Männer objektivieren Frauen stärker, wenn sie sexuell erregt sind, unabhängig von ihren zugrunde liegenden Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen. Diese Verschiebung geschieht unabhängig von den allgemeinen Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen eines Mannes und ist ein Beweis dafür, dass momentane biologische Zustände eine zentrale Rolle dabei spielen, wie Menschen andere wahrnehmen
Men objectify women more when sexually aroused, regardless of their underlying personality traits
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A recent study suggests that temporary states of sexual arousal can cause men to sexually objectify women, shifting their focus toward sexualized physical traits and away from psychological characteristics. This shift happens independently of a man’s general personality traits, providing evidence that momentary biological states play a central role in how people perceive others. The study was published in The Journal of Sex Research.
The authors of the new study sought to better understand the immediate, short-term causes of sexual objectification. Sexual objectification happens when a person is reduced to their sexual function, and their mental and emotional characteristics are ignored. In heterosexual contexts, women predominantly suffer the negative consequences of this behavior, including reduced self-esteem, feelings of anger, and depression.
Past research has focused heavily on stable personality traits to explain why men objectify women. These traits include characteristics like narcissism, psychopathy, and a preference for social dominance. Many existing theories also view objectification primarily as a tool men use to assert power and maintain dominance over women.
While those personality and power dynamics remain relevant, the authors suggest that current theories might miss an important piece of the puzzle by ignoring temporary physical states. Arnaud Wisman, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Kent, focuses his research on how evolutionary concepts apply to social psychology. “A central idea in my work is that sexual arousal is relatively underestimated as a driver of human motivation and cognition, likely in part because it remains a socially sensitive or taboo topic,” Wisman explained.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2026.2658752
Scientific evidence of post nut clarity.
They needed to fund a study for that?
Wonder if it’s similar for woman based on cycle phase. I assume it is.
Interesting enough I’ve seen this even when the men aren’t attracted to the woman.
Does it also happen the other way around?
People seem to forget that we’re just fancy animals. We can work towards a more fair society by suppressing primal traits but we’ll never eliminate them.
So because men find deisrable physical trait, they conclude they considere women like object when they are aroused? May be it have a bit of political Bias in that title and conclusion no?
Highly questionable use of ”objectify”; completely incongruent with its use in other sociological fields of study
Humans objectify everything, even ourselves.
Objectification is a just a buzz word for perception that gets more attention, but is fundamentally just a description for how we perceive the world.
Dudes think about having sex with women when they are horny, news at 11.
Is „objectification“ really the right word for that finding?
Imagine working in this field and spending your whole life studying the obvious.
Hormones are more powerful than we’re often willing to acknowledge in part, I think, because it challenges our sense of self and self-will to say that we can be a strikingly different person at times and it’s not fully in our control.
Well I mean… of course. It would function the same for a woman’s cycle about two weeks in just before it starts.
As someone else said we fashion ourselves these gods above animals with „inferior“ brain function (which is proving to not be such a difference… bees can do rudimentary mathematics) but… we’re still animals who have a biological imperative to MAKE MORE.
When that happens art and words and pointed suggestion will be MUCH less inhibited as your brain is flooded with MAKE BABIES imperative.
It seems pretty simple but it is good that we can still learn more from it.
I’m 41. Compared to when I was 21, I certainly engage with and think about women more as just other human beings, without dwelling on the fact that they’re a woman. Or what they look like. Or social/sexual implications. And so on.
I like to think it’s mostly from years of experience and wisdom, but this article reminds me that it also maybe kinda could be related to the fact that I’m not so goddamn horny every single minute of the day.
Is it really a negative to sexualize someone during sex?
When sexually aroused, I think more about my partner’s sex-specific appealing traits. They help me stay aroused to the point of completing mutually pleasurable intercourse.
Does this mean misogynists are horny all the time?
That is a really long way to say horny.
People find other people sexually desirable when they’re horny, am I understanding this right?
I am absolutely shocked that a man sees a woman as someone he may want to have sex with (as opposed to what, playing chess?) when he is sexually aroused.
What is wrong with men?!? Can we fix them?!?
I feel like this is likely the case for women as well although far less outwardly apparent.
“This finding provides evidence that sexual objectification is not just a fixed personality trait. Instead, it is also a dynamic state that fluctuates based on immediate motivational contexts, such as feeling sexually aroused. “Our findings suggest that objectification can, in some contexts, reflect a shift in perceptual focus toward physical features relevant for sexual attraction,”
tell us something we didnt already know
People spending money on food when they’re very hungry too, idk what’s the big reveal here.