The authors of the study, led by Charmaine Borg of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, asked female participants to complete various disgusting-seeming actions, like drinking from a cup with an insect in it or wiping their hands with a used tissue<\/strong>. (The participants were not aware of it, but the insect was made of plastic and the tissue was colored with ink to make it appear used.)<\/p>\n Sexually aroused subjects responded to the tasks with less disgust<\/strong> than subjects who were not sexually aroused, suggesting that the state of arousal has some effect on women’s disgust response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Sex can be messy, but most people don’t seem to mind too much, and new results reported Sep. 12 in… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6395"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6572,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6395\/revisions\/6572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/images\/blogpics\/Disgust.jpg\" "\\"disgust\\"")
Sex can be messy, but most people don’t seem to mind too much<\/strong>, and new results reported Sep. 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE<\/em> suggest that this phenomenon may result from sexual arousal actually dampening humans’ natural disgust response.<\/p>\n