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Research Article
Is High Sex Drive Associated With Increased Sexual Attraction to Both Sexes?
It Depends on Whether You Are Male or Female
Richard A. Lippa 1
  1 California State University, Fullerton
 Address correspondence to Richard Lippa, Psychology Department, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92834, e-mail: rlippa@fullerton.edu.
Copyright Copyright © 2006 American Psychological Society

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT—If sex drive is a generalized energizer of sexual behaviors, then high sex drive should increase an individual's sexual attraction to both men and women. If sex drive energizes only dominant sexual responses, however, then high sex drive should selectively increase attraction to men or to women, but not to both, depending on the individual's sexual orientation. Data from three studies assessing a total of 3,645 participants show that for most women, high sex drive is associated with increased sexual attraction to both men and women. For men, however, high sex drive is associated with increased sexual attraction to only one sex or the other, depending on the individual's sexual orientation. These results suggest that the correlates of sex drive and the organization of sexual orientation are different for women and men.


(Received 6/1/04; Revision accepted 3/3/05; Final materials received 3/18/05)

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10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01663.x About DOI

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