The cover story of this week's New York Times Magazine is about female desire—why do women get aroused, the article asks. The answer? No one really knows. 

The piece describes the research of three leading female sexologists whose three different theories are at once at odds and overlapping. To illustrate how confusing female sexual response is the piece describes a study performed by Meredith Chivers, in which she showed various sexual images to men and women and measured their response by recording the blood flow to the penis and vagina, and at the same time asking … Read More