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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It's not a stereotype when scientific studies tend to confirm it.

Sex drive: Theoretical conceptualization and meta-analytic review of gender differences

The meta-analysis revealed a stronger sex drive in men compared to women, with a medium-to-large effect size, g = 0.69, 95% CI [0.58, 0.81]. Men more often think and fantasize about sex, more often experience sexual affect like desire, and more often engage in masturbation than women.

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.

[–] AllonzeeLV 117 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] bouh 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our whole culture is about conditioning men and women to get this result though.

[–] NightAuthor 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe so, probably research exists on that topic too. Google scholar is kinda a fun place sometimes…. If ur nerdy like me at least.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

You're a freak magnet, baby!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You only need to inject testosterone once to understand why this is the case.

[–] NightAuthor 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I like my women fairly high in testosterone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: polycystic ovary syndrome can make women produce way too much testosterone. Not a fun thing to have but it can absolutely make you horny as hell.

[–] DontRedditMyLemmy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You become like a wild animal. Every sentient creature with a pulse is evaluated with simple criteria: fuck or kill. Sex drive off the charts, faster recovery, harder erections and just pure animalistic sex.

A shame it's so fucking expensive or I'd sit on a cruising dose for the rest of my life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't one of the side effects increased aggression though? And hair loss, shrinking balls (depending on you sex)... shorter lifespan.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fuckin worth it, baby.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brewing your own is fairly inexpensive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://thinksteroids.com and go reading. Whole section on it. It'll take a bit to get started, but it is not difficult. Mostly mixing and filtering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of these guides seem to go like this:

Start with testosterone enanthate powder... right. If I could get hold of that I'd be more than half way there already.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sourcing for that is there to. :)

[–] Jonna 6 points 1 year ago

It's important to note that our sexuality is socially constructed, our desires are not solely based on biology but culture.

"In the Christian medieval world, some theories held that women received far more pleasure from a sexual encounter than men, and had much greater sexual appetite." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_female_sexuality

[–] NightAuthor 5 points 1 year ago

I wonder if these findings have been supported by female lead research.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

g = 0.69

Nice.

[–] pete_the_cat -3 points 1 year ago

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!"