Naomi Andrews

And so if I see a sexy person out there, that may be a kind of trigger that starts my what's called an event schema or sexual script.

For women, yes.

There's pretty strong evidence that romance novels contain the feel sexy phrases at a high level or a relatively high level.

And it's associated with female gender pronouns, like she felt sexy, that kind of thing.

It's also the case that women writers are more likely to use that phrase than are men writers.

But in some, for example, circumstances where he feels sexy, that is in fact incorporated in some books, but it's not as tied to, for example, romance novels.

There seems to be

A variety of, for example, different genres that incorporate male-oriented, feel-sexy phrases for women.

It's very high in terms of the percentage relative to guys, and it seems to be particularly linked to romance novels.

Yeah, you might be.

So if women are more likely to say that, or they're more likely to end up saying that in books, for example, and women are more likely to read it or see that, then they may be more likely to incorporate that.

But sometimes it may be guys too, who may in fact hear a woman say, I feel sexy.

And then, wow, that phrase kind of triggers something for me too.

And so they may end up using that too.

But it may be more likely to occur in women if, for example, the woman is the writer or the speaker of that phrase, because then it's more like that's a role model for me, right?

Well, we only looked at it in books, so there's lots of other forms of communication beyond books.

I think there would still be an interesting gender difference in these other forms of communication, but we still need to do that kind of research.

Well, thanks for having me, David.