Comments on: Human Sexuality and How Questionnaires Can Fail http://evolvingmind.info/blog/2010/02/sexuality-and-how-questionnaires-can-fail/ driven by curiosity, guided by rationality Thu, 10 May 2012 20:14:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: anon http://evolvingmind.info/blog/2010/02/sexuality-and-how-questionnaires-can-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-15700 anon Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:26:59 +0000 http://evolvingmind.info/blog/2010/02/sexuality-and-how-questionnaires-can-fail/#comment-15700 In my own experience I am psychologically easily aroused by pictures etc but physical arousal tends to be unattainable unless I'm in actual contact with another person. (It's really very annoying since I'm in a long-distance relationship!) So personally I am willing to believe that the subjects are not in fact wrong about themselves -- they're just not answering the question the researchers think they should be answering. For good measure I'll wave my hands and rationalize the result: Physical arousal in women serves the additional purpose of reducing injuries in the case of rape, so it makes sense for it to be triggered by a different set of stimuli than psychological arousal. In my own experience I am psychologically easily aroused by pictures etc but physical arousal tends to be unattainable unless I’m in actual contact with another person. (It’s really very annoying since I’m in a long-distance relationship!) So personally I am willing to believe that the subjects are not in fact wrong about themselves — they’re just not answering the question the researchers think they should be answering.

For good measure I’ll wave my hands and rationalize the result: Physical arousal in women serves the additional purpose of reducing injuries in the case of rape, so it makes sense for it to be triggered by a different set of stimuli than psychological arousal.

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