恋男性、同性恋男性和同性恋女性对刺激的自动性评价都表现出与他们自我报告的性偏好相一致的类别特异性。这项研究表明，在对刺激进行评价的最早阶段，性别之间的性兴趣模式存在差异。
