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Weekly Check-Up: Men Are Not All the Same

Posted by Kelly Mills

get a roomResearchers from the Kinsey Institute have made this groundbreaking discovery: Men are not all from Mars. "We're probably from a whole bunch of different planets," says one of the study's authors. What the hell are we talking about? Well, men vary widely in frequency of sexual desire, in what turns them on, and in what an erection means. You mean they don't all just need a picture of Pamela Anderson in a bathing suit and ten minutes in the shower? Yeah. So I guess dads are just as diverse in their interests and the amount of hummada hummada they want as moms. This should be news to anyone who never met more than one man in their entire life. 

Guess what turned on an overwhelming majority of guys? Being outdoors, like for camping or a picnic. Maybe it's time to make that family trek to Yosemite a couples-only thing. And while I'm mocking this thing a little, since the idea that all guys are simple creatures who want it all the time is completely dumb, it is good that studies like this actually quantify what many of us know, that men are as complicated and varied as women. I did recently read that male lack of sexual desire was the biggest unspoken taboo nowadays, and it's not uncommon. Oh, and the researchers say that "as many as 30 percent of women may be more easily sexually aroused than most men" so ladies, don't feel bad if you are the lusty one in your relationship. 


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Comments

 

Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) said:

"complicated and varied." Yeah. Uh huh. You had me at Kinsey Institute.

May 1, 2008 7:48 PM
 

Sue said:

Camping or a picnic? Snort.

May 2, 2008 12:20 AM
 

HDCS said:

What Sue said. I want to take my kid camping more than anything. But his father feels that foregoing modern conveniences, such as indoor plumbing, is an insult to our forefathers. So yeah. Men not all the same. Duh.

However, the few times we've been to Tahoe, that same modern man wanted to go hiking. But only because he wanted to take part in some hummada hummada in the great outdoors. So I think these researchers need to ask a few more questions on those motives behind the outdoorsy penchants, dontcha think?

May 2, 2008 12:55 AM

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