Ladies: Can you explain or validate the results of an arousal experiment?

Question

A radio show reported that a study was done to measure the arousal of heterosexual women based on the visual stimulation. Pictures of naked attractive men did very little to nothing while any sort of motion where either two clothed lovers moving against each other in bed or even nude other females doing platonic exercises sparked much arousal.

Answer 1

Maybe for the same reason that erotic novels are written or at least bought by women. It's not just a naked man, it's what he's doing, or at least what you imagine him doing. Like teh scenario, the ambience or the room, the look on his face, the things he is saying - everything is s**y, not just the body.

Answer 2

It takes much more than just a naked attractive man to turn me on.  The clothed lovers exhibit sexuality, and romance...that may do the trick.  As for naked females doing platonic exercises...I'm not even sure what the could mean.   Naked Yoga? lol

Answer 3

how long did they wait before the test?

Answer 4

agreed. besides my boyfriend i don't care about looking at men naked. women are smooth and soft. curvy. all these i find s**y. men trying to be s**y come off as porno types...not that this is right...or fair...

Answer 5

Women just work that way for the most part. We get aroused at the idea of intimacy, romance, passion. Not at the actual body of the lover necessarily, but what that body/ person could do. The sensations are what get us.

It makes perfect sense to me.

Answer 6

I think what "Amethyst Phoenix" said is pretty dead on.  It's why, when I walk into the room buck naked, my wife says "ew," but if I walk into the room naked, doing a little dance she says "ahh."

Answer 7

yup... sounds about right.

Answer 8

Attractive men are nice, but seeing two people moving together in an embrace arouses greater feelings of passion because it's very easy to imagine and feel what is actually happening, rather like reading and becoming fully immersed in a great novel, a person starts to feel as though they are really there experiencing everything.

Answer 9

I'd have to read the study to gauge its methodology and the integrity of the organization conducting it.

Answer 10

What exactly do you want to know?

What are you asking, if they did the experiment?

Answer 11

I don't think any of those things would arouse me.  Certain things do arouse me, but not any of the ones you mentioned.

Answer 12

Because we like action, not ogling random people?

Answer 13

yes I have heard about this before it is simply natural for humans to be attracted to beauty and women are beautiful why do you think men like them so much, at least their bodies anyways

I mean seriously, if you're a man, do you find men attractive and if not then why assume that a woman should

no insult intended

Answer 14

um,

it's all about

the

foreplay

Answer 15

What was the man like in the naked pictures? If he were unaroused, it may have been a source for the lack of arousal for the women. Plus, lets face it, the naked woman is much, much more beautiful than the naked man (regardless of your s*x or sexual orientation).

Being a straight guy, I can't really speculate too much on what the girls in the study were thinking, but I think if a similar study were done for men, they'd have similar results. I'd wager  men would be more aroused by the naked women than women were by the naked men, but I think both sexes would be much more aroused by the motion of two lovers.... it's how soft-core p**n makes their money! In any case, naked dudes doing platonic exercises probably wouldn't do much of anything other than make everyone involved uncomfortable lol.

Answer 16

Watching nude females doing anything wouldn't turn me on.

Answer 17

Maybe those women didn't like men.  Maybe they were too repressed to admit that they were aroused by something so basic as a naked man.  

I find it hard to believe that heterosexual females would not be aroused by the naked male.

Then again, maybe I'm the odd one........

Answer 18

I don't trust studies without looking at their details, how they measured things, the control group, etc, but if that study was accurate, it's probably because with two people, the woman can put herself into the scenario... and because the interaction is just more interesting :)

Answer 19

If they measured arousal by vaginal wetness, the experiment may be flawed from the start.  Like sweating, there are a lot of things that cause vaginal moisture - including exercise.  However, an intimate lovemaking session would be much more arousing to me than just a naked man.  I really don't think the p***s is very attractive flaccid.  

If the guy has a chiseled upper body and is wearing jeans and I can see his butt, etc.  Yeah, that would do it.  Totally naked and not erect - no.  Take it away!  LOL