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Women may have a reputation for demanding lengthy foreplay, but they become sexually aroused as quickly as men, according to a new study that used thermal imaging to measure increased blood flow to genital regions.
While watching pornography, both sexes reach peak arousal within 10 minutes, on average, researchers report.
Earlier attempts to record sexual arousal have involved invasive probes and electrodes, according to Tuuli Kukkonen, who helped conduct the study led by Irv Binik at McGill University Health Centre in Montreal, Canada.
For women participating in previous studies, this sometimes meant the use of an uncomfortable probe similar to a tampon, inserted into the vagina.
Such invasive methods “made studying sexual arousal very difficult” and comparing sexual response between men and women even more challenging, says Kukkonen, as the measurement techniques differed between the sexes.
For this reason, Kukkonen and her colleagues used thermal imaging to record raised temperatures in subjects’ genital areas. The thermal imaging camera can measure temperature changes from a distance and relay the information to a computer for analysis.
More heat indicates greater blood flow to the genital area, a tell-tale sign of sexual arousal. Kukkonen says that modern thermal imaging technology is much more sophisticated than earlier versions, and can now accurately measure temperature changes of 0.001°C within a few square millimetres.
In the new study, 28 men and 30 women first watched a video of the Canadian countryside in a room on their own, so that researchers could establish each individual’s baseline temperatures.
Subjects were naked from the waist down and positioned themselves such that their genital area was exposed and readable by the thermal imaging device. The participants next watched another video with the same subject matter, or one featuring pornography, horror or comedic clips from the Best Bits of Mr Bean .
The computer only registered a spike in genital temperatures while subjects watched pornography, and not the other films. In those viewing porn, these temperatures increased by about 2°C, on average.
Moreover, men reached peak sexual arousal in 665 seconds – about 10 minutes – while women arrived at maximal arousal in 743 seconds. The difference between the times was not statistically significant, the researchers point out.
The findings, which were presented on 30 September at the Canadian Sex Research Forum conference in Ottawa, go against the common assumption that women take longer to become aroused, says Kukkonen.
She adds that the more accurate thermal imaging technology now available may hold promise as a diagnostic tool for sexual dysfunction in both sexes.

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"I don't remember the last time we had sex," says Leena Nair*, a PR executive. "So I find myself horny quite often." According to Mumbai-based gynaecologist Dr Duru Shah, Leena fits well into the company of the women who took the Perth Now survey that found out that 85 per cent of women in their 30s want more sex. In that case, Leena who is 32, is reaching her sexual prime. And even though she's tired from working 12-hour shifts, she wants sex more often than the once-a-month romp she 'enjoys' now with her husband. Leena places the blame for their deteriorating sex life on her husband, Madhur, who too clocks in similar hours at work. "Madhur's sex drive has gone down significantly in his late 30s — he blames the daily hour-long commute, job stress and financial worries," she complains. Dr Shah knows why Madhur doesn't want more sex, just like 75 per cent of the men who took the survey. "While a woman's sex drive goes up in her 30s and 40s, a man's is likely to go down," says Dr Shah. "That's because they are busy building their careers during that time. They find themselves overworked and tired at the end of the day and as a result may just not be so much into sex." Dr Shah, however, finds that women over 40 have a high sex drive. "These are women who have grown-up children," she says. Shruti Khandelwal*, a 43-year-old homemaker, agrees with Dr Shah. "I had two children in my late 20s, and was busy shuttling between my job and my children. But now I feel my sex drive returning," she says, adding that her husband doesn't share this sentiment. Libido Lifeline 20s Women : The majority have regular menstrual periods — and a sex drive that changes with the cycle. But many women are also grappling with body image problems, establishing themselves at work and finding Mr Right. Men : Sex drive and the desire to experiment is the highest among young and healthy men in their 20s. Good health, youth and a new relationship or marriage make things even more exciting. 30s Women :They get better at achieving an orgasm now and are more likely to be married or in a stable relationship. However, the 30s are also the time when the stress of child rearing, and then juggling a child, family and career can take a toll on sexual desire. Men :With the responsibility of marriage, children and career growth come stress, fatigue, smoking, alcohol addiction, etc. Men find themselves grappling with a sex drive that ebbs and flows. 40s Women : Hormone levels may start to decline, but this can be a time of sexual re-awakening. Many women find that they're less burdened by children and financial uncertainty that can undermine desire in the 30s. Men : Most men are well settled in their career, have minor health issues, and usually find compatibility and stability a big turn-on.They do find time and energy for action, and value quality time in the sack over quantity. 50s Women :The 50s may herald menopause, but women are thrilled to put the hassles of menstruation and contraception behind them and discover that this decade offers some libidoboosting benefits. Hormonal changes may be a dampner. Men : Medical issues like blood pressure and diabetes crop up, and medications can often cause erectile dysfunction. However, sex does not come with an expiry date, point out experts. *Names changed on request Source: Femina
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By Paul Sims for MailOnline Updated: 11:40 BST, 9 December 2008
Being bold and brazen in the bedroom won Carrie Bradshaw and her friends a legion of female fans.
