lucidfox comments on Gender and Libido - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lucidfox 04 July 2011 02:12:20AM 5 points [-]

An acquaintance of mine said about this thread: "no-one seems to be raising the idea that there may be strong cultural factors related to gendered expressions of libido".

To elaborate, perhaps the issue is not so much with "natural" sexuality as with social discouragement for one gender or the other at different times to be open about it.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 04 July 2011 07:26:16AM 1 point [-]

To elaborate, perhaps the issue is not so much with "natural" sexuality as with social discouragement for one gender or the other at different times to be open about it.

Could you Taboo "natural" in that sentence, or would an equivalent formulation be: "the issue is not so much with 'natural' sexuality as with social pressure for one gender or the other at different times to exaggerate their sexuality"?

Comment author: lucidfox 05 July 2011 04:59:57AM *  1 point [-]

Social pressure for one to exaggerate and the other to suppress, yes.