Do men really have higher sexual drives than women? Or is that just a myth?

Question

Just roving...

I had a psychology prof who also said women have higher drives. Cool!

Answer 1

You got so many good answers let me add that my wife who had two husbands before me tells me she hated sex. Hardly ever had it, didn't want it.
She is 49 and I give her two organisms a day or more and it makes her happy. She is always ready.
I am 60... so much for the slowing down theory..

Answer 2

This is a difficult question to answer. There are so many confounding variables. I take it that you want to know in general. Because of course some women have stronger sex drives than some men and vice versa.
One of the problems is how you define "sex drive". Another is the question on how you would measure it once you defined it. Then there is the taking into account how societal influences could affect the sex drive. And whether those societal differences should be taken into account when considering just the physiological aspects.
I could go on and on. I could be wrong, but I'll stick with common sense. I believe in general men have higher sex drives than women.

Answer 3

It's a myth or else in my past life I was a man. I have a huge sex drive. My problem is , and you're gonna laugh, is that I certainly didn't have it when I was married. I actually believed that I needed "sex" pills to get me in the mood. Now that I am divorced...guess what my problem is? NOT ENOUGH SEX!!! And that is because I have a...I don't know what to call him, no one has answered MY question about what I posted.
I was rejected twice this month, "I dont feel like it". That used to be MY quote!! I seriously think I am getting paid back, "what goes around comes around?"
Problem is, my ex was not a good person and that is why I didn't feel intimate towards him. But I see how he felt when I would say no.
I think about sex often and would love to have it everyday if I could. I am in my mid 30s. Howerver, it would definetly have to be with someone that I really really felt something for and not just anyone. This person that I am involved with, I don't know what he thinks of me. I'll tell you one thing, he has been the best friend I have ever had, but also someone that I can feel a lot of anger for.
But I think it depends on the individual, if that sums up this question.

Answer 4

I have to believe males have a higher drive although I will refer to a national geographic special I saw about those monkeys with the red asses. The female would do nothing until she got into heat then she balled every monkey within 500 miles. It was unbelieveable. I have met women with a sex drive that was more then mine and I have met women with a sex drive much lower then mine. I have to believe that men have the higher drive. But maybe women are just good at not showing it.

Answer 5

Medically speaking, no. The thing that most people do not understand is that men hit their sexually peak in the mid 20s and women hit theres in their mid to late 30s. It may seem that men have a higher sex drive then women but that will end over time.

Answer 6

I swear I did not look at answers before responding.

But if the women of Yahoo hold true, they will overwhelmingly say "women" and then comment that they wear out their husbands becuse their sex drive is so high.

Out in the real world, men wanting sex more frequently is no myth. It's a fact. How you tie that into a sex drive and all that impacts it is open to interpretation.

Answer 7

Myth

Women tend to let their emotional problems get in the way of their sex drive, where as men dont. Thus a woman with the same sex drive may appear to have a lower one if she has emotional problems with her partner then the male with the same sex drive.

The other thing is women look at romance differently than men, cuddling and intimate touching can be almost as fulfilling as the actuall act itself, most men dont understand this.

"i have a headache" "Im tired" are excuses women use when they emotionally dont want to do it, not that their physical sex drive is any more or less then the mans.

Answer 8

It depends on who the man or woman is. Some men have a higher sex drive than women. SOmetimes it is reversed.

Answer 9

I think men who are in love have an increase in their drive, even as they get older. When men are young it's mechanics, but as they age they get their minds and hearts into it. It's wonderful.
You look so much like the girl on the cover of the movie "The Hidden Half". You should check it out.

Answer 10

Its a myth! The men are the problem. First things are great but then they rear thier ugly heads and all of a sudden..... no more great sex drive. Gone with a fart in the wind or some stupidy on his part.