Caius
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ORIGINAL: NuevaVida Genuinely interested in links to those studies, if you have them. I know I'm hardly affected at all by sex pictures of men and certainly not of cock shots. Most of the women I know feel the same, and it's a sentiment often shared by many women on these boards. Yes, you're absolutely right -- context is everything and these types of studies are cursory, general, and conducted in an artificial environment. And I undoubtedly do believe that there are some innate differences in how men and women process stimuli. But at the same time, I am inclined to believe the tendencies have become over stereotyped. It's not unlike the silly debate that has surrounded whether women might be somehow less gifted at math than men. When the phenomena was ultimately examined, what little they found that was minimally conclusive was that both women and men excelled in different areas of math, but that these propensities tended to be very specific and statistically not very impressive and thus didn't really amount to much in the long run. The differences between the sexes are often like that -- more real than some people want to believe but also much more subtle than others imagine. quote:
ORIGINAL: NuevaVida All anecdotal of course. We're not talking pornography here, which may be a visual sex act between two or more people. We're talking cock shots, ass shots, etc. I'd recommend that's not a way to capture a woman's attention in the positive. True. But then I don't think there's a huge divide between men and women there either. The pictures you are talking about tend to fixate on one piece of the anatomy with a kind of laughable obsessiveness. I'm sure the majority of men would rather have a full-body pic of a beautiful nude woman than a close-up of a twat being stretched out. And yes, I'll be happy to give you directions to some of those studies, soon as I can dig them up. I can also recommend some broad-audience authors who have written about the subject of variation between the sexes from a nativistic standpoint. Stephen Pinker's "How the Mind Works" and "The Blank Slate; the Modern Denial of Human Nature" are both great places to look for a primer on this subject matter.
< Message edited by Caius -- 8/17/2011 6:50:07 PM >
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