Sunday, May 3, 2009

Why do men want more sex than women?


In a post on Web MD featuring sexual health stories named “Sex Drive: How Do Men and Women Compare?", Richard Sinne emphasizes how endless studies have proven that men's sex drives are stronger than women's and are driven by innate, biological needs.


Here is an excerpt from the actual study:

"Sexual desire in women is extremely sensitive to environment and context," says Edward O. Laumann, PhD, a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and lead author of a major survey of sexual practices, The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States.

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So why do men want to have sex all the time? Evolutionary theory emphasizes that the sex drive was shaped by natural selection. According to the social exchange theory, sex is viewed as a resource that women have and that men want and are willing to exchange other resources for. Since women’s sex drive can be shaped and altered by social, cultural and situational forces, women, unlike men, can survive without sex. Men on the other hand can’t survive without it, that’s why you see them taking more risks and expending more resources to get sex.

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