Abstract

Objective: Various sources of evidence suggest that men and women differ in their experience of sexual pleasure. Such gender differences have been attributed to men’s higher innate sex drive, supported by evolutionary psychology perspectives and gender differences in reproductive strategies.

Method: This paper presents biopsychosocial evidence for gender similarities in the capacity to experience pleasure, and for substantial gender differences in opportunities for sexual pleasure.

Results: We conclude that sexual activity, in most cultures, is less pleasurable and associated with greater cost for heterosexual women than for heterosexual men, even though they do not differ in the capacity for sexual pleasure.

Conclusion: Since gender differences in experienced sexual pleasure are not a biological given, a more critical discourse of sexual pleasure might create awareness of current inequalities, help lift restrictions for women’s opportunities for pleasure, and could reduce gender differences in the cost of sex. That would truly serve sexual justice around the globe.

摘要

目的：各种证据来源表明，男性和女性在性快感体验方面存在差异。这种性别差异归因于男性天生的性欲较高，进化心理学观点和生殖策略中的性别差异支持。

方法：本文提供了生物心理社会证据，证明在体验快感的能力方面存在性别相似性，以及在获得性快感的机会方面存在显着的性别差异。

结果：我们得出的结论是，在大多数文化中，与异性恋男性相比，异性恋女性的性活动不那么令人愉快并且与更高的成本相关，即使他们在性快感的能力上没有差异。

结论：由于体验性快感的性别差异不是生物学给定的，对性快感进行更批判性的讨论可能会引起人们对当前不平等现象的认识，有助于解除对女性获得快感机会的限制，并可以减少性成本的性别差异。这将真正为全球的性正义服务。