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Arch Sex Behav DOI 10.1007/s10508-011-9746-0 ORIGINAL PAPER Patterns of Sexual Arousal in Homosexual, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Men Jerome A. Cerny • Erick Janssen Received: 7 October 2008 / Revised: 11 November 2010 / Accepted: 1 January 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Abstract The purpose of this study was to determine if self- Keywords Sexual arousal Sexual orientation identified bisexual, heterosexual, and homosexual men show dif- Bisexuality Psychophysiology ferential genital and subjective arousal patterns to video presen- tations of bisexual, heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian sexual interactions. It was predicted that, relative to heterosex- Introduction ual and homosexual stimuli, bisexual men would show the highestlevelsofsexualarousalto bisexualeroticmaterial, while The findings of several large-scale interview and questionnaire this stimulus would induce relatively low levels of response in studies (Kinsey, Pomeroy, Martin, 1948; Kinsey, Pomeroy, heterosexual and homosexual men. A sample of 59 men (19 Martin, Gebhard, 1953; Laumann, Gagnon, Michael, homosexual, 13 bisexual, and 27 heterosexual) were presented Michaels, 1994; Weinberg, Williams, Pryor, 1994) seem to with a series of 4-min sexual videos while their genital and provideunequivocal support fortheexistence of a bisexual sex- subjective sexual responses were measured continuously. Bisex- ual orientation, especially when sexual orientation is assessed in ual men did not differ significantly in their responses to male terms of fantasies, attraction, and behavior. In contrast, psycho- homosexual stimuli (depicting men engaging in sex) from homo- physiological studies, examining the association between sexual sexual men, and they did not differ significantly in their responses o