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Women have a greater preference for stories of true crime than men. To evaluate the degree of this preference, researchers analyzed gender proportions of reviews on Amazon for different genres including true crime and war. They found 70% of true crime reviewers were female, while 82% of war reviewers were male, despite an overall relatively even distribution of male and female reviewers on the site in general. | Women have a greater preference for stories of true crime than men. To evaluate the degree of this preference, researchers analyzed gender proportions of reviews on Amazon for different genres including true crime and war. They found 70% of true crime reviewers were female, while 82% of war reviewers were male, despite an overall relatively even distribution of male and female reviewers on the site in general. | ||
The suggested that the primary reasons women might be interested in these books | The suggested that the primary reasons women might be interested in these books are for "survival tips" to avoid becoming victims themselves. Associations were found which may suggest this is in part a motivation, but these were very weak. Women's evaluations of how much their reading was for "safety" were not very different from men's, and were grossly inadequate at explaining the dramatic gender difference in preference for this material. | ||
Coercive sex or even outright [[rape]] is often portrayed in [[romance]] novels, which account for 40% of mass paperback sales in the United States (Salmon & Symons 2003). | |||
The three best selling books between 2010-2019 belonged to this genre (NPD 2019). These erotic novels are almost exclusively written by women for women, and 54% include rape of the lead character (Thurston 1987). "In a romance novel that includes rape, women identify with the lead female character and vicariously experience her rape." (Critelli & Bivona 2008) In many such novels, there is an aspect of the female "taming" the ruthless and coercive male, baiting him to be nicer by her submission.{{citation needed}} | |||
On [[Reddit]], one finds [http://bburky.com/subredditgenderratios/ women are strongly overrepresented] on e.g. [https://old.reddit.com/r/truecrime /r/truecrime], but strongly underrepresented on [https://old.reddit.com/r/police /r/police], which means interest in law enforcement cannot explain women's interest in stories about criminal and dangerous men. | On [[Reddit]], one finds [http://bburky.com/subredditgenderratios/ women are strongly overrepresented] on e.g. [https://old.reddit.com/r/truecrime /r/truecrime], but strongly underrepresented on [https://old.reddit.com/r/police /r/police], which means greater interest in law enforcement alone cannot explain women's interest in stories about criminal and dangerous men. | ||
<span style="font-size:125%">'''Discussion:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%">'''Discussion:'''</span> | ||
They did not attempt to evaluate to what extent female preference for these types of stories relates to other evidence such as that women are more attracted to sociopathic men, men with criminal histories have more consensual female partners, male serial killers are often inundated with female love letters ([[hybristophilia]]), women have a disproportionate preference for pornography featuring violence against women, and that most women admit to harboring "rape fantasies." Women appear to have a simultaneous preference for threat and [[romance]] in men, the former for [[Bodyguard hypothesis|protection]] and the latter for [[hypergamy|provision]]. | They did not attempt to evaluate to what extent female preference for these types of stories relates to other evidence such as that women are more attracted to sociopathic men, men with criminal histories have more consensual female partners, male serial killers are often inundated with female love letters ([[hybristophilia]]), women have a disproportionate preference for pornography featuring violence against women, and that most women admit to harboring "rape fantasies." Women appear to have a simultaneous preference for threat and [[romance]] in men, the former for [[Bodyguard hypothesis|protection]], and the latter for [[hypergamy|provision]]. | ||
<span style="font-size:125%">'''Statistics:'''</span> | <span style="font-size:125%">'''Statistics:'''</span> | ||