While figuring out what women want has stumped men for centuries, understanding how they think about sex may have just gotten easier. Cindy Meston and David Buss, psychologists at the University of Texas, interviewed over a thousand women around the world for their book Why Women Have Sex …
The article is written as a questionaire like so:
Any particularly surprising findings?
I was surprised by the importance of revenge. A few had sex in order to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease. More commonly, women’s revenge sex involved getting back at a cheating partner, or having sex with the partner of a friend who had poached her partner. Actually, the frequency of mate poaching also surprised me — the frequency with which women try to lure men who are already ‘taken,’ either for a short-term sexual liaison or a longer-term relationship. Most women have experienced mate poaching in one form or another, either as the mate poacher or as the victim.
Read the article, it’s a mindblower.
