A F Bogaert
Biographic Data
| ID | 3941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A F Bogaert |
| GIVEN NAMES | A F |
| FAMILY NAME | Bogaert |
| SIGNATURE | BOGAERT A F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1133-2513 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 585 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Who “Feels Sexy” in the Google Books Corpus? Text-Mining Evidence for Gender Differences in Object of Desire Self-Consciousness
Asexuality
Examining Visual Attention Patterns among Asexual and Heterosexual Individuals
Asexuality has garnered much attention, and empirical data support its classification as a sexual orientation. Asexuality is defined as a lack of sexual attraction to others, with approximately 1% of the population falling in this category. As theoretical models situate attention as a central component of sexual response, the current study examined attentional processing of erotic stimuli in asexuals and heterosexuals. We hypothesized that hetero…
Patterns of Genital and Subjective Sexual Arousal in Cisgender Asexual Men
Human asexuality has been defined as a lack of sexual attraction to others, although its nature is not well understood. Asexual men's genital and subjective sexual arousal patterns were compared to sexual men's to better understand asexual men's sexual response patterns. Using a penile plethysmograph to measure genital arousal, 20 asexual, 27 heterosexual, and 22 gay cisgender men ( M age = 28.28, SD = 9.41) viewed erotic films depicting sexual a…
Personality and Sexual Orientation
Previous research has examined self-identified sexual orientation in relation to self-reports on the Big Five personality factors. Here we extend this research by including asexuality as a fourth sexual orientation and by assessing the HEXACO personality factors, using self-report data from a large anonymous online sample (N ≈ 100,000). A large overlap was observed among all sexual orientation groups on all six HEXACO dimensions, but notable grou…
Prenatal Androgens in Men’s Sexual Orientation
Pubertal Stress and Nutrition and their Association with Sexual Orientation and Height in the Add Health Data
What Asexuality Tells Us About Sexuality
Gay Male Only-Children
Fraternal Birth Order, The
Sexual Orientation, Objective Height, and Self-Reported Height
Studies that have used mostly self-reported height have found that androphilic men and women are shorter than gynephilic men and women, respectively. This study examined whether an objective height difference exists or whether a psychosocial account (e.g., distortion of self-reports) may explain these putative height differences. A total of 863 participants, recruited at a Canadian university, the surrounding region, and through lesbian, gay, bis…
Sexual Orientation
Psychopathic Sexuality
In two studies, we explored the relations between psychopathic traits and sexual fantasy content. In Study 1, we rated content themes in the fantasy narratives of 195 men and women recruited at a Canadian university. In Study 2, we administered a sexual fantasy questionnaire to a sample of 355 Canadian undergraduate students. In Study 1, we found that psychopathic traits predicted themes of anonymous, uncommitted, and nonromantic sexual activity …
Asexuality
In this review article, human asexuality, a relatively understudied phenomenon, is discussed. Specifically, definitions and conceptualizations of asexuality (e.g., is it a unique category of sexual orientation?), biological and historical contexts, identity issues, discrimination against asexual people relative to other minorities, origins, and variations, including gender differences, are reviewed. Whether asexuality should be construed as a dis…
Gender Differences in Object of Desire Self-Consciousness Sexual Fantasies
Facial Structure Predicts Sexual Orientation in Both Men and Women
Consensual Nonmonogamy
Consensually nonmonogamous relationships are those in which all partners explicitly agree that each partner may have romantic or sexual relationships with others (Conley, Ziegler, Moors, Matsick, & Valentine, 2013 ). In this article, research examining the associations between consensual nonmonogamy, psychological well-being, and relationship quality is reviewed. Specifically, three types of consensual nonmonogamy are examined: swinging, open rel…
Physical Size and Sexual Orientation
Asexuality and Autochorissexualism (Identity-Less Sexuality)
Masculinity and the Distortion of Self-Reported Height in Men
Self-Objectification, Self-Esteem, and Gender
Physical Development and Sexual Orientation in Men and Women
Menarche and Father Absence in a National Probability Sample
