I'm not buying this...

[callistotoni]

The BBC posted the following story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4790313.stm?ls

The article claims that when women feel secure in a relationship their sex drive decreases, and then goes on to claim that that this may be an evolutionary response. In contrast, what I see happening is that women in steady relationships are so exhausted from work and kids and housecleaning and everything else that they just fall asleep, or that there's just never time. This possiblity was not raised -- they just went straight to the 'oh, it must be how humans are wired' argument.

I'm also not buying the 'men don't care about tenderness' claim. I suppose one would need to define 'tenderness' according to this study to make sense of it.

Comments?

Comments

[aastg.livejournal.com]

Uh, I think these guys need less supposition and bias, and more hard data.

Whenever I see the phrase "anecdotal evidence" I get nervous. Such evidence might give an insight, but it doesn't take the place of hard data analysis.

There's something in what you say about exhaustion being a factor - let's add anxiety.

My personal experience is completely opposite of what this article is saying. I admit that *may* make me a statistical anomaly, but since we have no hard evidence, I guess I'm not going to be in any hurry to have the question settled....

Too bad. Evolutionary psychology usually intrigues me.