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Deviant sexual arousal in rapists

1979; Elsevier BV; Volume: 17; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/0005-7967(79)90036-6

1873-622X

Howard E. Barbaree, William L. Marshall, R. D. Lanthier,

Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending

Increases in penile circumference of 10 incarcerated rapists and 10 male graduate students were measured during verbal descriptions of mutually-consenting sex, rape and violent non-sexual assault. Mutually-consenting sex evoked sexual arousal in both groups. Rape evoked comparable arousal in rapists but significantly less arousal in non-rapists. Assault evoked significantly less arousal in non-rapists and tended to evoke less arousal in rapists. However, the rapists did not exhibit greater sexual arousal to forced or violent sex compared with consenting sex, either as a group or as individuals. It is not necessarily true that forced or violent sex evoked rapists' arousal but perhaps that force or violence failed to inhibit their arousal.