Erotic Preferences:

Martin Seligman:

"I believe that men and women are vastly different in their erotic preferences and maybe even in the process of getting their preferences. Men easily - perhaps universally - acquire very string arousal to specific, concrete objects. It is the look, the feel, and the smell of these objects that turns men on. Many a man centers his whole life on pursuit of them. The objects of male preference are at the lower level than a whole person (Cher's legs are more of a turn-on than Cher). This happens rarely - perhaps never - to women. Women, rather, acquire erotic preferences for subtler scenarios, involving plot lines, intimacy, and character. The essence is that female sex objects are not objects at all; they are at the level of the whole person, and they focus on personal relationships."