Citations (70)
Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.
Read on this site (20)
Natalie B. Brown, Sonia Milani, Faith Jabs, Alan Kingstone & Lori A. Brotto. (2024) Exploring Women’s State-Level Anxiety in Response to Virtual Reality Erotica. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy 50:2, pages 137-151.
Read now
Read now
David Lafortune, Éliane Dussault, Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel, Valerie A. Lapointe, Martin Blais & Natacha Godbout. (2024) Is Sexual Aversion a Distinct Disorder or a Trans-Diagnostic Symptom across Sexual Dysfunctions? A Latent Class Analysis. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy 50:1, pages 105-120.
Read now
Read now
Lara Lakhsassi, Charmaine Borg & Peter J. de Jong. (2023) The Influence of Subjective Sexual Arousal and Disgust on Pain. The Journal of Sex Research 0:0, pages 1-11.
Read now
Read now
D. Lafortune, S. Dubé, V. Lapointe, J. Bonneau, C. Champoux & N. Sigouin. (2023) Virtual Reality Could Help Assess Sexual Aversion Disorder. The Journal of Sex Research 0:0, pages 1-15.
Read now
Read now
Marieke Dewitte & Ann Meulders. (2023) Fear Learning in Genital Pain: Toward a Biopsychosocial, Ecologically Valid Research and Treatment Model. The Journal of Sex Research 60:6, pages 768-785.
Read now
Read now
Guangju Wen, Yikang Zhang, Thomas J. Nyman, Patrick Jern & Pekka Santtila. (2023) Effects of Ginger on Disgust, Sexual Arousal, and Sexual Engagement: A Placebo-Controlled Experiment. The Journal of Sex Research 0:0, pages 1-13.
Read now
Read now
Berber Brouwer, Charmaine Borg & Peter J. de Jong. (2023) Self-Disgust and Sexual Functioning: A Scenario-Based Study Testing the Ability of Sex-Related Experiences to Elicit Self-Directed Disgust. The Journal of Sex Research 0:0, pages 1-9.
Read now
Read now
Aleksandra Pawłowska, Charmaine Borg & Peter J. de Jong. (2021) Up-regulating Sexual Arousal and Down-regulating Disgust while Watching Pornography: Effects on Sexual Arousal and Disgust. The Journal of Sex Research 58:3, pages 353-363.
Read now
Read now
Klára Bártová, Renáta Androvičová, Lucie Krejčová, Petr Weiss & Kateřina Klapilová. (2021) The Prevalence of Paraphilic Interests in the Czech Population: Preference, Arousal, the Use of Pornography, Fantasy, and Behavior. The Journal of Sex Research 58:1, pages 86-96.
Read now
Read now
Melike Aslan, Şeyda Yavuzkır & Sema Baykara. (2020) Is “Dilator Use” More Effective Than “Finger Use” in Exposure Therapy in Vaginismus Treatment?. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy 46:4, pages 354-360.
Read now
Read now
Kyle R. Stephenson. (2020) Exploring the Role of Sexual Avoidance in Male Sexual Dysfunction. The Journal of Sex Research 57:4, pages 522-533.
Read now
Read now
Jessica Hinzmann, Charmaine Borg, Johan R. L. Verwoerd & Peter J. de Jong. (2020) The Reciprocal Relationship Between Sexual Arousal and Disgust as Evidenced in Automatic Approach-Avoidance Behavior. The Journal of Sex Research 57:3, pages 384-396.
Read now
Read now
David Lafortune, Laurence Dion & Patrice Renaud. (2020) Virtual Reality and Sex Therapy: Future Directions for Clinical Research. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy 46:1, pages 1-17.
Read now
Read now
Charmaine Borg, Jessica Hinzmann, Janika Heitmann & Peter J. de Jong. (2019) Disgust Toward Sex-Relevant and Sex-Irrelevant Stimuli in Pre-, Early, and Middle Adolescence. The Journal of Sex Research 56:1, pages 102-113.
Read now
Read now
Daniel Schöttle, Peer Briken, Oliver Tüscher & Daniel Turner. (2017) Sexuality in autism: hypersexual and paraphilic behavior in women and men with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience 19:4, pages 381-393.
Read now
Read now
Natasha S. DePesa & Jeffrey E. Cassisi. (2017) Affective and Autonomic Responses to Erotic Images: Evidence of Disgust-Based Mechanisms in Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder. The Journal of Sex Research 54:7, pages 877-886.
