Sex Study (2nd part).

So, what I went downtown for on Sunday when the janitor was ripping apart my drain, was for the 2nd part of the sex study, the MRI part.

Overall, it was relatively uneventful. I went downtown, rated some masturbation clips on a scale of 1 ("not appealing") to 4 ("very appealing"), and then they threw me in the MRI and had me watch the same. The workers were these research assistant girls who I had never seen before, and seemed to be on the masters level.

One of them ("Rachel") asked me about what I studied, and then was full of questions about what books she should read so as to understand modern religion, and I recommended "Heaven's Harlots". She said she would get it, though she was Jewish and really didn't understand Christianity in any case.

I then asked her about how they controlled the porn for how some people are attracted to different types of people (e.g. different races, different hair colors, etc.), and she said that that was a good question - we talked a lot because there was a scheduling mix-up and I had to wait around for like 40 minutes - and she went in back to talk to someone about it - I had said she didn't have to, it wasn't that important, but she said that it was interesting and she wanted to know - and then she came back and said that they didn't, since they were testing heterosexual, bisexual, and homosexual men, and they figured that reactions to porn wouldn't be affected that much by that variance, since they had enough subjects and enough different types of people in the porn to get participants aroused to something, and they figured that the biggest source of difference would be with whether it was a man or a woman in the clip they were looking at.

She also said that they were designing a study on pedophilia, since everyone talks about it but no one ever researches it. She said the biggest trouble was determining how to induce arousal in pedophiles, since kiddie porn was off limits (10 years in prison if they procured it), so they were thinking of finding pictures of kids in swimsuits from ads.

I then said I had always thought of pedophilia as kind of like a fetish, only with children instead of shoes, and she said that that was actually right, because unlike homosexuality or lesbianism, pedophilia is considered a "paraphilia", which means an odd attraction to a sexual object, and paraphilias (paraphiliai?) often come in 2s, so if someone is autogynophilic (i.e., they're a man who loves to dress up as a woman and masturbate to themself), they might be attracted to shoes or something on top of that, and pedophilia usually pairs up with something like that, whereas lesbianism and homosexuality don't.