LiveScience.com - Women's Brains React Surprisingly Fast to Erotic Images

LiveScience.com - Women's Brains React Surprisingly Fast to Erotic Images:

Erotic images elicit faster and stronger electrical responses in a woman's brain than other images ranging from pleasant to disturbing.

The finding might not sound surprising, but researches did not expect responses to erotic images to emerge so quickly, apparently involving different circuits than the processing of other images.

"That surprised us," said study leader Andrey Anokhin of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. "We believed both pleasant and disturbing images would evoke a rapid response, but erotic scenes always elicited the strongest response."

This seems interesting, given how quickly we assume it's men who are most stimulated visually; perhaps it's that women are stimulated differently than men and we just didn't notice before? Or care? 'Cause that never happens.

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