Monday 30 March 2015

Repost: demystifying sex drives

Why Do Many Older Men Chase After Much Younger Women? | Clarissa's Blog: "I think those who comply with social norms lose their sexual drives because sex drives are a measure of one’s overall vitality and enthusaism for life. Over time, men may be inclined to compromise more and with with social expectations about what lifestyle to live and what possessions to own and how to conduct themselves to keep their status in society, which they have been gradually accumulating. By contrast, women will have been gradually learning how to free themselves from the oppressive constraints of mind-numbing gender roles. The more successful they are in this,the greater will be their sex drive. If the typical life trajectory for men is toward greater conformity and compliance with externally-determined norms, to shore up their status, the women who are alert will have the experience of becoming increasingly indifferent to social status, since they are often blocked from it, and so have come to realize status seeking is a trap.
That is why male and female sex drives have different trajectories and also peak at different times."

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