Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada,
Arch Sex Behav. 2012 Feb;41(1):185-97. doi: 10.1007/s10508-012-9937-3.
Previous research suggests that heterosexual women's sexual arousal patterns are nonspecific; heterosexual women demonstrate genital arousal to both preferred and nonpreferred sexual stimuli. These patterns may, however, be related to the intense and impersonal nature of the audiovisual stimuli used. The current study investigated the gender specificity of heterosexual women's sexual arousal in response to less intense sexual stimuli, and also examined the role of relationship context on both women's and men's genital and subjective sexual responses. Assessments were made of 43 heterosexual women's and 9 heterosexual men's genital and subjective sexual arousal to audio narratives describing sexual or neutral encounters with female and male strangers, friends, or long-term relationship partners. Consistent with research employing audiovisual sexual stimuli, men demonstrated a category-specific pattern of genital and subjective arousal with respect to gender, while women showed a nonspecific pattern of genital arousal, yet reported a category-specific pattern of subjective arousal. Heterosexual women's nonspecific genital response to gender cues is not a function of stimulus intensity or relationship context. Relationship context did significantly affect women's genital sexual arousal--arousal to both female and male friends was significantly lower than to the stranger and long-term relationship contexts--but not men's. These results suggest that relationship context may be a more important factor in heterosexual women's physiological sexual response than gender cues.
先前的研究表明，异性恋女性的性唤起模式是非特异性的；异性恋女性对偏好和非偏好的性刺激都会产生生殖器唤起。然而，这些模式可能与使用的视听刺激的强烈和非个人性质有关。本研究调查了异性恋女性对性刺激较弱时的性唤起的性别特异性，并探讨了关系背景对女性和男性生殖器和主观性反应的影响。评估了 43 名异性恋女性和 9 名异性恋男性对描述与女性和男性陌生人、朋友或长期关系伴侣的性或中性相遇的音频叙述的生殖器和主观性唤起。与使用视听性刺激的研究一致，男性表现出与性别相关的特定生殖器和主观唤起模式，而女性表现出非特异性的生殖器唤起模式，但报告了特定的主观唤起模式。异性恋女性对性别线索的非特异性生殖器反应不是刺激强度或关系背景的函数。关系背景确实显著影响女性的生殖器性唤起——对女性和男性朋友的唤起显著低于对陌生人和长期关系背景的唤起——但对男性没有影响。这些结果表明，关系背景可能是影响异性恋女性生理性反应的一个比性别线索更重要的因素。
