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Re:The Percentage of American Adults Not Having Sex Has Reac... by arandr0x on Monday April 01, 2019 @01:52PM (#19546031)
Yeah I haven't mention this, but my theory also suggest undesirable men may be even less well served if, for some reason, more desirable men also want more sex. If so then they could easily satisfy most of the women -- even if the undesirable men don't want sex as much, sex would unlock more social benefits of "interacting with a woman semi-regularly", and now that they aren't getting any, they also lose that.

If that is the case it would be interesting to know why desirable men have such outsized libidos. Is it that they are choosing sex over other activities because it is more rewarding for them?

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Re:The Percentage of American Adults Not Having Sex Has Reac... by toomuchtodo on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:11PM (#19546997)
A hunch is that the genetic traits that make a man physically desirable are the same that govern testosterone levels (increasing libido over mean).
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Re:The Percentage of American Adults Not Having Sex Has Reac... by throwawaystale on Monday April 01, 2019 @03:31PM (#19547213)
Is there any reason to think desirable men have a differing distribution of libidos (vs the not desirable men)? A simpler explanation would be that they have more sex because they have more opportunity, no?
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