Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga.
Child and Youth Psychiatry, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
J Sex Res. 2021 Jan;58(1):116-121. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2020.1742858. Epub 2020 Apr 2.
refers to sexual attraction toward adult males. Androphilic males' female genetic relatives might offset the fitness cost of androphilia by having elevated numbers of offspring. Increased attractiveness relative to other women may enable these females to marry up the social hierarchy, providing greater access to resources to support more offspring. In Thailand, there is a marked status hierarchy and male androphiles are highly visible - identifying as gay men or as a third gender known as . Thus, a field experiment was conducted in which 208 heterosexual men rated the facial attractiveness of 25 sisters of Thai gay men or and 25 comparison women with no known same-sex attracted relatives. Contrary to the prediction, the comparison group was rated as more attractive than the sisters, casting doubt on hypotheses that posit greater attractiveness of female relatives of male androphiles as a proximate mechanism facilitating the evolutionary maintenance of genes influencing male androphilia. Also, men from rural areas rated the women, regardless of group, as more attractive than men from urban areas, consistent with some prior studies showing rural-urban differences in perceptions of attractiveness.
指对成年男性的性吸引。具有男性性欲的男性的女性遗传亲属，可能会通过拥有更多的后代来抵消男性性欲的适应成本。与其他女性相比，更高的吸引力可能使这些女性在社会等级中上升，获得更多的资源来支持更多的后代。在泰国，存在明显的地位等级制度，男性性欲者非常显眼——他们自称为同性恋者或被称为“第三性”。因此，进行了一项现场实验，其中 208 名异性恋男性对 25 名泰国同性恋男性或第三性的姐妹以及 25 名没有已知同性吸引亲属的对照组女性的面部吸引力进行了评价。与预测相反，对照组被评为更有吸引力，这对假设提出了质疑，即男性性欲者的女性亲属更具吸引力是促进影响男性性欲的基因进化维持的近因机制。此外，来自农村地区的男性无论组别如何，都比来自城市地区的男性评价女性更有吸引力，这与一些先前的研究表明，在吸引力的认知上存在城乡差异一致。
