Sexual experiences can be rewarding yet felt from radically different gendered perspectives

Evidence

Let us recall the first finding: students generally found their sexual experiences quite rewarding. But for some men and women, sometimes, although they cohabit on the same planet, and even in the same bed, they live in two different worlds. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 2386

Categorization

Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims

Related

• Men and women’s sexual worlds are so divergent that the same experience registers differently. (similarity 0.92)
• Gender differences in sexual fantasy persist independently of authoritarianism (similarity 0.84)
• Gender differences in sexual enjoyment are small except for two specific acts (similarity 0.84)
• University students evaluate nearly all sexual acts positively and by gender similarly (similarity 0.83)
• Male and female students’ sexual anxieties show near-zero overlap (similarity 0.82)
• Men more than women frame sex as a power contest (similarity 0.82)
• Authoritarian and nonauthoritarian students differ in sexual behavior (similarity 0.81)
• Female university students now have about twice as much intercourse as males. (similarity 0.81)
• Males have serious sexual fantasies about twice as often as females (similarity 0.80)
• Women who treat sex as a game never achieve full sexual adulthood (similarity 0.80)
• Enjoyment of sex acts does not imply willingness to do them casually (similarity 0.80)
• Nearly half of college women had nonconsensual intercourse at least once (similarity 0.79)
• Favorite sexual fantasies reveal that women want intimacy while men want sex acts (similarity 0.79)
• University students rate nearly all sexual acts positively on enjoyment scales (similarity 0.79)