Forensic Care Specialists, Oudlaan 9, 3515 GA, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Section Forensic Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Arch Sex Behav. 2022 Nov;51(8):3905-3918. doi: 10.1007/s10508-021-02235-x. Epub 2022 Apr 26.
Excitation transfer, the transfer of arousal from one emotion to another, might be a mechanism in the development of unusual sexual interests. In this pilot study, we investigated whether we could induce excitation transfer between various emotions and sexual arousal in a laboratory setting with 30 male volunteers. We induced low-level sexual arousal in four different emotional states (aggression/dominance, endearment, fear, disgust) and a neutral state. Sexual arousal was measured using penile plethysmography and self-report. Although there was no mean group effect, possibly due to large interindividual variations, 60% of the subjects showed more sexual arousal in response to sexual stimulation in at least one of the emotional states than in the neutral state. Excitation transfer was most prominent with aggression/dominance and least prominent with disgust. Genital excitation transfer was strongly related to lower penile reactivity and to higher self-reported erotophilia. This pilot study paves the way for further research into excitation transfer as a mechanism to increase the salience of stimuli that otherwise would not have been sexual in nature.
兴奋转移，即从一种情绪到另一种情绪的唤醒转移，可能是形成异常性兴趣的一种机制。在这项初步研究中，我们调查了在实验室环境下是否可以通过 30 名男性志愿者在四种不同的情绪状态（攻击/支配、喜爱、恐惧、厌恶）和中性状态下引起兴奋转移和性唤起。我们使用阴茎体积描记法和自我报告来测量性唤起。尽管由于个体间的巨大差异，没有出现平均的组间效应，但有 60%的受试者在至少一种情绪状态下对性刺激的反应比中性状态下表现出更多的性唤起。兴奋转移在攻击/支配时最为明显，在厌恶时最为不明显。生殖器兴奋转移与较低的阴茎反应性和较高的自我报告的色情癖呈强相关。这项初步研究为进一步研究兴奋转移作为一种机制铺平了道路，这种机制可以增加原本不会引起性兴奋的刺激的显著性。
