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ABSTRACT
This study explored the role of sex guilt in the relationship between culture and testicular self-examination (TSE) and physician testicular examination (PTE) in Euro-Canadian and Chinese men. Euro-Canadian (n = 42) and Chinese (n = 77) male university students completed online questionnaires. Euro-Canadian men were more likely to have had TSE and PTE than Chinese men. Sex guilt was higher in Chinese men. Sex guilt mediated the relationship between ethnicity and PTE but not the relationship between ethnicity and TSE. Among the Chinese men, sex guilt mediated the relationship between Westernization and PTE but not between Westernization and TSE.
Funding for this study came from a UBC Hampton Research Grant to L. A. Brotto. J. S. T. Woo was funded by a Predoctoral Fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and a Predoctoral Research Trainee Award from the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research.