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Going Solo

Mar 27, 2007 09:13

Oliver and Hyde's 1993 meta-analysis of 177 studies on human sexuality found the largest gender difference in incidence of masturbation, which was a variable in 26 of the studies examined, and was defined as "any experience with masturbation." Janet Hyde, you may recall, is the author of "The Gender Similarities Hypothesis" (Hyde, 2005). Oliver ( Read more... )

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Comments 6

mycrust March 27 2007, 15:00:22 UTC

Clearly masturbation has become blasé.

differenceblog March 27 2007, 15:19:14 UTC

Clearly it's time to make masturbation cool again.

njyoder March 28 2007, 04:35:44 UTC

Not all identify by 'gender' in the title and this leads to results being ordered in suboptimal ways. You might try searching specific journals, date and subject (if you have access to something like JSTOR, psychinfo or whatever to do such a search ( ... )

differenceblog March 28 2007, 12:17:43 UTC

Wow, thanks! I'll definitely have to go through the results of these. I was looking specifically for US/Canada results, because I didn't want to compare cultural apples and oranges, but these look (At first glance) pretty dead on.

generally I google for:

sex OR gender differences plus the keyword of the day (e.g masturbation)

adsero_belua March 28 2007, 11:34:24 UTC

"This seems to be a major hole in the data, and someone needs to massage it."

LOL great play on words!

differenceblog March 28 2007, 12:15:44 UTC

I was hoping someone would call me out on that one. I thought it was a little too blatant, myself.