25. What are the major sex differences in sexuality, and how does evolutionary psychology explain the origin of these differences? How would cultural or social explanations differ from evolutionary psychology in explaining the differences?
Studies have shown that there are two major sex related differences in sexuality (Oliver & Hyde, 1993) (Hatfeild & Rapson, 1996) These two differences are incidences of masturbation and acceptability of casual sex, both being significantly higher in males. There were some other sex differences involving sexuality, like guilt associated with sex and number of sexual partners, however these only had small or moderate differences between the sexes. There were also some similarities with the sexes like that …show more content…
Social norms of our culture have caused a double standard in sexuality. This double standard was that males were told and expected to express and explore their sexuality even at an early age but females were discourage from any behaviors that could be considered sexual. This could be why Males do have higher rights of masturbation and casual sexual partners because of the influence of their culture that tells them they should be doing these behaviors to be a man, while females have lower rates of casual sex and masturbation because our culture had told them it’s wrong and dangerous for them. This reasoning also sheds light on the more minor differences like how women are more likely to feel guilt after sex and men having sex at an earlier age. It’s because of our social norms that we’ve caused males to have to express sexuality to be masculine men while females have to repress all sexual behaviors to be feminine …show more content…
For both women and men we are forced to see the standard of what is considered the right shape, size and weight. These come from source like the media, where they display images of photoshopped men and women on covers of magazines and commercials implying that they are perfect and the goal to be when in reality they don’t match the picture presented. We are also bombarded with products that tell us that using these will make us thinner, prettier, and even muscular yet; they lack the real on how the product makes you
Studies have shown that there are two major sex related differences in sexuality (Oliver & Hyde, 1993) (Hatfeild & Rapson, 1996) These two differences are incidences of masturbation and acceptability of casual sex, both being significantly higher in males. There were some other sex differences involving sexuality, like guilt associated with sex and number of sexual partners, however these only had small or moderate differences between the sexes. There were also some similarities with the sexes like that …show more content…
Social norms of our culture have caused a double standard in sexuality. This double standard was that males were told and expected to express and explore their sexuality even at an early age but females were discourage from any behaviors that could be considered sexual. This could be why Males do have higher rights of masturbation and casual sexual partners because of the influence of their culture that tells them they should be doing these behaviors to be a man, while females have lower rates of casual sex and masturbation because our culture had told them it’s wrong and dangerous for them. This reasoning also sheds light on the more minor differences like how women are more likely to feel guilt after sex and men having sex at an earlier age. It’s because of our social norms that we’ve caused males to have to express sexuality to be masculine men while females have to repress all sexual behaviors to be feminine …show more content…
For both women and men we are forced to see the standard of what is considered the right shape, size and weight. These come from source like the media, where they display images of photoshopped men and women on covers of magazines and commercials implying that they are perfect and the goal to be when in reality they don’t match the picture presented. We are also bombarded with products that tell us that using these will make us thinner, prettier, and even muscular yet; they lack the real on how the product makes you