Department of Psychology, Queen's University, 62 Arch Street, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada.
Substance Use and Concurrent Disorders Program, The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Arch Sex Behav. 2020 Jul;49(5):1517-1532. doi: 10.1007/s10508-020-01737-4. Epub 2020 Jun 5.
Sexual concordance-the agreement between physiological (genital) and psychological (emotional) sexual arousal-is, on average, substantially lower in women than men. Following social role theory, the gender difference in sexual concordance may manifest because women and men are responding in a way that accommodates gender norms. We examined genital and self-reported sexual arousal in 47 women and 50 men using a condition known to discourage conformity to gender norms (i.e., a bogus pipeline paradigm). Participants reported their feelings of sexual arousal during a sexually explicit film, while their genital arousal (penile circumference, vaginal vasocongestion), heart rate (HR), and galvanic skin (GS) responses were recorded. Half of the participants were instructed that their self-reported sexual arousal was being monitored for veracity using their HR and GS responses (bogus pipeline condition; BPC); the remaining participants were told that these responses were recorded for a comprehensive record of sexual response (typical testing condition; TTC). Using multi-level modeling, we found that only women's sexual concordance was affected by testing condition; women in the BPC exhibited significantly higher sexual concordance than those in the TTC. Thus, we provide the first evidence that the gender difference in sexual concordance may at least partially result from social factors.
性一致性——即生理（生殖器）和心理（情感）性唤起之间的一致性——在女性中平均明显低于男性。根据社会角色理论，性一致性的性别差异可能表现为女性和男性的反应方式符合性别规范。我们使用一种已知不鼓励符合性别规范的条件（即虚假管道范式），对 47 名女性和 50 名男性进行了生殖器和自我报告的性唤起研究。参与者在观看色情电影时报告他们的性唤起感，同时记录他们的生殖器唤起（阴茎周长、阴道血管充血）、心率（HR）和皮肤电（GS）反应。一半的参与者被指示使用他们的 HR 和 GS 反应来监测他们自我报告的性唤起的真实性（虚假管道条件；BPC）；其余参与者被告知这些反应是为了全面记录性反应而记录的（典型测试条件；TTC）。使用多层次建模，我们发现只有女性的性一致性受到测试条件的影响；在 BPC 中的女性表现出明显更高的性一致性，而在 TTC 中的女性则没有。因此，我们提供了第一个证据表明，性一致性的性别差异至少部分是由社会因素造成的。
