Science Uncovers What Makes Women Initiate Sex More Often
What are the traits that lead to women initiating sex more?
Sex stereotypes are unavoidable.
Each of us carries a sexual script that informs how we believe sex should be throughout our lives.
Our sexual scripts are influenced by everything from religion to Disney movies to porno movies. What we believe about how sex ought to be is influenced by our surrounding culture.
One of the most pervasive scripts, at least here in the West, is that the man does the pursuing, and the woman is the pursued.
The man chases, and the woman either affirms or rejects him.
But this rigid instance of sex roles often goes wrong when we grow up to become adults and get into romantic relationships. Over time, a man doing all the chasing can feel unwanted. A woman playing the pursued role might feel pestered or annoyed — even pressured to perform.
At first, we might find these roles cute. But like erosion, they can wear on us over time. You might have a favorite meal, but that doesn’t mean you want to eat only that meal indefinitely every night of your life.
These sex roles have measurable consequences as well.
