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Neuroscience: Porn Makes Women into Tools

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Men who view pictures of scantily clad damsels experience similar brain activity to when they are using tools, research suggests.

Shown pictures of such ladies, brain scans apparently illustrated the same parts of the brain associated with tool use became active, whilst those associated with social cognition were less active.

Princeton Professor Susan Fiske claims:

“The only other time we have seen this is when people look at pictures of the homeless or of drug addicts because they really don’t want to think about what is going on in their minds.”

It was also found that men tended to remember such images better than they did when dealing with fully clothed females.

She insinuates that the effect could lead men to “sexualise” their colleagues at work, should their bestial eyes alight upon such a depraved image. She denies being anti-porn all the same:

“I am not saying there should be censorship but people need to know of the associations people have in their minds.”

Presenting her research, she claimed that such gravure makes men think of women as “less than human”.

They did not bother to test the brain activity of women as well; however, she did concede when asked that women, instead of physical attractiveness, considered such reasonable factors as age and bank balance.

Via the Daily Mail.

Professor Susan Fiske lists her research interests as “stereotyping” and “discrimination”, which when combined with studies into “the objectification of women”, “ambivalent sexism” and “dehumanisation”, may suggest the results of her inquiry were a foregone conclusion…

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