Sexual Interests

Conditioning of Sexual Interests and Paraphilias in Humans Is Difficult to See, Virtually Impossible to Test, and Probably Exactly How It Happens: A Comment on Hsu and Bailey (2020)

While reading Hsu and Bailey’s (2020) reply to Grey (2020) about the role of conditioning explanations for sexual interests, two old aphorisms came to mind: “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” (e.g., Martin, 2007) and “Don’t throw the …