The Suzanne Venker Show
The Suzanne Venker Show
Suzanne Venker
73. How The Pill Sabotaged Women's Sexual Power: Suzanne Venker
1 hour 9 minutes Posted Nov 29, 2020 at 4:38 pm.
  Suzanne reads from Lily’s senior thesis on birth control and sex differences
  Lily talks about her experience in college with her research in anthropology, science, and biology
  Why the birth control pill has disempowered women
  When casual sex became normalized, and the pill gave women the ability to control their reproductive system, it in turn gave the illusion that men and women are “the same” sexually, which they are not
  How dating has changed in light of the legalization of the pill
  How the pill was the boiling point that changed sex and dating
  Men have a different motivation  and strategy for sex than women
  The risk of pregnancy kept people in line sexually.
  3 likely explanations for the inequity in men and women despite the existence of the pill:
  Men are three times more likely to masturbate more than once a week and are more likely to reach orgasm during casual hookups
  If women were the same as men, they would be at a disadvantage evolutionarily, men wouldn’t be as good of fathers. This is why the dating process exists.
  Women and men both initiate casual hookups, but women have more negative reactions after the hookup. Most women are surprised to find they develop feelings
  The variation in sexual motivators between men and women
  The pill and sexual promiscuity has led to confusion
  A change in culture does not mean that biology itself has changed
  Suzanne and Lily discuss the “dating rules” and why they work
Why “making him wait” is the right dating strategy
  Lily talks about dating in her generation
  Why women tend to date older men
  Have standards, and men will rise to meet them
  Lily and Suzanne answer the Email of the Day
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Show notes
The birth control pill has facilitated a massive change in human sexual behavior. But the subsequent development of casual sexual relations in the form of “hookup culture” has enhanced, not equalized, biological sex differences.
This is especially true when it comes to sexual strategy and levels of preference for emotional investment from partners.
The significant influence of biology on everyday desires and emotions proves biology still holds important gravity when it comes to sex.
Join Suzanne and the daughter of a friend of hers, Lily, who's a senior in college and an Anthropology major. Not one to shy away from difficult topics in the pursuit of truth, Lily has written a controversial senior thesis entitled The Pill: Implications for How a Medical Technology Changed the Meaning of Sex.
The message? That women have, ironically, given up their sexual power by becoming sexually “liberated” and by believing that any differences we see between the sexes have no basis in biology.
IN THIS EPISODE:
Physical differences & sexual arousal
Variation in sexual motivation
Emotional differences between men and women after casual sex
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