Read now
Read now
Craig A. Hill. (2016) Implicit and Explicit Sexual Motives as Related, But Distinct Characteristics. Basic and Applied Social Psychology 38:2, pages 59-88.
Read now
Read now
Leonardo F. Fontenelle, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza & Jorge Moll. (2015) The rise of moral emotions in neuropsychiatry. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience 17:4, pages 411-420.
Read now
Read now
Mark van Overveld & Charmaine Borg. (2015) Brief Emotion Regulation Training Facilitates Arousal Control During Sexual Stimuli. The Journal of Sex Research 52:9, pages 996-1005.
Read now
Read now
James K. Beggan. Eroticizing failure: the legacy of porn star Brooke Van Buuren. Porn Studies 0:0, pages 1-15.
Read now
Read now
Articles from other publishers (50)
Elizabeth Jalbert, David Lafortune, Valerie A. Lapointe & Jonathan Bonneau. (2024) Disgust responses to virtual erotica: Analysis of their interaction with sexual anxiety and immersive tendencies. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality 33:1, pages 121-131.
Crossref
Crossref
Benjamin J. Mitchell, Karin G. Coifman & Bunmi O. Olatunji. (2024) Is disgust more resistant to extinction than fear? A meta-analytic review of laboratory paradigms. Behaviour Research and Therapy 174, pages 104479.
Crossref
Crossref
Francisca Bertin, Laura María Velásquez-Díaz, Mario A. Laborda & Gonzalo Miguez. 2023. Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior
1
10
.
Guangju Wen, Yikang Zhang, Thomas J. Nyman, Patrick Jern & Pekka Santtila. (2023) Is Consumption of Ginger in Daily Life Associated with Sexual Response?. Sexes 4:4, pages 555-568.
Crossref
Crossref
Guangju Wen, Caoyuan Niu, Yikang Zhang & Pekka Santtila. (2023) Bidirectional relationship between sexual arousal and (sex-related) disgust. PLOS ONE 18:5, pages e0285596.
Crossref
Crossref
Ray Garza, Farid Pazhoohi, Laith Al-Shawaf & Jennifer Byrd-Craven. (2023) An Eye Tracking Study Examining the Role of Mating Strategies, Perceived Vulnerability to Disease, and Disgust in Attention to Pathogenic Cues. Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology 9:1, pages 72-87.
Crossref
Crossref
Michal Mikolaj Stefanczyk, Mirella Rymaszewska & Kinga Lachowicz-Tabaczek. (2023) Far from disgusted: The relationships between disgust sensitivity, dark personality traits, and biological sex. Personality and Individual Differences 202, pages 111983.
Crossref
Crossref
Jan Wiecha & Magdalena Śmieja. 2023. Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior
1
8
.
Kaitlyn P. White & Elias C. Acevedo. 2023. Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior. Encyclopedia of Sexual Psychology and Behavior
1
5
.
Sebastiaan Gorissen, Helen M. Lillie, Daniel Chavez-Yenter, Alexis Vega, Kevin K. John & Jakob D. Jensen. (2022) Explicitness, disgust, and safe sex behavior: A message experiment with U.S. adults. Social Science & Medicine 313, pages 115414.
Crossref
Crossref
Elisa Becker, Stella Kozmér, Matthias B. Aulbach & Natalia S. Lawrence. (2022) The relationship between meat disgust and meat avoidance—A chicken-and-egg problem. Frontiers in Nutrition 9.
Crossref
Crossref
David Lafortune, Éliane Dussault, Mathieu Philibert & Natacha Godbout. (2022) Prevalence and Correlates of Sexual Aversion: A Canadian Community-Based Study. The Journal of Sexual Medicine 19:8, pages 1269-1280.
Crossref
Crossref
David Lafortune, Valerie A. Lapointe, Cloé Canivet, Natacha Godbout & Marie-Aude Boislard. (2022) Validation of a virtual environment for sexual aversion. Journal of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy 32:2, pages 85-98.
Crossref
Crossref
T. A. (Tamara) Oosterwijk, C. (Charmaine) Borg & M. W. G. (Marijn) van Dijk. (2022) Age‐related differences in self‐reported disgust toward core disgust, sex‐related, and food stimuli. Journal of Adolescence 94:3, pages 293-304.
Crossref
Crossref
Enya Levaque, Samantha J. Dawson, Cynthia Wan & Martin L. Lalumière. (2021) Sex Drive as a Possible Mediator of the Gender Difference in the Prevalence of Paraphilic Interests in a Nonclinical Sample. Archives of Sexual Behavior 51:2, pages 867-877.
