this would be a reasonable statement to make about your generation if you were a 60 yr. old woman in america. how old are you, erica? in your twenties, early thirties...? in which case, i say, try another ( more genuous) explanation, for why female sex drive strikes the researchers as malleable, ok?

Now I'll read the rest of your post and pick more nits later.

(the above comment posted only to piss off ECB)

don't forget, we're also turned on by men leaving us alone to spend all their money at the MALL! Haw!

One thing is certain -- though the right questions are still being formulated and the evidence is slim, it's not too early for evolutionary psychologists to use this study to theorize about sexual behaviors being good or bad for the species.

PS: What's with straights being called "stubborn" for preferring women. What's the matter with "focused"?

Wait a minute! I have solved it all! The reason we are so flexible is because we are only attracted to money and material things. Both men and women can buy us stuff, which is why we like them both!

*dust hands off*

well another mystery solved thanks to infallible logic....

Most men who have hit on me over the years seemed to believe that looks don't, or shouldn't, matter to women. Unless there's some other reason why they believed that I was obligated to "give them a chance" even if I was in no way attracted to them.

My ex called it a "clitty boner."

Being told by modern society that your sexual desires don't matter and that you need to be flexible and easygoing isn't going to affect your BIOLOGY. Come on.

Oh, and if you think men aren't under pressure to perform sexually for women or that we're subject to unrealistic images in advertising and the media, and that those images affect our self-esteem, you're nuts. Men compete for women, rarely the other way around. You already have the upper hand.

Sounds about par.

The study showed that when women were shown sex videos of two men, of two women, of a man and a woman, even of two bonobo chimps getting it on (that's right, bonobo chimps), their vaginas got engorged and lubricated -- whether or not they reported being turned on.

In other words, the female subjects were physically aroused by sexual images of pretty much any kind, regardless of whether they felt mentally aroused.

Cultural factors may have something to say about female bisexuality, but I doubt they shed much light on the chimp thing.

The NY Times article about this study can be found at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/science/10desi.html

Gee... I guess there were never any women researchers and no women ever decided to offer up the info without being asked? Way to go, ladies...

I've considered that as well, but some of those guys had indicated to me that, as a woman, I don't have any business being shallow or judging a guy for his looks.

First you get the power....

Keshmeshi,
Did it ever occur to you that they were trying even though they knew they weren't attractive and we're likely to get turned down because, well, that's what guys do? Also because you're attractive (I'm assuming here, but if you get hit on that often, it's a safe assumption). I had a friend who didn't consider it a good night out unless he'd gotten turned down two or three times.

Seriously, though, I think all the weird baggage women get about sex screws up the research (If you like sex you're a slut. If you don't like sex, you're frigid, Good girls and Bad girls, blah, blah, baggage)

Plus, let's face it: Girls can get pregnant and guys can't. This often makes girls a little more practical about sex than a guy. Hell, guys (of any age) completely forget how babies are made half the time.

It doesn't mean the girl doesn't like sex, it just means she's more keenly aware of the consequences of it. And that's just the physical consequences. The social and mental ones are doozies, too.

An average man has almost no choice if an average woman selects him for her sexual partner, while women seemingly have a wide range of choices, being picky. A woman, then, can then select the father of her children.

I guess this is good for sexual selection and improvement of the species. It is hard for individuals.

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