Study on Women's Brains

[Carpe Coma]

There wasn't much information that was new to me. The bit about the lesbians responding the same way that the other women did, did surprise me a bit. I had always expected that their sexuality would respond much more like men. Though, that is probably largely due to a lack of personal experience.

It has been known for quite a while that women, on average, are extremely bad at identifying when they are aroused. I remember hearing about those tests nearly a decade ago.

The bits about women possibly having a much more fluid concept of attraction lends credence to the hypothesis that women treat sex more as a social lubricant/bonding tool than as a means for reproduction, along with further credence to the idea that women treat sex as more an emotional process/action than men. Rather like the saying; Men give love to get sex, women give sex to get love.

The part that I found most amusing were the struggles the various researchers were having finding ways to explain their results when it came to arousal and force fantasies in a way that was politically acceptable.

The "needing to be desired" is more difficult as that could be very easily be cultural in origin. It is one of the most consistent, omnipresent messages: that woman must be desirable to be worth anything. That aside, look at submissive fantasies. A very large percentage of them revolve around being the center of attention in one way or another. This also fits with how we perceive power on a social level; by the amount of attention we get/give.

It sounds like that they are still suffering from the probably misguided perception that there is a single sexual strategy for each gender. I wonder how their results would hold up if they used self identified submissive men and dominant women.

[DIXIE LASS]

The bits about women possibly having a much more fluid concept of attraction lends credence to the hypothesis that women treat sex more as a social lubricant/bonding tool than as a means for reproduction, along with further credence to the idea that women treat sex as more an emotional process/action than men. Rather like the saying; Men give love to get sex, women give sex to get love.

I like your conclusion here, Carpe Coma, and the last sentence makes for a great one-liner.

BuDdha, I've favored an old saying for years, "If you're not in my head, you're not in my erogenous zone." I believe that, for females especially, your post and the underlying article supports that old adage and also the one about our brains being our biggest sex organs. I enjoyed the post.

DIXIE