A McGill University study shows that men and women pretty much get sexually aroused at about the same rate rather than at the different speeds old wives tales say that women are more difficult to arouse . . . Thermal Imaging Shatters Arousal Gender Gap Myth . . .

A new McGill University study that used thermal imaging technology for the first time ever to measure sexual arousal rates has turned the conventional wisdom that women become aroused more slowly than men on its head. “Comparing sexual arousal between men and women, we see that there is no difference in the amount of time it takes healthy young men and women to reach peak arousal,” said Dr. Irv Binik, psychology professor and founder and director of the Sex and Couple Therapy Service of Royal Victoria Hospital, which is part of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC).

So, at McGill, they hook young people up to thermal imaging machines and all sorts of doohickies and then tell ’em to go at it and start having sex while the scientists with the funky cameras take video of them. Sounds like any old frat party actually.

Okay, cuteness enough. It is important work and it will lead to a great many insights into sexual therapy and the like. It will also help us to understand ourselves. However, there may be a foreplay element that is missing in that the anticipation of the project may have already prepped the healthy young women for responsiveness . . . or not. More research needs to be done.