„Die Hitze des Augenblicks: Die Auswirkung von sexueller Erregung auf die sexuelle Entscheidungsfindung“

Eine interessante Studie behandelt Entscheidungen während Erregung:

Despite the social importance of decisions taken in the ‘‘heat of the moment,’’ very little research has examined the effect of sexual arousal on judgment and decision making. Here we examine the effect of sexual arousal, induced by self-stimulation, on judgments and hypothetical decisions made by male college students. Students were assigned to be in either a state of sexual arousal or a neutral state and were asked to:

(1) indicate how appealing they find a wide range of sexual stimuli and activities,
(2) report their willingness to engage in morally questionable behavior in order to obtain sexual gratification, and
(3) describe their willingness to engage in unsafe sex when sexually aroused.

The results show that sexual arousal had a strong impact on all three areas of judgment and decision making, demonstrating the importance of situational forces on preferences, as well as subjects’ inability to predict these influences on their own behavior

Quelle: The Heat of the Moment: The Effect of Sexual Arousal on Sexual Decision Making

Die Frage ist also wie Erregung unsere Entscheidung beeinflusst. Und das Ergebnis ist recht eindeutig: Wir mögen uns alles mögliche vornehmen, wenn wir einen klaren Kopf haben, aber wenn wir erregt sind sieht alles anders aus.

Zum Aufbau:

Research participants were given a laptop computer and were asked to answer a series of questions using a small handheld keypad. The keypad and the program that administered the questions were designed to be operated easily using only the non-dominant hand. In the control (non-aroused) treatment, subjects answered the questions while in their natural, presumably not highly aroused, state. In the arousal treatment, subjects were first asked to self-stimulate themselves (masturbate), and were presented with the same questions only after they had achieved a high but sub-orgasmic level of arousal.

The screen of the computer, as it appeared in the arousal treatment, was divided into three panels, each with a different function (see Figure 1). Three keys on the top left corner of the keypad switched between these three panels, with the activated panel indicated on the screen by a bright red border. The panels on the right and on the top left part of the screen were displayed only in the arousal treatment. The panel on the right, when activated, displayed an ‘‘arousal thermometer’’ with regions colored from blue to red representing increasing levels of arousal. Two keys on the keypad allowed the user to move the probe on the arousal meter to indicate their momentary level of arousal. The panel on the top left occupied the largest part of the screen, displaying diverse erotic photographs. When this panel was activated, the same two keys used to move the probe on the arousal thermometer allowed the subject to scroll forward and backward through the photographs. The panel at the bottom of the screen presented the series of questions that the subjects answered. This panel was visible in both treatments, but, in the arousal treatment, the questions could be answered only when the self-declared level of arousal was 75% or higher on the arousal thermometer. (This criteria was set to create high level of arousal but at the same time not too high in order to avoid ejaculation.) The same two keys used to move the probe on the arousal thermometer, and to scroll forward and backward through the photographs, allowed the subject to move a probe to indicate their answers to the questions presented in this panel. A different key was used to submit the answer and progress to the next question.
The questions took the form of statements, which participants could react to on a visual-analog scale that stretched between ‘‘no’’ on the left to ‘‘possibly’’ in the middle to ‘‘yes’’ on the right. Because the movement of the probe on the visual-analog scale was carried out by repeatedly pressing keys, we used a discrete scale with twenty-six steps along the visual-analog scale. Responses were converted to a 0–100 scale, where 0 is the most extreme negative response and 100 is the most extreme positive response

Kurz gesagt: Die Testpersonen haben einmal Fragen beantwortet ohne besondere Stimulation und einmal während er erotische Szenen anschaute und sich selbst befriedigte.

Aus den Ergebnissen:

Entscheidungen Erregung

Die Fragen wurden, wie oben dargestellt, auf einer Skala von 0-100 ausgewertet.

Die Tabelle noch mal als Text:

