A meta-analytic review of research on gender differences in sexuality, 1993-2007.

By Jennifer Petersen, Janet S. Hyde. Psychological bulletin, 2010

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Health Professions

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Gender Differences in Depression in Representative National Samples: Meta-Analyses of Diagnoses and Symptoms (2017, neutral): “Evidence for this theory exists for several psychological gender differences, including mate preferences, mathematics performance, and some aspects of sexuality (Eagly & Wood, 1999; Else-Quest, Hyde, & Linn, 2010; Petersen & Hyde, 2010; Zentner & Mitura, 2012).”
The Ape That Thought It Was a Peacock: Does Evolutionary Psychology Exaggerate Human Sex Differences? (2013, methodology): “In other words, most effects are small, and thus most of the phenomena psychologists seek to explain are products of many different factors. is conspicuously larger than the norm, with typical estimates ranging from .5 to .8 (Peterson & Hyde, 2010; Schmitt, 2005b).”
A systematic review of sexual satisfaction (2014, background): “Results on gender are cont radictory (Petersen & Hyde, 2010; Rehman et al. , 2011; Santos-Iglesias et al. , 2009).”
Evolutionary Psychology and Feminism (2011, background): “As Petersen and Hyde (2010) noted: “In support of evolutionary psychology, results from both the individual studies and the large data sets indicated that men reported…more permissive attitudes than women for most of the variables…” (p. 21) and “…evolutionary psychology proposes that short-term…”
The Porn Gap: Differences in Men's and Women's Pornography Patterns in Couple Relationships (2017, background): “In their meta-analytic review of research on gender differences in sexuality, Petersen and Hyde (2010) found a substantial gender difference in pornography use in which men were more likely than women to report using erotic materials such as magazines, videos, or the Internet.”
Four shades of sexual fantasies linked to the Dark Triad (2014, neutral): “Moreover, what is ‘‘normal’’ or ‘‘abnormal’’ is notoriously hard to define given the ever-changing sexual norms (Petersen & Hyde, 2010).”
Sexual fluidity in young adult women and men: associations with sexual orientation and sexual identity development (2015, background): “Furthermore, attitudes towards gay men are more negative than attitudes towards lesbians (Herek, 1988; Rye&Meaney, 2010), withmen holding more restrictive attitudes than women towards gay men (Petersen & Hyde, 2010).”
Revisiting gender differences: What we know and what lies ahead☆ (2015, methodology): “Based on a meta-analysis and large data sets, Petersen and Hyde (2010) found that while men have more permissive sexual attitudes and more varied experiences, gender differences are smaller in cultures that have more gender equity.”
Her Support, His Support: Money, Masculinity, and Marital Infidelity (2015, neutral): “For example, infidelity has been linked to gender (Atkins, Baucom, and Jacobson 2001; Laumann et al. 1994; Petersen and Hyde 2010; Wiederman 1997), race (Amato and Rogers 1997; Burdette et al. 2007; Treas and Giesen 2000; Wiederman 1997), and age (Laumann et al. 1994; Wiederman 1997), with men,…”
Women, Men, and the Bedroom (2011, background): “…2001), prefer and have more sexual partners (Buss & Schmitt, 1993), experience more orgasms (Laumann, Gagnon, Michael, & Michaels, 2000), engage more frequently in casual sex (Petersen & Hyde, 2010), and are less choosy regarding romantic-relationship partners (Buss & Schmitt, 1993) than are women.”