Hi and welcome to the Bear Marriage Podcast I am Rebecca Lindenbach who normally does not host this thing.

That's right. Yes, I am Connor who also normally does not host this thing.

Yes, exactly.

So Sheila is typically the host

and she is currently on vacation,

and so I am kind of in charge for the next few weeks

until they get back.

But yes, this is the Bear Marriage Podcast where we like to, I really

we like to strip away everything that's unnecessary from all the advice that were typically

given and get back to healthy evidence-based biblical

advice for marriages and sex lives and so that's what we do here.

Talking about evidence-based, we are doing a research deep dive month on the blog. We're talking about a bunch of

really interesting studies that have come out. We're going to talk about how they

kind of intersect with the research that we've done in our results as well, but really

we're just trying to give you a good idea of what the research is currently saying in the areas of things like libido, sexual pleasure, even lust, and whether or not men are visual.

And so this week we have an article out that Connor had actually gone through

and read through and he's going to kind of walk us through it and I'll react.

So let's take a look at this article here. The title of the article is

body gaze as a marker of sexual objectification, a new scale for pervasive gaze and gaze provocation

behaviors in heterosexual women and men.

It's by Ross, Shane, Prudence, and Belinda.

And essentially what it lays out is they did this study. They got eye tracking data from a number of men and women and showed them pictures of men and women either fully dressed or partially undressed and they also got all of

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