Abstract; Mating is a double-edged sword. It can have great adaptive benefits, but also high costs, depending on the mate. Disgust is an avoidance reaction that serves the function of discouraging costly mating decisions, for example if the risk of pathogen transmission is high. It should, however, be temporarily inhibited in order to enable potentially adaptive mating. We therefore tested the hypothesis that sexual arousal inhibits disgust if a partner is attractive, but not if he is unattractive or shows signs of disease. In an online experiment, women rated their disgust towards anticipated behaviors with men depicted on photographs. Participants did so in a sexually aroused state and in a control state. The faces varied in attractiveness and the presence of disease cues (blemishes). We found that disease cues and attractiveness, but not sexual arousal, influenced disgust. The results suggest that women feel disgust at sexual contact with unattractive or diseased men independently of their sexual arousal.

Keywords

Disgust Sexual arousal Attraction Physical attractiveness Disease avoidance

I would try and put in my two cents but sadly the rest of the article is behind a paywall, maybe the women were disgusted due to the actual type of sexual activity being discussed because it wasn’t their kink?

Link to Article; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0106-8?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf