Recent research considering data from 35,000 adult sites, subscriptions, website traffics, a million erotic stories, half a million erotic videos, personal Ads, dating websites, indicated that the Top 4 anatomical sexual cues that heterosexual men prefer were:
Breasts
Butt
Feet
And guess what: Penises ("Big Dicks" )!
The cynosure: irrespective of their sexualities, the male brain get's aroused by these 4 anatomical parts; i.e. homosexual men too, show the same preference to the Top 4.
What about women?
Heterosexual women, seem to get aroused mostly by non-anatomical cues:
Confidence of a man
His competence
And by the Taken Man: apparently women are attracted to what other women call attractive
So let's compare between the two: Men vs Women
Erotic adventures for men are solitary expeditions. They aren't easily swayed by other men's opinions and choices. For women on the other hand, opinions of other women weigh in during her erotic explorations. Eroticism is a social enterprise for women, while for men, it is a solitary one.
If a computer engineer were to program the male sexual brain, they would probably rely on the OR- gate as men get stimulated by any single stimulus, while with a female brain, the usage of the AND- gate seems more appropriate.
This brings us to the theory of Arousal Non-concordance which elucidates on the correlation between physical and mental arousal states in men and women. It was found that in men, if the genitals are aroused, there's a 50% probability that their brain is aroused as well. With women however, there exists a 10% correlation between the genitals and mental arousal states.
Finally, if we are to touch upon visual cues for inducing arousal, one cannot ignore the theory of Erotic Illusion.
Erotic Illusion combines different sexual cues in various novel combinations to trick the brain into an arousal state.
For example, research indicates that one of the rising categories of porn preferences in heterosexual men and not in homosexuals, is that of the Shemale Porn.
One's confusion regarding the category's popularity could be explained by the concept of Erotic Illusion. Since, a male sexual brain is an OR-gate: get's aroused by any single stimulus at a given time, Shemale Porn offers all of the Top 4 preferential candidates of arousal: Breasts, Butt, Feet and Penis.
The heterosexual man's brain doesn't particularly consider his sexuality when it comes to arousal. It just looks at the anatomical cues necessary for arousal. Hence, when these cues are presented in the Shemale Porn category, it caters to all the visual cues required for arousal.
Ogas, O., & Gaddam, S. (2011). A billion wicked thoughts: What the world's largest experiment reveals about human desire.
Nagoski, E. (2015). Come as you are. Simon & Schuster.
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