New research has shown that when women are feeling sexual, they don’t really care at all about how dirty they get, in terms of physical bodily secretions. Sex can be a messy business, with the exchange of bodily fluids of various sorts, and women who are concerned about their wellness and wellbeing are usually also interested in being clean and hygienic at all times, so it may come as a surprise to realise that they are not actually turned off by the fact that sex is a physically messy experience.
It’s a surprising phenomenon, but we can see (due to the fact that procreation has continued to exist since the start of time!) that the messiness and perhaps perceived ‘ugliness’ of sexual contact is not necessarily offputting for women.
The new study took place in the Netherlands, and provided a possible answer for why women are not put off by the messy aspects of sex. The researchers found that sexual arousal may actually dull the part of the female brain that lets women feel ‘disgust’ or other similar emotions. This was explored by the researchers, who took on a unique study that blended porn with plastic bugs, to see if the sexual arousal of the participant in the study would lower their disgust feelings towards the bugs.
If you think about it, the appetite for sex is not a rational feeling – a man who may be perfectly happy to kiss the mouth of his female partner with passion, inserting his tongue into her mouth and so on, would probably be quite disgusted by the idea of using her toothbrush. Why is this? Each has the same hygiene implications. It can only be the case, then, that sexual arousal takes away the elements of disgust that could otherwise exist.
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