Some People Are Wired to Want More Sex
It’s Friday! Here in San Diego we’re just glad we made it through the week without melting from the sun or burning from the wildfires, how are you?
We’re sending you off on this fine afternoon with an interesting story about how your brain may be wiring you to be turned on by anything with a vague outline of a body shape. According to a new study by researchers at UCLA, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, some peoples’ brains make them more sensitive to sexual cues than others.
Via Time:
[Researchers recruited psychology students] to view 225 standardized pictures of pleasant, neutral or unpleasant things. The pleasant images included sexually stimulating ones and these ranged from PG stuff like people kissing to more explicit pictures of people having sex. The students were also asked about their number of sexual partners in the past year.
Some of the participants showed strong reactions on the EEG to nearly all of the intimacy-themed images, regardless of whether they were explicit. And these were the same people who reported having more partners. Prause says the EEG is a good measure of how motivated the brain is – stronger responses typically occur when we’re faced with new and unfamiliar things, for example.
The best part of the study, though? Both men and women were equally likely to fall into the “easily-stimulated” category. So this weekend when you’re out at the club lookin’ to get laid (or trolling your booty call list for a fun new hookup), why not send the old lamp pic over and ask them how it makes them feel. If they say holy shit my pants just got tighter, it’s a good idea to get their number and meet up ASAP. Because in the words of the geniuses on the Jersey Shore, they’re probably DTF.
Happy weekending!