Which Gender Has the More Powerful Sex Drive?
The power of the human sex drive has long been debated in society, with one of the most prevalent questions being: Which gender has a stronger desire for sex? For much of the past it seemed like common knowledge that men had the stronger sex drive.
Women would most often control the amount of sex received by her partner and her control over the situation was deemed possible by naturally having a weaker sex drive. In more recent times however, experts have come to the conclusion that in most cases the male and female sex drive is of equal proportion.
Those who thought this was the end of the story were wrong. The answer to the sex drive question is purely biological, but outside forces can easily blur the results of tests. A possible reason that the sex drive between men and women was deemed more equal could be as a result from events such as women’s suffrage, and the sexual revolution. These events from the past altered the American culture’s view on sex, thus allowing women to be more promiscuous with less social backlash. These events and subsequent altercations gave women a more equal playing field in which to display their true sexual desire. Of course, the pendulum may have swung not to even ground, but far past it. The women of modern times could have been spurred by these events to act more promiscuous then they naturally would due to social change and new expectations.
If the true sexual drive of men and women can be altered and manipulated by society and culture then how can this question be answered? The answer could be more simple then one would think, just look to animals and evolution. Animals of yesteryear evolved into their current forms in a very similar fashion that humans evolved from apes and how species will evolve in the future. The basis of evolution comes from survival of the fittest, which basically means that the strongest animals will survive and mate, and the weaker animals will die off and fail to pass on their undesirable genes.
