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How much do you know about the opposite sex?
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1. Who is more interested in casual sex with multiple partners?
Men Women The Same
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Men. In opportunistic sex with no relationship, we see an almost complete separation between men and women.
2. Among straights, who has sex more frequently and with more partners?
The Same. Any time a man has sex with a woman, that woman is necessarily having sex with a man.
3. Who compensates their opposite for sexual favors?
Men Women Both
Men compensate women. Sex with women is more sought after and thus more valuable than is sex with men, so women can set the conditions.
4. Who is more easily offended and quicker to initiate personal arguments?
Women. Men are more inclined to go along to get along.
5. Who is more insistent in personal arguments (but insists it is not so)?
Women. Research shows that women say more in personal arguments about twice as often as men.
6. Who is more highly stressed and easily confused in personal arguments?
Men. "In the sea of conflict," notes researcher John Gottman, "men sink and women swim."
7. Who tends to concede, placate, or withdraw in arguments?
Men. Those who are more stressed in arguments look for some way to get out of them.
8. Who feels trashed and bitter long after an argument is over?
Men. Women tend to bounce back, while men take hours and sometimes days to recover.
9. Who ends relationships more often (while appearing more entangled in them)?
Women. In any decade sample, women bail out of relationships almost twice as often as do men.
10. Are we more protective toward men or toward women?
Toward women. Cultures tend to be highly protective of their women.
11. In public, who is more condemning of their opposites?
Women are more condemning. Men zip it up and try to stay out of trouble.
12. Who is more resentful of their opposites?
Women. About twice as many women as men report being highly resentful of their opposites.
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