ABSTRACT
The Sexual Anxiety Scale (SAS) was developed to assess individuals’ affective response to sexual cues, or erotophobia/philia. The term erotophobia/philia (EE) refers to the tendency to respond to sexual stimuli with either negative or positive affect (Fisher, Byrne, White, & Kelley, 1988), and the primary measure of EE to date has been the Sexual Opinion Survey (SOS; Fisher et al., 1988). Although it exhibits good psychometric properties, the SOS focuses primarily on responses to homosexuality, media with sexual content, and a small range of sexual behaviours. The SAS is a 56-item self-report measure that assesses affective response to a broader range of sexual cues in both the public and private domains.
