Areas of brain activation in males and females during viewing of erotic film excerpts
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Abstract Various lines of evidence indicate that men generally experience greater sexual arousal (SA) to erotic stimuli than women. Yet, little is known regarding the neurobiological processes underlying such a gender difference. To investigate this issue, functional magnetic resonance imaging was used to compare the neural correlates of SA in 20 male and 20 female subjects. Brain activity was measured while male and female subjects were viewing erotic film excerpts. Results showed that the level of perceived SA was significantly higher in male than in female subjects. When compared to viewing emotionally neutral film excerpts, viewing erotic film excerpts was associated, for both genders, with bilateral blood oxygen level dependant (BOLD) signal increases in the anterior cingulate, medial prefrontal, orbitofrontal, insular, and occipitotemporal cortices, as well as in the amygdala and the ventral striatum. Only for the group of male subjects was there evidence of a significant activation of the thalamus and hypothalamus, a sexually dimorphic area of the brain known to play a pivotal role in physiological arousal and sexual behavior. When directly compared between genders, hypothalamic activation was found to be significantly greater in male subjects. Furthermore, for male subjects only, the magnitude of hypothalamic activation was positively correlated with reported levels of SA. These findings reveal the existence of similarities and dissimilarities in the way the brain of both genders responds to erotic stimuli. They further suggest that the greater SA generally experienced by men, when viewing erotica, may be related to the functional gender difference found here with respect to the hypothalamus. Hum. Brain Mapping 16:1–13, 2002. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
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Both men and women experiencing visually-induced sexual arousal show increased activity in the amygdala, hippocampus, mPFC, NAc, OFC, ACC, and IC.
“Both men and women experiencing visually-induced sexual arousal show increased activity in the amygdala, hippocampus, mPFC, NAc, OFC, ACC, and IC [129,130,131,132].”
From The Neurobiology of Love and Pair Bonding from Human and Animal Perspectives (2023) · cites this paper as [130]
In humans, sexual arousal has been associated with increased neural activity within a number of regions within the motivational pathway including in the hypothalamus, striatum, amygdala insula, frontal cortex and cingulate.
“In humans, sexual arousal has been associated with increased neural activity within a number of regions within the motivational pathway including in the hypothalamus, striatum, amygdala insula, frontal cortex and cingulate (Arnow et al., 2002, Hamann et al., 2004, Karama et al., 2002, Park et al., 2001, Rauch et al., 1999, Redoute et al., 2000, Stoleru et al., 1999).”
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- Authors
- Karama, S., Lecours, A. R., Leroux, J., Bourgouin, P., Beaudoin, G., Joubert, S., & Beauregard, M.
- Affiliations
- Université de Montréal (CA)
- Hôpital Notre-Dame (CA)
- Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital (CA)
- Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal (CA)
- Venue
- Human Brain Mapping
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2002-01-30
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-13
- ISSN
- 1065-9471 (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0193
- OpenAlex
- W1981033842
- Cited by
- 522
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 15 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 22 · 2015: 27 · 2014: 17 · 2013: 39 · 2012: 29
- FWCI
- 25.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Human Brain Mapping (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Université de Montréal
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Sexual function and dysfunction studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- sexual arousal, gender differences, hypothalamus, thalamus, amygdala, ventral striatum, anterior cingulate cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, insula, medial prefrontal cortex, occipitotemporal cortex, brain activation
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