Female sexual response to porn

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The Positive Powers of Porn
Stephanie Ramp
http://www.fairfieldweekly.com/articles/porn.html

It has been generally assumed that women are less visually stimulated
than men. However, a study conducted by Ellen T.M. Laan, a
psychologist at the University of Amsterdam, challenged that
assumption. In 1995, The New York Times ran a story on her research,
which recorded a marked and rapid increase in genital blood flow (an
indicator of sexual arousal) when 47 female subjects viewed two clips
of pornographic video, one from a "male-styled" porn, the other from
one of Royalle's films. The study found no difference in physiological
arousal in response to the different clips, although most women
reported a negative reaction to the male film and a positive one to
Royalle's (no background information on the origin of the clips was
disclosed to the subjects). Besides proving that women are visually
stimulated, Dr. Laan's research also suggests that men and women have
an equal potential for sexual arousal.