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#498 - Roy Baumeister - The Mystery Of Female Sex Drive

Modern Wisdom

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The Victorian Marriage

The industrial revolution had suddenly changed the rules of the game and taken away the econo functions of women. A man wanting to run a farm in, say, 16 50 or 17 hundred, really needed a wife. The family was an economic unit. But by a couple of centuries later, the man doesn't have that same need for female input economically. So so her appeal, again, is as mainly sex, that she's beautiful and he wants to have sex with her.

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