By M. Christian

YNOT – A new study appears to demonstrate that an adult filmmaker’s gender makes a difference in the way female audience members respond to the material.

The study, which bears the very precise title “Women’s Sexual And Emotional Responses To Male- And Female-Produced Erotica,” was conducted by four researchers in the Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. Their goal: To determine whether women are more aroused by porn created by women or men, or whether the gender of the filmmaker has any effect at all.

Forty-seven women took part in the study, which used sophisticated equipment to measure autonomic responses including vaginal pulse amplitude. In addition, the researchers collected self-reported arousal ratings from each of the subjects.

The results proved interesting: “Contrary to expectation, genital arousal did not differ between films, although genital response to both [male-directed and female-directed] films was substantial.”

In other words, physical indications of arousal were similar regardless the gender of a film’s creator.

However, “subjective experience of sexual arousal was significantly higher during the woman-made film.” Women perceived a greater level of arousal while watching a women-directed film than while watching one directed by a man.

In fact, according to the researchers, “the man-made film evoked more feelings of shame, guilt and aversion.”

The researchers concluded “the largest contribution to female sexual excitement might result from the processing of stimulus-content and stimulus-meaning and not from peripheral vasocongestive feedback.”

In simpler terms, more sex occurs between a woman’s ears than in her “parts.” If a woman realizes a pornographic film was created by another woman, she is more likely to have a positive intellectual response to the material, and therefore feel more satisfied when viewing — even though her body, like a man’s, doesn’t care.