Correlational and experimental analyses of the relation between disgust and sexual arousal

Human pathogen avoidance adaptations

“…[44] Women who are sexually aroused report less disgust toward pathogen cues and behaviorally avoid cues to pathogens less (see also [45][46][47][48]) Kinship…”

Asexuality : A possible background and how it relates to autism and neurodiversity

“…More general evidence for the importance of disgust for sexual functioning, even if complex, has been presented (Andrews et al, 2015).…”

Disgust Trumps Lust: Women’s Disgust and Attraction Towards Men Is Unaffected by Sexual Arousal

“…Research indeed indicates that disgust inhibits sexual arousal. Fleischman et al (2015) and Andrews et al (Andrews, Crone, Cholka, Cooper, & Bridges, 2015) experimentally induced disgust in a group of male and female participants, and found that those groups reported less subsequent sexual arousal to erotic movies than the control groups. Thus, the existing evidence for an inhibitory effect of disgust on sexual arousal is relatively clear cut in both sexes.…”

“…We thereby extended previous methods by testing the effect of sexual arousal on disgust within participants. The focus was on women because past studies have found the link between sexual dysfunction and disgust only in women, DISGUST TRUMPS LUST not in men (Borg, de Jong, & Weijmar Schultz, 2010;Grauvogl et al, 2015), and because there are significant sex differences in disgust (Fleischman, 2017;Skolnick, 2013;Tybur, Bryan, Lieberman, Caldwell Hooper, & Merriman, 2011), sexual arousal patterns (Carvalho et al, 2013;Chivers, 2010), and the interaction of the two (Andrews et al, 2015;Lee et al, 2014). We hypothesized that sexual arousal will decrease disgust towards attractive, but not towards unattractive mates (Hypothesis 1), and that sexual arousal will only reduce disgust towards mates without disease cues, but not towards mates with disease cues (Hypothesis 2).…”

“…De Jong et al`s (2013) model provides a possible explanation for the null results of this and previous studies (Fleischman et al, 2015;van Overveld & Borg, 2015): Sexual arousal might have not exceeded the level of disgust to the extent that it would occupy attentional resources and therefore inhibit disgust. Women on average have a higher disgust sensitivity and propensity than men (Andrews et al, 2015;Borg et al,2015;Fleischman, 2017;Grauvogl et al, 2015;Rohrmann, Hopp, & Quirin, 2008;. This also implies that they require relatively more sexual arousal to outweigh disgust and elicit a sexually functioning feedback loop (de Jong et al, 2013).…”