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Please join our conversation about relationships, male-female differences, sexuality, and gender politics within a scientific and evolving cultural framework. If you are curious about human mating behavior and evolutionary psychology, you are in the right place. You will also find “straight talk” about attraction, sexual psychology, and heterosexual mate choice.
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Steven Fearing
Recent Blog Posts
Gamma Bias: Cognitive Distortions About Sex and Gender
“Although we live in times where we rightly talk about the conscious and unconscious bias against women, we are not yet conscious of our biases against men.” ~ Martin Seager and John BarryA bias is a prejudice in favor of or against a thing, person, or group usually...
Why Bella’s Sexuality in Poor Things Disturbs Men
“You mean I actually get paid for that?”~ Bella BaxterBella is a female Frankenstein “monster” in the movie Poor Things. For most of the film, she is an unbridled child with primal sexual urges detonating within her adult female body - a kind of “erotomania.” Bella...
What Am I Made For? Barbie Goes Beyond The Battle of the Sexes
“I don't know how to feel, but I wanna try.”~ Barbie speaks through Billie EilishAt the end of the movie Barbie, Ruth Handler (creator of Barbie) tells Barbie: “You should not take this leap into the real world unless you know what this means.” Ruth gently holds...