ancient erotic services market

Spells for male users vastly predominated among love spells directly seeking sex. Love spells for female users typically sought attention and affiliation.


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sex differences in expected lifespan

A trend toward increasing female lifespan advantage ended about 1975 when women’s participation in the workforce began to increase relatively sharply.


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women and men communicate differently

Automated text categorization techniques applied to writing style can identify an author’s sex with 80% accuracy.


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men not from Mars, women not from Venus

Some scholars with urgent seriousness have recently put forward the claim that men are from Mars and women are from Venus.  Fossil remains of anatomically modern humans have been found on earth from 200,000 years ago.   A recent fossilized foot bone indicates that a human-like animal was a terrestrial biped about three million years ago.  [...]


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sex differences in newspaper reviews and citations of Brizendine's new book, The Male Brain

Humans and other animals are keenly interested in sex.  Louann Brizendine‘s new book, The Male Brain, complements her 2006 book, The Female Brain.  These books explore the biology of sex differences and their implications for a typical male and female life-courses.  Both are clearly written for mass-market readers in contemporary, high-income countries. To understand better [...]


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online social communication much more important than online video

According to a representative survey of U.S. adult internet users in mid-autumn 2009, social communication is a much more important online activity than is watching video content.  Asked to rate independently the importance of various online (Internet) activities, 63% of adult Internet users described “communicating online with friends and family, even if they are far [...]


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male sexual self-wounding

In a preclassical Mayan creation mural from San Bartolo and dated to roughly 100 BGC, male gods draw blood from their penises as part of acts to establish the cosmos.  Wounding one’s own reproductive organ is odd behavior from an evolutionary perspective. The wounding effect is naturally related to the female reproductive cycle.  Perhaps male [...]


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women recognize emotions more quickly than men do

A recent controlled study found that women discriminate perceived expressions of fear and disgust about 100 milliseconds faster than men do.  For comparison, in designing its search service, Google is concerned to save users 30 to 40 milliseconds of response time. The study also found the women and men discriminate fear and disgust expressed by [...]


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gender differences in communication

Sex is not socially constructed through human discourse.  Almost all the plant and animals that you see reproduce sexually.  Humans have reproduced sexually from the time of the very first humans.  Fossils indicate that life forms have reproduced sexually for at least 1.2 billion years.[*] Sex is a key variable in Darwinian evolution.  Biological and [...]


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status of men in social communication

Men differ significantly from women in social communication. Analysis of sex differences in literary reading illustrates this difference.


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