a Departments of Psychology and Women's Studies , University of Michigan.
b Department of Psychology , Clark University.
J Sex Res. 2018 Oct;55(8):1077-1085. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2017.1402290. Epub 2017 Nov 30.
Sexuality research has generally privileged attractions based on partners' sexed physical bodies over attractions based on other features, including gender expression and personality traits. Gender may actually be quite central to sexual attractions. However, its role has received little empirical attention. To explore how gendered and sexed features, among others, are related to sexual attractions, the current study assessed how sexually diverse individuals described their attractions to feminine, masculine, and gender-nonspecific features of women and men. A sample of 280 individuals responded to the open-ended questions: "What do you find attractive in a man?" and "What do you find attractive in a woman?" We coded responses as pertaining to physical and/or psychological features, and as being gendered masculine, feminine, or gender-nonspecific. Our analyses showed that participants named gender-nonspecific features most frequently in responses to both questions, feminine features more than masculine features in attractions to women, and masculine features more than feminine features in attractions to men. Additionally, participants named feminine physical features more than masculine physical features, and masculine psychological features more than feminine psychological features, both in their attractions to women and overall. These results highlight the importance of considering attractions based on gender, rather than sex alone.
性研究通常优先考虑基于伴侣的性别身体特征的吸引力，而不是基于其他特征的吸引力，包括性别表达和个性特征。性别实际上可能对性吸引力相当重要。然而，它的作用很少受到实证关注。为了探索性别和性别特征如何与性吸引力相关，本研究评估了性多样化的个体如何描述他们对女性和男性的女性化、男性化和非性别特征的吸引力。我们对 280 名个体的开放性问题进行了评估：“你觉得男人有什么吸引力？”和“你觉得女人有什么吸引力？”我们将回复编码为与身体和/或心理特征有关，并被归为性别化的男性、女性或非性别化的特征。我们的分析表明，参与者在对这两个问题的回答中最频繁地提到非性别化的特征，在对女性的吸引力中，女性特征比男性特征多，而在对男性的吸引力中，男性特征比女性特征多。此外，参与者在对女性和整体的吸引力中，提到的女性身体特征多于男性身体特征，提到的男性心理特征多于女性心理特征。这些结果强调了考虑基于性别的吸引力的重要性，而不仅仅是基于性别的吸引力。
