Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-t7czq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-01T01:48:59.587Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Responses to Erotic Stimuli of Transsexual and Homosexual Males

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. F. Barr*
Affiliation:
New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry, School of Psychiatry, Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay, New South Wales, 2036, Australia

Extract

The aim of the study was to determine whether transsexual and homosexual males differ in their autonomic responses to erotic film sequences.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1973 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Bancroft, J., and Mathews, A. (1971). ‘Autonomic correlates of penile erection.Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 15, 159–67.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Barr, R. F., and McConaghy, N. (1971). ‘Penile volume responses to appetitive and aversive stimuli in relation to sexual orientation and conditioning performance.British Journal of Psychiatry, 119, 377–63.Google Scholar
Colette, D. C. (1970). Unpublished Masters' thesis. School of Psychology, University of New South Wales.Google Scholar
Davis, R. C, and Buchwald, A. M. (1957). ‘An exploration of somatic response patterns: stimulus and sex differences.Journal of Comparative Psychology, 50, 4452.Google Scholar
Freund, K. (1963). ‘A laboratory method for diagnosing predominance of homo- and hetero-erotic interest in the male.Behaviour Research and Therapy, 3, 229–34.Google Scholar
Freund, K. (1967). ‘Diagnosing homo- and heterosexuality and erotic age preference by means of a psycho-physiological test.Behaviour Research and Therapy, 5, 209–28.Google Scholar
Loislle, R. H., and Mollenauer, S. (1965). ‘Galvanic skin responses to sexual stimuli in a female population.Journal of Genetic Psychology, 73, 273–8.Google Scholar
McConaghy, N. (1967). ‘Penile volume change to moving pictures of male and female nudes in heterosexual and homosexual males.Behaviour Research and Therapy, 5, 43–8.Google Scholar
Roth, M., and Ball, J. R. B. (1964). ‘Psychiatric aspects of intersexuality’, in Intersexuality (eds. Armstrong, C. N., and Marshall, A. J.). London: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Siegel, S. (1956). Non-parametric Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences. New York: McGraw-Hill.Google Scholar
Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.