PSYCH 3AC3 Lecture Notes - Libido, Casual Sex, Erotic Plasticity
30 Mar 2014
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Women more malleable, less predictable and harder to study. Baumeister noticed that women"s sexuality is more mysterious than men (as did kinsey) Women had a huge response to the sexual revolution, more likely to have casual sex. Women are in charge to a large extent and grant access to men. Their sexuality is more changeable and malleable than men"s with situational and cultural factors. No position on whether this is good or bad. Three predictions: more intra ind ividual variation in sexual histories for women than for men. Sexual histories differ a lot more in women: larger response to specific sociocultural factors by women than by men, lower attitude-behaviour consistency for women than for men. Gender diff. in total sexual outlet over time. Women report: sometimes had high sexual outlet, sometimes low, can go months without sex. Found malleability in women that he didn"t find in men: intra individual variability.
