Speak, Girl

weirdsociology:

Refutation of that gawd-awful quasi-evolutionary study about men being more likely to have casual sex says what I’ve been saying all along.   The study was inherently flawed because, if a hot opposite-gendered stranger walks up to you on campus and says, “Hey, wanna bone?” the risk of a male saying yes is getting an STD or not having a good time, whereas the risk for a woman is being raped and killed.  Of course we say no!  If I could, somehow, absolutely for-sure know the dude was not going to kill or physically harm me, damn RIGHT I’d say yes.

Where it gets super-interesting, though, is her conclusion: the new study indicated that it was not, in fact, the gender of the person being proposed to that had any effect whatsoever on whether or not the person accepted the proposal.  It was, in fact, the perception of their own safety and their perception that the individual proposing would be good in bed.  So women are not likely to say yes to a man who comes up on campus and asks them to fuck because they think they won’t have a good time and they don’t know if he’s safe.  Social standing, faithfulness, and gift-giving— in other words all those factors that stupid so-called evolutionary sexual theorists have been spouting as the reason for women making the mating choices that we do— had absolutely no bearing on their acceptance of a random proposal.  It’s about: a.) is this going to be pleasurable for you? with a side-order of b.) are you safe? 

TAKE THAT, SEXUAL EVOLUTIONARY THEORY.  THIS STRANGER WOULD LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO SUCK HER DICK.

And that’s your science DUH for today.