Well, here's one scientific study that was "eye-catching," to say the least.
It seems that some researchers at a couple of British Columbia universities did a study of the lack of sexual interest in some PCa ADT patients. They did this by measuring how the patients ogled photos of pretty women.
The article below (actually a summary of a larger article, which I presume can be had, if one is interested) describes how this was done.
From the article:
"Many treatments for prostate cancer (PCa), in particular androgen deprivation therapy (ADT), depress sexual interest in men"Like we didn't know that. But then it goes on:
"… there is no objective measure of the intensity of this effect. Here we explore whether eye-tracking can be used to quantify the impact of PCa treatments on men's libido."Evidently, using some kind of eye-tracking technology (something called "IRB-approved deception protocol" according to the article), the experimenters assembled three groups: men without PCa, PCa patients not on ADT, and PCa patients on ADT.
Then the experiment was conducted:
"Unaware that their eye movements were being tracked, all were exposed to photographs of female models, either fully clothed (neutral) or minimally clothed (sexy)."
"Number and duration of eye fixations on target areas of the female models' bodies were recorded."("Target areas" having been defined as "… breast size and waist to hip ratio.")
Then, having conducted said experiment, the authors concluded that
"… our preliminary data suggest that men on ADT exhibit differential patterns of visual attention to sexual stimuli compared to men in the other two groups."Like we didn’t know that as well.
No, this article wasn't published on April 1 (I checked), and was apparently done as a serious study. Although one has to wonder if a bit of tongue-in-cheek giggling did go into the conduct of and the writing up of this "experiment."
So science marches on, I guess!
/www.urotoday.com/recent-abstracts/urologic-oncology/prostate-cancer/93929-using-eye-tracking-to-quantify-the-impact-of-prostate-cancer-treatments-on-male-libido-a-pilot-study.html