I just read another interesting study reported by Mary Roach in Bonk. She discovered a manuscript detailing the results of a study done by Masters and Johnson in 1979 comparing the laboratory sexual encounters of straight, gay, and lesbian couples. The 'best' sex - in terms of high levels of excitation - reportedly occurred between gay and lesbian couples because they took their time and moved slowly from one level of sexual interaction and stimulation to another.
"Another difference was that the lesbians were almost as aroused by what they were doing to their partner as was the partner herself." It was the partner's reaction that served as a turn-on. "Masters and Johnson's heterosexuals failed to grasp that if you lost yourself in the tease - in the pleasure and power of turning someone on - that that could be as arousing as being teased and turned on oneself." The heterosexuals exhibited a far greater goal orientation which interfered with maximizing pleasurable sensations along the way. The gay men "lavished attention on their partners' entired bodies" whereas the straight women focused primarily on their partner's penis.
"Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage [because]... doing unto your partner as you would do unto yourself only works well when you're gay." That's where gender empathy is a factor. More on that on Monday.
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