• Are women’s shoes erotic? 42 (5.9) 65 (4.06) 23 <0.001
• Can you imagine being attracted to a 12-year-old girl? 23 (4.11) 46 (6.08) 23 <0.001
• Can you imagine having sex with a 40-year-old woman? 58 (3.32) 77 (2.07) 19 <0.001
• Can you imagine having sex with a 50-year-old woman? 28 (4.80) 55 (4.69) 27 <0.001
• Can you imagine having sex with a 60-year-old woman? 7 (2.55) 23 (4.61) 16 <0.001
• Can you imagine having sex with a man? 8 (2.47) 14 (3.78) 6 ¼ 0.14 (ns)
• Could it be fun to have sex with someone who 13 (4.30) 24 (5.29) 11 <0.05
  was extremely fat?
• Could you enjoy having sex with someone you hated? 53 (6.04) 77 (3.59) 24 <0.001
• If you were attracted to a woman and she proposed a threesome with a man, would you do it? 19 (4.97) 34 (7.10) 25 <0.005
• Is a woman sexy when she’s sweating? 56 (3.1) 72 (5.62) 16 <0.01
• Is the smell of cigarette smoke arousing? 13 (3.88) 22 (6.00) 9 <0.03
• Would it be fun to get tied up by your sexual partner? 63 (5.09) 81 (4.49) 18 <0.005
• Would it be fun to tie up your sexual partner? 47 (3.22) 75 (3.89) 28 <0.001
• Would it be fun to watch an attractive woman urinating? 25 (5.57) 32 (5.53) 7 <0.03
• Would you find it exciting to spank your sexual partner? 61 (5.35) 72 (4.70) 11 <0.1
• Would you find it exciting to get spanked by an attractive woman? 50 (3.40) 68 (5.29) 18 <0.003
• Would you find it exciting to have anal sex? 46 (4.91) 77 (3.58) 31 <0.001
• Can you imagine getting sexually excited by contact with an animal? 6 (2.55) 16 (4.19) 10 <0.02
• Do you prefer to have sex with the light on? 52 (5.84) 50 (5.15) 2 ¼ 0.46 (ns)
• Is just kissing frustrating? 41 (4.43) 69 (4.37) 28 <0.001

Wie man sieht gehen einige Werte ganz erstaunlich nach oben und eine Option auf Sex, die sonst wenig interessant klang wird attraktiver.

und weitere Fragen:

Erregung Entscheidung

• Would you take a date to a fancy restaurant to increase your chance of having sex with her? 55 (5.86) 70 (3.83) 15 0.01Von 55 auf 70. Aber warum auch nicht, eine Einladung ins Restaurant ist ja harmlos
• Would you tell a woman that you loved her to increase the chance that she would have sex with you? 30 (5.40) 51 (4.54) 21 0.001Hier wird es schon etwas düsterer, einer Frau sagen, dass man sie liebt, damit sie mit einem schläft, von 30 auf 51. Also von eher nicht auf möglicherweise.
• Would you encourage your date to drink to increase the chance that she would have sex with you? 46 (5.80) 63 (2.87) 17 <0.005Hier geht es auch noch nicht um „vollkommen betrunken machen“ sondern „etwas trinken“. Aber auch hier durchaus ein Anstieg.
• Would you keep trying to have sex after your date says ‘‘no.’’ 20 (4.32) 45 (3.44) 25 <0.001von 20 auf 45. Was auch in Hinblick darauf, dass man etwas lernt oder „Feministisch erzogen“ wird interessant ist: Gute Vorsätze sind die eine Seite, die Reaktion unter Erregung eine andere.
• Would you slip a woman a drug to increase the chance that she would have sex with you? 5 (2.51) 26 (3.65) 21 <0.001von 5 auf 21.

Hier geht es natürlich auch nur um Antworten und den „Schreibtischtäter“. Wie derjenige dann tatsächlich handeln würde wäre eine andere Frage, aber eine solche Studie würde wohl nicht durch eine Ethikkommission gehen.

und weitere Fragen:

Erregung Einfluss auf Entscheidung

• If you pull out before you ejaculate, a woman can still get pregnant (N) 92 (2.95) 92 (4.55) 0 ¼ 0.97 (ns)Da scheint die Erregung noch relativ rational zu sein.
• A woman who is a good friend can give you a sexually transmitted disease (N) 86 (4.44) 89 (4.89) 3 ¼ 0.21 (ns)Auch da ist die Antwort recht gleich
• Would you trust a woman you’ve just met who says she is using birth control? (A) 29 (5.14) 25 (5.51) 4 ¼ 0.47 (ns)Da werden die Männer sogar mißtrauischer.
• Birth control is the woman’s responsibility (A) 34 (5.41) 44 (5.69) 10 ¼ 0.051Hier hingegen, bei einer eigentlich etwas anders formulierten Frage, wirkt sich die Erregung aus.
• A condom decreases sexual pleasure (A) 66 (3.88) 78 (3.73) 12 <0.002Immerhin eine gewisse Steigerung von 66 auf 78. Anscheinend will man erregt möglichst wenig Hindernisse für mehr Erregung
• A condom interferes with sexual spontaneity (A) 58 (5.21) 73 (4.45) 15 <0.01Das wäre eine höhere Leichtsinnigkeit bzw ein Eingeständnis, dass es eben einfacher ist ohne.
• Would you always use a condom if you didn’t know the sexual history of a new sexual partner? (N) 88 (2.66) 69 (6.33) 19 <0.003Erregt würden mehr Leute auf das Kondom verzichten und insoweit ein Risiko eingehen
• Would you use a condom even if you were afraid that a woman might change her mind while you went to get it? (N) 86 (3.04) 60 (4.32) 26 <0.001Von 86 auf 60 ist schon recht deutlich. Das macht deutlich, dass Abstinenzprogramme sehr gefährlich ist.

Würde mich interessieren, ob es eine andere Studie gibt, die die Wirkung von Erregung auf Frauen untersucht.