The relation between women’s timing of menarche and father absence was examined in a national probability sample of Great Britain (NATSAL 2000; N >5000). Current body mass index (as a proxy for childhood weight) was examined as a potential mediator of this relationship, along with the potential moderating role that siblings (e.g. number of older brothers) had on this relationship. As in a number of previous studies, an absent father (but not an a…
On the association between sexual attraction and adolescent risk behavior involvement
On the basis of a large-scale survey of high-school youth, the authors compared adolescents reporting exclusively heterosexual, mostly heterosexual, bisexual, and predominately same-sex attraction based on high-risk involvement across a range of risk behaviors. Bisexual and same-sex attracted groups were characterized by heightened high-risk involvement relative to the other two groups. Mediation analysis was used to determine whether these group…
Birth Order and Sexual Orientation in Men
Birth order is correlated with male sexual orientation, but the reason(s) for this relationship is unclear. In the present study, data from a Canadian sample of homosexual and heterosexual men ( N =604) were used to present evidence of two independent birth order interactions – one with height and the other with parental age – predicting sexual orientation in men. If these findings prove reliable, it raises the possibility that different aetiolog…
Asexuality
I used data from a national probability sample (N > 18,000) of British residents to investigate asexuality, defined as having no sexual attraction to a partner of either sex. Approximately 1% (n = 195) of the sample indicated they were asexual. A number of factors were related to asexuality, including gender (i.e., more women than men), short stature, low education, low socioeconomic status, and poor health. Asexual women also had a later onset o…
Consensual Nonmonogamy
Consensually nonmonogamous relationships are those in which all partners explicitly agree that each partner may have romantic or sexual relationships with others (Conley, Ziegler, Moors, Matsick, & Valentine, 2013 ). In this article, research examining the associations between consensual nonmonogamy, psychological well-being, and relationship quality is reviewed. Specifically, three types of consensual nonmonogamy are examined: swinging, open rel…
Biodemographic comparisons of homosexual and heterosexual men in the kinsey interview data
Asexuality
In this review article, human asexuality, a relatively understudied phenomenon, is discussed. Specifically, definitions and conceptualizations of asexuality (e.g., is it a unique category of sexual orientation?), biological and historical contexts, identity issues, discrimination against asexual people relative to other minorities, origins, and variations, including gender differences, are reviewed. Whether asexuality should be construed as a dis…
Self-Objectification, Self-Esteem, and Gender
How Many Gay Men Owe Their Sexual Orientation to Fraternal Birth Order
Race differences in sexual behavior
On the association between sexual attraction and adolescent risk behavior involvement
On the basis of a large-scale survey of high-school youth, the authors compared adolescents reporting exclusively heterosexual, mostly heterosexual, bisexual, and predominately same-sex attraction based on high-risk involvement across a range of risk behaviors. Bisexual and same-sex attracted groups were characterized by heightened high-risk involvement relative to the other two groups. Mediation analysis was used to determine whether these group…
Physical Development and Sexual Orientation in Men and Women
Number of older brothers and social orientation
The extent to which number of older brothers or "fraternal birth order" predicted the 2 main components that researchers have traditionally used to conceptualize sexual orientation-that is, psychological attraction and sexual behavior-was examined in 2 recent national probability samples. In both studies, fraternal birth order predicted same-sex attraction in men, with each additional older brother increasing the odds of homosexual attraction by …
The Relation Between Sexual Orientation and Penile Size
Fraternal Birth Order and Sexual Orientation in Pedophiles
Predictors of university men's number of sexual partners
We examined the role of personality (e.g., hypermasculinity, sensation seeking) and physical individual differences (testosterone, physical attractiveness) in predicting university men's (N = 215) number of sexual partners. Significant zero‐order correlations occurred between number of sexual partners and sensation seeking, hypermasculinity, physical attractiveness, and testosterone. In addition, multiple regression analysis revealed significant …
