Abstract
A sample of 189 single, college women were randomly assigned by blocks to four experimental conditions that varied imagined-diaphragm-insertion during sexual activity: (a) Diaphragm-Inserted-Before, (b) Diaphragm Inserted-During, (c) Diaphragm-Inserted-During (Measurement control), and (d) No- Diaphragm-Control. Imagining inserting a diaphragm reduced subjectlve sexual arousal during coital imagery. Imagining interrupting sexual activities to insert a diaphragm tended to produce surprise and guilt. Imagining inserting a diaphragm led high-sex-guilt women to feel more shame, anger, guilt, distress, disgust, and surprise. High-sex- guilt predicted decreased subjective sexual arousal and positive affects and increased negative affects during precoital and coital imagery. When high-sex-guilt women imagined inserting a diaphragm, this decreased both subjective sexual arousal and affective guilt. Results were discussed from the perspective of Mosher's (1980) involvement theory.
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