Anthony Francis Bogaert
Brock University, Canada
Biography
Anthony Bogaert has a PhD in Psychology, and he is currently Professor of Health Sciences at Brock University in the Niagara region of Canada. He has been teaching and researching human sexuality for over thirty years. In that time, he has published many academic articles and book chapters related to various aspects of sexuality, published a book on sexuality, and taught and supervised thousands of students on the science of sex. He is considered one of the world’s top scientists based on Stanford University’s list of top-cited researchers. He has also won numerous scientific awards, including a theory award from one of the major world organizations devoted to sexuality (Society for Scientific Study of Sex; SSSS).
Research Interest
In this presentation, we discuss object of desire self-consciousness (ODSC), a perception of one’s own romantic and/or sexual desirability. ODSC has been argued to play a more important role in women’s than in men’s sociosexual functioning, including in their language of sexual communication. We examined whether sexual phrases indicative of ODSC themes referred to, and were expressed by, women more than men using a corpus approach to language in a large database of books. Specifically, variations of the phrase “feel sexy” were examined because this language has been argued to capture a perception of one’s desirability but also often indicates an arousal component to that sense of desirability, reflective of ODSC.