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It's like men are visually motivated and women are verbally motivated. Almost like the sexes are... different.



And yet a vast amount of hentai and erotic art is created by women, and a vast amount of porn targets women.

Almost as if the sexes are complicated and not easily reducible to simplistic dichotomies.


There is still a large gap, therefore space for meaningful generalization.


Yes. Generalizations are generally useful. Until they aren't.


Both are easily doable by AI (At superhuman levels too). Its just that current AI is far better at generating pretty woman than writing convincing and engaging Christian Greys (Not to mention the politically correct barriers filters)


They're raised with different expectations of what is acceptable... do you really think society treats horny men and women in the same way?

Am I an effeminate man for reading erotica? Is my girlfriend a masculine woman for watching porn? So bizarre to watch people misuse evopsych for these takes


> They're raised with different expectations of what is acceptable...

I see your nurture over nature take. I'm not convinced that environment beats it biology in this case, but I'm not expert.

> Am I an effeminate man for reading erotica? Is my girlfriend a masculine woman for watching porn?

As I said in reply to another comment here: generalizations are useful until they aren't. In single person cases a broad generalization is not particularly useful, as it is meant to describe common or emergent behaviors in groups of people. Are you and your SO farther down the curve of the distribution? Sure. Is one trait predominantly associated with one sex and the other with the other? Yes. Does that matter so much? Only as much as you want it to.

My observation isn't "bad" or "good", it is only an acknowledgement of general contrast between the sexes.




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