Researchers at Princeton did an experiment where they showed college-aged men inside an MRI pictures of women in bikinis and noted that the areas of the men's brains associated with "handling tools" lit up. And when men were shown images of fully clad women, this didn't happen. Ostensibly, this is evidence of something known as "benevolent sexism," but it's really much simpler than that. Put a college-age hetero male alone in a confined place with pictures of women in bikinis and of course the first thing he's going to think about is "handling a tool."
In a related study, men were shown to associate bikini-clad women (as above) with first-person verb forms like [I] "push," "handle," and "grab." Whereas fully clothed women (as below) were more often associated with 3rd person verb forms like [she] "pushes," "handles," and "grabs." Go figure.
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Sometimes science is fun!
I associate that first girl with crack - that's what her eyes look like she's on (which is all right, if she's into that kind of thing, especially if it spurs her on to take vacations in tropical places and put on sexy outfits like that - crack away, honey).
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