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Nothing better than to wake up to news that researchers think we’re all a bunch of pervs. In the ever-lasting search for understanding of why people get aroused, a “study funded by the Atlanta-based Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) analyzed the viewing patterns of men and women looking at sexual photographs, and the result was not what one typically might expect.”

Their words, not mine.

Researchers hypothesized women would look at faces and men at genitals, but, surprisingly, they found men are more likely than women to first look at a woman’s face before other parts of the body, and women focused longer on photographs of men performing sexual acts with women than did the males. These types of results could play a key role in helping researchers to understand human sexual desires and its ultimate effect on public health.

Guess what, they also found out that men and women showed different patterns of brain activity when viewing sexual stimuli.

Turns out, both men and women like to stare at each other’s junk.

Here’s the kicker:

Although it is commonly assumed males have more interest in visual sexual stimuli, researchers are working to figure out what characteristics are important to men and women in their evaluations of sexual stimuli.

The answer may lie within a small section of the brain called the amygdala, which is important in the processing of emotional information. In Dr. Hamann and Wallen’s previous fMRI study, men showed more activation in the amygdala in response to sexual vs. neutral stimuli than did women.

There you have it, guys, blame it on your amygdala.

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