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A study conducted at Groningen University in the Netherlands has shown that when women are exposed to graphic pornographic images without any context, they experience the same physical revulsion as when viewing pictures designed to induce nausea.
Dr Charmaine Borg and her colleagues observed twenty healthy women with the use of an fMRI-scanner. The women were shown a variety of images including neutral depictions, nausea-inducing photographs and explicit images of sexual penetration. For all pictures, context information was kept to a minimum, and there were no faces depicted.
“It is just like when you see disgusting food. The emotion that is triggered by for example the smell, ensures that you do not want to eat it,” said Charmaine Borg from Groningen University in the Netherlands.
To reach this conclusion, researchers used an MRI scanner to measure neurological responses in 20 healthy women to a variety of images.
These included nausea-inducing as well as images of explicit sexual penetration. No faces were shown.
“The results showed a strong overlap in the areas of the brain that became active while viewing the nausea-inducing images and those depicting pornographic scenes,” the researchers were quoted as saying.
The response could be explained by women’s higher susceptibility to sexual infection in comparison to men, the study, reported by British newspaper Independent, noted.
Agencies/Canadajournal