A content analysis of playboy centrefolds from 1953 through 1990
In this study, the magazine Playboy was subjected to a content analysis. Centrefold models in 430 issues from 1953 through 1990 were coded for explicitness, objectification (e.g., face not visible), and age. Curvilinear trends were observed for both explicitness and objectification, such that explicitness was found to increase over time until leveling off in the early 1980s, and objectification was found to decrease from the 1950s to the late 196…
Facial Structure Predicts Sexual Orientation in Both Men and Women
Volunteer bias in human sexuality research
Birth Order in Homosexual Versus Heterosexual Sex Offenders Against Children, Pubescents, and Adults
Personality and Sexual Orientation
Previous research has examined self-identified sexual orientation in relation to self-reports on the Big Five personality factors. Here we extend this research by including asexuality as a fourth sexual orientation and by assessing the HEXACO personality factors, using self-report data from a large anonymous online sample (N ≈ 100,000). A large overlap was observed among all sexual orientation groups on all six HEXACO dimensions, but notable grou…
Asexuality and Autochorissexualism (Identity-Less Sexuality)
Birth Order and Sibling Sex Ratio in Homosexual and Heterosexual Non-White Men
Race versus social class differences in sexual behavior
Masculinity and the Distortion of Self-Reported Height in Men
Age of Puberty and Sexual Orientation in a National Probability Sample
Birth order and sexual orientation in a national probability sample
The relations between birth order and sexual orientation in both men and women were examined in a national probability sample of the United States (Laumann, Gagnon, Michael, & Michaels, 1994). In addition, a possible mechanism that may underlie a birth order/sexual orientation relationship—sibling sexual activity/influence—was examined in these data. As in previous studies, men with same‐sex attraction were born later relative to men with opposit…
Interaction of Older Brothers and Sex-Typing in the Prediction of Sexual Orientation in Men
Race differences in sexual behavior
Race versus social class differences in sexual behavior
A content analysis of playboy centrefolds from 1953 through 1990
In this study, the magazine Playboy was subjected to a content analysis. Centrefold models in 430 issues from 1953 through 1990 were coded for explicitness, objectification (e.g., face not visible), and age. Curvilinear trends were observed for both explicitness and objectification, such that explicitness was found to increase over time until leveling off in the early 1980s, and objectification was found to decrease from the 1950s to the late 196…
Predictors of university men's number of sexual partners
We examined the role of personality (e.g., hypermasculinity, sensation seeking) and physical individual differences (testosterone, physical attractiveness) in predicting university men's (N = 215) number of sexual partners. Significant zero‐order correlations occurred between number of sexual partners and sensation seeking, hypermasculinity, physical attractiveness, and testosterone. In addition, multiple regression analysis revealed significant …
Volunteer bias in human sexuality research
Biodemographic comparisons of homosexual and heterosexual men in the kinsey interview data
Handedness in homosexual and heterosexual men in the Kinsey interview data
The Relation of Closed Birth Intervals to the Sex of the Preceding Child and the Sexual Orientation of the Succeeding Child
The study investigated whether homosexual men are, on average, born a shorter time after their next-older siblings than are heterosexual men. Because of mixed evidence that birth intervals are longer after a male child, the sex of the next-older sibling was included as a control variable. The probands were 220 heterosexual and 183 homosexual men with at least one older sibling examined in Southern Ontario in 1994–95. These completed a self-admini…
Birth Order in Homosexual Versus Heterosexual Sex Offenders Against Children, Pubescents, and Adults
Birth Order and Sibling Sex Ratio in Homosexual and Heterosexual Non-White Men
Intellectual ability and reactions to pornography
Two studies examined the relation between intelligence and men's sexual attitudes and interpersonal behavior with a woman after viewing pornography. Undergraduate men were assessed for IQ, viewed one of several films, then were assessed on various dependent measures, including interpersonal behavior with a female confederate. Lower IQ men were more sexually suggestive to the woman after viewing a sexually violent film than after viewing an nonvio…
