Agreement of self-reported and genital measures of sexual arousal in men and women: a meta-analysis.

Chivers, Meredith L.; Seto, Michael C.; Lalumière, Martin L.; Laan, Ellen; Grimbos, Teresa

doi:10.1007/s10508-009-9556-9

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Agreement of self-reported and genital measures of sexual arousal in men and women: a meta-analysis.

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Chivers, Meredith L., Seto, Michael C., Lalumière, Martin L., Laan, Ellen, Grimbos, Teresa·2010·Archives of Sexual Behavior

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The assessment of sexual arousal in men and women informs theoretical studies of human sexuality and provides a method to assess and evaluate the treatment of sexual dysfunctions and paraphilias. Understanding measures of arousal is, therefore, paramount to further theoretical and practical advances in the study of human sexuality. In this meta-analysis, we review research to quantify the extent of agreement between self-reported and genital measures of sexual arousal, to determine if there is a gender difference in this agreement, and to identify theoretical and methodological moderators of subjective-genital agreement. We identified 132 peer- or academically-reviewed laboratory studies published between 1969 and 2007 reporting a correlation between self-reported and genital measures of sexual arousal, with total sample sizes of 2,505 women and 1,918 men. There was a statistically significant gender difference in the agreement between self-reported and genital measures, with men (r = .66) showing a greater degree of agreement than women (r = .26). Two methodological moderators of the gender difference in subjective-genital agreement were identified: stimulus variability and timing of the assessment of self-reported sexual arousal. The results have implications for assessment of sexual arousal, the nature of gender differences in sexual arousal, and models of sexual response.

