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Small-Scale Question Sunday for January 15, 2023

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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What's the latest on the meme about women's "sexual peak?" I recall it being a big conversation point when I was a kid, thought it seemed like nonsense, hadn't thought about it years until lately I've had some, ahem, reasons to reassess. There does seem to be a real similarity in how some 30-40 year old women will discover their sexuality and how I felt circa 18-23.

Curious if there's anything real there or just coincidence.

Given that the pill shifts what kind of men are found attractive, that feminism and pornography radically shifted expectations for both sexes, that there is a hilarious increase in self-described bi women who have only had men as partners over the past few years, I'd just dismiss any and all notions by default.

Given that the pill shifts what kind of men are found attractive

Source please?

That was found, but later was retested and didn't replicate, iirc. initial study claiming it, later study finding no effect

So much fucking ink got spilled based on the findings of that one study. Ive read numerous articles basing their core hypothesis around that "fact".

The amount of noise put out there by studies that dont replicate is seriously making me warm to the notion of infohazards.