I've been talking with a colleague at school about women and brains. She gave me an interesting article from the NYT that reports a couple of things. When men watch homoerotic and heterosexual sex, a naked man alone, and a woman, and bonobo monkeys having sex, men's desires fell out entirely by sexual orientation. Heterosexual men were aroused by the couple and woman.

Desire was measured by genital monitoring and self-reporting. 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.