Study on Women's Brains

[steelish]

Men's bodies corresponded exactly to what they reported.

Women, on the other hand, tested very differently. They showed at least some arousal to every video. AND their self-reporting of desire often did not match the bodily response of sexual stimulation.

So, what do we learn? That women want to fuck monkeys? (maybe) But it really suggests two things: 1. that women are not in touch with their bodies, and 2. that for women, desire is as mental as it is physical (if not more). Foreplay, for women, is the 24 hours before sex

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/ma...sire-t.html?em

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I wonder what the rest of you think of this study, and the suggested conclusions? I feel like the emphatically psychological nature of D/s is what draws me to it. I do want to be clear that I don't understand 1 to mean that the "psychological" desire to be any less legitimate than a "physical" response.

My theory is that women do not always FEEL desire even though their bodies might respond with that of sexual stimulation. Just because a woman's vagina gets moist doesn't always mean she is turned on mentally or emotionally. On the flip side, if a woman is mentally and/or emotionally aroused, I can GUARANTEE YOU that her vagina will be moist and ready to go! The mind and the body need to work together for women. For men I really don't think their head has to be in it. Well, at least not the one at the top of their necks!

Just my two cents worth...

[Losalt]

I beg to differ about women being out of touch with their bodies. For example, I know of cases where women have been sexually abused or assaulted and have had orgasms. These women were not turned on or aroused by what was happening to them, quite the opposite as I'm sure you know. But we are unable to control the response our bodies have. Just because I get wet watching monkey porn doesn't mean that I like watching it or that I feel like having sex. I think that women are complex, not out of touch, and that we are capable of having a physical response that is at complete odds with what we're feeling and experiencing in our heads.

As I think about it more, I believe that it makes sense evolutionary wise as well. Women who's vaginas got lubricated when raped would be less likely to be injured, a clear advantage.

I agree about women being complex..
But I don't like drawing the line there...
The human mind in general is rather more complex then we tend to think.
That include both males and females.
As for the clear evolutionary advantage, sure :-)
Although it would be clearer if that wasn't genes only active in one of the genders but used in both the genders.
Males would need to be ready whenever to be able to bring the genes on combined with the female need to avoid damage perhaps?
Also.. haven't there been some study showing that the female orgasm increase the lightlyhood of either getting pregnant or carrying out the child or something?

My theory is that women do not always FEEL desire even though their bodies might respond with that of sexual stimulation. Just because a woman's vagina gets moist doesn't always mean she is turned on mentally or emotionally. On the flip side, if a woman is mentally and/or emotionally aroused, I can GUARANTEE YOU that her vagina will be moist and ready to go! The mind and the body need to work together for women. For men I really don't think their head has to be in it. Well, at least not the one at the top of their necks!

Just my two cents worth...

No offense, but men can actually be raped..
Although I guess that the kind of rape that involve their own genitals isn't common, or at least it don't show on the crime statistics..
And on my part at least I get turned on more by the stories in this library then I am by porn in the form of pictures or videos..
That include the videos in the bdsm theme..

Hum...

Another thing..

We're the only primate that I'm aware of (other then dwarf chimpanzees) that don't have periods when we're in heat followed of periods with little or no interest in sex.
In the case of dwarf chimpanzees they (the females) use sex to smoothen out social problems reducing tension in the group..
Hum..
Perhaps I shouldn't write this much this late at night..
I'll have another look in here on a later date :-)