This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The question of what women want has been baffling people for years. Many books, papers, irate blogs, pick-up artist seminars, films, art, and music have been devoted to this pressing topic, each one seeming to contradict the last. If we are to believe fan fiction erotica involving characters from books, TV and movies , which is primarily written by women, women want to see Severus Snape from Harry Potter get it on with a Teletubby. Predictably, science has stepped in to provide some more concrete answers than those involving pastries or fuzzy aliens. The following studies set out to discover what turns women on. The results will definitely surprise you. Everything, but a naked male. The women, both straight and lesbian, were turned on by just about all of it, including the copulating apes. Gay men had the opposite response, and neither male group responded at all to the apes.


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