Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
J Sex Med. 2019 Feb;16(2):195-202. doi: 10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.12.003.
Vision of the human body has been shown to be key in eliciting sexual desire. However, whether the visual pattern characterizing sexual desire is different in women and men is still unclear.
To investigate the effect of gender on visual patterns triggered by an identical set of stimuli depicting attractive heterosexual couples.
Heterosexual women and men (n = 106) were tested on a picture-viewing task associated with eye tracking. The context of sexual desire was activated by asking the participant whether they perceived such desire while looking at sensual pictures of heterosexual couples. Data were analyzed using mixed-subject design analyses of variance.
Fixation durations were used to investigate visual patterns. 2 areas of interest were created to investigate visual patterns (face vs body area).
Results showed longer fixations on body rather than face areas irrespective of participant gender. Moreover, all participants looked longer at women's than men's bodies and at the faces of the opposite sex.
These findings shed light on the automatic processes underlying sexual desire, which has the potential to improve the care of patients suffering from sexual disorders by optimizing interventions.
STRENGTHS & LIMITATIONS: The strengths of this study are the use of an eye-tracking paradigm, the dissociation between 2 fixation areas (ie, face and body), and the use of an identical set of stimuli allowing an accurate between-gender comparison of the visual pattern. The limitations are the small sample size, the use of healthy heterosexual individuals, and the absence of measures of sexual arousal and genital response.
These findings confirm the association between the human body and sexual desire. They also reveal the unique attentional attractiveness of woman's bodies across genders. Bolmont M, Bianchi-Demicheli F, Boisgontier MP, et al. The Woman's Body (Not the Man's One) Is Used to Evaluate Sexual Desire: An Eye-Tracking Study of Automatic Visual Attention. J Sex Med 2019;16:195-202.
人体视觉已被证明是激发性欲的关键。然而,女性和男性的性欲望视觉模式是否不同仍不清楚。
研究性别对描绘有吸引力的异性恋夫妇的相同刺激图片所引发的视觉模式的影响。
对 106 名异性恋女性和男性进行了图片观看任务和眼动跟踪测试。通过询问参与者在观看异性恋夫妇的感性图片时是否感觉到这种欲望,来激活性欲望的情境。使用混合主体设计方差分析来分析数据。
注视持续时间用于研究视觉模式。创建了 2 个感兴趣区域来研究视觉模式(面部与身体区域)。
结果表明,无论参与者的性别如何,他们对身体区域的注视时间都长于面部区域。此外,所有参与者都比男性更关注女性的身体和异性的面部。
这些发现揭示了性欲望背后的自动处理过程,这有可能通过优化干预措施来改善患有性障碍的患者的护理。
本研究的优势在于使用了眼动追踪范式,将 2 个注视区域(即面部和身体)分开,以及使用了相同的刺激集,从而能够准确地进行性别间的视觉模式比较。局限性是样本量小,使用了健康的异性恋个体,并且缺乏性唤起和生殖器反应的测量。
这些发现证实了人体与性欲望之间的联系。它们还揭示了女性身体对所有性别的独特吸引力。