Is that Woman Looking at Your Crotch?

Research published in Hormones and Behavior studies where the eye strays when looking at photos of the opposite sex.

Researchers hypothesized women would look at faces and men at genitals, but, surprisingly, they found men are more likely than women to first look at a woman’s face before other parts of the body, and women focused longer on photographs of men performing sexual acts with women than did the males.

Research Shows Men And Women Look At Sexual Photographs Differently

It is contingent on the hormonal flux:

“The eye-tracking data suggested what women paid most attention to was dependent upon their hormonal state. Women using hormonal contraceptives looked more at the genitals, while women who were not using hormonal contraceptives paid more attention to contextual elements of the photographs”

Sexual Photographs: Surprise! Men Look At Faces, Women Focus On Sexual Acts

As with much earlier research gender differences of this sort - assuming they exist - stem from the behavior of that tiny portion of the brain called the amygdala.

Of course generalizing on the basis of a respondent population of forty-five people in their mid-twenties seems a mite …