By Joe Pinkstone For Mailonline. The male obsession with nudity has long been a stalwart of adolescence, with smutty magazines and 'lad mag' calendars appealing to teens for decades. But now the preconceived idea that men react to nudity differently to women is being challenged by scientists. It claims the old stereotype of men preferring lingerie while women want a slow-burning evening to get in the mood may not be true at all. MRI scans reveal the brains of both sexes react in the same way to images and videos of naked people. Neural patterns of sexual arousal cluster into 2 distinct patterns on MRI scans when viewing arousing stimuli, including video A and pictures B.
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For twelve months, the Paris photographer Laura Stevens transformed her bed into a stage set for a series of portraits, and more than fifty unnamed men agreed to pose nude on a single white sheet. In most cases, she had never met her subject prior to the shoot, but after some tea and conversation, a new collaboration was born. What motivated you to embark on this project? I find this reductive and too subjective, and I wanted to engage in finding my own way of looking at and portraying the man. One guy was sitting next to me metro who I found to be so beautiful I asked him if he would be interested in posing for me and if so to contact me. When I then proposed the idea of it being naked, it turned out it was something he had been wanting to do for a while, as a political statement. Practically all of the men who had already been photographed naked had only ever been approached before by men, never by a woman photographer.
Women's brains react to porn and nude images in the same way as men's
But this request, while still a meme, is no longer rhetorical. Millions of men and women around the world are sending nudes and without a shred of irony. The unstoppable rise of messaging and dating apps, lightning-fast wireless internet, and high-definition front- and rear-facing cameras on hand at every moment have, for better or worse, made digitizing our naked selves irresistible.
Sexting is just one of those things that's going to happen, and there's no point denying it or trying to stop people from sending their sexy tests. The best thing we can do is educate people on how to do it safer, and to empower them only to send nudes or erotic pics if they're really comfortable, and actually want to. A Reddit user recently started an AskMen thread asking, "How important are naughty photos for a relationship?