caa a22 4500 606231153 CHVBK 20210128101218.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0349-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0349-4 Disgust and Sexual Arousal in Young Adult Men and Women [Elektronische Daten] [Andrea Grauvogl, Peter de Jong, Madelon Peters, Silvia Evers, Mark van Overveld, Jacques van Lankveld] Previous research suggested that disgust may interfere with healthy sexual functioning by demonstrating that women with sexual pain disorders are characterized by heightened disgust propensity, relatively strong (physiological and subjective) disgust responses when exposed to sexual stimuli, and relatively strong automatic sex-disgust memory associations. To broaden the understanding of the relationship between sex and disgust, Study 1 tested the relationship between trait disgust and sexual functioning in both men (N=109) and women (N=187), and showed that specifically for women both relatively high disgust propensity and high sensitivity were related to lower sexual functioning. Study 2 focused on healthy young adults (N=19 men and N=24 women), and tested the relationship between trait disgust and automatic sex-disgust associations as well as the predictive value of trait disgust propensity for participants' level of sexual arousal while watching an erotic video. Participants completed a single-target Implicit Association Task and self-report measures of trait disgust propensity, disgust sensitivity, and sexual functioning. Furthermore, genital and subjective sexual arousal was measured, while participants were watching neutral and erotic video clips. Women showed stronger sex-disgust associations and reported higher disgust propensity than men. Overall, indices of trait disgust and sex-disgust associations were not strongly associated with sexual functioning or sexual arousability. Unexpectedly, specifically in men, high levels of trait disgust sensitivity predicted higher levels of genital and subjective sexual arousal. Overall, no strong evidence was found to support the view that, among young adults without sexual difficulties, high trait disgust or relatively strong automatic sex-disgust associations are associated with low sexual functioning and low sexual arousal. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Sexual arousal nationallicence Disgust nationallicence Young adults nationallicence Implicit measures nationallicence Explicit measures nationallicence Grauvogl Andrea Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200, MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands aut de Jong Peter Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands aut Peters Madelon Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200, MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands aut Evers Silvia Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands aut van Overveld Mark Rotterdam School of Management, University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut van Lankveld Jacques Faculty of Psychology, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/6(2015-08-01), 1515-1525 0004-0002 44:6<1515 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0349-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0349-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Grauvogl Andrea Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200, MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- de Jong Peter Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Peters Madelon Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, PO Box 616, 6200, MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Evers Silvia Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van Overveld Mark Rotterdam School of Management, University of Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van Lankveld Jacques Faculty of Psychology, Open University of the Netherlands, Heerlen, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/6(2015-08-01), 1515-1525 0004-0002 44:6<1515 2015 44 10508