Sex Power Money by Sara Pascoe

Author:Sara Pascoe [Sara Pascoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780571336012
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2019-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

Before you go writing headlines please remember that hormones and genes never predict behaviour; rather they interact with the environment to have an effect on us. An effect that may well be negligible. We are considering these biological attributes not as blueprints that build us, but as interesting considerations. A perspective rather than an answer.

I struggle with the idea that a loading of testosterone creates imbalance between males’ and females’ desire for sex and risk-taking behaviours because the maths doesn’t make sense. If 86 per cent of affair-seekers are heterosexual males, who will they all have sex with? The 14 per cent that are women cannot get around them all, as hard as they might try. Nature has made a silly mistake? Or was this over-enthusiasm of the male necessary for sexual success?

I believe it is worth considering the pressures of social conditioning on sexual expression. I would argue that women have been the victims of social and moral obstructions to their sexuality for centuries because of paternity certainty, and this contributes to the numerical imbalance in studies of affairs and masturbation. But while male sexuality may not have encountered the same stigma and suppression, while the cad and philanderer have been tolerated and celebrated, men have had their share of anti-masturbatory taboos in western culture.

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