Especially, (although they still found *some* differences in ranking of importance) "'It's refuted a lot of gender stereotypes ... that men only want sex for the physical pleasure and women want love,' said University of Texas clinical psychology professor Cindy Meston, the study's co-author. 'That's not what I came up with in my findings.'
Few gender differences
Forget thinking that men are from Mars and women from Venus, 'the more we look, the more we find similarity,' said Dr. Irwin Goldstein, director of sexual medicine at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego. Goldstein, who wasn't part of Meston's study, said the Texas research made a lot of sense and adds to growing evidence that the vaunted differences in the genders may only be among people with sexual problems."
But ... then I got to this (missed that it was just college students at the top of the article): "But this is among college students, when Meston conceded 'hormones run rampant.' She predicted huge differences when older groups of people are studied."
I would think that the results would get a lot different if you asked the same questions of older people. Relationship dynamics change everything, as witnessed every day on this board. I wonder, though, how much difference you might or might not see in an older demographic of unattached people? Do "raging hormones" make that much of a difference? or is it a "younger generation" moral/social change in what are percevied as appropriate gender roles?
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