Gratuitous

And the Belle Waring award for most gratuitous description of a woman's appearance may be given early in the year, because I'm hard pressed to think what will top this:

While the subjects watched on a computer screen, Chivers, who favors high boots and fashionable rectangular glasses, measured their arousal in two ways, objectively and subjectively.

It's appropriate because her research is sexxay, am I right?

Comments

[The Modesto Kid]

I thank that article for introducing me to the term "plethysmograph," which I had never heard before.

[m. leblanc]

I had that exact same though. Later in the article there's a description of the other researcher's appearance, lacking the "sexxay" vibe.

"Lisa Diamond, a newly prominent sexologist of Chivers’s generation, looks at women’s erotic drives in a different way. An associate professor of psychology and gender studies at the University of Utah, with short, dark hair that seems to explode anarchically around her head..."

"Wank off over this one, not that one."

[Ken Houghton]

Rectangular glasses are fashionable??

And, hey, given then credit for restraint: they left out whether she wears fishnets.