Conventional wisdom suggests that men primarily seek sex, while women seek resources and commitment.
Evolutionary biologists have conducted questionnaire-based studies in many countries worldwide and found this to be a common pattern.
Conventional wisdom often interprets this as the "nature" of women, claiming that women are inherently less interested in sex.
Furthermore, some branches of evolutionary biology have concluded that the female preference for resources and commitment, as well as a reduced interest in casual sex, are genetically encoded parameters.
I have high respect for biology as a science and am receptive to conventional wisdom.
However, when it comes to female sexuality, the conclusions of the above-cited conventional wisdom and certain evolutionary biology models can be misleading.
Women need sexual satisfaction just as men do. For some individuals with a high degree of self-awareness, sexual satisfaction is, just as for men, considered a primary and reasonable endeavor.
So, why did conventional wisdom and some evolutionary models get it wrong on female sexuality?
Because safety, risk, and sexual market value are not taken sufficiently into account.
For many women in lower-income societies, the goals of Kreutz Ideology are a luxury they cannot pursue.
A low level of safety and a high level of risk have an enormously dampening effect, not on sexual desire, but on sexual conduct. The same is true for circumstances that cause a rapid decline in perceived sexual market value.
Women are not less sexual than men. They have simply become experts in hiding and suppressing their sexuality when the natural and social environment is not conducive to it.
Historically, women have been more likely to require protection due to physical differences.
When humans were hunter-gatherers, women (especially when pregnant) were generally less able to outrun men when pursued by predators (see related YouTube video here).
When humans lived in early civilizations and invented weapons, women were often less capable of defending themselves on their own.
In modern societies with high crime rates, women are disproportionately more likely than men to become victims of certain crimes, such as sexual assault or harassment, when moving about alone (see related YouTube video here).
If we were to place men into environments of corresponding risk levels, the pattern of male sexuality would also change. The effect of a lack of safety is the same for men and women: a preference for more monogamous relationships that provide safety in addition to, or even instead of, sexual pleasure.
But it is not just worries about being attacked (by predators (see related YouTube video here), enemy soldiers, or criminal gangs) that impact the sexual preferences of women.
For women throughout history, having sex has always been associated with the risk of pregnancy. Even from a casual encounter, they could become pregnant, and the course of their lives could be shaped entirely by the consequences of such a single event. The man in the same encounter could simply forget about it an hour after it happened.
Pregnancy has a major impact not only because a woman must raise a child. It also causes a sharp decline in a woman's perceived sexual market value in many traditional contexts, as pregnancy can be viewed as reducing physical attractiveness.
Yet another aspect that causes women to be more careful with sexual encounters is reputational pressure. In many countries, women are severely punished for expressing their sexuality in casual encounters (see related YouTube video here). In most other countries, girls and women who do so are stigmatized.
Most men, including many conventional thinkers and scientists, fail to fully understand these dynamics.
The fact is, women have a high sex drive, not just when they are married or in their 30s, but even as teenagers. Girls and women have a sex drive that can match that of boys and men.