#498 - Roy Baumeister - The Mystery Of Female Sex Drive
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Roy Baumeister is a social psychologist at the University of Queensland and an author.
The social psychology of sexual interactions is fascinating. Sex is more than just a physical act, it has cultural, emotional, spiritual, psychological and social implications, many of which we are unaware of. Thankfully Roy has spent years studying the literature on why people have sex and what's going right and wrong with it.
Expect to learn why the female sex drive doesn't occur in the same way anywhere else in the animal kingdom, why women shape men more than men shape women, why more women have tried being bisexual but more men are gay, why there is very little evidence for a cultural suppression of female sexuality from men, why the male sex drive is a tragedy and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Roy Baumeister. He's a social |
| 0:05.3 | psychologist at the University of Queensland and author and the creator of the world famous Marshmallow |
| 0:10.8 | Will Power Test. The social psychology of sexual interactions is fascinating. Sex is more than |
| 0:17.4 | just a physical act. It has cultural, emotional, spiritual, psychological and social implications, |
| 0:24.4 | many of which we're unaware of. Thankfully, Roy has spent years studying the literature on |
| 0:29.6 | why people have sex and what's going right and wrong with it. Expect to learn why the female |
| 0:35.8 | sex drive doesn't occur in the same way anywhere else in the animal kingdom. Why women shape men |
| 0:41.7 | more than men shape women? Why more women have tried being bisexual but more men are gay? Why |
| 0:48.0 | there is little evidence for a cultural suppression of female sexuality from men? Why the male sex |
| 0:53.5 | drive is a tragedy and much more. This episode may ruffle some feathers I think but it's just a |
| 1:04.4 | fascinating overview of the literature and the current sort of cultural position and the social |
| 1:13.4 | psychology that is behind what makes us have sex. Roy is a legitimate legend in the field and |
| 1:20.1 | I'm very, very glad to have him on. I'm going to have him back on to talk about a ton of other stuff |
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