However, the study also notes that even under this precondition, there is consistent and demonstrable empirical evidence to suggest that there is indeed some instinctual drive by the male to desire more than one sexual partner throughout his life than a is present for the female. For the female, sexual intercourse is likely to be more selective and driven by an interest in attaining certain desirable mating or socializing qualities in the partner. In contrast, the male will be more prone to apply broader standards and shorter incubation period before consent to intercourse. (Schmitt, 3) In Schmitt's perspective, there is a quality of species perpetuation that is improved by the notion of male promiscuity, with the desire in men for multiple sexual partners driven by the capacity to improve the propagation of the species. In this pluralistic account, we are given a theoretical endorsement in modern terms of the idea that a biological incentive exists for male promiscuity.
Interestingly, in Gowaty's 2003 article Sexual Natures: How Feminism Changed Evolutionary Biology, our study is given the ideal segue into a discussion of the social factors concerned with the apparent proclivity of men toward promiscuity in comparison to women. Here, Gowaty presents the argument that biological conceptions of the female as lacking sexual desires and thus likely driven to promiscuity only by virtue of emotional disturbance would be disrupted by the rise of the feminist movement. This accounts for a gradual alteration in our understanding of differentials between male and female sexuality. (Gowaty, 901) In the coming section, we will see that these differentials may have less to do with our biological make up than with the conditions imposed upon genders by society.
According to a 2003 study on the subject, which sought to draw connections between social characteristics and sexual proclivities, some of the psychologically driven suggestions as to...
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