Goldey Katherine L, Avery Lanice R, van Anders Sari M
a Department of Psychology , University of Michigan.
J Sex Res. 2014;51(8):917-31. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2013.798611. Epub 2013 Sep 2.
Research links explicit sexuality (e.g., physical attraction and pleasure) to high testosterone (T) and nurturance (loving contact) to low T. Engaging in sexual fantasy, which can include explicit sexual and nurturant elements, increases T in women but not in men. We examined whether individual differences in the explicit sexual and nurturant content of fantasy were linked with T or with estradiol (E2). In addition, we explored whether fantasy content differed or overlapped by gender/sex. Participants (26 women, 23 men) provided saliva samples for hormones before and after imagining a self-defined positive sexual encounter and responding to open-ended questions about the situation they imagined. We systematically content-coded responses for explicit sexual and nurturant content. In men, lower inclusion of nurturant content predicted larger T responses to fantasy. Fantasy content was not linked with T in women or with E2 in women or men. Women and men did not differ significantly in explicit sexual and nurturant content. Our findings suggest that individual experiences of fantasy as more or less nurturant affect T in men, provide support for the Steroid/Peptide Theory of Social Bonds, and highlight the value of integrating hormones and content analysis to investigate research questions relevant to sexuality and gender/sex.
研究将明确的性取向（如身体吸引力和愉悦感）与高睾酮（T）联系起来，而将养育行为（亲密接触）与低睾酮联系起来。进行性幻想，其中可能包括明确的性和养育元素，会使女性的睾酮增加，但男性不会。我们研究了幻想中明确的性和养育内容的个体差异是否与睾酮或雌二醇（E2）有关。此外，我们探讨了幻想内容在性别上是否存在差异或重叠。参与者（26名女性，23名男性）在想象一次自我定义的积极性接触并回答关于他们所想象情境的开放式问题之前和之后，提供唾液样本用于激素检测。我们系统地对明确的性和养育内容的回答进行了内容编码。在男性中，养育内容的较低包含度预示着对幻想的睾酮反应更大。幻想内容与女性的睾酮或女性和男性的雌二醇均无关联。女性和男性在明确的性和养育内容上没有显著差异。我们的研究结果表明，个体对幻想或多或少具有养育性的体验会影响男性的睾酮，为社会纽带的类固醇/肽理论提供了支持，并强调了整合激素和内容分析以研究与性取向和性别相关研究问题的价值。
