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Many findings suggest that men want sex more fre-quently than women. Ard (1977) reported a survey ofcouples who had been married for over 20 years. Hefound that “husbands continued to prefer intercoursemore frequently than wives” (p. 274). In fact, wivesconsistently reported that they were quite satisfiedwith the amount of sex they had in their marriages, butmen on average wished for about a 50% increase. M.Brown and Auerback (1981) likewise found that a ma-jority of husbands (60%) but only a minority of wives(32%) said they would prefer to have sex more often. Amore recent study by Julien, Bouchard, Gagnon, andPomerleau (1992) found that husbands and wivesagreed that the men were more sexually active andfrisky. Even more relevant, Julien et al. (1992) foundthat men were more likely than women to report hav-ing less sex in marriage than they wanted. With a sam-ple of couples ages 51 to 61, Johannes and Avis (1997)found that women were more likely than men to wishfor less frequent sex than they were having, whereashusbands were more likely to wish for more frequentsex than they were having. A study of elderly couplesin Sweden likewise found that men wanted more fre-quent sex than women (Bergström-Walan & Nielsen,1990). Indeed, the authors of that study concluded that“men are significantly more sexual than women, in allages and in all respects” (p. 289).

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Chris Hallquist's avatar

Who claimed to be a sex machine to all the chicks? But dating women who are actually into you is a good policy.

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