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- Infrared thermography (IRT) is a non-contact method used to measure skin surface temperature and has been applied to studying sexual arousal since the 1980s, offering advantages over traditional genital response measures.* -
- The article reviews various experimental studies that demonstrate IRT's feasibility and validity as a real-time measure of sexual arousal, highlighting the effectiveness of this technique in sexual psychophysiology.* -
- Despite the encouraging results, the review notes significant variability in the methodologies used across studies, emphasizing the need for standardized IRT protocols tailored for sexual physiology research.*
Article Abstract
Infrared thermography (IRT) is a non-contact technique that permits mapping and analysis of the temperature of the body's skin surface. This method has been applied to sexual psychophysiology since the 1980s and its use has been expanding ever since, mainly because it provides several advantages over existing genital response measures. This article presents a review of experimental studies employing IRT to investigate human sexual arousal, with the aim of summarizing the available procedures and evidence so far and to identify important caveats in the literature. The studies reviewed support the feasibility and validity of IRT as a real-time physiological measure of sexual arousal but varied substantially regarding methodology and procedures. The results of this review underscore the value and validity of IRT in sexual psychophysiology and point at the critical need for the standardization of IRT protocols to accommodate the specific needs of applying this methodology to sexual physiology.
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