If you do, you will soon be “camping” out on the couch with copious quantities of missus’ stolen shea butter hand cream.
One of the cardinal premises of evolutionary psychology is that women are inherently more interested in stable relationships than men. If that is true, and women are – consciously or unconsciously – seeking such an environment, which ultimately leads to a lower sex drive, then what does that tell you about women? CROOKED RIBS!!
My wife is lurking around somewhere. So, I gotta bolt. if she finds out I am dope and posting such utter misogynistic crap, she will banish me to my own Rikers Island!!
Apologies if this has been posted before.
** Security ‘bad news for sex drive’ **
Differences in sexual appetite may be driven by evolution
A woman's sex drive begins to plummet once she is in a secure relationship, according to research. Researchers from Germany found that **four years into a relationship, less than half of 30-year-old women wanted regular sex. **
** Conversely, the team found a man’s libido remained the same regardless of how long he had been in a relationship. **
Writing in the journal Human Nature, the scientists said the differences resulted from how humans had evolved.
The researchers from Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital interviewed 530 men and women about their relationships.
They found 60% of 30-year-old women wanted sex “often” at the beginning of a relationship, but within four years of the relationship this figure fell to under 50%, and after 20 years it dropped to about 20%.
In contrast, they found the proportion of men wanting regular sex remained at between 60-80%, regardless of how long they had been in a relationship.
Tenderness
The study also revealed tenderness was important for women in a relationship.
About 90% of women wanted tenderness, regardless of how long they had been in a relationship, but only 25% of men who had been in a relationship for 10 years said they were still seeking tenderness from their partner.
Dr Dietrich Klusmann, lead author of the study and a psychologist from Hamburg-Eppendorf University Hospital, believed the differences were down to human evolution.
** He said: “For men, a good reason their sexual motivation to remain constant would be to guard against being cuckolded by another male.” **
** But women, he said, have evolved to have a high sex drive when they are initially in a relationship in order to form a “pair bond” with their partner.
But, once this bond is sealed a woman’s sexual appetite declines,** he added.
He said animal behaviour studies suggest this could be because females may be diverting their sexual interest towards other men, in order to secure the best combinations of genetic material for their offspring.
Or, he said, this could be because limiting sex may boost their partner’s interest in it.
Professor George Fieldman, an evolutionary psychologist from Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, said: "These findings seem to fit in with anecdotal studies and his explanations seem plausible.
“The rational for why a woman’s sex drive declines may be down to supply and demand. If something is in infinite supply, the perceived value would drop.”
