The Mystery Of Female Sex Drive - Roy Baumeister - #498

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, friends. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Roy Baumeister. He's a social psychologist at the University of Queensland, an author and the creator of the world famous Marshmallow Willpower Test. The social psychology of sexual interactions is fascinating. Sex is more than just a physical act. It has cultural, emotional, spiritual, psychological and social implications, many of which we're unaware of. Thankfully, Roy has spent years studying the literature on why people have sex and what's going right and wrong with it. Expect to learn why the female sex drive doesn't occur in the same way anywhere else in the animal kingdom, why women shape men more than men shape women, why more women have tried being bisexual but more men are gay, why there is little evidence for a cultural suppression of female sexuality from men, why the male sex drive is a tragedy and much more. This episode may ruffle some feathers, I think, but it's just a fascinating overview of the literature and the current sort of cultural position and the social psychology that is behind what makes us have sex. Roy is a legitimate legend in the field and I'm very, very glad to have him on. I'm going to have him back on to talk about a ton of other stuff. But yeah, enjoy this one. In other news, this episode is brought to you by Whoop. The Whoop 4 is a personalized digital fitness and health coach that monitors your body's physiology 24-7 via a non-invasive wearable and provides you with feedback on your lifestyle, training, sleep and recovery via an accompanying app. If you are going to the gym and you are training and you do not know how many calories you're burning or how well your workout's gone, or if you are going to sleep on a nighttime with the hopes that you're getting recovery in for the next day and you're not tracking your sleep or knowing what your HRV or your resting heart rate is, you are leaving a lot on the table. This takes all of the guesswork out of it. You know exactly what your caloric expenditure was. Let's say that you start introducing daily walks and you want to know how that's impacting your calories throughout the day. This is going to track it 24-7 no matter what you do. Even if it's from stress, it's going to be tracked. Whoop has a proven ability to drive positive behavioural change, which is what matters at the end of the day. It's not just about tracking data, it's about actually influencing your daily activities. Also, you can join for free. You pay nothing for the brand new Whoop 4 strap, plus you get your first month for free and there's a 30-day money back guarantee. So you can buy it for free, try it for free, and if you don't like it after 29 days, they will give you your money back. They're shipping in real time to the US, Canada, the EU, UAE, UK, and Australia and New Zealand. Head to join.whoop.com/modernwisdom. That's join.whoop.com/modernwisdom.
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