Sexual arousal may decrease natural disgust response

September 12, 2012 in Psychology & Psychiatry

Sex can be messy, but most people don't seem to mind too much, and new results reported Sep. 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE suggest that this phenomenon may result from sexual arousal actually dampening humans' natural disgust response.

The authors of the study, led by Charmaine Borg of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, asked female participants to complete various disgusting-seeming actions, like drinking from a cup with an insect in it or wiping their hands with a used tissue. (The participants were not aware of it, but the insect was made of plastic and the tissue was colored with ink to make it appear used.)

Sexually aroused subjects responded to the tasks with less disgust than subjects who were not sexually aroused, suggesting that the state of arousal has some effect on women's response.

More information: Borg C, de Jong PJ (2012) Feelings of Disgust and Disgust-Induced Avoidance Weaken following Induced Sexual Arousal in Women. PLoS ONE 7(9): e44111.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044111

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Eric_B
Sep 12, 2012

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heheh
Tausch
Sep 12, 2012

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Yes, but...
A script.
Attention is being directed elsewhere.
ThanderMAX
Sep 13, 2012

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Is it a research ?

It's well known fact, otherwise you won't go for cunniling/BJ
Cave_Man
Sep 17, 2012

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Apparently the logic behind "2 girls, 1 cup" has been revealed.

Gross but at least we have a small insight into women. Guys always want their girls to be dirty in the sack, it's probably some evolutionary thing where the couple needs to keep up appearances outside the bedroom and keeping that dirty secret bonds the couple together or something.

Still gross as all hell though (2girls 1cup, not women in general)
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