Posted on 04/11/2007 5:02:05 AM PDT by shrinkermd
...It is a misconception that the differences between men’s and women’s brains are small or erratic or found only in a few extreme cases, Dr. Larry Cahill of the University of California, Irvine, wrote last year in Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Widespread regions of the cortex, the brain’s outer layer that performs much of its higher-level processing, are thicker in women. The hippocampus, where initial memories are formed, occupies a larger fraction of the female brain.
Techniques for imaging the brain have begun to show that men and women use their brains in different ways even when doing the same thing...
It is no surprise that the male and female versions of the human brain operate in distinct patterns...The male brain is sexually oriented toward women as an object of desire. The most direct evidence comes from a handful of cases, some of them circumcision accidents, in which boy babies have lost their penises and been reared as female. Despite every social inducement to the opposite, they grow up desiring women as partners, not men...
...Presumably the masculinization of the brain shapes some neural circuit that makes women desirable. If so, this circuitry is wired differently in gay men. In experiments in which subjects are shown photographs of desirable men or women, straight men are aroused by women, gay men by men.
Such experiments do not show the same clear divide with women. Whether women describe themselves as straight or lesbian, “Their sexual arousal seems to be relatively indiscriminate — they get aroused by both male and female images,” Dr. Bailey said. “I’m not even sure females have a sexual orientation. But they have sexual preferences. Women are very picky, and most choose to have sex with men.”
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He nails it. LOL
Women are “picky” it said. So I don’t think the pulse thing applies. LOL
Then again, the only thing Sandra Bernhard had going for her was a pulse.
EGAD . . . just one of the reasons my boy kept his turtleneck!
Or so some associates have informed Me. *smile*
Erm,
I think while it may not be a primary,
I do believe (no, I know!) that women can be visually stimulated.
Heck, why do you think the chick lit forums are all running clips of the movie “300” with the sound off ;)
It’s the same thing, though—women are stimulated more through words than sight, whether the words are printed or are whispered into their ears. You’ll notice that none of the hit chick flicks like Pride and Prejudice feature the hero removing his lace and cutaway jacket; the sexiness comes from the romantic stuff he says, not from views of his genitals.
Speaking as a chick myself, I liked 300 a LOT. ;-)
Yes, I take your point.
Balderdash; this is a rereading of unproved speculation.
If it were so, then we might as well put away the sharp knives now and let these girly men do whatever they please.
A good rant about how men are now “Six foot tall poodles” in chick lit-—
http://angelasknights.blogspot.com
Thank you, that was absolutely lovely. I sent it to all my girlfriends so we could enjoy the high art and romanticism of that video together. ;-)
LOL!
It’s one of my “make me smile” videos.
They are soooo purdy!
Be careful with this ... unexpected delivery of flowers for no particular reason might trigger a full blown resentment event for something you weren't aware of doing but the women was building a case around. Resentment interruptus is very irrating to some women.
LOL! True
Totally agree. When I was younger, and saw a penthouse or playboy magazine, I could immediately place myself in her place. I was her. I was the sexy woman. I didn't want HER. I wanted TO BE her!
““HAve yo ever noticed that when guys get angry it’s usually over and done with in 2 hours, but women stay angry for weeks......years, even......””
******
I read somewhere comments made by US military sniper instructors indicating that women have psyches that are well-suited to sniping. They can appear calm and in one place for a long time and when the victim least expects it-—POW!— right out of nowhere they get their block knocked off.
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