Taken together, the findings provide a much more nuanced picture of men's sexuality than is promoted by men's magazines, Janssen pointed out. "There's huge variability among men in how easily they're turned on or turned off, how easily they experience sexual desire and arousal," he explained. "The differences among men and the differences among women are much larger than the average difference between the sexes in almost anything sexual."In fact, the researcher added, as many as 30 percent of women may be more easily sexually aroused than most men.

"This study's challenging the idea that men are simple," he said.

I'm blushing

So, men may not be simple...?

Not only is male sexual response oversimplified, it is all too often depreciated as well. In much of the literature on sex, the male gender is summarily regulated to the periphery. Or treated as Ambrose Beirce put it as the "unconsidered and inconsequential sex."