Quick Hit: Women's sex drive and sexism.
To us there is an obvious relationship between a woman's libido and her lived experience with sexism, but some researchers chose to deny or ignore it.
Amanda clears it up and calls it out. Check it out on RH Reality Check.
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True that. Nothing like shame and belittlement to gut the ol' libido. :(
Yes, the constant "pathologization" of being female.
The article makes a good point about desire and libido not being the same. I too suspect that it's a drop in desire that is the culprit here. This is evidenced by the fact that women are likely to stray on average about the same as men.
Also, people are often posting here and there about how many men crave sexual variety; well, maybe some women do too. I've often wondered why after sex it seems like men are tapped out, but women tend to still have energy. Hmmm. Maybe that's natures way, of telling us that we're not done yet?!?
Also, the theory of sperm competition (just biology, no psychology here) is pretty compelling evidence for women having concurrent multiple partners as being something that has been a part of female sexuality for quite some time.
What a true and well written article.
The Good Girls Don't ethos is alive and well... as I asked my ex one day, "why is it so bad for me to have slept with more people than you?" His answer was "I dunno... it's just worse to take it than to give it." This lovely sentiment was one of the many reasons why I dumped him.
Men have an innate desire to solely possess a woman's sex drive. This is only possible if a woman's sex drive is low. Before paternity tests, shaming women, was the only way to decrease paternity fraud.
What fertile man would want to raise kids that are not his own, over a child that is his own flesh and blood?
With paternity tests shaming women is an outdated concept, that should die a quick death. But if one could not afford, get access or a woman refused to take a paternity test I see more benefit than costs in shaming women for the purpose of a male being secure that his children are actually his and not one of her male friends.
Paternity fraud rates are not exactly at 0%.
This is a very nice, overall guide. Thanks for the quality article, and a little insight on something I felt was true for a very long time!
- Jamie, Resveratrol Consultant