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"The neural basis of sexual arousal in humans is associated with sexual orientation [visual sexual stimuli] yet, contrary to the widely accepted view, is not different between women and men."
The finding comes from a review of 61 brain scanning studies that showed men and women pornographic pictures or films as they lay in a brain scanner.
“There are differences in behaviour – the number of men going to porn sites is roughly 80 per cent of the consumers,” says Noori. “But men and women respond the same way at the brain level to visual sexual stimuli. What we do with it afterwards is what brings the difference.”
So I guess, that women have in general more reasons and strenghts to control their horniness and not act on it.*1
study/info:
www.pnas.org
www.newscientist.com
*1. study to back up my claim that women have more sexual regulator self control:
"here are a few recent studies that suggest that females are less impulsive during fertile phases of the menstrual cycle (Pine and Fletcher, 2011; Carroll et al., 2013; Khaighobadi and Stevens, 2013; Smith et al., 2014) and these findings provides indirect support for the Bjorklund and Kipp (1996) predictions. It may not be the case that females are constantly more self-controlled and less impulsive than males. In other words, sex differences in self-control are not trait-like enduring dimorphisms but rather, these sex differences fluctuate with the changing hormonal environment of the female menstrual cycle. It appears as though females who are high in estrogen (during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle) are generally less impulsive than men. If this is the case, then support is provided for the hypothesis that at least during potentially reproductive periods, females employ a more self-controlled and less impulsive behavioral strategy."
*1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4121536/
The finding comes from a review of 61 brain scanning studies that showed men and women pornographic pictures or films as they lay in a brain scanner.
“There are differences in behaviour – the number of men going to porn sites is roughly 80 per cent of the consumers,” says Noori. “But men and women respond the same way at the brain level to visual sexual stimuli. What we do with it afterwards is what brings the difference.”
So I guess, that women have in general more reasons and strenghts to control their horniness and not act on it.*1
study/info:
Neural substrates of sexual arousal are not sex dependent
Neuroimaging studies suggest differences in the underlying biology of sexual arousal associated with sex and sexual orientation, yet their findings are conflicting. Following a thorough statistical review of all significant neuroimaging studies, we offer strong quantitative evidence that the...
Sexual images are just as arousing for women as they are for men
It was thought that male brains respond more to pornographic images than female brains – but a large review finds there is no significant difference
*1. study to back up my claim that women have more sexual regulator self control:
"here are a few recent studies that suggest that females are less impulsive during fertile phases of the menstrual cycle (Pine and Fletcher, 2011; Carroll et al., 2013; Khaighobadi and Stevens, 2013; Smith et al., 2014) and these findings provides indirect support for the Bjorklund and Kipp (1996) predictions. It may not be the case that females are constantly more self-controlled and less impulsive than males. In other words, sex differences in self-control are not trait-like enduring dimorphisms but rather, these sex differences fluctuate with the changing hormonal environment of the female menstrual cycle. It appears as though females who are high in estrogen (during the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle) are generally less impulsive than men. If this is the case, then support is provided for the hypothesis that at least during potentially reproductive periods, females employ a more self-controlled and less impulsive behavioral strategy."
*1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4121536/
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