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The Neurology of Porn

By The Daily Dish
Dec 1 2007, 4:03 AM ET

Macaque apes turn out to be like humans:

Platt found that male macaques strongly preferred to look at pictures of females' rear ends and dominant males' faces. They liked them enough to pay, by sacrificing a chance to get a treat. But you had to bribe those same monkeys with treats to persuade them to look at female macaque faces or the faces of subordinate males.



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