High-intensity Erotic Visual Stimuli De-activate the Primary Visual Cortex in Women

The strong de-activation during watching high-intensity erotic film might represent compensation for the increased blood supply in the brain regions involved in sexual arousal, also because high-intensity erotic movies do not require precise scanning of the visual field, because the impact is clear to the observer. Huynh HK, Beers C, Willemsen A, Lont E, Laan E, Dierckx R, Jansen M, Sand M, Weijmar Schultz W, and Holstege G. High-intensity erotic visual stimuli de-activate the primary visual cortex in women. J Sex Med 2012;9:1579-1587.