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Why Men Only Think About Sex ?

Women and men are really different

5 min readFeb 5, 2025

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Men aren’t all pigs and women aren’t all saints. It’s both more complex and simpler than that. Donald Symons scientifically proved what we knew deep down: men and women have radically different sexual programming in their brains, shaped by millions of years of evolution. It’s pure biology, not culture or education. And the sooner we accept this, the healthier our relationships will be.

His revolutionary discoveries about the human mind completely changed our understanding of sexuality and human behavior. The timing is perfect to revisit his ideas and understand why we are the way we are.

That friend of yours who can’t help checking out every skirt that walks by?

Your friend who only falls for committed men?

The perfect couple that split up due to infidelity?

All of this has deep evolutionary roots. In our ancestral history, a man could father dozens of children per year with different women. A woman, at most one.

Do the math…

For them, quantity was an evolutionary advantage.

For them, quality was a matter of survival. These fundamental differences shaped not just our behaviors, but our very psychology, creating patterns that persist…

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