Are men more visually aroused than women? There’s a widespread assumption that menfolk are hard-wired to view women as sexual objects, and that, as more visual creatures, all it takes is a close-up picture of an arse to get their priapic blood pumping. Women, meanwhile, the theory goes, need intimacy, empathy, and romantic scenarios involving candles in order to get off. Studies show that women are less turned on by erotic images than men, which must be why so many of us are so indifferent to porn, right? RIGHT?
Well, maybe. Certainly scientific studies seem to confirm this. When men and women are presented with erotic images, the men’s brains reportedly show higher levels of activity, leading scientists to conclude that they respond more to visual sexual stimulae. Yet when reading about these studies in the Mail or wherever, we’re rarely told what exactly is in the pictures. It’ll usually say something like “the participants viewed several types of sexual imagery for X amount of time”, but what exactly they are watching is left up to our imaginations, and it could be anything. Except it probably isn’t. It’s probably something that is made for men.
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