The Relation Between Sexual Orientation and Penile Size
Birth order and sexual orientation in a national probability sample
The relations between birth order and sexual orientation in both men and women were examined in a national probability sample of the United States (Laumann, Gagnon, Michael, & Michaels, 1994). In addition, a possible mechanism that may underlie a birth order/sexual orientation relationship—sibling sexual activity/influence—was examined in these data. As in previous studies, men with same‐sex attraction were born later relative to men with opposit…
Fraternal Birth Order and Sexual Orientation in Pedophiles
Adult attachment and sexual behavior
The relations between adult attachment processes and sexuality were examined in a community sample of 792 young adults (327 men and 465 women) from the Niagara region of Canada. Participants completed questionnaires that included Simpson’s (1990) measure of adult attachment, self‐reported physical attractiveness, erotophilia, and a variety of sexual behavior measures (e.g., number of sexual partners, age of first sexual experience, frequency of s…
Age of Puberty and Sexual Orientation in a National Probability Sample
How Many Gay Men Owe Their Sexual Orientation to Fraternal Birth Order
Number of older brothers and social orientation
The extent to which number of older brothers or "fraternal birth order" predicted the 2 main components that researchers have traditionally used to conceptualize sexual orientation-that is, psychological attraction and sexual behavior-was examined in 2 recent national probability samples. In both studies, fraternal birth order predicted same-sex attraction in men, with each additional older brother increasing the odds of homosexual attraction by …
Interaction of Older Brothers and Sex-Typing in the Prediction of Sexual Orientation in Men
The Interaction of Birth Order and Parental Age on Sexual Orientation
A birth order and sexual orientation relationship has been demonstrated numerous times in men, but a related variable, parental age (i.e. age of parents when the participant was born), has been less studied and has demonstrated contradictory results. In this research, the relations among birth order, parental age and sexual orientation were examined in a national probability sample of the US (Kessler, 1994; Kessler et al. , 1994) and in a Canadia…
Proportion of homosexual men who owe their sexual orientation to fraternal birth order
Homosexuality in men correlates with an individual's number of older brothers, greater numbers of older brothers being associated with a greater probability of homosexuality. There are reasons to believe that this relationship is causal rather than merely statistical, that is, that older brothers produce the increase in the probability of homosexuality for later‐born males. It is possible, under this assumption, to estimate the proportion of homo…
Asexuality
I used data from a national probability sample (N > 18,000) of British residents to investigate asexuality, defined as having no sexual attraction to a partner of either sex. Approximately 1% (n = 195) of the sample indicated they were asexual. A number of factors were related to asexuality, including gender (i.e., more women than men), short stature, low education, low socioeconomic status, and poor health. Asexual women also had a later onset o…
Sibling Sex Ratio and Sexual Orientation in Men and Women
Birth Order and Sexual Orientation in Men
Birth order is correlated with male sexual orientation, but the reason(s) for this relationship is unclear. In the present study, data from a Canadian sample of homosexual and heterosexual men ( N =604) were used to present evidence of two independent birth order interactions – one with height and the other with parental age – predicting sexual orientation in men. If these findings prove reliable, it raises the possibility that different aetiolog…
Toward a Conceptual Understanding of Asexuality
Asexuality has been the subject of recent academic ( A. F. Bogaert, 2004 ) and public (e.g., New Scientist; CNN) discourse. This has raised questions about the conceptualization and definition of asexuality. Here the author reviews some of these issues, discusses asexuality from a sexual orientation point of view (i.e., as a lack of sexual attraction), and reviews the similarities and differences between this definition and related phenomena (e.g…
Psychology (47 works) · Social Psychology (44 works) · Developmental psychology (41 works) · Sexual orientation (31 works) · Demography (25 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (23 works) · Medicine (21 works) · Sexual behavior (21 works) · Population (17 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (17 works)