Another, this is a Humantauria, another erotical illusion for men. This one's not so common but it kind of reveals the nature of sort of erotic trickery. Another erotical illusion for women is Slash fiction. Slash is a sub-genre, I shouldn't even say sub-genre 'cause it's just about as big as Fanfiction, the parts of FanFiction that aren't Slash. Slash fiction are stories about two men, usually two strong, dominant, masculine men who share
So the reason cue theory can explain both Edward Cullen and Shemale Porn is that they're both examples of erotical illusions, what we call erotical illusions. Let me explain to you what an erotical illusion is. Computational neuroscientists love to analyze optical illusions and these are two optical illusions that in my department we analyzed or spent a lot of time trying to figure out because optical illusions reveal the software of visual perception.
Here's a representation of Slash Edward Cullen the vampire and Jacob Black the werewolf from Twilight a very popular pairing within Slash fiction. This is erotical illusion for women; it combines, the reason women read romance novels is because their stories of men revealing their tender side, their emotional side of strong dominant revealing the tender side. So this just basically doubles up all the cues; this is analogous to men like looking at lesbian porn, two women making out and kissing regardless of their
You'd never make, mistake Slash fiction for erotica written by a gay man. So these are some erotical illusions and one thing worth considering is just how different these are, just how different Edward Cullen is from Shemale Porn or the Humantauria is from Slash fiction. The male and female sexual brain, down at the most basic operation we're talking, of course, now just its fundamental level not talking about sexual relationships which are
thing going on, it's just pure visual trickery of the male sexual brain. So what's interesting about erotical illusions is an erotical illusion for a man does not work on women, and erotical illusions for women does not work on men. So imagine for a second the opposite of the Shemale, maybe a man with a bald head, big muscles, tats all over, a cigar, and a vagina. So --
with any in the traffic to Buck Angel sites there was no women visiting Buck Angels porn sites. So let's look at the erotical illusion for women. Andrew Cullen is a vampire, he's a vampire in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series of novels. Over the past decade paranormal romance, as a sub-genre of romance novels, has just exploded.
any that has broken out among men. Men don't find this particularly interesting. So there's many, many other erotical illusions, I'll just mention a few that people often wanna hear about. Facials. Facials, which women for the most part find disgusting. We know that from, we talked to some of the female erotic sites and they always have surveys about what women
Now I wanna take what we've learned to apply it to Edward Cullen and Shemale Porn. So the reason cue theory can explain both Edward Cullen and Shemale Porn is that they're both examples of erotical illusions, what we call erotical illusions. Let me explain to you what an erotical illusion is. Computational neuroscientists love to analyze optical illusions and these are two optical illusions that in my department we analyzed or spent a lot of
quality. Again it's by combining two separate visual cues in this new way kind of tricks the brain. So that's something very similar to what's happening with the sexual brain with an erotical illusion. An erotical illusion combines different sexual cues in new combinations to trick out the sexual brain. So let me talk about Shemale Porn. Again this is very popular among heterosexual men; gay
based upon J.R. Ward; many, many authors, many books about paranormal romance. They feature heroes who are supernatural: vampires, werewolves, wizards, things like that. Definitely the king of paranormal romance is the character Edward Cullen. So he is an erotical illusion, a female erotical illusion 'cause he combines a number of different female psychological cues into this novel concoction.
with the visual moment. Another, this is a Humantauria, another erotical illusion for men. This one's not so common but it kind of reveals the nature of sort of erotic trickery. Another erotical illusion for women is Slash fiction. Slash is a sub-genre, I shouldn't even say sub-genre 'cause it's just about as big as Fanfiction, the parts of FanFiction
had when they discovered this on their husbands' browsers was that maybe their husband's gay. And the clinicians had no idea of that was true or not and no way to think about it so we think the answer is no, there's nothing gay about liking Shemale Porn; it's an erotical illusion. It combines the female anatomical cues that we talked about breasts, butt, feet, all the curves of a female body with the other cue of a penis. Which we
Facials. Facials, which women for the most part find disgusting. We know that from, we talked to some of the female erotic sites and they always have surveys about what women wanna see in erotic videos and facials is always at the very bottom of the list; for men it's usually at the top of the list. Why are men interested in it? It's an erotical illusion. It combines psychological cues with visual cues in ways that aren't possible with any other place. They're almost like emoticons expressing emotion, having emotional connection
depending on the author, but it's always the emotional connection; Slash is very emotional. You'd never make, mistake Slash fiction for erotica written by a gay man. So these are some erotical illusions and one thing worth considering is just how different these are, just how different Edward Cullen is from Shemale Porn or the Humantauria is