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Dominance, sexual activity, and sexual emotions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

John Marshall Townsend
John Marshall Townsend
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1090 virgie2@aol.com
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Abstract

Men's interest in sex partners' status traits and commitment (investment thoughts) declines with number of sex partners and permissiveness of attitudes; women's investment thoughts do not seem to decline. Testosterone, dominance, sexual attractiveness, and number of sex partners are correlated in men but not in women. It is plausible that these sex differences are part of sexually dimorphic feedback systems. This type of feedback is consistent with both reciprocal and basal models of testosterone.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , June 1998 , pp. 386
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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