So, today I got to tour the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
(Yes, *that* Kinsey...)
As you can imagine, being the very epicenter of the intellectual analysis of all things perverted, Kinsey has a little something for everybody. And I do mean, everybody. Including two recent studies on sexual aggression.
Picture below.
The poster was so big that I had to take several shots and stitch it together in Photoshop. There's a visible defect near the middle because of this. And RU may resize it too small to be legible. The crux of that study is that they took heterosexual men with varying histories of sexual aggression and showing them pictures of a straight couple having sex, with some deliberately showing the woman enjoying herself, and others deliberately ambiguous in her facial expression. They then plotted correlations in how the test subjects interpreted the woman's experience, based on demographics, the subject's arousal from the pictures, their history of sexual aggression, and the extent of their hypermasculine attitudes.
All subjects, aggressive or not, demonstrated that they could distinguish the enjoyment photos from the ambiguous photos.
Men with a either a history of aggression or a high hypermasculine index were more aroused by the ambiguous photos than the men without such history.
Those with a high hypermasculine index were more likely to determine that the ambiguous photos were enjoyable for the woman.
The paper is another study, that purports to find that sexually aggressive men are more prone to other risky behaviors and less likely to wear condoms, placing them at increased HIV risk.
