Assessing the Relationship Between Sexual Concordance, Sexual Attractions, and Sexual Identity in Women

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• 作者：Kelly D. Suschinsky ; Samantha J. Dawson ; Meredith L. Chivers
• 关键词：Sexual concordance ; Sexual orientation ; Vaginal photoplethysmography ; Self ; reported sexual arousal ; Sexual attractions ; Sexual identity ; Multi ; level modeling
• 刊名：Archives of Sexual Behavior
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：46
• 期：1
• 页码：179-192
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• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Sexual Behavior; Public Health; Social Sciences, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1573-2800
• 卷排序：46

文摘

On average, there is a gender difference in sexual concordance, with men exhibiting greater agreement between genital and self-reported sexual arousal, relative to women. Much less is known about the substantial variation in women’s sexual concordance; women’s genital and self-reported sexual responses may correlate strongly and positively, not at all, or even strongly negatively. The within-gender variation in sexual concordance suggests that individual differences may be related to sexual concordance. We examined whether sexual concordance varies as a function of sexual orientation (based on self-reported sexual attractions and sexual identity labels) in a sample (N = 76) that included exclusively androphilic, predominantly androphilic, ambiphilic, and predominantly/exclusively gynephilic women. Participants viewed sexual and nonsexual stimuli that varied by actor gender while their vaginal vasocongestion and subjective sexual responses were measured. Women’s sexual concordance varied as a function of their sexual attractions; women with any degree of gynephilia exhibited higher sexual concordance than exclusively androphilic women across a variety of sexual concordance measures, and these effects were demonstrated using correlation and multi-level modeling analyses. Only sexual concordance based on overall feelings of arousal varied by sexual identity, with heterosexual women exhibiting the lowest sexual concordance. Stimulus gender significantly influenced sexual concordance for most groups of women: Ambiphilic and predominantly/exclusively gynephilic women exhibited greater sexual concordance to female stimuli and exclusively androphilic women exhibited greater sexual concordance to male stimuli. These findings suggest that sexual orientation (particularly one’s degree of gynephilia) may explain some of the within-gender variation seen in women’s sexual concordance.