Crossref
Crossref
Arathy Puthillam & Sampada Karandikar. (2020) Watching Disgustedly? Game of Thrones and Disgust Sensitivity. Psychological Reports 124:6, pages 2384-2402.
Crossref
Crossref
Elizabeth A. Quinn, Allison L. Skinner‐Dorkenoo & James E. WagesIIIIII. (2021) Affective disgust predicts blame for gay male homicide victims. Journal of Applied Social Psychology 51:11, pages 1049-1060.
Crossref
Crossref
Thomas Armstrong, Danica Wilbanks, Daniel Leong & Kean Hsu. (2021) Beyond vernacular: Measurement solutions to the lexical fallacy in disgust research. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 82, pages 102408.
Crossref
Crossref
Sierra D. Peters & Andrea L. Meltzer. (2021) Newlywed Couples’ Own and Partner Sexual Disgust Sensitivities Interact to Predict Their Marital Satisfaction Through Their Sexual Satisfaction. Archives of Sexual Behavior 50:6, pages 2563-2577.
Crossref
Crossref
Courtney L. Crosby, David M. Buss, Lawrence K. Cormack & Cindy M. Meston. (2021) Sex, sexual arousal, and sexual decision making: An evolutionary perspective. Personality and Individual Differences 177, pages 110826.
Crossref
Crossref
Ami Rokach & Karishma Patel. 2021. Human Sexuality. Human Sexuality
379
406
.
Charmaine Borg & Peter J. de Jong. 2021. The Handbook of Disgust Research. The Handbook of Disgust Research
159
172
.
Elaine N. Clarke, Andrew R. Thompson & Paul Norman. (2020) Depression in people with skin conditions: The effects of disgust and self‐compassion. British Journal of Health Psychology 25:3, pages 540-557.
Crossref
Crossref
Courtney L. Crosby, Patrick K. Durkee, Cindy M. Meston & David M. Buss. (2020) Six dimensions of sexual disgust. Personality and Individual Differences 156, pages 109714.
Crossref
Crossref
Asha Ganesan, James S. Morandini, Aaron Veldre, Kevin J. Hsu & Ilan Dar-Nimrod. (2020) Ethnic differences in visual attention to sexual stimuli among Asian and White heterosexual women and men. Personality and Individual Differences 155, pages 109630.
Crossref
Crossref
Courtney L. Crosby, David M. Buss & Cindy M. Meston. (2019) Sexual Disgust: Evolutionary Perspectives and Relationship to Female Sexual Function. Current Sexual Health Reports 11:4, pages 300-306.
Crossref
Crossref
Tierney K. Lorenz. (2019) Interactions Between Inflammation and Female Sexual Desire and Arousal Function. Current Sexual Health Reports 11:4, pages 287-299.
Crossref
Crossref
Laith Al-Shawaf, David M. G. Lewis, Maliki Eyvonne Ghossainy & David M. Buss. (2018) Experimentally Inducing Disgust Reduces Desire for Short-Term Mating. Evolutionary Psychological Science 5:3, pages 267-275.
Crossref
Crossref
Richard J. Stevenson, Trevor I. Case, Megan J. Oaten, Lorenzo Stafford & Supreet Saluja. (2019) A Proximal Perspective on Disgust. Emotion Review 11:3, pages 209-225.
Crossref
Crossref
James S. Morandini, Aaron Veldre, Alex O. Holcombe, Kevin Hsu, Amy Lykins, J. Michael Bailey & Ilan Dar-Nimrod. (2019) Visual Attention to Sexual Stimuli in Mostly Heterosexuals. Archives of Sexual Behavior 48:5, pages 1371-1385.
Crossref
Crossref
Angela Jones. (2018) Sex is not a problem: The erasure of pleasure in sexual science research. Sexualities 22:4, pages 643-668.
Crossref
Crossref
Kelly A. Knowles, Rebecca C. Cox, Thomas Armstrong & Bunmi O. Olatunji. (2019) Cognitive mechanisms of disgust in the development and maintenance of psychopathology: A qualitative review and synthesis. Clinical Psychology Review 69, pages 30-50.
Crossref
Crossref
Megan Oaten, Richard J. Stevenson, Caley Tapp, Trevor I. Case & Allie Cousins. (2019) The Role of Disgust in Male Sexual Decision-Making. Frontiers in Psychology 9.