But viewers who think the 'anything goes' sexual antics in Sex And The City is fiction should perhaps think again.
Life, it would appear, is more than a match for art.
Young women are becoming more promiscuous, with more sexual partners than men, researchers have found.
Life imitating art?: The sexual antics of Sex And The City aren't fiction after all
By the age of 21 they have had sex with an average of nine lovers - two more than their male partner.
And a quarter have slept with more than ten partners in the five years since losing their virginity - compared with a fifth of young men.
Young women are also twice as likely to be unfaithful, with 50 per cent admitting they have cheated on a partner - half at least twice.
Yet if their man was caught being unfaithful, 99 per cent of the 2,000 women surveyed said they would show him the door.
The sex survey, for More magazine, also found women crave more sex but still believe men enjoy it more than they do.
The survey follows a U.S. study earlier this year that found teenage girls who watch a lot of TV shows with a high sexual content, such as Friends and Sex And The City, are twice as likely to become pregnant.
The researchers for that study concluded: 'One problem is that these and similar programmes glamorise sex while hardly mentioning its downsides, such as pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.'
Lisa Smosarski, editor of More, suggested that there will be no turning back for today's sexually confident young women. 'Our results show that after decades of lying back and thinking of England, today's twenty-something women are taking control of their sex lives and getting what they want in bed. And why not?
'Women today have increasingly busy and stressful lives juggling study, jobs, friends, family, career and their relationships,' she said.
'Sex is a great and free way to relax, unwind and have fun in today's fairly stressful society.'
The survey found more than half of the women were not in love with the person to whom they lost their virginity.
And only 32 per cent believed love to be an important factor before having sex. Seven out of ten confessed to having had a one-night stand and a fifth had enjoyed more than five.
Only 1 per cent said they would wait until marriage to have sex.
One in four said they would marry for money whilst 39 per cent would sleep with their boss for a promotion. And 27 per cent would have an affair with a married man, while 14 per cent would sleep with their best friend's partner.
The study was carried out to launch More's safe sex campaign, which starts this week.
It found that almost a fifth of the young women surveyed had contracted a sexually transmitted disease while 21 per cent had been persuaded by a man not to use a condom when they wanted to.
Miss Smosarski said: 'Whilst women aren't embarrassed to take the lead in the bedroom, it seems they're not so forthright when it comes to contraception.'
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A strong libido and bored by monogamy: the truth about women and sex
‘Women’s biology sets them up to seek out pleasure’: Wednesday Martin. Photograph: Christopher Lane/The Observer
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When a heterosexual couple marries, who’s likely to get bored of sex first? The answer might surprise you…
W hat do you know about female sexuality? Whatever it is, chances are, says Wednesday Martin , it’s all wrong. “Most of what we’ve been taught by science about female sexuality is untrue,” she says. “Starting with two basic assertions: that men have a stronger libido than women, and that men struggle with monogamy more than women do.”
Martin pulls no punches. Her bestselling memoir Primates of Park Avenue cast her as an anthropologist observing the habits of her Upper East Side neighbours. She claimed among other shockers that privileged stay-at-home mothers were sometimes given a financial “wife bonus” based on their domestic and social performance. The book caused a furore, and is currently being developed as a TV series, with Martin as exec producer. Her new book, out this week, should be equally provocative. Entitled Untrue , it questions much that we thought we knew about women’s sexuality.
Her starting-point is that research into human sexuality has been, historically, overwhelmingly male-centric; “notable sexologists”, starting with Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833-1890) are mostly male. You have to scroll through another 25, including Sigmund Freud and Alfred Kinsey, before you arrive at a female name: Mary Calderone (1904-1998), who championed sex education. And even in the subsequent 30 names there are only five women, including both Virginia Johnson (partner of the famous, and male, William Masters), and Shere Hite.
All these men made certain assumptions about women’s sexuality. It’s no surprise that it was Hite who revolutionised thinking on female orgasm, arguing that it was not “dysfunctional” to fail to climax during intercourse. Crucial, too, says Martin, has been the work of Rosemary Basson , who realised that spontaneous desire, the kind sexologists had measured for years, was only one type of relevant desire, and that responsive or triggered sexual response is much more important for women. Measured on that scale it turns out that women are, in fact, every bit as sexually arousable as men.
New findings showed that women reported similar intensities of desire and arousal to men, and “a real shift in thinking” about females and monogamy. “We were taught that men were the ones who needed variety, but the exact opposite turns out to be the case,” says Martin. “Overfamiliarisation with a partner and desexualisation kills women’s libido. We used to think it’s only men who became sexually bored after marriage; turns out that’s not true. It’s when women get married that it’s detrimental to their libido.”
Martin isn’t here to talk about her own relationship, but for the record she’s 53, has been married for 18 years, still lives in New York, and has two sons aged 17 and 10 who are, predictably enough, “mortified” at what their mother writes about. She hopes her work will help validate the feelings of the next generation of young women: “It’s not about giving them permission to ‘cheat’, not even giving them permission to refuse monogamy, but I hope it does give them permission to feel normal if they don’t like monogamy,” she says. Because that’s the central fallacy: the belief that monogamy is harder for men than for women. In fact, argues Marti
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