title: Viewing time measures of sexual orientation in Samoan cisgender men who engage in sexual interactions with fa'afafine.
abstract: Androphilia refers to attraction to adult males, whereas gynephilia refers to attraction to adult females. The current study employed self-report and viewing time (response time latency) measures of sexual attraction to determine the sexual orientation of Samoan cisgender men (i.e., males whose gender presentation and identity is concordant with their biological sex) who engage in sexual interactions with transgender male androphiles (known locally as fa'afafine) compared to: (1) Samoan cisgender men who only engage in sexual interactions with women, and (2) fa'afafine. As expected, both measures indicated that cisgender men who only engaged in sexual interactions with women exhibited a gynephilic pattern of sexual attraction, whereas fa'afafine exhibited an androphilic one. In contrast, both measures indicated that cisgender men who engaged in sexual interactions with fa'afafine demonstrated a bisexual pattern of sexual attraction. Most of the cisgender men who exhibited bisexual viewing times did not engage in sexual activity with both men and women indicating that the manner in which bisexual patterns of sexual attraction manifest behaviorally vary from one culture to the next.
authors: Laboratory of Comparative Sexuality, Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.
authors: Lanna J
authors: LJ
authors: Petterson
authors: Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
authors: Barnaby J
authors: BJ
authors: Dixson
authors: Behaviour & Evolution Research Group, School of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, United Kingdom.
authors: Anthony C
authors: AC
authors: Little
authors: Laboratory of Comparative Sexuality, Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Canada.
authors: Paul L
authors: PL
authors: Vasey
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001727:Bisexuality / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011930:Reaction Time; D018947:Samoa; D057566:Self Report; D063106:Transgender Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult