SOS-6: An instrument for measuring erotophilia in Spain

What is it about?

Erotophilia, as opposed to erotophobia, is the positive emotional response people have to different sexual stimuli. Thus, it is a general attitude towards sexuality. This study introduce a short scale that reliably evaluates erotophilia in a Spanish sample: SOS-6. With a large sample of 1,500 heterosexual adults between 18 and 80 years old, they concluded that this scale isn't biased by comparing men and women, young and older people, single people and people who are in a relationship and people with different levels of education. This is a very important question, given that in the scientific literature we find that attitudes are usually compared without making sure first that the instrument used is valid. For the first time, Spain has an instrument that allows this comparison without response bias. On the other hand, in a second study conducted in LabSex UGR, the authors found that in men, erotophilia was related to subjective sexual arousal experienced by visual sexual stimuli while in women, it was related to the estimation of sexual arousal and genital sensations perceived during visual sexual stimuli.

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Why is it important?

These results suggest the relevance of erotophilia in good sexual functioning.

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