Bennett Paul, Lowe Rob, Petrova Hristina
Department of Psychology, University of Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK.
Arch Sex Behav. 2015 Nov;44(8):2201-6. doi: 10.1007/s10508-015-0504-6. Epub 2015 Mar 27.
Following an identical procedure to the one we previously reported (O'Donnell, Lowe, Brotherton, & Bennett, 2014), we examined ratings of sexual attraction to photographs of (the same) adolescent girls (Tanner stages 3-4) labelled as either 14-15 years or 16-17 years old, women, and men. Ratings were made by Bulgarian heterosexual men by pressing buttons on a response box which recorded the ratings made and the time in milliseconds taken to respond. Despite the age of sexual consent in Bulgaria being 14 years, the pattern of findings did not differ from those found in the UK, where the age of consent is 16 years. That is, mean ratings of the sexual attractiveness of the girls labelled as younger were lower than those of the (same) girls labelled as older, and those of the women. In addition, correlations revealed significantly longer responding times when younger girls (and men) were rated as more highly sexually attractive. These associations were reversed in response to the photographs of women. We take these findings to indicate an inhibitory effect arising from generalized sexual norms relating to the inappropriateness of sexual attraction to young girls; the greater the attraction, the higher the inhibition. This second replication of our initial findings suggests a robust effect that may be of benefit in exploration of pedophile or sex offender groups.
按照我们之前报告过的相同程序（奥唐纳、洛、布拉泽顿和贝内特，2014年），我们考察了保加利亚异性恋男性对标注为14 - 15岁或16 - 17岁的（相同）青春期女孩（坦纳3 - 4期）、成年女性和成年男性照片的性吸引力评分。评分通过让保加利亚异性恋男性按下反应盒上的按钮来进行，反应盒会记录所做的评分以及做出反应所花费的毫秒数。尽管保加利亚的性同意年龄为14岁，但研究结果的模式与在英国（性同意年龄为16岁）的研究结果并无差异。也就是说，标注为较年轻的女孩的性吸引力平均评分低于标注为较年长的（相同）女孩以及成年女性的评分。此外，相关性显示，当较年轻的女孩（和成年男性）被评为具有更高的性吸引力时，反应时间显著更长。而对于成年女性照片的反应，这些关联则相反。我们认为这些发现表明，与对年轻女孩产生性吸引力的不适当性相关的普遍存在的性规范产生了一种抑制作用；吸引力越大，抑制作用越强。我们最初研究结果的这第二次重复表明了一种强有力的效应，这可能有助于对恋童癖者或性犯罪者群体的研究。
