Comments on: Older Women Want More Sex

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:24:59 +0000

[...] « sociologists for Women in Society » ont communiqué au site de rencontre américain OK Cupid des graphiques sur le désir des femmes en fonction de leur [...]

By: Deleterious

Deleterious — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:21:41 +0000

This is not as on point as your usual post. Watch out data is a tricky mess. I don’t think I can forgive it after it helped Karl Rove get Bush elected.

By: Deleterious

Deleterious — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:14:20 +0000

Interesting theory, all 20 somethings on the internets are liars lol

I am a member of OK cupid, I took that test. I’m 23 and male. I didn’t think about it but I immediately answered once a week. Although, I know it would be everyday. Why? To not seem like a creeper or inadequate male or something stupid that would be read too deeply into. Which is the perception you get if you even think of mentioning online dating in the first place. Yet, I seen my dad using an online dating service and try to hide it like a 13 year old hides porn. He’s not computer literate.

Why would women lie? Easy to not seem like whores. A hard stereotype to escape. God forbid they ever admit to liking sex while not in prision… I mean marrage. As much as I would like to believe the world runs on cougar-power. I just think cougars are honest. Only because they aren’t used to properly witholding info when asked about themselves at 40. Go figure.

Back to the computer literacy. I believe that’s the difference. We never, ever, ever! Be honest, on purpose, online. Especally, on a dating site that compares you to thousands of others based on cunning wordplay. We all begin with the end result in mind and alter the data accordingly. That map would run all blue. Maybe, we have all had too much standarized testing.

Also notice, that the ones who are 20 and answered honestly are in the middle of nowhere. I barely know the two states that scored in the blue… Oregon and Washington, right? Maybe they are excellent communities, maybe they are computer illiterate idk.

He’re an example if your not convinced.

OKcupid: Do you want kids?
Me: nnnnnooooooooooooooooooooo waaayyyy… wait……. check maybe, I don’t want limit options (it didn’t ask in how many decades) its not a lie, its a bad question

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Femmes : plus on vieillit, plus on aime le sexe ! — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:57:16 +0000

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By: Kandeezie

Kandeezie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:56:17 +0000

It could also be that these women no longer suffer from the intense type of social disciplining due to sexual double standards experienced by younger females, and therefore feel less constrained to express their desire for sex (seeing as calling these women a slut will have little to no affect on their quality of life as it would for younger women).

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Maedchenmannschaft » Blog Archive » Vagina-News — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:55:50 +0000

[...] Es kann nur mehr werden: Nach einer Untersuchung der Organisation Sociologists for Women in Society nimmt die Häufigkeit von Sex bei Frauen im Alter zu. In welchen US-Bundesstaaten Frauen in welchem Alter wie häufig Sex haben, zeigen diese Karten. [...]

By: b

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:10:25 +0000

Not to mention, given the post sometime in the past couple of weeks showing that, past age 26, the age of the typical woman on dating sites is higher than the age of woman that the typical man is looking for – I wonder if some older women are exaggerating their appetite in order to seem more attractive and compete with the younger women that the men prefer.

By: Matt Cornell

Matt Cornell — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:50:20 +0000

I’m familiar with OK Cupid, but didn’t realize they were using those 0-5 star ratings to gather data on user behaviors. When I was a user, I never took those star ratings literally, but only used them if I wanted to raise the chances of a quickmatch. I suspect other members use this feature in the same way, and I wonder about its utility in statistical analysis.

I’d be more interested to see any results from the 0-5 star personality ratings.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:01:27 +0000

how did she arrive at a statistical measure of who the most attractive women are?

The data is from a dating website that collects attractiveness ratings (on a scale of 0-5). A previous posting that talks more about how men and women rate attractiveness is here:

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2009/11/17/your-looks-and-online-dating/

By: Cactus Wren

Cactus Wren — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:36:19 +0000

Thanks for clarifying: I misunderstood.

By: Matt Cornell

Matt Cornell — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:48:20 +0000

“But, combing through the data, I intuitively felt like this graph didn’t tell the whole story. So I dug deeper, and found something interesting. If you separate out the absolute best-looking women, almost all of whom are very young, and also remove the people you won’t realistically want to date (the worst-looking women), you find that everyone else’s attractiveness doesn’t change much with age”

Perhaps I missed something, but how did she arrive at a statistical measure of who the most attractive women are?

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:24:39 +0000

Testosteronlevel rises in women until 35, after 40 it drops. This is exactly what the graphs show. As men and women age, their testosterone levels both drop, with a slower decrease in testosterone in women. This gradual decrease can cause women to desire sex more often than men their own age.

Testosterone production in women is a multi-step process that takes place in both the ovaries and adrenal glands. When ovary-produced hormones decline in perimenopause and menopause, the adrenals can and will take on greater sex-hormone production.
We have no data for women over 40. But a droping desire in older women is reported in other studies.

By: Joan Price

Joan Price — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:51:26 +0000

40 is the upper age limit? Oh, come on!

By: Stentor

Stentor — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:33:49 +0000

While people are right to point out that this data is not representative of the population as a whole, the OK Cupid blog doesn’t represent it as such, and the post is addressed to male OKC users (with big presumptions of heterosexuality all around). If I’m a single straight man on OKC, I don’t really care how women of a given age in the general population feel about sex. I care about how women of a given age who are OKC users feel about sex, since those are the women I could pursue for a date. So in that sense the various charts from OKC are potentially useful as a way of illustrating the need to match data to the purpose you’re using it for.

I’m frustrated by the legend on these maps. We have no idea what “higher concentration of ‘once a day’” means. Is that 30% want it once a day? 5%? 100%? For number-crunchers, the OKC bloggers seem awfully averse to showing us any numbers to contextualize their findings on relative strengths of phenomena.

By: Jeff Kaufman

Jeff Kaufman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:59:13 +0000

This is not an anonymous survey. This is self identification by dating site users. And there’s a decent incentive not to misrepresent yourself: it automatically pairs you with people with similar preferences. So if you say you want sex every day but actually don’t (or the reverse) you might end up pretty badly paired.