COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 21 (UPI) -- Dutch researchers say women's brains must be at ease with their partner to reach orgasm while men's brains focus on the meaning of being touched sexually.
Researchers from the University of Groningen in Holland said their study of 11 male and 13 female volunteers is believed to be the first to use positive emission tomography, or PET, brain scans during orgasm.
Lead researcher Gert Holstege said PET scans showed men's and women's brains process genital touching differently.
"For women the primary feeling is there, but for men it is much more about what it means when they are being touched," Holstege told the London Daily Telegraph.
"When a woman makes love she needs to feel she is being protected and must not feel any fear," Holstege said. "There was deactivation in the parts of the brain dealing with fear and alertness."
Researchers presented their findings to the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Copenhagen, Denmark.
