I was just reading a study recently, titled “Sex on the Brain”. The BBC Science, in collaboration with researchers from the United Kingdom and North America, designed their research project on psychological sex difference in conjunction with their TV documentary, Secrets of the Sexes. In just three months over 250,000 people from all over the world responded to a full survey.

The key topics were as follows:

• Mental abilities decline with age more in men than in women. To be honest all mental abilities decline with age. However, the decline is much steeper in men than in women.
• The effects are independent of sexual orientation.
• Across all participants, the traits ranked most important in a relationship partner are intelligence, humor, honesty, kindness, good looks, face attractiveness, values, communication skills and dependability.

Now listen to this based on the study. Men rank good looks and facial attractiveness more important than women do, and they wonder why women say they are the superior sex. =)

Furthermore, women rank honesty, humor, and dependability more than men do.

Even more interesting those that consider themselves bi-sexual have a tendency to state that they are ambidextrous. Makes you wonder! *Kidding*

• Across nations, men score higher than women on tests of mental rotation and the ability to judge line angles, whereas women score higher than men on tests of object location memory and word fluency.
• On average, gay men’s visual-spatial abilities differ from those of heterosexual men – shifted in the direction of women’s abilities. Similarily, lesbian women’s visual-spatial abilities differ from those of heterosexual women – shifted in the direction of men’s abilities. For some reason I am not sure why that is such a shock, it seems kind of redundant to state such a thing.
• The link between sex drive and attractions to men and women. For women, high sex drive is associated with increased sexual attraction to both women and men. For men, however, high sex drive is associated with increased attraction to one sex or the other, but not both, depending on their sexual orientation.

How do you feel about this ? Do you think it’s right. I would love to hear your views, feel free to add your own comments to this blog.

Thanks for reading!

P.S. Hope you likes the images, I thought it was funny!

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