Reproduction expediting: Sexual motivations, fantasies, and the ticking biological clock

Easton, Judith A.; Confer, Jaime C.; Goetz, Cari D.; Buss, David M.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.05.018

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“…For the women who have tried 'to do it all', the 'what-about-me' clock is ticking (Maine, 2010). To complicate their experience, women may be in their sexual prime at this age (Easton, Confer, Goetz, & Buss, 2010), often with a heightened interest in sexuality, resulting in unsettling guilt and confusion. Potentially transformative, this decade is also filled with endless obligations and responsibilities, leaving women little time to reflect on the impact of all these events, emotions, and changes.…”

Section: Female Development and Eating Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating disorders in adult women: biopsychosocial, developmental, and clinical considerations

Maine¹,

Samuels

Tantillo

2015

Advances in Eating Disorders

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Section: Female Development and Eating Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eating disorders in adult women: biopsychosocial, developmental, and clinical considerations

Maine¹,

Samuels

Tantillo

2015

Advances in Eating Disorders

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“…Our findings contribute to the growing body of evidence suggesting that sexual fantasies may provide an interesting perspective on the biologically understandable desires of human behaviour (Ellis & Symons 1990, Shackelford et al 2005, Easton et al 2010. Previous studies focusing on female fantasies have seldom separated more than one or two types of multi-partner fantasies.…”

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confidence: 59%

“…Even though mechanisms connecting certain contents of sexual fantasies and actual behaviour have proved to be far from simple and obvious, available evidence more often suggests a positive rather than negative relationship between them (Hicks & Leitenberg 2001, see Williams et al 2009 for sexually deviant fantasies). It has been found, for example, that women with declining fertility have more frequent and intense sexual fantasies, are more willing to engage in sexual intercourse, and report actually engaging in sexual intercourse more frequently than women in other age groups (Easton et al 2010).…”

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Do Female Sex Fantasies Reflect Adaptations for Sperm Competition?

Nummi

Pellikka

2012

Annales Zoologici Fennici

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Researchers have suggested that female strategies for sexual selection in humans include the promotion of sperm competition. Sperm competition entails the simultaneous presence of fertile sperm from at least two males in the female's reproductive organ competing for the opportunity to fertilise the ovum. Certain behaviour patterns near ovulation may enable such competition. In this paper, we describe relative preferences for female sexual fantasy types and explore the idea that these preferences may help us understand the settings and mechanisms that promote sperm competition, and discourage interfemale competition. To expand this exploration, we also examine whether preferences vary with respect to the menstrual cycle. Our preliminary findings indicate notable preferences among females for multiple male-partner fantasies over multiple female-partner fantasies or fantasies that include multiple male and female partners. This suggests that females find multipartner settings as arousing as males do, but the psychological mechanism relating to settings that include the presence of same sex competitors may differ from that of males. We also discovered some indications that the female preference for promoting sperm competition and avoiding interfemale competition is the highest and strongest near ovulation.

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“…Indeed, during ovulation young women can erroneously judge "cads" for "good dads" (Durante et al, 2012). Nevertheless, this does not explain the pattern of mate choice in men, who are not subject to fertility time constraints (Easton, Confer, Goetz, & Buss, 2010). Considering the adversarial nature of primary and secondary psychopathic individuals, it would seem adaptive to be able to identify and avoid involvement with them on any level.…”

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An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible: Primary and secondary psychopathy and mate preference

Blanchard

Lyons

Centifanti

2016

Personality and Individual Differences

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a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f oDespite their reputation for taking advantage of other people, previous research shows that psychopathic individuals are attractive for short-term relationships. Furthermore, individuals with psychopathic traits have been found to be attracted to other psychopathic persons in both short and long-term relationships. The current study (N = 258), is the first to extend the investigation further by examining whether these findings pertain to the affective (i.e., primary) or behavioural (i.e., secondary) aspects of psychopathy, and if this varies according to sex. Using a series of personality profiles, we found that men and women evaluated individuals higher in primary or secondary psychopathic traits unattractive for both short and long-term relationships. However, those individuals higher in primary and secondary psychopathic traits found similar partners attractive in short and long-term relationships, and this was strongest in women higher in primary psychopathic traits for long-term relationships, and in women higher in secondary psychopathic traits for short and long-term relationships. Results are discussed from an evolutionary theoretical perspective.

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Reproduction expediting: Sexual motivations, fantasies, and the ticking biological clock

Cited by 34 publications

References 21 publications

Eating disorders in adult women: biopsychosocial, developmental, and clinical considerations

Eating disorders in adult women: biopsychosocial, developmental, and clinical considerations

Do Female Sex Fantasies Reflect Adaptations for Sperm Competition?

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible: Primary and secondary psychopathy and mate preference

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