Women are monogamous and men are promiscuous, or at least that’s how the stereotype goes. But evidence is mounting that when the spark fizzles out of a relationship, women are the ones who feel the itch faster.
Studies are suggesting women get bored with monogamy faster than sex, but this doesn’t necessarily translate into infidelity, rather, the New York Times reports, spouse-weary women tend to avoid sex altogether.
New York Times reporter Daniel Bergner cites numerous studies busting myths that men are “hard-wired” to cheat or get bored with monogamous relationships, and indicating a societal shift towards women wanting to mix thing up more than men.
A German study of 2500 subjects found that women and men in new relationships reported, on average, equal lust for each other, but for women who have been with their partners between one and four years, those levels plunge leaving male desire far higher.
The same phenomenon was found with lesbian couples, who tended to lose interest in each other far quicker than male gay couples.
Rather than accepting women’s dwindling sexual desires or tendency to stray, as Bergner argues men have been treated for shirking monogamy, a huge investment in developing a drug women can take to restore desire for their husbands.
The drug, Lybrido, is in clinical trials in the US and should be available within the year.
