Is There a Gender Difference in Strength of Sex Drive? Theoretical Views, Conceptual Distinctions, and a Review of Relevant Evidence

By Roy F. Baumeister, Kathleen R. Catanese, Kathleen D. Vohs. 2001

834 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/5f8446340d4ed375007351539e7993fa44e2e31b

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Clinical Psychology

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

In Psychiatry and Mental health

Citations in the corpus

The Evolution of Culturally-Variable Sex Differences: Men and Women Are Not Always Different, but When They Are…It Appears Not to Result from Patriarchy or Sex Role Socialization (2015, background): “…as sex drive and physical strength likely result from obligate sex-specific adaptations consistently generating, on average and to about the same degree, observable sex differences across all cultural forms (or at least across all cultures with similar ecologies; see also Baumeister et al. 2001).”
A brief review and discussion of sex differences in the specificity of sexual arousal (2005, background): “That women can make such a choice implies that there is a sex difference in both the ability of culture and politics to mould female sexual expression (Baumeister & Twenge, 2002) and sexual motivation (Baumeister et al., 2001).”
Revisiting gender differences: What we know and what lies ahead☆ (2015, background): “And at some threshold level, hormones, like higher levels of testosterone, can increase the sex drives of both men and women (cf. Baumeister et al., 2001).”
Gender and erotic plasticity: sociocultural influences on the sex drive (2004, result): “In any case, we did survey a great many findings, and essentially every measure and every study pointed to the same conclusion, namely that men are more sexually motivated than women (Baumeister et al., 2001).”
Women, Men, and the Bedroom (2011, background): “Popular beliefs and current psychological literature seem to agree that men indubitably have stronger sex drives than women (see Baumeister et al., 2001, for a review).”
Cultural Suppression of Female Sexuality (2002, background): “…r t he p er so na l u se o f t he in di vi du al u se r a nd is n ot to b e di ss em in at ed b ro ad ly . women desire sex less often than men (see Baumeister et al., 2001, for a review), including in established relationships (e.g., McCabe, 1987), and so they are often confronted with male…”
The narcissistic self: Background, an extended agency model, and ongoing controversies. (2007, background): “For example, we can look at the area of sexual behavior where there are large and consistent gender differences in sexual behavior ( Baumeister, Catanese, & Vohs, 2001 ).”
All for Him: Articles About Sex in American Lad Magazines (2005, background): “ings that men tend to privilege variety among sexual partners (Baumeister et al., 2001; DeLameter, 1987; Schmitt et al., 2003), it was expected that most arti-”
The sexual double standard and gender differences in attitudes toward casual sex among U.S. university students (2014, background): “Evolutionary psychologists argue that men’s greater interest in casual sex is hard-wired (Buss 1989; Baumeister et al. 2001).”