The Components of Rapists' Sexual Arousal

Phallometric Assessment of Sexual Arousal

“…This was demonstrated by Abel, Barlow, Blanchard and Guild (1977), who found they could discriminate those rapists with the highest frequency of previous rapes and those who had injured their victim. Abel, Blanchard, Becker, & Djenderedjian (1978) reported a direct relationship between magnitude of a rape index and number of committed rapes.…”

“…8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Given these outcomes, it appears that the distinctive feature of rapists is neither magnitude of erectile response nor peak arousal to a stimulus category but their overall arousal pattern (Krisak et al, 1981). There are several studies in which rapists showed their highest erectile response to consensual sexual scenes or at least equal responding to both consensual and rape stimuli, but nonrapists' arousal is significantly suppressed by deviant material while rapists' arousal is not (Abel et al 1977;Baxter, Marshall, Barbaree, Davidson, & Marshall, 1984;Earls & Proulx, 1986;Hall et al, 1988;Looman & Marshall, 2005;Quinsey & Chaplin, 1984;Wydra, Marshall, Earls, & Barbaree, 1983). This difference is even clearer if more graphic and brutal stimulus content is used, as indicated by the metaanalysis conducted by Lalumi ere and .…”

The Effect of Young Adult Literature on Adolescents' Rape Myth Acceptance

“…Abel, Barlow, Blanchard and Guild (1977) hypothesized that rape proclivity can be measured by examining the arousal level of males who listen to audio depictions of rape; in their study they found that rapists were more sexually aroused by depictions than were non-rapists. Malamuth, Heim and Feshbach (1980) used written depictions of rape and mutually consensual intercourse to measure sexual arousal in a sample of 135 male and 159 female undergraduates.…”

Psicología de la violación

“…Abel et al (1977) encontraron que sujetos convictos del delito de violación mostraban el mismo grado de tumescencia del pene (indicador de la respuesta sexual) ante historias de violación que ante historias de relaciones sexuales consentidas. En contraste, los sujetos control mostraban mayor activación sexual ante las historias de sexo consentido que ante las de violación.…”

“…Sobre la base de sus hallazgos, Abel et al (1977) desarrollaron el «ín-dice de la violación», el cual supone la medición de la tumescencia del pene relativa a las historias de violación en comparación con las historias de sexo consentido. Sin embargo, en la medida en que, como ya hemos mencionado, se ha encontrado en la población general ciertos sujetos mostrando un «indice de violación» semejante al de los violadores, ello puede indicar que estos hombres precisen de ciertas condiciones para actuar de forma sexualmente agresiva o, alternativamente, que el arousal hacia la violación es una respuesta aislada que no puede homologarse con la conducta efectiva .…”