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• 17:59 scientific studies of female arousal (logged for fandom argument): tinyurl.com/demlpp #

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[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

Heh, I think citing this article is probably going to cause, if anything, even more argument.

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, thanks for the link--I lawled several times while reading, including when the writer fell back on reiterating "WIMMINS = FUSHIGI MYSTERY!" at the end.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

That's what I meant when I said "logged for fandom argument". XD Still, one sees the applications, does one not?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

His descriptions of the attractive female sexologists!

dipping_sauce had a good critique of this (http://neuroanthropology.net/2009/01/24/what-do-these-enigmati-women-want/) from the Neuroanthropology blog - basically saying, given the reasonable probability that all the researchers quoted are right or at least onto something, framing the article as "what do women want?" is about as useful as writing an article titled "what do restaurant diners want?"

[iatros.livejournal.com]

I didn't read the article, but I liked the Gawker executive summary; women are aroused by pr0n with men-men, men-women and women-women.

[worldserpent.livejournal.com]

The first experiment (genital engorgement) is not that new (but also IIRC the scientist's mentor is a very controversial figure, and many people have questioned his experiments, which seem to use similar methods)...

The experiments in the second half, IMHO, are much more interesting, although the fandom application there is less obvious.

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

That was a good critique--I think one of the commenters was right to point out that you can find the same sort of sloppy writing in plenty of other NYT essays, but no one cares because they're not about teh sex.

Somebody should tell that first researcher to quit messing around with bonobos; she'll get much better results with charismatic predatory megafauna.