What Do Women Want?

[Butterfly]

What Do Women Want?
New York Times
By Daniel Bergner
January 25, 2009


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html


Excerpt: But Chivers, with plenty of self-doubting humor, told me that she hopes one day to develop a scientifically supported model to explain female sexual response, though she wrestles, for the moment, with the preliminary bits of perplexing evidence she has collected — with the question, first, of why women are aroused physiologically by such a wider range of stimuli than men. Are men simply more inhibited, more constrained by the bounds of culture? Chivers has tried to eliminate this explanation by including male-to-female transsexuals as subjects in one of her series of experiments (one that showed only human sex).  These trans women, both those who were heterosexual and those who were homosexual, responded genitally and subjectively in categorical ways. They responded like men. This seemed to point to an inborn system of arousal. Yet it wasn't hard to argue that cultural lessons had taken permanent hold within these subjects long before their emergence as females could have altered the culture's influence. "The horrible reality of psychological research," Chivers said, "is that you can't pull apart the cultural from the biological."

[ZaidaZadkiel]

I strongly prefeer mixed male and female charactersitcs.

Totally female over totally male.

And subtle freudian over overt OMG PORN.

^^u