Gender differences in sex drive: Reply to Conley and Yang (2024)

Julius Frankenbach; Marcel Weber; David D. Loschelder; Helena Kilger; Malte Friese

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Gender differences in sex drive: Reply to Conley and Yang (2024)

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Gender differences in sex drive: Reply to Conley and Yang (2024). / Frankenbach, Julius; Weber, Marcel; Loschelder, David D. et al.
In: Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 150, No. 8, 01.08.2024, p. 1011-1019.

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abstract = "Our meta-analysis on gender differences in sex drive found a stronger sex drive in men compared to women (Frankenbach et al., 2022). Conley and Yang (2024) criticized how we interpreted the findings and provided suggestions regarding the origins of these gender differences, an undertaking that we had refrained from doing in our original work. We concur with several important points made by Conley and Yang (2024): (a) women's sexual experiences are generally more negative than men's, which could partly explain why men report more sex drive; (b) lack of statistical moderation by some sociocultural variables does not imply that the sex drives of men and women are generally unaffected by the social environment; and (c) gender differences in sexuality are likely smaller than they are often portrayed in research, and that the practical impact of this difference is largely unknown. Still, we reject other assertions made by Conley and Yang (2024): (a) we did not frame our findings in support of the view that gender differences in sex drive are determined by biology, (b) we did not conflate response bias with sociocultural biases more broadly, and (c) we did not fail to incorporate and consider gendered cultural messages about sexuality in our methods and discussion. We make several suggestions about future research on these matters. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).",

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