SOCIOL 2Q06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Human Female Sexuality, Orgasm, Human Male Sexuality
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In childhood, females tend to have less extensive but more intensive friendship networks than males: this pattern carries through into adulthood. Women usually list fewer friends than do men. Men tend to found friendships on a narrower basis, often having different friends with whom they pursue different activities. Women friends are more likely to spend time talking about themselves, their feelings for each other, and other people: women"s same-sex friendships rest upon shared intimacies, Men"s tendency to engage only rarely in deep talk, characterized self-revelation, nurturance and emotional support their friendships as side-to-side: women tend to have face-to-face friendships. Women tend to be more self-disclosing with other women than men are with men, and both genders are more comfortable confiding in a woman. Women invite each other to learn in detail about most aspects of their lives verbal intimacies. Men"s friendships are founded on shared activities rather than.