Woman: Women need to feel emotionally connected to want sex.
Man: Men need sex to invest in a relationship enough to build emotional connection. Intelligent design.
Woman: And they say gays are unnatural.
This is a common assumption and a cute cartoon, but the assertion is not true, at least in absolute terms. At most, it represents general trends. But there are men who want emotional connections first and women who want sex first, and these are substantial minorities at least, depending on which study you read.Even a cursory study of anthropology and behavioral biology makes one thing very clear: the fundamental trait of humanity is variation. There are very few species that connect in as nearly as many ways as we do.For what it’s worth. I’m a psychologist with interest in gender issues and interpersonal motivation, so this is candy for me…
This is a common assumption and a cute cartoon, but the assertion is not true, at least in absolute terms. At most, it represents general trends. But there are men who want emotional connections first and women who want sex first, and these are substantial minorities at least, depending on which study you read.Even a cursory study of anthropology and behavioral biology makes one thing very clear: the fundamental trait of humanity is variation. There are very few species that connect in as nearly as many ways as we do.For what it’s worth. I’m a psychologist with interest in gender issues and interpersonal motivation, so this is candy for me…