Gender Differences in Sexual Attitudes and Behaviors: A Review of Meta-Analytic Results and Large Datasets (Report‪)‬

Men are different from women. They are equal only in their common membership of the same species, humankind. (Moir & Jessel, 1989, p. 5). For decades, researchers have reported on the different mating strategies, sexual preferences, and sexual attitudes of men and women (Buss, 1994). In fact, Hyde's (2005) gender similarities hypothesis, which proposed that men and women are similar for the majority of psychological attributes, indicated that sexuality was one exception in which gender differences might be large. However, recent research suggests that men and women may not have such different sexual attitudes and behaviors as once thought (Petersen & Hyde, 2010). Here, we review research on gender differences in sexuality to evaluate the claim that men and women are different in terms of sexuality.