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I have noticed this (as have many others).

Women are far more off in self-reporting their levels of attraction, arousal and the reasons for it.

Everything from studies done on bisexuality (women reported not being turned on by certain combinations but their genitals disagreed) to the OKCupid study cited above.

Men seem to be much better predictors and analyzers of what they are attracted to.

"What do women want" is a popular question ever since women were liberated.

I wish there were more studies done into this.

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Rewording your comment (and not commenting on its veracity), it sounds like you're saying that women can differentiate between what their consciousness and what their reproductive glands want better than men. That's a pretty common stereotype about men...

I am saying that men have less of this difference in the first place.

> differentiate between what their consciousness and what their reproductive glands want

It is one and the same

I'm just curious how do you know that "Women are far more off in self-reporting their levels of attraction, arousal and the reasons for it" ?

> Women are far more off in self-reporting their levels of attraction, arousal and the reasons for it.

Women are conditioned by popular culture to resist sex at every turn, either to play "hard to get," to not be too "easy" for men to take advantage of, to not be perceived as slutty, to outright being taught by media that sex is something women dole out as a reward to the men in their lives, not something they are supposed to enjoy, let alone instigate.

It's not at all surprising to me that they'd be reserved about what revs their engines, where men are very straight forward because that's what we're taught that we're supposed to be.

Yet they seem not to be so reserved about highly rating higher status men, just they're reserved about lower status men. Are you saying somehow society makes women rate less attractive men even lower and more attractive men higher?

As in "Meh... this guy is a 7/10, but wait... ummmm society something something ... there, I'll rate him a 5/10 even though I think he's a 7/10"?

I think that's just good old Reporting bias. They're giving the answer they think they should be giving, not the truth.

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