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== Sex difference in visual arousal == | == Sex difference in visual arousal == | ||
The mere sight of | The mere sight of female genitals is highly sexually arousing to males, but females are not very aroused by male genitals as explained by differences in [[sex drive]] caused by differences in [[wikipedia:Parental investment|parental investment]]. However women often "get wet" due to even remotely sexual visual stimuli, without reporting sexual arousal. This has been hypothesized to be a reflex to prevent damage from rape. As a result women even get wet looking at animals having sex.<ref>https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-008-9339-8</ref> | ||
There have been a number of scientific results on women's genital arousal being more arbitrary and less predictable/specific than men's, e.g. being elicited both by hetero- and homosexual visual stimuli, while men's phallometric response is more heterosexual and correlates more closely with their sexual arousal. However, more recent research points to methodical weaknesses in older results, and suggests that women's genital response is just as specifically tuned to the opposite sex as it is the case in males, but only when tasked to pay voluntary attention to the stimuli at hand.<ref>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283322711_Women%27s_specificity_in_sexual_response-_moderations_by_measurement</ref> | |||
== Related organs == | == Related organs == | ||