Researchers at McGill University in Canada have used thermal imaging technology to measure the arousal rates of men and women.
They’ve concluded that there is no significant different in the time it takes for either gender to become fully aroused.
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According to their press release, a selection of young men and women were shown gender-specific porn movies, along with control images such as Canadian tourism ads and Mr Bean episodes.
The thermal imaging devices – the same technology used in night-vision goggles – were able to measure heat levels in the genitals and thus measure increases in arousal. This method is preferable to previous measuring devices which usually involved direct contact with the genitals.
Both the men and the women began showing arousal within 30 seconds. The men reached maximal arousal in 664.6 seconds (roughly ten minutes), the women in 743 seconds – a statistically negligible difference.
“In any experiment on sexual arousal done in a laboratory, there is some distraction,” said Binik. “But compared to previous techniques involving invasive measures or electrodes, this is minimally invasive and the same measurements are used for men and women, which makes it very interesting that the data ended up being the same.”
Unfortunately the press release doesn’t answer the question we’re all wondering about: what levels of arousal did Mr Bean create?