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Stereotypes are wrong and bad
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It's not a stereotype when scientific studies tend to confirm it.
Sex drive: Theoretical conceptualization and meta-analytic review of gender differences
Is There a Gender Difference in Strength of Sex Drive? Theoretical Views, Conceptual Distinctions, and a Review of Relevant Evidence
Stereotypes often tend to have some truth to them, that's why they became Stereotypes.
The trick is to never to assign a stereotype to an individual automatically.
Eh, I find it to be pointless to try and suppress my Instincts in that. Like I automatically put people in a box or assign them some stereotypes and imho that's fine. But one has to be open on being proven wrong on these things and accept that.
Wild take
It is still a stereotype that "boys only want sex". Those studies suggest a higher sexual drive on average, not that it applies for all boys, and certainly not that it's the only thing boys want.
Our whole culture is about conditioning men and women to get this result though.
Maybe so, probably research exists on that topic too. Google scholar is kinda a fun place sometimes…. If ur nerdy like me at least.
Purely speaking from my anecdotal experiences, I have far more instances of getting aroused than my partners, but their sexual preferences are WAY more extreme. Most of the girls I've been with have wanted extremely rough sex, which I'm not even remotely into. They're also way way more voyeuristic than I ever will be, often wanting to share sexy photos online for the entire world to enjoy or showing interest in making online porn. So yeah, I want to bang more often, but they definitely are far more deviant than I am.
You're a freak magnet, baby!
Yeah, there's a simple reason for this: men have more testosterone than women, and testosterone has been known to heighten the more "animalistic"/cave man characteristics in men.
One of my college roommates took anabolic steroids and he told me once "dude, it's wild, all I want to do is eat red (meaning rare) meat and fuck!"
I wonder if these findings have been supported by female lead research.
Nice.