Men have a stronger interest in preventing women from acting on those desires but since women almost all reproduce their desire to do so hasn't been selected out. Men win that contest when society doesn't break down.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @buck_tulson
There's an even simpler hypothesis.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @buck_tulson
You have a massive selective event for men ~10k years ago. There's no such selective pressure for women. There's no mtDNA selective bottleneck to radically change women's nature so they get minor tweaks to the old behavioral program which is still there and ready to activate.
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My argument isn't the one you discussed here - that sexual dimorphism in behavior developed, it's that women have an older behavioral program (play men against each other) that got tweaked (be faithful to a tribe-backed husband) http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003689.html …
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @buck_tulson
The behavior under discussion doesn't exist today ( in the populations looked at - mostly European) and there's good evidence that it's been rare for centuries. Simplest explanation: the idea is just wrong.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @buck_tulson
What behavior do you think doesn't exist? Women absolutely are polygynous today. It shows up anecdotally in "polyamory" where men share a woman, it shows up common experience where top men have harems of women that also have rotations of men and it shows up formally in GSSpic.twitter.com/xBq8nIVSuZ
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Any simplistic narrarive has to also explain: 1) General cohort trends of decreased sex and increased sexlessness 2) The same trends among pre-college teens 3) Similar (or larger depending on survey) effects among women https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-016-0798-z …pic.twitter.com/WiLX5iWPa2
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First quotes don't break out men and women so don't have any bearing on this discussion (or reality). The last one talks about increased sexlessness in women - easily accounted for by unattractive women keeping themselves available for a repeat turn with a man out of her league.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Tweeets_McGee and
She hasn't had sex with him in a month but hasn't paired off because she still holds out hope.
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Nope. "Sexual inactivity" there refers to no sex.
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Yes, reading the paper it does. However, the authors try very hard to obscure the sex differences between men and women on the survey - constantly speaking in neutral terms about "people". When actually broken down by sex GSS shows a different picture.pic.twitter.com/SQ0VMr9T1R
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