What Do Women Find Sexually Attractive?

I’ve done a lot of study on sexual desire in women over the years, for a number of reasons. One of the primary reasons, however, is that it’s still an area that hasn’t been sufficiently explained by science.

This article over at the New York Times is an excellent summary of where science is today in understanding the desires of women, and if I had to sum it up it’d be something like: women are sexually attracted to most types of sexual behavior–even stuff they claim not to be attracted to.

It’s been known for a while now, for example, that many straight women are attracted to women–even if they’re also attracted to men. I’ve always had something of a pet theory about this, which goes like this: women are attractive to both men and women because they’re beautiful and humans find beautiful people attractive. But to be attracted to a man one must have a particular modification–a disorder if you will–that allows it.

It would seem logical that this would be for evolution purposes; evolution would have to make men attractive to women to keep the species going, but this wouldn’t necessarily reduce how attractive women find women.

Anyway, just a thought I’ve had–not really a full theory. One thing this doesn’t account for is the myriad of experiments where gay men have shown very little sexual reaction to attractive women.

But yeah, it’s a great read if you’re into this type of psychology. ::

[ What Women Want | nytimes.com ]