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Responses to Complex Erotic Stimuli in Homosexual and Heterosexual Males

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Matig Mavissakalian ,
Edward B. Blanchard ,
Gene G. Abel  and
David H. Barlow
Matig Mavissakalian*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, U.S.A.
Edward B. Blanchard
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, U.S.A.
Gene G. Abel
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, U.S.A.
David H. Barlow
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi 39216, U.S.A.
*
∗To whom requests for reprints should be addressed.
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The technique of measuring penile erection is the most valid assessment of sexual arousal in males (Zuckerman, 1971). The stimuli used during assessments of sexual preference with this technique have for the most part, been still or moving pictures of nude single females and males (Freund, 1963; McConaghy, 1967; Barlow, Becker, Leitenberg and Agras, 1970). Recently Abel, Barlow, Blanchard and Mavissakalian (in press) have shown that erotic films produce significantly greater penile circumference changes than either slides or audiotaped descriptions in homosexual males. Similarly, Sandford (1974) showed the superiority of films over slides in heterosexual males and suggested that sexual activity rather than nakedness per se may be the more important in producing sexual arousal. The main purpose of this study was to determine what sexual activities produce significantly different sexual responses in homosexual and heterosexual males.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 126 , Issue 3 , March 1975 , pp. 252 - 257
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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Footnotes

∗

This research was supported in part by Research Grant MH-20258 from the National Institute of Mental Health.

A synopsis of this paper was published in the October 1974 Journal.

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