A new study shows women are also in pornography as men
It is men are more "visual creatures" than women.
There is an old saying that "men fall in love through their eyes, while women fall in love through their ears. "Now a new study published in the journalActs of the National Academy of Sciences challenges the long-held belief that men are more "visual creatures" than women, at least where sexual arousal is concerned.
ResearchersMax Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Germanyanalyzed 61 studies that measured the brain activity of men and women of different sexual orientations that were presented with "erotic visual stimuli. "Previously, self studies have indicated that men are more aroused by pornography than women. But when the researchers looked at the actual brain scans, they found that sexual imagery affected brain activity of men and women similarly.
"At least at the level of neuronal activity ... the brains of men and women react the same way to pornography,"Hamid NooriCo-author of the study,RecountThe Guardian.
Scientists theorize that previous findings may have overestimated the gap between men and when on sexual stimuli due to the small sample size and stigmas of female sexuality. "For women, there are secondary effects that the inhibitors away to express what they really feel," said Noori. "At least at this moment, our study indicates that men and women are not very different. »
This study is the latest in a growing body of research indicating that, contrary to popular belief, women are just as interested in sex as men. For example, a recent study found thatwomen now report having almost as much sex as men dream. And other recent research has shown that, despite what people might think,women often bored with monogamy faster than men.
"There are decades of biased pseudoscience on the sexuality of women out there,"Wednesday martin, A cultural anthropologist and author ofFalse: why almost everything we believe in women, lust and infidelity is wrong and how the new science can free us, RecountBetter life. "This new study is one more nail in the coffin of the ridiculous belief that women are" naturally less interested in sex sex. "And for more on the science of sex, seeThe Surprising Added advantage of having sex.
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