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When it comes to raising the temperature, there's no gender gap, Canadian study finds
Only at McGill University would you see a study done on genital body heat when exposed to pornography, haha.Women get hot and bothered just as quickly as men, according to a new Canadian study that dispels conventional wisdom about gender and arousal. Psychologists at McGill University used thermal imaging technology to measure men and women's sexual arousal levels when exposed to pornography.
By monitoring genital body heat, they found that both men and women become sexually aroused within 30 seconds. "The cliche is that men and woman are fundamentally different -- that men are turned on quickly and that women take time," said Tuuli Kukkonen, a doctoral student at McGill who led the study. "Ms. Kukkonen's team found that men reached their maximum arousal in 664.6 seconds (about 10 minutes), while women took 743 seconds -- a statistically insignificant difference.