This article provides a comparison and comprehensive analysis of varied approaches to the assessment of sexual interest and behaviours at different international sexual behaviour assessment labs. The assessment protocols are described for four sexual behaviour laboratories: the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre's Sexual Behaviours Clinic in Canada; the Medical University of South Carolina's Sexual Behaviours Clinic and Laboratory in the US; the Laboratory of Evolutionary Sexology and Psychopathology in the Czech Republic; and the Laboratory of Forensic Sexology in Russia. An overview of examinee demographics and types of cases assessed is provided for each lab. Assessment protocols, including psychometric measures and objective measures of sexual interest and arousal, such as penile plethysmography or eye-tracking, are also reviewed. The differences across labs may lead to interesting and productive cross-cultural investigations and studies about the efficacy of specific assessment methods.

b Sexual Behaviours Clinic Integrated Forensic Program The Royal Ottawa ON Canada

c Sexual Behaviors Clinic and Lab Community and Public Safety Psychiatry Division Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Medical University of South Carolina Charleston SC USA

e Faculty of Humanities Charles University Prague Czech Republic

f Department of Psychiatry University of Ottawa Ottawa Canada

Laboratory of Evolutionary Sexology and Psychopathology National Institute of Mental Health Klecany Czech Republic

Laboratory of Forensic Sexology Department for Forensic Psychiatric Assessment in Criminal Proceedings 5 Serbsky National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology Moscow Russian Federation

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