Timmers Amanda D, Blumenstock Shari M, DeBruine Lisa, Chivers Meredith L
Psychology Department, Queen's University.
School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Glasgow.
J Sex Res. 2025 May-Jun;62(5):903-918. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2023.2284346. Epub 2023 Dec 21.
Previously documented sexual response patterns of gender-specificity among gynephilic men and gender-nonspecificity among gynephilic women could be explained by women responding more strongly to non-gendered aspects of sexual stimuli. Cues of attractiveness are known determinants of sexual decision-making, yet have not been directly tested as determinants of sexual response. The current study investigated the role of attractiveness cues in explaining gender-based patterns of sexual response. Thirty-one gynephilic men and 60 androphilic women were presented slideshows of images depicting individual nude men and women that were pre-rated in a pilot study as either attractive or unattractive. The men and women were posed with legs spread and aroused genitals displayed prominently. Images were isolated against a white background and included minimal contextual information. Three sexual responses - genital arousal (via photoplethysmographs), self-reported arousal, and visual attention (via eye-tracking) - were recorded continuously. Across all three response modalities, men's and women's responses were stronger for the attractive versus unattractive images and for their preferred versus non-preferred gender. For men's arousal and women's self-reported arousal, the effect of attractiveness was stronger for their preferred versus non-preferred gender. Thus, both men and women demonstrated preference-specific patterns of sexual response. Gender cues had the strongest effect on men's visual attention, whereas attractiveness cues had the strongest effect on women's visual attention. Findings establish the importance of target attractiveness in arousal to sexual stimuli and add to mounting evidence that androphilic women's sexual responses are sensitive to gender, but may be more sensitive to non-gendered features of sexual stimuli.
先前记录的异性恋男性中特定性别的性反应模式以及异性恋女性中无特定性别的性反应模式，可以解释为女性对性刺激的非性别化方面反应更强。吸引力线索是已知的性决策决定因素，但尚未作为性反应的决定因素进行直接测试。当前的研究调查了吸引力线索在解释基于性别的性反应模式中的作用。向31名异性恋男性和60名同性恋女性展示了幻灯片，其中的图片描绘了单独的裸体男性和女性，这些图片在一项初步研究中被预先评定为有吸引力或无吸引力。男性和女性的姿势都是双腿分开，突出显示勃起的生殖器。图片以白色为背景进行隔离，包含的背景信息极少。连续记录了三种性反应——生殖器唤醒（通过光体积描记法）、自我报告的唤醒和视觉注意力（通过眼动追踪）。在所有三种反应方式中，男性和女性对有吸引力的图片与无吸引力的图片以及对他们偏好的性别与非偏好的性别的反应更强。对于男性的唤醒和女性自我报告的唤醒，吸引力对他们偏好的性别与非偏好的性别的影响更强。因此，男性和女性都表现出了特定偏好的性反应模式。性别线索对男性的视觉注意力影响最强，而吸引力线索对女性的视觉注意力影响最强。研究结果确立了目标吸引力在对性刺激的唤醒中的重要性，并进一步证明了同性恋女性的性反应对性别敏感，但可能对性刺激的非性别化特征更敏感。
