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Most people are of the opinion that men think about sex a lot more often than women do, but did you know that this is not the extent of peculiarities when it comes to sex and the male mind?
Experts delve into how men think to give a better understanding of why men do the thing they do when it comes to sex.
1. He will only remember good sex
Men possess a pair of neurons that has been found to remember and seek sex even at the expense of food. These male-specific neurons is what makes it so that men react to sex differently from women. The need for sex stems from the fact that men are unlikely to store memories of bad sexual experiences.
2. Why men lie about who they slept with
Researchers at a reputed American university found that, when it came to sex, men wanted to be seen as “real men:” the kind who had many partners and a lot of sexual experience. They discovered how people would honestly respond to questions about sexuality and other gender-role behaviors by asking some study participants questions when they thought they were hooked up to a lie detector machine. It was found that to look more ‘macho’, men had the tendency of saying they have been with more women than they actually have.
3. Women’s tears kill sexual arousal in men
According to cognitive neuroscientists at a medical institue in Israel, tears contain chemical signals that decrease sexual arousal and testosterone levels in men. In the study, men were asked to sniff vials containing either the women’s tears or saline that had been applied to their cheeks. Results showed that men who sniffed the tears perceived those women as sexually less attractive than did men who sniffed saline.
And men who took a whiff of tears (and not saline) reported a decrease in sexual arousal. These men also reported reduced activity in the areas of brain that are associated with sexual arousal, such as the hypothalamus.
While often linked to aggression and hostility, testosterone is also the hormone of the libido. And, guys have six times the amount surging through their veins as women, say researchers at a New York varsity. They found that testosterone impairs the impulse-control region of the brain. While it has yet to be studied, this may explain why, as Brizendine says, men ogle women as if on “auto-pilot” and often forget about the woman once she is out of their visual field.