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Effects of Sexual Arousal on Genital and Non-Genital Sensation: A Comparison of Women with Vulvar Vestibulitis Syndrome and Healthy Controls
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Warrior Lovers : Erotic Fiction, Evolution and Female Sexuality
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“…can be calculated two ways— within-subjects correlations representing the number of measurements of concordance taken for each participant or betweensubjects correlations representing the number of subjects in the study—we examined number of data points separately for each type of correlation.”
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“both groups reported higher correlations for sexually functional women (Brauer, Laan, & ter Kuile, 2006; Brauer, ter Kuile, Janssen, & Laan, 2007; Meston, 2006; Palace & Gorzalka, 1992; Payne et al., 2007; Wouda et al., 1998); three studies reported a negative correlation between subjective and genital arousal for sex…”
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“Still photographs of nude or partially clothed women or men do not generate either self-reported or genital sexual arousal in heterosexual women (Laan & Everaerd, 1995a, 1995b), but are sufficient to generate substantial subjective and genital responses in heterosexual men (Tollison, Adams, &…”
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Vaginal photoplethysmography: Methodological considerations
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“…can be calculated two ways— within-subjects correlations representing the number of measurements of concordance taken for each participant or betweensubjects correlations representing the number of subjects in the study—we examined number of data points separately for each type of correlation.”
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Subjective and Penile Plethysmograph Responses Following Aversion-Relief and Apomorphine Aversion Therapy for Homosexual Impulses
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Sexual arousal across phases of the human menstrual cycle
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“NoconsistentevidenceformenstrualcycleeffectsonVPA has been observed (Hoon, Bruce, & Kinchloe, 1982; Meuwissen & Over, 1992; Schreiner-Engel et al., 1981).”
Habituation and dishabituation of female sexual arousal
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The effects of attentional focus and partner arousal on sexual responding in functional and dysfunctional men
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A method for empirically assessing volunteer selection effects: Recruitment procedures and responses to erotica.
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The Effects of Yohimbine Plus L-arginine Glutamate on Sexual Arousal in Postmenopausal Women with Sexual Arousal Disorder
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Shock Threat and Sexual Arousal: The Role of Selective Attention, Thought Content, and Affective States
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Effects of sex guilt, repression, sexual "arousability," and sexual experience on female sexual arousal during erotica and fantasy.
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“Sample Characteristics”
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Male sexual arousal across five modes of erotic stimulation
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The Effects of Increasing Neutral Distraction on Sexual Responding of Women With and Without Sexual Problems
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Janssen, E., & Everaerd, W. T. A. M. (1993) · Annual Review of Sex Research · doi:10.1080/10532528.1993.10559888 · Cited by 72 · cited 1× · see citing works
“Some men report feeling sexual arousal without concomitant genital changes (Rieger, Chivers, & Bailey, 2005) and experimental manipulations can increase penile erection without affecting subjective reports of sexual arousal (Bach, Brown, & Barlow, 1999; Janssen & Everaerd, 1993).”
Preliminary evidence that acute and chronic daily psychological stress affect sexual arousal in sexually functional women
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Assessment of erectogenic properties of apomorphine and yohimbine in man.
Danjou, P., Alexandre, L., Warot, D., Lacomblez, L., & Puech, A. J. (1988) · British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2125.1988.tb05312.x · Cited by 71 · see citing works
A comparison of male heterosexual and male homosexual patterns of sexual arousal
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“…adults, fetishists from nonfetishists, rapists from nonrapists, and sadistic men from nonsadistic men (e.g., Blanchard, Klassen, Dickey, Kuban & Blak, 2001; Freund, 1963; Freund, Seto, & Kuban, 1996; Lalumière, Quinsey, Harris, Rice, & Trautrimas, 2003; Sakheim et al., 1985; Seto & Kuban, 1996).”
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The effects of anxiety and attentional focus on sexual responding—I
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Responses to Complex Erotic Stimuli in Homosexual and Heterosexual Males
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Conscious Processing of Sexual Information: Mechanisms of Appraisal
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Effects of distraction on sexual responding in functional and dysfunctional men
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“Some men report feeling sexual arousal without concomitant genital changes (Rieger, Chivers, & Bailey, 2005) and experimental manipulations can increase penile erection without affecting subjective reports of sexual arousal (Bach, Brown, & Barlow, 1999; Janssen & Everaerd, 1993).”
Are Rapists Differentially Aroused by Coercive Sex in Phallometric Assessments?
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Menstrual cycle phase and sexual arousability in women
Slob, A. K., Ernste, M., & ten Bosch, J. J. V. D. W. (1991) · Archives of Sexual Behavior · doi:10.1007/bf01550955 · Cited by 68 · cited 3× · see citing works
“…and sexual arousal; plethy* and (subjective or self-report*); plethy* and sexual arousal; photoplethy*; penile and (subjective or self-report); penile and sexual arousal; phallom* and (subjective or self-report); phallo* and sexual arousal; subjective and (physiolog* or psychophysiolog*); and…”
Psychosexual Factors That Differentiate Men with Inhibited Ejaculation from Men with No Dysfunction or Another Sexual Dysfunction
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Effects of fragrance on female sexual arousal and mood across the menstrual cycle
Graham, C. A., Janssen, E., & Sanders, S. A. (2000) · Psychophysiology · doi:10.1111/1469-8986.3710076 · Cited by 66 · see citing works
Women’s Sexual Responses to Heterosexual and Lesbian Erotica: The Role of Stimulus Intensity, Affective Reaction, and Sexual History
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Alcohol and erectile response: The effects of high dosage in the context of demands to maximize sexual arousal.
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Intercourse Orgasm Consistency, Concordance of Women's Genital and Subjective Sexual Arousal, and Erotic Stimulus Presentation Sequence
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The neurophysiology of female sexual function
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“These results suggest that personswithhigher interoceptiveawarenessaremoresensitive to cues of sympathetic nervous system arousal, a key autonomic component of sexual arousal (McKenna, 2002).”
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Criterion-related validity of a phallometric test for paraphilic rape and sadism
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“…adults, fetishists from nonfetishists, rapists from nonrapists, and sadistic men from nonsadistic men (e.g., Blanchard, Klassen, Dickey, Kuban & Blak, 2001; Freund, 1963; Freund, Seto, & Kuban, 1996; Lalumière, Quinsey, Harris, Rice, & Trautrimas, 2003; Sakheim et al., 1985; Seto & Kuban, 1996).”
Body image and sexuality in oophorectomized women
Bellerose, S. B., & Binik, Y. M. (1993) · Archives of Sexual Behavior · doi:10.1007/bf01542558 · Cited by 63 · see citing works
Sexual arousal to erotic and aggressive stimuli in sexually coercive and noncoercive men.
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Distinguishing between organogenic and psychogenic erectile dysfunction
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The Relationship Between Sexual Arousal Experience and Genital Response
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Determinants of sexual arousal and the accuracy of its self‐estimation in sexually functional males
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“Some authors reportchange inVPAasapercent increaseoverbaseline (Both et al., 2004; Heiman, 1977), sometimes called the‘‘maximum change technique’’ (Rellini & Meston, 2006).”
Temperature change of the labia minora as an objective measure of female eroticism
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Henson, C., Rubin, H. B., & Henson, D. E. (1979) · Archives of Sexual Behavior · doi:10.1007/bf01541413 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
A comparison of two objective measures of sexual arousal of women
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Effects of demand for performance, self-monitoring of arousal, and increased sympathetic nervous system activity on male erectile response
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Cognitive and physiological indices of sexual arousal in homosexual, bisexual, and heterosexual males
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The mediating role of cognitive processes in self-reported sexual arousal
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Sexually aggressive and nonaggressive men: Sexual arousal and judgments in response to acquaintance rape and consensual analogues.
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Authors: Chivers, M. L., Seto, M. C., Lalumière, M. L., Laan, E., & Grimbos, T.
Affiliations: Queen's University (CA)
Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (CA)
University of Lethbridge (CA)
Amsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam (NL)
University of Toronto (CA)
Corresponding author: Chivers, Meredith L.
ORCID: Chivers, Meredith L.
Seto, Michael C.
Lalumière, Martin L.
Laan, Ellen
Venue: Archives of Sexual Behavior
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2010-01-05
Volume: 39
Issue: 1
Pages: 5-56
ISSN: 0004-0002 (ISSN-L)
1573-2800
DOI: 10.1007/s10508-009-9556-9
PMC: PMC2811244
OpenAlex: W2054026797
Cited by: 584
References: 225
Citations by year: 2026: 12 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 40 · 2021: 40 · 2020: 42 · 2019: 46 · 2018: 29 · 2017: 45 · 2016: 42 · 2015: 41 · 2014: 38 · 2013: 52 · 2012: 34
FWCI: 5.76
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: hybrid
doi.org
Licence: cc-by-nc
Locations: Archives of Sexual Behavior (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (publishedVersion)
Pure Amsterdam UMC (publishedVersion)
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Funders: Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Sexual function and dysfunction studies
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Keywords: sexual arousal, gender differences, stimulus variability, sexual dysfunction assessment, paraphilias
MeSH terms: Female, Humans, Male, Self-Assessment, Sexual Behavior, Sex Characteristics

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