Nevertheless, Charles Brack at Neuropolitics.org says he can find some meaning in it; namely that Conservatives have retained a distinctive reproductive valence to their sexual behavior, while progressives have substantially undermined fertility in their sex lives, and seem to be adapting a sort of 'sociosexuality'; that is, sex that has lost its reproductive significance, and now performs social functions, such as neutralizing intra-group competition and aggression.
The Secret Sex Lives of Conservatives and Liberals - Charles Brack, Neuropolitics.org
Gender | Political Cohort | N | Children Wanted | Length of Current Relationship (in months) | Heterosexuality | Number of sex partners |
Female | NP | 52 | 2.5 | 44 | 8.5 | 15.6 |
Female | VL | 176 | 1.8 | 89 | 7.2 | 16.0 |
Female | L | 199 | 2.0 | 86 | 7.9 | 13.8 |
Female | M | 107 | 2.4 | 98 | 8.2 | 11.6 |
Female | LB | 51 | 1.8 | 100 | 8.1 | 11.6 |
Female | C | 43 | 2.4 | 128 | 9.1 | 8.5 |
Female | VC | 14 | 2.5 | 131 | 9.4 | 3.9 |
Male | NP | 87 | 1.7 | 100 | 9.1 | 15.8 |
Male | VL | 285 | 1.6 | 89 | 8.0 | 16.9 |
Male | L | 313 | 1.9 | 97 | 8.3 | 16.1 |
Male | M | 171 | 2.2 | 128 | 8.9 | 16.0 |
Male | LB | 157 | 2.1 | 104 | 8.6 | 15.2 |
Male | C | 222 | 2.7 | 146 | 9.2 | 15.7 |
Male | VC | 116 | 3.2 | 150 | 9.5 | 12.9 |
Children wanted, length of relationship, heterosexuality, and number of sex partners, by gender and political affiliation
(NP=Nonpolitical, VL=Very Liberal, L=Liberal, M=Moderate, LB=Libertarian, C=Conservative, VC=Very Conservative)
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