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 * Following are sections to be added to the Erotophilia page. Also changing "personality trait" in current page content to just "trait"**

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Meanwhile, people with erotophobic tendencies are often not prone to undertake sex education and are likely to stereotype sexually transmitted infections.

Under See Also: add link to Child sexual abuse page

Development
Erotophilia is developed all throughout a person's life and is fluid in the way that it is always changing due to different situations and experiences one may have.

One of the leading predictors for a person's erotophilia is surrounding their upbringing. People who grow up with families with open minds about sex, including a more accepting and understanding family, are more likely to lean towards the erotophilic side of the spectrum rather than erotophobe. On the other hand, those who grow up in a more conservative family who does not talk about topics such as sex are more likely to grow up erotophobic.

Traumatic experiences such as rape, injury, and sexual abuse also play a role on someone's erotophilia.

Effects of Sexual Abuse During Childhood
The impact that traumatic events have on people varies from person to person. For example, the effect that childhood sexual abuse has on survivors may be reflected in their erotophilia. Some people become very careless about sex during their adolescence after being abused. They tend to have voluntary sex at younger ages, are more common to have more partners and unprotected sex, and girls are more likely to become teen mothers. Because the child is most commonly abused by a trusted adult, some explain the later as the teen's way of compensating for the trust and love she lost when the adult abused her. She believes that by having a child, she will be able to heal and always have someone there for her.

On the other hand, people who take their traumatic experiences and use it as reference for future sexual experiences become more erotophobic. Because they have a bad sexual experience as reference, they are less likely to engage in future sexual activity and develop a negative view on sex. The stigma that surrounds sexual abuse survivors also affects them by making them feel ashamed by anything sexual that they may do, making them do less of it.

How it is Measured
Sexual Opinion Survey- One method of measuring a person's erotophobia-erotophilia is through the Sexual Opinion Survey (S.O.S), a questionnaire containing statements aimed to gage their point of view on different sexual topics such as masturbation, oral sex, and same sex partners. Participants respond to statements (e.g. "I do not enjoy daydreaming about sexual matters") using a seven point scale varying from "Strongly Agree" to "Strongly Disagree". The score is then added up and the higher the scores are the more erotophilic the participant is; and those with lower scores are more erotophobic.

Attitudes toward Sexual Behaviors Scale (ASBS)- This method is used to measure people's attitudes and opinions on specific sexual practices. The survey describes different sexual behaviors including (but not limited to) masturbation, penetration, group sex, and oral and anal sex. The participants then rate their attitude towards the subjects as positive, neither positive nor negative, or negative. The responses are scored using a point system where positive responses receive more points than negative; therefore when added up, a higher score correlates to more positive attitudes (erotophilic) and lower ones correlate to more negative attitudes towards sexual behaviors (erotophobic).

Another way of measuring this trait is similar to the last, where participants are shown images (rather than descriptions with context) to which they respond with their reaction. Their responses can either be positive, negative, sexual, or neutral.

Comfort with Sexual Matters for Young Adults scale- Research is usually conducted on emerging adults and those older, making the previous methods appropriate for them specifically. Although, sexual health is an important matter to teach people of all ages and therefore another method had to be created to measure younger adults' erotophilia. This method is called the Comfort with Sexual Matters for Young Adults scale (CWSMYA). It was intended to be similar to the SOS but with more age appropriate and less explicit scenarios. The questionnaire ended up containing only six statements to which the participant responded to based on a six point scale ranging from Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree.

Erotophilia in Relation to Erotic Material
In a study conducted by Michael A. Becker and Donn Byrne, they found that the time people spend voluntarily looking at erotica depends on their erotophilia. Erotophilic people are more likely to spend more time looking at sexual images when compared to erotophobes. In their study, Becker and Byrne showed participants erotic images and allowed them to switch images whenever they were ready. Once they went through all of the images, they were then tested on what they recall seeing and how they responded to them, whether they were sexually aroused or not. Erotophilic people spent more time looking at each image and reported higher stimulation than erotophobes. They also reported a higher ability to recall the content in the images, which may be due to their longer exposure and enjoyment.

Erotophilia in Pregnant Women
Many women report to lose interest in sexual activity during their pregnancies. This may be due to their changing body and complications that they may see coming because of their inability to move as before. Then, their libido begins to increase postpartum, although it does not always reach the same levels they may have been used to before pregnancy. Mothers who are more likely to reach their old erotophilic levels faster are those who breastfeed rather than mothers who bottle feed, even though their hormone levels are lower. This could be explained because mothers who breastfeed were more likely to be more erotophilic to begin with than the mothers who bottle feed.

Mothers who were originally more erotophilic also showed to be less affected by their pregnancies in terms of their sexual desire and satisfaction. This may be due to their openness to learn and try to adjust their sex life around their pregnancy. Meanwhile, erotophobic women are not as open to experimenting and therefore decreased their sexual desire.

General Findings:

 * Often times, it is hard to distinguish between a person's sole response to a specific stimuli and their response to an overall triggering stimuli. For example, when showing erotophobes triggering images, they demonstrated their ability to respond to negative points quickly but this may have stemmed from their tendencies to avoid certain stimuli rather than them responding to the overall sexual message.
 * One researcher found that those who seemed to report having sexual thoughts more frequently also reported having more frequent thoughts about other need-based things, such as food and sleep. This reveals that different people have different thresholds for need-based thoughts and therefore the amount of times some think about sex may not be comparable to the number of times someone else does. In this case, the men were thinking about need-based cognitions more frequently than the woman participants; although this does not solidify the stereotype saying that men overall think about sex more often. Fisher's study disproves this and credits one's erotophilia, rather than biological sex, as a greater predictor of sexual thoughts.
 * The representation of women in sexual studies is also negatively impacted by their social desirability, created by stereotypes such as that of men mentioned above.
 * Some demographics point to the trend of higher class, young males being inclined to more erotophilic habitude.