The following is from Naisten seksuaalinen valta, Henry Laasanen’s Master’s thesis in Sociology. The translation is mine.
Among everyone, everywhere in the world, men are more likely to want sexual relationships with more partners than women do (Kinsey 1948; Rhoads 2004, 114). [...] According to Baumeister et al. (2001; see also Oliver & Hyde 1993), a meta-analysis of studies regarding sexual desire shows all the evidence to suggest that male sexual desire is stronger than female sexual desire. Not a single study has reported female sexual desire to be greater than male sexual desire. Men think about sex more frequently, have more sexual fantasies, are aroused more often, want more sex (both during the early and late stages of a relationship as well as outside a relationship), want a greater amount of sex partners, masturbate more often, are less interested in passing over a chance for sex, are worse at staying celibate, take more risks and use more resources to get sex, refuse sex less frequently, report a lack of desire less frequently, and are more tolerant towards most forms of sexuality than women and also estimate their sexual desire to be greater than that of women.
Reports from a multicultural study, covering 16 288 people around the world, show that gender differences in sexual desire are culturally universal. In the context of the dating market, men’s greater sexual desires are a result of three factors: (1) men have a greater interest in short-term sexual relationships (2) men want more sex partners than women do and (3) men want sex faster than women do. The results are statistically significant no matter what indicators used. (Schmitt et al. 2003). [...]
According to Miller ja Fiskin (1997) women on average want to have maybe two to three sex partners during the rest of their life, while the equivalent number for men is 64. Similar results have been reported in other studies (Buss & Schmitt 1993). [...]
Tests made by Clark and Hatfield (1989; Clark 1990) indicate that a moderately attractive woman can get sex from very attractive men simply by asking for it. When moderately attractive women asked to have sex with very attractive men previously unknown to them, 71 per cent of the men agreed. In other words, if the woman asked three men for sex, they would almost be guaranteed to get it (Baumeister & Tice 2001, 191). [...] When the same experiment was conducted the other way around, so that moderately attractive men asked very attractive women for sex, none of the women agreed. [...]
Among married heterosexual men, 7 per cent have had over 20 partners, while among homosexual male couples 43 per cent have had over 20 partners. Among lesbian couples only less than one per cent has had over 20 partners. (Rhoads 2004)
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Baumeister & Tice (2001). The social dimension of sex. New York: Allyn & Bacon.
Buss & Schmitt (1993). Sexual strategies theory: An evolutionary perspective on human mating. Psychological Review, 100 (2), 204-232.
Clark & Hatfield (1989). Gender differences in receptivity to sexual offers. Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 2, 39-55.
Clark (1990) The impact of AIDS on gender differences in willingness to engage in casual sex. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 20, 771-782.
Kinsey (1948). Sexual behavior in the human male. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders.
Oliver & Hyde (1993). Gender differences in sexuality: A meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 114, 29-51.
Rhoads (2004). Taking sex differences seriously. San Fransisco: Encounter Books.
Schmitt et al. (2003) Universal differences in the desire for sexual variety: Tests from 52 nations, 6 continents, and 13 islands. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 85-104.
The following is from Naisten seksuaalinen valta, Henry Laasanen’s Master’s thesis in Sociology. The translation is mine.