The Difference Between Male and Female Sexual Arousal

First I want to state that I am talking about biological sex differences in human anatomy, So I am referring to gender male/female in a purely biological sense. Even those who identify as a different gender (Gender Dysphoria) show these same brain structures even though they identify differently.

Second if a pathologist found a disembodied brain, could they identify it as a male or female?

The Difference Between Male and Female Sexual Arousal

The answer s actually no. They could measure the size, the grey matter/vs white matter but they could not say 100% if the brain was male or female, they could say it was most likely a man's brain or a woman's brain but 100% certainty no they could not. But in general a women's brain has more white matter, and a man's brain has more grey matter (source) "Gray matter represents information processing centers in the brain, and white matter represents the networking of – or connections between – these processing centers." See this article for more information.

But, if the brains were functioning and connected to an fMRI machine it would be quickly obvious whose is whose and which is which. As an example here's a pair of videos showing the difference between male and female orgasm.


And there are reasons for this: The cognitive differences between men and women. Stanford University.

Now to the point of my article. One of the things that I wish women understood about male arousal. The section of a man's brain that is stimulated during arousal is his senses. Especially his centers for sight. A guy literally sees sexy. While a woman thinks sexy. Study showing the differences in male and female arousal.

A woman can see something that she finds sexy such as:

The Difference Between Male and Female Sexual Arousal

But the process is like this. Image, then thought about the image, then sexual response. While in guys that middle step that thought is not there.

So a guy sees a sexy image:

The Difference Between Male and Female Sexual Arousal

It goes image, sexual response, then thought..... So when we talk about sexually objectifying women there is an assumption that guys have a step to stop that response. They do not. Even a guy having sexual fantasies triggers his sense response (imagination of images) rather then a direct sexual thought.

This is a profound difference in responses. So next time your guy sees something attractive, understand that they can not help it. The sight alone was the trigger, not thoughts behind it. Of course a guy can then think, and react appropriately, turn his head, etc. But that initial response is hardwired, and there is nothing that he can do to stop it.

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  • Women don't have a physical libido. They think about what arousal is supposed to look like.

  • Wowkwwk

  • To me, sounds turn me on more than images. (Whispers, moans, etc) It seems that men react more to visuals but I'm not sure.

    • ASMR?

    • Naturally people have individual turn-ons. Generalisations are generalisations to simplify and not have to take every single individual into account. As a general rule of thumb though is that men watch sexy and women think about sexy. It's why the majority of porn-consumers are men while erotic literature (which is essentially written porn) are women.

    • @rocksongwriter you are right us guys love it all and so do you girls lol

  • Shit Im a dude apparently

  • Oh come on do we really fu (king care? Women are good for one thing and one thing only!

  • Wait am I a guy? Or just have a guy brain lol.

  • Provide scientific reference.

  • It's the difference between in and out

    • in and out of what

    • a condom or a hot dress

  • Informative

  • Oh my

  • we get it women cum better than us and there's nothing we can do to make ours better, stop rubbing it in lol

  • Bulge

  • "there is an assumption that guys have a step to stop that response. They do not."
    That is a big over generalisation.
    This isn't true for all, rather an excuse for those who do this.
    Give credit for the men who can actually think before responding, cause they do exist.
    Give credit to your sex as a whole, cause not all are mindles, or act before they think.

    • What does "responding" mean here? The body responds to the image before the ponderance of it, the verbal or active response comes after that. This take was *not* about acting before thinking, it was about the arousal/attraction triggering before thinking.

    • @AllThatSweetJazz You see that example he gives where women shouldn't get angry at their men for turning their heads or physically show a response? That part sure contradicts your last sentence.

    • The arousal comes first, then the thought, then the action. Turning one's head away would be the last step in that chain.

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  • I always thought objectification meant treating someone like an object... and therefore is thought-based behavior based?

    You know, “grab em by the pussy” and all that. 😂

  • Good stuff, but you say objectification when really we're talking about sexualisation. I think it's a common misuse of the term objectification.

    • Good point. I was meaning the feminist term.

    • Feminists didn't coin it, nor do they own it. They just say it a lot and as such are prime examples of misuse of the term.

  • Makin' love to the money I swear the sex great
    I kick dem hoes out but let the money stay

  • Wow, are men’s orgasms really that anticlimactic?

    • Yep. Women scream convulse and have tremors, meanwhile the mans response is ". . . . I'm done.". Kind of sucks really (but it does make the female orgasm all the more fascinating because it is so beyond our scope of understanding).

    • I knew women had stronger ones, but I was unaware they were so much stronger. Very interesting.

    • Yep. Now think about when you have sex and don't orgasm and he does, chances are your still feeling more pleasure then he is.

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  • All trash. Girls like sex more than guys and crave cock from hot strangers. That's why women prefer casual sex to relationships.

  • erections when aroused

  • Women can easily hide sexual excitation. They can even completely deny it to themselves. "Good girls don't ____"
    Men always have that pointer ;-)

    • Remember the old "divining rod", a small branch shaped like a wish bone that a man would carry around his field until it bent down where he should dig or drill for water? Google it. Anyway my pointer worked like that for any moisture or wetness. It just spun me around to point at girl. Now my office had a long hall with another crossing the end left-right -left. One day 2 aroused secretaries passed left and right at the same time. I had to wear a tiny whiplash collar on it for six weeks.

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