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Ashley Madison, the cheating website, had 20 million active male users and only 1,492 active female users, despite women receiving free lifetime membership and men having to pay.
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Stewart-Williams explains the sex difference in sociosexuality — interest in no-strings-attached sex — with an effect size of around Cohen's d=1, making it one of the larger psychological sex differences. The evolutionary rationale traces back to reproductive variance: males that seek multiple partners can dramatically increase their offspring count; females cannot. He then makes a key correction to a common assumption: men being more interested in casual sex does not mean women are less interested in committed relationships. Both sexes are comparably invested in long-term pair bonds; women simply lack the additional layer of desire for casual variety. The natural experiment provided by gay men and lesbians [1] — Steve Stewart-Williams "Gay men have more casual sex than straight men; lesbians have less than straight women. This isn't a coincidence — it's a natural experimen…" 1:11:35 makes this vivid: gay men have more casual sex than straight men, while lesbians have less than straight women, showing exactly what each sex's baseline motivation looks like when the opposite-sex compromise is removed. The Ashley Madison data — 20 million male users versus 1,492 female users despite free membership for women — is cited as a real-world illustration. Men are also more turned on by visual stimuli, partly because youthfulness is a stronger fertility signal in women due to menopause.
Ashley Madison, the infidelity website, had 20 million active male users and 1,492 active female users — even though women got free lifetime membership and men had to pay. The ratio almost exactly mirrors the global sperm-to-egg production asymmetry discussed earlier in the episode.
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