Jersey Thug
01-23-2009, 06:24 PM
an old friend of mine is a sexual psychologist in Ontario and she always has the most fun research projects going. the NY Times yesterday ran an article about her latest research, which delved into sexual response (perceived and actual) to stimuli in both men and women.
check it, if interested:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html?_r=2&hp
< snip >
While the subjects watched on a computer screen, Chivers, who favors high boots and fashionable rectangular glasses, measured their arousal in two ways, objectively and subjectively. The participants sat in a brown leatherette La-Z-Boy chair in her small lab at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, a prestigious psychiatric teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, where Chivers was a postdoctoral fellow and where I first talked with her about her research a few years ago. The genitals of the volunteers were connected to plethysmographs — for the men, an apparatus that fits over the penis and gauges its swelling; for the women, a little plastic probe that sits in the vagina and, by bouncing light off the vaginal walls, measures genital blood flow. An engorgement of blood spurs a lubricating process called vaginal transudation: the seeping of moisture through the walls. The participants were also given a keypad so that they could rate how aroused they felt.
< /snip >
i SO want to be her when i grow up. :heart:
i think maybe the years she picked my brain for her doctorate research at Northwestern are one of the reasons i'm so frank about this sex stuff today :lol:
anyway go, Mer!!!!! :crazy:
check it, if interested:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html?_r=2&hp
< snip >
While the subjects watched on a computer screen, Chivers, who favors high boots and fashionable rectangular glasses, measured their arousal in two ways, objectively and subjectively. The participants sat in a brown leatherette La-Z-Boy chair in her small lab at the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, a prestigious psychiatric teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto, where Chivers was a postdoctoral fellow and where I first talked with her about her research a few years ago. The genitals of the volunteers were connected to plethysmographs — for the men, an apparatus that fits over the penis and gauges its swelling; for the women, a little plastic probe that sits in the vagina and, by bouncing light off the vaginal walls, measures genital blood flow. An engorgement of blood spurs a lubricating process called vaginal transudation: the seeping of moisture through the walls. The participants were also given a keypad so that they could rate how aroused they felt.
< /snip >
i SO want to be her when i grow up. :heart:
i think maybe the years she picked my brain for her doctorate research at Northwestern are one of the reasons i'm so frank about this sex stuff today :lol:
anyway go, Mer!!!!! :crazy: