fractal wrote:
] but of course!
]
] ] Mitra Boolel, who is in charge of the company's
] ] sex-research team, explained that his findings show ed
] ] that arousal and desire were experienced very differently
] ] by men and women. A woman's arousal is triggered by
] ] complex combinations of emotional, intellectual and
] ] relationship-based factors, while a man's is a simple
] ] physical response.
]
] The porn industry has intuitively known this for decades,
] right?

Actually, NO. Millions of women buy porn and use sex toys and engage in casual sex. Women make a substantial percentage of hardcore porn subscribers, even in conservative areas:

http://www.cnn.com/2001/BUSINESS/asia/03/13/asia.cyberporn/#1

"For instance, in Korea, which has the highest number of visitors to adult sites at 5.44 million, 39.1 percent of visitors are female."

"And, even in traditionally conservative Singapore, 26.8 percent of
the city-state's 243,430 visitors to adult sites were women."

None of that involves "emotional, intellectual and relationship-based factors" yet many women enjoy it. I'm not sure how Boolel is conducting this "research," but reality shows it to be unreliable.

Elonka wrote:
] ] Mitra Boolel, who is in charge of the company's
] ] sex-research team, explained that his findings showed
] ] that arousal and desire were experienced very differently
] ] by men and women. A woman's arousal is triggered by
] ] complex combinations of emotional, intellectual and
] ] relationship-based factors, while a man's is a simple
] ] physical response.
]
] Duh! And they had to spend how much money to figure this out?

The results of the study are garbage. Like a lot of "conventional wisdom," they're trumped by reality.