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The relation between sexual interest and personality characteristics in men: an eye-tracking study

International Journal of Impotence Research volume 22, pages 185–189 (2010)Cite this article

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There is a large individual deviation for men, which may be caused by a difference in personality characteristics, in sexual interest in response to sexual stimuli. In this study, we investigate whether attention to the sexual region in a video depends on the personality characteristics of men, assessing this with an eye-tracking system. The study included 30 healthy males with a normal psychological state, who viewed a sexual video in which the sexual region had been designated. Visual attention was measured across the designated region according to gaze duration. Ten types of personality characteristics were evaluated as a T-score by a questionnaire. By Pearson’s correlation coefficient, the relations between gaze duration at the sexual region and T-scores of paranoia, psychasthenia and social introversion were found to be statistically significant. By multivariate stepwise regression analysis, only social introversion was negatively associated with the sexual region. Even normal variation of personality characteristics can affect the viewing period of the sexual region. This is the first report showing that subjects with a high degree of paranoia, psychasthenia and particularly social introversion have a tendency to view the sexual region for a shorter duration.

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  1. Department of Urology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan

    A Tsujimura, Y Miyagawa, S Takada, A Nagahara, Y Matsuoka, T Takao, J Nakayama, N Nonomura & A Okuyama

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Tsujimura, A., Miyagawa, Y., Takada, S. et al. The relation between sexual interest and personality characteristics in men: an eye-tracking study. Int J Impot Res 22, 185–189 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ijir.2009.61

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