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Article: Thermal Imaging as a Physiological Measure of Sexual Arousal in Men.(study)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Thermal Imaging as a Physiological Measure of Sexual Arousal in Men, Tuuli M. Kukkonen, Yitchak M. Binik, and Serge Cartier, McGill University
Recent technological advances in thermal imaging have made it possible to monitor genital temperature unobtrusively and reliably under conditions of sexual arousal. We evaluated whether thermal imaging can be used as a tool to measure physiological sexual arousal in men. Twenty-eight healthy men viewed a neutral film clip after which they were randomly assigned to view one of three videos: another neutral (n = 9), a humor (n = 9), or a sexually explicit film (n = 10). Penile temperature was remotely recorded during the ...