If men and women's sexual urgers are roughly equal, as modern science tells us, why are so many women against casual sex while men are for it, and why does 90% of the porn and prostitution industry cater to men?

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Electra_Cute · 2017-09-23T12:09:06+00:00

If men and women's sexual urgers are roughly equal, as modern science tells us,

Does "modern science" really say this at all?

BiggerDthanYou · 2017-09-23T12:23:25+00:00

If men and women's sexual urgers are roughly equal, as modern science tells us

Where exactly do they tell you this? Are you just making this up because you somehow assume that "men and women aren't different species. They are more alike than different" means "men and women are roughly the same in literally every aspect" even though most of those sources also mention that sexuality is one of the main differences?

Here's what modern science actually tells us:

Self-reported frequency of sexual urges, fantasies, and masturbatory fantasies in heterosexual males and females

After a 3-day practice period, 49 male and 47 female heterosexual undergraduates self-monitored the frequency of fantasies, urges, and masturbatory fantasies for 7 consecutive days. The most significant finding was that men reported a significantly greater frequency of sexual urges and masturbatory fantasies than women.

Sex differences in sexual fantasy: An evolutionary psychological approach

These data, the scientific literature on sexual fantasy, the historically‐stable contrasts between male‐oriented pornography and female‐oriented romance novels, the ethnographic record of human sexuality, and the ineluctable implications of an evolutionary perspective on our species, taken together, imply the existence of profound sex differences in sexual psychologies.

Is There a Gender Difference in Strength of Sex Drive? Theoretical Views, Conceptual Distinctions, and a Review of Relevant Evidence

Across many different studies and measures, men have been shown to have more frequent and more intense sexual desires than women, as reflected in spontaneous thoughts about sex, frequency and variety of sexual fantasies, desired frequency of intercourse, desired number of partners, masturbation, liking for various sexual practices, willingness to forego sex, initiating versus refusing sex, making sacrifices for sex, and other measures. No contrary findings (indicating stronger sexual motivation among women) were found. Hence we conclude that the male sex drive is stronger than the female sex drive.

Men and Women: No Big Difference

Only a few main differences appeared: Compared with women, men could throw farther, were more physically aggressive, masturbated more, and held more positive attitudes about sex in uncommitted relationships.

Gender differences in sexuality: a meta-analysis.

The largest gender difference was in incidence of masturbation: Men had the greater incidence (d = .96). There was also a large gender difference in attitudes toward casual sex: Males had considerably more permissive attitudes (d = .81). There were no gender differences in attitudes toward homosexuality or in sexual satisfaction. Most other gender differences were in the small-to-moderate range. Gender differences narrowed from the 1960s to the 1980s for many variables.

Sex Differences in Response to Visual Sexual Stimuli: A Review

The currently available data strongly support the idea that men and women differ in the sorts of stimuli that they find sexually attractive and arousing.

Men and women differ in amygdala response to visual sexual stimuli.

Men are generally more interested in and responsive to visual sexually arousing stimuli than are women. Here we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to show that the amygdala and hypothalamus are more strongly activated in men than in women when viewing identical sexual stimuli. This was true even when women reported greater arousal. Sex differences were specific to the sexual nature of the stimuli, were restricted primarily to limbic regions, and were larger in the left amygdala than the right amygdala. Men and women showed similar activation patterns across multiple brain regions, including ventral striatal regions involved in reward. Our findings indicate that the amygdala mediates sex differences in responsiveness to appetitive and biologically salient stimuli; the human amygdala may also mediate the reportedly greater role of visual stimuli in male sexual behavior, paralleling prior animal findings.

Where is all this science that claims that they have the same sexuality?

why are so many women against casual sex while men are for it

That's a non-sequitor. They could have roughly the same sex drive (even though modern science doesn't even claim that they are the same) even though it drives them in a different direction (quality vs quantity)

and why does 90% of the porn and prostitution industry cater to men

And why does 90% of the erotic literature cater to women?

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