New research led by Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada proves that a mans man’s brain is located in his pants.
Well, maybe not quiet; put in medical-ese “men’s reports of feeling sexually aroused tend to match their physiological responses, while women’s mind and body responses are less aligned.”
The study also revealed that men and women respond differently to sexual stimuli.
Of course we all know that – there’s thousands of years of anecdotal evidence. However, until now there has been no systematic analysis.
The study importantly adds evidence to the perception that guilt may force women to curb their sexual feelings while men are more open about them.
Even when a woman experiences the physical symptoms of arousal she may not acknowledge it. “Some women show physical responses without reporting any experience of sexual arousal,” according to Psychology professor Meredith Chivers, an expert in human sexual response.
“We wanted to discover how closely people’s subjective experience of sexual arousal mirrors their physiological genital response – and whether this differs between men and women,” said Chivers, the lead researcher.
The researchers looked at 134 studies, published between 1969 and 2007, that focused on subjective experiences of sexual arousal and physiological genital responses in men and women. In total, these studies involved 2,500 women and 1,900 men.
The participants were asked to reveal their degree of arousal when they were exposed to various sexual stimuli.
The physiological response was measured by penile erection in men or genital blood flow in women.
The men’s brain and bodies were almost always in agreement, while there was more often a reported inconsistency between women’s physical response of woem offered differed from their perceived arousal.
“Our results have implications for the assessment of sexual arousal, the nature of gender differences in sexual arousal, and models of sexual response,” said Chivers.
