caa a22 4500 606232044 CHVBK 20210128101224.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-015-0504-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-015-0504-6 Heterosexual Men's Ratings of Sexual Attractiveness of Adolescent Girls: A Cross-Cultural Analysis [Elektronische Daten] [Paul Bennett, Rob Lowe, Hristina Petrova] Following an identical procedure to the one we previously reported (O'Donnell, Lowe, Brotherton, & Bennett, 2014), we examined ratings of sexual attraction to photographs of (the same) adolescent girls (Tanner stages 3-4) labelled as either 14-15years or 16-17years old, women, and men. Ratings were made by Bulgarian heterosexual men by pressing buttons on a response box which recorded the ratings made and the time in milliseconds taken to respond. Despite the age of sexual consent in Bulgaria being 14years, the pattern of findings did not differ from those found in the UK, where the age of consent is 16years. That is, mean ratings of the sexual attractiveness of the girls labelled as younger were lower than those of the (same) girls labelled as older, and those of the women. In addition, correlations revealed significantly longer responding times when younger girls (and men) were rated as more highly sexually attractive. These associations were reversed in response to the photographs of women. We take these findings to indicate an inhibitory effect arising from generalized sexual norms relating to the inappropriateness of sexual attraction to young girls; the greater the attraction, the higher the inhibition. This second replication of our initial findings suggests a robust effect that may be of benefit in exploration of pedophile or sex offender groups. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Sexual attraction nationallicence Legal age of consent nationallicence Adolescent girls nationallicence Women nationallicence Heterosexual men nationallicence Sexual norms nationallicence Legal norms nationallicence Bennett Paul Department of Psychology, University of Swansea, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Swansea, UK aut Lowe Rob Department of Psychology, University of Swansea, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Swansea, UK aut Petrova Hristina Department of Psychology, University of Swansea, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Swansea, UK aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/8(2015-11-01), 2201-2206 0004-0002 44:8<2201 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0504-6 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/s10508-015-0504-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bennett Paul Department of Psychology, University of Swansea, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Swansea, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lowe Rob Department of Psychology, University of Swansea, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Swansea, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Petrova Hristina Department of Psychology, University of Swansea, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Swansea, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/8(2015-11-01), 2201-2206 0004-0002 44:8<2201 2015 44 10508