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and women. This isn't just true of
heterosexuals, he says; gay men
also have sex more often than
lesbians at all stages of the
relationship. Men also say they
want more sex partners in their
lifetime, and are more interested
in casual sex.
Men are more likely to seek sex
even when it's frowned upon or
even outlawed:
About two-thirds say they
masturbate, even though about
half also say they feel guilty
about it, Laumann says. By
contrast, about 40% of women
say they masturbate, and the
frequency of masturbation is
smaller among women.
Prostitution is still mostly a
phenomenon of men seeking sex
with women, rather than the
other way around.
Nuns do a better job of fulfilling
their vows of chastity than
priests. Baumeister cites a survey
of several hundred clergy in
which 62% of priests admitted to
sexual activity, compared to 49%
of nuns. The men reported more
partners on average than the
women.
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3. Women's sexual turn-ons are
more complicated than men's.
What turns women on? Not even
women always seem to know.
Northwestern University
researcher Meredith Chivers and
colleagues showed erotic films to
gay and straight men and women.
They asked them about their
level of sexual arousal, and also
measured their actual level of
arousal through devices attached
to their genitals.
For men, the results were
predictable: Straight men said
they were more turned on by
depictions of male-female sex
and female-female sex, and the
measuring devices backed up
their claims. Gay men said they
were turned on by male-male
sex, and again the devices backed
them up. For women, the results
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