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Bolmont, Bianchi-Demicheli, Cheval, 479 Visual Patterns of Sexual Desire Among Male and Female Participants: An Original and Exploratory Eye Tracking Study, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, Volume 15, Issue Supplement_3, July 2018, Pages S298–S299, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2018.04.386
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Sexual desire is defined as "an increase in the frequency and intensity of thoughts / fantasies and desire sexual intercourse, desire to interact with each other". While the eyes and the direction of gaze represent a valid technology to capture person’s attention and interest toward a specific target, few studies have investigated the specific pattern of visual exploration linked to perception of sexual desire. To explore in heterosexual participants what parts of the body are the more important when they visually explore a person and feel sexual desire using gaze patterns, which is considered a spontaneous, unconscious, and Heterosexual females and males (N = 106) performed a picture-viewing task with simultaneous eye-tracking recording in which they were asked to made an explicit judgment of perceived sexual desire, looking at sensual pictures of heterosexual couples. Participants’ objectively assessed total duration of fixations (in seconds) of the visual area of interest (i.e., face and body).