Sunday, February 21, 2010

Sexual Objectification: Bad News For Lindsey Vonn

"Researchers used brain scans to show that when straight men looked at pictures of women in bikinis, areas of the brain that normally light up in anticipation of using tools, like spanners and screwdrivers, were activated.

Scans of some of the men found that a part of the brain associated with empathy for other people's emotions and wishes shut down after looking at the pictures."

"They're reacting to these women as if they're not fully human,"
An interesting, albeit short, article on the Guardian website. It seems not to bash this functioning of the male brain, or even general pornographic imagery but rather the location of such imagery in every day life.
"areas of the brain that normally light up in anticipation of using tools, like spanners and screwdrivers, were activated"
And possibly, the areas of the brain associated with the anticipation of using ones cock, also light up. But how does the female brain react to male imagery? And what about gay men and women? The research is incomplete!

[Lindsey Vonn Reference]

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