Gender commonalities and differences in the neural processing of visual sexual stimuli

• Published in: Journal of sexual medicine Vol. 10; no. 5; p. 1328
• Main Authors: Wehrum, Sina, Klucken, Tim, Kagerer, Sabine, Walter, Bertram, Hermann, Andrea, Vaitl, Dieter, Stark, Rudolf
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands 01.05.2013
• Subjects: Adult; Arousal - physiology; Brain - physiology; Emotions - physiology; Female; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Nerve Net - physiology; Nucleus Accumbens - physiology; Photic Stimulation; Sex Factors; Sexual Behavior - physiology; Visual Perception

Few studies so far have directly compared the neural processing of visual sexual stimuli in men and women. Also, most of these studies only compared sexual with neutral stimuli, making it difficult to disentangle sexual stimulus processing from general emotional processing. The current study aimed t...