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A woman's perfect date: a romantic dinner, a stroll on the beach, ice cream and perhaps a kiss good night if he's a gentleman. A man's perfect date: food, beer and sex.
Let's face it, when it comes to sex, men and women have very different opinions. Experts at Duke University have uncovered some insight into the concept we normally consider common sense.
"Duke neurobiologists are studying how the brain makes decisions in social situations, and their findings suggest that behavioral economics may explain how people evaluate the opportunity to look at members of the opposite sex," according to
Researchers are trying to locate regions of the brain affected by sexual arousal and study how these regions help people decide what to look at when watching pornographic videos. The research is aimed at bringing to light reasons why men seem to enjoy porn more than women do.
Fairfield psychology professor Shannon Harding said that women's ideas on the sight of sex and porn are much more sensitive than men's.
"I can tell you that research at the Kinsey Institute tells us that males and females look at erotic material very differently," she said. "In a study done last year looking at eye movements in response to erotic photographs, female subjects tended to 'divert their attention' to non-sexual background objects, while male subjects tended to focus on the erotic material. In both instances, the subjects were aroused."
Asked about porn and what they thought of the study, students agreed that men enjoy it more than women do and, therefore, watch it on a daily basis.
Some male students said they have pornographic DVDs here at school, not to mention easily accessible pornographic material found on the Internet.
Asked about their porn-watching habits, the consensus of male students who were interviewed was that porn is strictly for pleasure. Many women who were surveyed said they have never watched porn or choose not to because they do not enjoy it.
ABC News conducted a poll in 2004 called the "American Sex Survey: A Peek Beneath the Sheets." The survey's results showed that 70 percent of men think about sex every day and 43 percent think about sex more than once a day. These are high numbers in comparison to the amount of women who think about sex daily - 34 percent - and the amount of women who think about sex more than once a day - 13 percent - according to ABC News.
It's no wonder men enjoy porn so much; sex is constantly on their minds.
However, the analysis was more than an attempt to examine male and female porn-watching habits.
The Duke study as well as a similar one conducted at Emory University are not only looking for reasons behind men's attraction to sexual images, they are also exploring the possibility of applying their findings to help uncover answers regarding autism, a mental disorder that makes it difficult for those who suffer from it to relate to others.
Researchers hope the findings will show why people with autism and other mental disorders do not have the same attraction to the opposite sex or sexual images, according to an article from The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Who would have thought that porn, something with very casual and sexual implications, could contribute to medical advances in research on mental illnesses? Science really is a miracle.
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