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Sex Differences, Sex Experience, Sex Guilt, and Explicitly Sexual Films 1
Author(s) -
Mosher Donald L.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1973.tb00090.x
Subject(s) - sex organ , sexual arousal , psychology , sexual behavior , offensive , arousal , sexual intercourse , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , sex partners , anal sex , medicine , social psychology , condom , population , genetics , management , environmental health , syphilis , family medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , economics , biology
Two pornographic films portraying face‐to‐face intercourse and oral‐genital sex between the same couple were viewed by 194 single male and 183 single female undergraduates. The males were more aroused than the females by the film of oral‐genital sex. Females, high sex‐guilt subjects, and less sexually experienced subjects rated the films as more pornographic, disgusting, and offensive. High guilt subjects saw the oral‐genital sex as abnormal. Males reported more affective arousal indicative of general activation and approach tendencies, while women reported larger increases in negative affects after viewing the films.