This study investigated the ability of two viewing time (VT) methodologies and a pictorial Stroop task to differentiate sexual interest in a group of nonoffending heterosexual and homosexual men. The two VT methodologies were investigated given the lack of consistency among published studies supporting this method. The results indicated that the VT methodology in which participants are asked to browse through some images is slightly superior to the method in which participants are asked to rate their attractiveness to the images. The results also indicated that the Pictorial Stroop Task did not adequately differentiate between age categories of sexual interest within the two groups. The results have implications for the methodology used in VT tasks.
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