Lecture #7 Female Sexual Arousal

Question 1

what do we use for female vaginal arousal measurment?

Answer 1

Vaginal photoplethysmograph
-emits and detects light.
-The light source illuminates the capillary bed of the vaginal wall and the blood circulating within it.
-the vaginal pulse amplitude has been found to be reliable in assessing the increase in blood flow during sexual arousal

Question 2

Using a vaginal photoplethysmograph, how can we tell when a woman is unaroused?

Answer 2

There is a pink hue. (Less light gets picked up).

Question 3

Using a vaginal photoplethysmograph, how can we tell when a woman is aroused?

Answer 3

More light is refracted off of the pink wall of the vaginal wall and becomes a dark purple hue.
-Light reflects more when aroused.

Question 4

Is heterosexual women’s sexual arousal sex specific? (Is thier abilty to be turned on only done by a certain sex?)

Answer 4

NO! When looking at the graph, they abilty to get turned on by either men or women is vitually the same. So no, a hterosexual women’s sexual arousal is NOT SEX SPECIFIC!

Question 5

Are their sex differences between hetero men and hetero women in terms of sex specifity in genital arousal?

Answer 5

YES!
-Hetero men show a clear distinction on what turns them on. (Women obviously).
-Hetero women DO NOT show a sex specific preferences when looking at their objective genital arousal.

Question 6

Heterosexual women are genitally aroused when they see….

Answer 6

men or women
-Sex has to be the trigger because the sex of the actors DO NOT MATTER

Question 7

Is heterosexual women’s subjective sexual attraction sex specific?

Answer 7

Also NO! There is no difference in sexual feelings whether they view females or males.
-It is non-contingent! (Their feelings or arousal is not dependant on the viewing of one sex or another).

Question 8

Subjective sexual attraction for heterosexual females is….

Answer 8

Non-sex specifc!

Question 9

Subjective sexual attraction for heterosexual males is….

Answer 9

Sex specific!

Question 10

Sex specifity is present in…

Answer 10

heteromen but not hetero women!

Question 11

Non-sex specifity is present in….

Answer 11

heterowomen but not hetero men!

Question 12

Hetero sexual women’s subjective sexual feelings their objective genital arousal……

Answer 12

are NOT sexually concordant ! They seem to under report wheras their sexual arousal tells us they are more sexually interested than what they are telling us!

Question 13

Subjective sexual feelings in hetero sexual women is

Answer 13

Non sex specific!

Question 14

Although their sexual arousal and subjective feelings are incordant (dont align), hetero women both tend (very very small percentage higher) to like watching women (lesbians) having sex more than men.

Question 15

In addition to their favourite: (sex, no violence, and consent), hetero women are also vaginally aroused to…..

Answer 15

Non preffered sexual activities such as:
-sex, violence, consent.
-sex, violence, no consent.
-sex, no violence, no consent.

Question 16

What are the female sexual orientation differences between hetro women and homo (lesbian) women in terms of subjective sexual feelings?

Answer 16

Lesbians are more sex specific than heterosexual women in terms of subjective sexual attraction.

Question 17

Like heterosexual women, lesbian vaginal arousal is not sex specific
when shown

Answer 17

high intensity sexual stimuli

Question 18

Lesbians are more sex specific than heterosexual women in terms of vaginal arousal when shown

Answer 18

low intensity sexual stimuli

Question 19

Monosexuality?

Answer 19

Monosexuality is romantic or sexual attraction to members of one sex or gender only.

Question 20

What sexual combination is favoured most by heterosexual women

Answer 20

Sex, consent, no violence.

Question 21

Lesbians are more sex specific than heterosexual women in terms of vaginal arousal when shown..

Answer 21

low intensity sexual stimuli

Question 22

Although they have higher sex specificty than heterosexual women in terms of vaginal arousal, lesbians exhibit less sex specific genital arousal than…

Answer 22

monosexual men

Question 23

Lesbians are more vaginally aroused than they think by men! (Way more than they subjectively report).

Question 24

Refers to the degree to which two aspects of human sexual arousal (genital response and self-reported sexual arousal) correspond with each other.

Answer 24

Sexual concordance

Question 25

Do homosexual women and heterosexual women differ in sexual concordance?

Answer 25

So heterosexual women are sexually non concordant in general.

-Lesbians follow this trend when shown higher intensity stimlui. (They cant help but get horny even when they said they werent attracted subjectively). = sexually non concordant!

-However, when shown low intense sexual stimuli, lesbians are more sexually concordant. But not as sexually concordant as men! Men dont seem to lie about what their penises like!

Question 26

Lesbian genital arousal is shifted in a…

Answer 26

male typical direction!
They are not exactly like men but way more different than heterosexual women.

Question 27

FtM transexuals exhibit genital arousal patterns that are

Answer 27

intermediate between cisgender men and women

Question 28

In terms of genital arousal, lesbians are….

Answer 28

non-sex specific,when looking at high intensity sexual stimuli! (they get horny looking at males and females when their is high intensity).

Question 29

Two important measures for eye tracking?

Answer 29

1. Latency to first fixation (LFF)
   (automatic)
2. Controlled attention
   * Total fixation duration (TFD)
   * Total fixation count (TFC)

Question 30

LFF is not sex-specific in

Answer 30

exclusively androphilic and mostly androphilic/Kinsey 1
women

Question 31

LFF is sex specific in

Answer 31

ambiphilic women and exclusively gynephlic
women

Question 32

In ambiphilic women,
controlled attention is…

Answer 32

not sex specific, but we
would not expect it to be

Question 33

In monosexual (only attracted to one sex) women, controlled
attention is…

Answer 33

sex specific

Question 34

In all females, controlled
attention….

Answer 34

is concordant
with self-reported sexual
orientation
(What their eyes look at aligns with what thier declared sexual identity is).

Question 35

Female sexual orienting toward sexual stimuli appears to be less
coupled to automatic physiological processes compared to male
sexual orientation

Answer 35

Remeber !

Question 36

Female sexual orienting toward sexual stimuli has a relatively greater
cognitive component compared to male sexual orientation

Answer 36

remember

Question 37

Greater cognitive control in the sexual/reproductive realm may be
adaptive for heterosexual women because they risk incurring relatively
greater costs if they make poor sexual/reproductive decisions

Answer 37

remember

Question 38

Auomatic attention is primarily responsible for activating ____________ and controlled attention is more associated with ________________

Answer 38

physiological genital arousal and self reported or the conscious experiance of arousal.

Question 39

Enables measurement of the specific features attended to in the stimulus

Answer 39

controlled attention

Question 40

total time spent viewing an entire stimulus

Answer 40

viewing time

Question 41

controlled attentional proccesses may be more related to…

Answer 41

self reported experince of arousal.