A Woman’s Birth Control Method Can Effect Her Enjoyment of Pornography

When it comes to viewing sexually explicit photos of heterosexual couples engaged in oral sex or intercourse, it appears that both men and women are more likely to look at the genitals in the photo, although women not on birth control pills “displayed more consistent interest in the genitals than did the other groups,” according to a study in the Hormones and Behavior journal. Even more, men and women spent about equal time looking the female body (described in this study as breasts, torso, legs, and arms).

To set the stage, the study consisted of men and women who were not on any hormonal contraception, and women currently using birth control pills. The subjects were from various ethnicities and ranged in age from 23 – 28.

Researchers uncovered that sex and contraceptive type influenced the percentage of where subjects first looked, percent of time viewing each area, and the probability of where one would look. To understand how this was evaluated, the researchers used Gaze Tracker software that was able to determine where the participants looked and how long they were “fixated” at 1 of 7 “zones”:

• Female faces
• Male faces
• Genitals (both male and female)
• The female body
• The male body
• Clothing (clothing still worn by the people in the photo which also included shoes and jewelry
• Background (anything outside of the people in the photo)

The result of this study that proved to be most surprising to The result of this study that proved to be most surprising to the researchers was who spent the most time looking where!

In fact, data revealed that the women on birth control pills were more likely to look at and spent more time viewing clothing, jewelry, and backgrounds. This was completely opposite from those women not using contraception. These women showed a significant increased tendency to gaze at the genital parts of these photos. And, just to throw one more curve ball at you, the men spent more time fixated on the women’s faces (maybe trying to gauge the woman’s level of sexual excitement – perhaps? Hmm).

The study cites that

“In women not using oral contraceptives, sexual desire, masturbation, and instances of sexual initiation fluctuate over the [menstrual] cycle...Because women using oral contraceptives do not experience the same magnitude of hormonal fluctuations one would expect them to have lower and less variable sexual motivation than cycling women.”

And this definitely seems to be the case, according to this study. So to all those men out there who fantasize that their female partners will looki at porn with them, I can offer you 2 suggestions based on this latest research:

• If your woman is on the pill, find some other fantasy to involve her in – the porn just isn’t going to do “the trick” wit her.
  
  
• BUT – if your gal is not using a hormonal birth control method, this may be a fun way to spice up your sex life! She may be resistant at first, yet based on this latest research, her interest (and hopefully desire) may perk up once she starts getting glimpses of some good genital images!

Have Fun!

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