{"id":20532,"date":"2010-02-25T10:32:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T15:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=20532"},"modified":"2013-12-15T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:02:09","slug":"so-there-you-have-it-older-women-want-more-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/25\/so-there-you-have-it-older-women-want-more-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Older Women Want More Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claire P. and Jessica Sherwood, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.socwomen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sociologists for Women in Society<\/a>, sent in a link to some data, from OK Cupid, on women&#8217;s preferences for frequency of sex by county.\u00a0 The uptake: Women&#8217;s preferences for the incidence of sex goes up as they age.\u00a0 You can check out <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.okcupid.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/16\/the-case-for-an-older-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\">the interactive map<\/a>, or just check out my screen shots below.<\/p>\n<p>Preferences at age 20 (red = higher preference for once a week; blue = higher preference for once a day; white = in the middle):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/25\/so-there-you-have-it-older-women-want-more-sex\/a-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20538\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20538\" title=\"a\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/a.jpg\" width=\"446\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Preferences at age 25:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/25\/so-there-you-have-it-older-women-want-more-sex\/b-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20543\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20543\" title=\"b\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/b.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Preferences at age 30:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/25\/so-there-you-have-it-older-women-want-more-sex\/c-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20556\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20556\" title=\"c\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/c.jpg\" width=\"454\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Preferences at age 35:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/25\/so-there-you-have-it-older-women-want-more-sex\/d-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20559\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20559\" title=\"d\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/d.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Preferences at age 40:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/25\/so-there-you-have-it-older-women-want-more-sex\/e\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20561\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20561\" title=\"e\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/e.jpg\" width=\"458\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also from OK Cupid: <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/28\/race-response-and-dating-websites\/\" target=\"_self\">the racial politics of dating<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/28\/what-do-women-want\/\" target=\"_self\">what women want<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/22\/ok-cupid-data-on-sex-desirability-and-age\/\" target=\"_self\">men&#8217;s preference for younger women<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claire P. and Jessica Sherwood, of the Sociologists for Women in Society, sent in a link to some data, from OK Cupid, on women&#8217;s preferences for frequency of sex by county.\u00a0 The uptake: Women&#8217;s preferences for the incidence of sex goes up as they age.\u00a0 You can check out the interactive map, or just check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,55,778,120],"class_list":["post-20532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-gender","tag-intersectionality","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20532"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60439,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20532\/revisions\/60439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}