Friday, January 07, 2005

Sex talk changes

Very interesting! A new study shows that the way man and women talk about sex and sexual issues has changed dramatically in the past 15 years.
Researchers say men and women still don't seem to see eye to eye when it comes to sensitive sexual subjects. In the study of the University of Florida, which appeared in a recent issue of "Sex Roles: A Journal of Research", results showed that men and women differed significantly in terms of what types of sex talk they viewed most favorably and negatively. The most favorably rated sexual terms among women were orgasm, vaginal sex, sexual intercourse, virginity, masturbation, oral sex, pro-choice, pregnancy, erection, and heterosexual. Among men, the most positively rated sexual terms were sexual monogamy, virginity, orgasm, vaginal sex and heterosexual.
The biggest gender differences in perceptions of sex talk were found for 12 often controversial sexual terms that elicited strong visceral responses from the study participants.
For example, researchers found men rated the following words more positively than women: Feminist,gay, heterosexual, sexual assault. Women, however, rated the following terms more positively than men: breast enlargement, erection, internet sex,
oral sex, pornography, syphilis, transgender.

I wonder if a thorough reread of the book "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" will help me to understand...

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