Women are the fairer sex. They love weddings and are just way better at being monogamous. Really good orgasms make them fall in love!
Not quite. What if most of the conventional wisdom you've heard about women's sexuality was patently untrue? Here are 6 of the oldest myths about female sexuality:. In What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire Daniel Bergner writes, "One of our most comforting assumptions; that female eros is much better made for monogamy than the male libido, is scarcely more than a fairy tale,'' and that "it's almost comical'' how long this myth has been mistaken for law.
Bergner cites a German study from that surveyed 2, couples and determined that women become sexually bored in monogamous relationships sooner than men do. A Canadian study from confirmed that female desire nose-dives during long-term relationships, while male desire does not show a similar decrease. Monogamy's no easy feat , even for the ladies. Myth 2: Women don't crave sex as much as men do. Typically, men are assumed to have higher libidos than women.
But according to Bergner, women are actually just as into sex as men, more "fluid" in their sexual attractions and possibly even more biologically programmed to seek sex with many different partners. Unfortunately, romantic conventions tell women to passively await male sexual advances, while society at large slut-shames women whom are deemed "too sexual.
Image: Jonya via Getty. Women actually might be more turned on by visual stimuli than men, they're just less likely to talk about it. Meredith Chivers, a researcher and professor at Queen's University, researched men and women's responses to erotic material, and found that women respond physically to a wider range of erotic imagery.
