It's true, men really do love their Black & Decker electric drill as much as their woman. I'm not so sure what it says about women who like, what I refer to as 'man tools'. 😕

"Looking at images of women's bodies activates the part of men's brains associated with using power tools."

Men are more likely to think of women as objects if they have looked at sexy pictures of females beforehand, psychologists said yesterday.

Researchers used brain scans to show that when straight men looked at pictures of women in bikinis, areas of the brain that normally light up in anticipation of using tools, like spanners and screwdrivers, were activated.

Scans of some of the men found that a part of the brain associated with empathy for other people's emotions and wishes shut down after looking at the pictures.

Fiske asked the men to fill in a questionnaire that was used to assess how sexist they were. The brain scans showed that men who scored highest had very little activity in the prefrontal cortex and other brain regions that are involved with understanding another person's feelings and intentions. "They're reacting to these women as if they're not fully human," Fiske said.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/16/sex-object-photograph