Gormezano Aki M, Harris Emily A, Gauvin Stéphanie E M, Pinto Jude, van Anders Greg, van Anders Sari M
Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada.
Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Arch Sex Behav. 2022 Feb;51(2):1201-1219. doi: 10.1007/s10508-021-02202-6. Epub 2022 Feb 2.
Sexual orientation describes sexual interests, approaches, arousals, and attractions. People experience these interests and attractions in a number of contexts, including in-person sexuality, fantasy, and porn use, among others. The extent to which sexual orientation is divergent (branched) and/or overlapping (coincident) across these, however, is unclear. In the present study, a gender/sex and sexually diverse sample (N = 30; 15 gender/sex/ual minorities and 15 majorities) manipulated digital circles representing porn use, in-person sexuality, and fantasy on a tablet during in-person interviews. Participants used circle overlap to represent the degree of shared sexual interests across contexts and circle size to indicate the strength and/or number of sexual interests within contexts. Across multiple dimensions of sexual orientation (gender/sex, partner number, and action/behavior), we found evidence that sexual interests were both branched and coincident. These findings contribute to new understandings about the multifaceted nature of sexual orientations across contexts and provide a novel way to measure, conceptualize, and understand sexual orientation in context.
性取向描述了性兴趣、方式、唤起和吸引力。人们在多种情境中体验到这些兴趣和吸引力，包括亲身性行为、幻想以及观看色情内容等。然而，性取向在这些情境中呈现出何种程度的差异（分支）和/或重叠（重合）尚不清楚。在本研究中，一个性别/性取向多元的样本（N = 30；15名性别/性取向少数群体和15名多数群体）在面对面访谈期间，在平板电脑上操作代表观看色情内容、亲身性行为和幻想的数字圆圈。参与者用圆圈的重叠来表示不同情境下共享性兴趣的程度，用圆圈的大小来表示情境中性兴趣的强度和/或数量。在性取向的多个维度（性别/性、伴侣数量以及行为/行动）上，我们发现有证据表明性兴趣既存在分支又有重合。这些发现有助于对不同情境下性取向的多面性形成新的理解，并提供了一种在情境中测量、概念化和理解性取向的新方法。
