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Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment
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The Validity of Phallometric Assessment With Rapists: Comments on Looman & Marshall (2005)

Martin L. Lalumière

Department of Psychology, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, T1K 3M4, Canada, martin.lalumiere{at}uleth.ca

Marnie E. Rice

University of Lethbridge and McMaster University, Canada

In a recent article Looman and Marshall (2005) questioned the validity of phallometric assessment of rapists based on the results of a study of incarcerated rapists and child molesters. In this commentary we offer (1) a critique of the methods used and conclusions reached by Looman and Marshall and (2) a discussion of important methodological issues relevant to phallometry. We conclude that the correct inference from Looman and Marshall's study is that rapists, as a group, show a pattern of sexual arousal to audiotaped scenarios of coercive and non-coercive sex that significantly differs from the pattern of groups of non-sex offenders, in agreement with the general literature on this question.

Key Words: Phallometry • Sexual arousal • Sexual preferences • Rapists • Discriminative validity • Methodology

Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, Vol. 19, No. 1, 61-68 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/107906320701900106
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