Crossref
Crossref
Paula Kresanov, Jennifer Kotler, Michael Seto, Debra Lieberman, Pekka Santtila & Jan Antfolk. (2018) Intergenerational incest aversion: self-reported sexual arousal and disgust to hypothetical sexual contact with family members. Evolution and Human Behavior 39:6, pages 664-674.
Crossref
Crossref
Barış Sevi, Tuğçe Aral & Terry Eskenazi. (2018) Exploring the hook-up app: Low sexual disgust and high sociosexuality predict motivation to use Tinder for casual sex. Personality and Individual Differences 133, pages 17-20.
Crossref
Crossref
Kelly A. Knowles, Andrew J. Tomarken & Bunmi O. Olatunji. (2018) Effects of exposure to erotica on disgust: A preliminary test among contamination-fearful individuals. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders 18, pages 54-60.
Crossref
Crossref
Amanda D. Timmers, Jennifer A. Bossio & Meredith L. Chivers. (2017) Disgust, Sexual Cues, and the Prophylaxis Hypothesis. Evolutionary Psychological Science 4:2, pages 179-190.
Crossref
Crossref
Roger Giner-Sorolla, Tom Kupfer & John Sabo. 2018.
223
289
.
Moniek ter Kuile, Stephanie Both & Philomeen Weijenborg. 2018. Leerboek seksuologie. Leerboek seksuologie
327
352
.
Florian Zsok, Diana S. Fleischman, Charmaine Borg & Edward Morrison. (2017) Disgust Trumps Lust: Women’s Disgust and Attraction Towards Men Is Unaffected by Sexual Arousal. Evolutionary Psychological Science 3:4, pages 353-363.
Crossref
Crossref
Charmaine Borg & Peter J. de Jong. 2017. Treatments for Psychological Problems and Syndromes. Treatments for Psychological Problems and Syndromes
263
280
.
Anna Klimowicz, Adriana Janicic & Waguih William IsHak. 2017. The Textbook of Clinical Sexual Medicine. The Textbook of Clinical Sexual Medicine
507
524
.
Agnes Kocsis & John Newbury-Helps. (2016) Mindfulness in Sex Therapy and Intimate Relationships (MSIR): Clinical Protocol and Theory Development. Mindfulness 7:3, pages 690-699.
Crossref
Crossref
Caroline Rigo, Filip Uzarevic & Vassilis Saroglou. (2016) Make Love and Lose Your Religion and Virtue: Recalling Sexual Experiences Undermines Spiritual Intentions and Moral Behavior. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 55:1, pages 23-39.
Crossref
Crossref
Samantha J. Dawson, Brittany A. Bannerman & Martin L. Lalumière. (2014) Paraphilic Interests. Sexual Abuse 28:1, pages 20-45.
Crossref
Crossref
Arthur R. AndrewsIIIIII, Travis Crone, Cecilia B. Cholka, Theodore V. Cooper & Ana J. Bridges. (2015) Correlational and experimental analyses of the relation between disgust and sexual arousal. Motivation and Emotion 39:5, pages 766-779.
Crossref
Crossref
Andrea Grauvogl, Peter de Jong, Madelon Peters, Silvia Evers, Mark van Overveld & Jacques van Lankveld. (2014) Disgust and Sexual Arousal in Young Adult Men and Women. Archives of Sexual Behavior 44:6, pages 1515-1525.
Crossref
Crossref
Laith Al-Shawaf, David M.G. Lewis & David M. Buss. (2015) Disgust and mating strategy. Evolution and Human Behavior 36:3, pages 199-205.
Crossref
Crossref
Reinhilde J. Melles, Moniek M. ter Kuile, Marieke Dewitte, Jacques J.D.M. van Lankveld, Marieke Brauer & Peter J. de Jong. (2014) Automatic and Deliberate Affective Associations with Sexual Stimuli in Women with Lifelong Vaginismus Before and After Therapist-Aided Exposure Treatment. The Journal of Sexual Medicine 11:3, pages 786-799.
Crossref
Crossref
Charmaine Borg, Janniko R. Georgiadis, Remco J. Renken, Symen K. Spoelstra, Willibrord Weijmar Schultz & Peter J. de Jong. (2014) Brain Processing of Visual Stimuli Representing Sexual Penetration versus Core and Animal-Reminder Disgust in Women with Lifelong Vaginismus. PLoS ONE 9:1, pages e84882.
Crossref
Crossref