Trusted, Automoderated users
17,538
edits
Roy Baumeister: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
No edit summary |
|||
| Line 14: | Line 14: | ||
<p>"If the sex drive is socioculturally malleable, then there exist ''many possible directions'' in which to pursue social progress and individual fulfillment. In contrast, if the sex drive is fixed and static, then society must ultimately accommodate and confront those patterns, and individual choice will be a matter of pursuing those innate, inflexible desires. The gender difference in erotic plasticity suggests that women present a better prospect for achieving cultural progress than men, at least with regard to sexuality."</p>}} | <p>"If the sex drive is socioculturally malleable, then there exist ''many possible directions'' in which to pursue social progress and individual fulfillment. In contrast, if the sex drive is fixed and static, then society must ultimately accommodate and confront those patterns, and individual choice will be a matter of pursuing those innate, inflexible desires. The gender difference in erotic plasticity suggests that women present a better prospect for achieving cultural progress than men, at least with regard to sexuality."</p>}} | ||
Baumeister offered three possible explanations:<ref>https://blog.kareldonk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Gender_and_Erotic_Plasticity__Sociocultural_Influences_on_the_Sex_Drive.pdf</ref> | |||
* The gender difference in physical strength and power may have selected female sexuality to be flexible so as to accommodate to the men, leading to a more [[sex drive#Female_passivity|passive]] and malleable sexuality. In fact, women may have been selected for conformity<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#90.25_of_victims_of_workplace_mass_hysteria_are_women</ref> due to the historically highly prevalent social rules constraining their reproductive behavior for the purpose of [[paternity assurance]]. | * The gender difference in physical strength and power may have selected female sexuality to be flexible so as to accommodate to the men, leading to a more [[sex drive#Female_passivity|passive]] and malleable sexuality. In fact, women may have been selected for conformity<ref>https://incels.wiki/w/Scientific_Blackpill_(Supplemental)#90.25_of_victims_of_workplace_mass_hysteria_are_women</ref> due to the historically highly prevalent social rules constraining their reproductive behavior for the purpose of [[paternity assurance]]. | ||