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[–]Elvira95Viva la figa 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why should lesbians have higher sex drive than hetero woman? Men got much more sex drive because of testosterone. We don't have more testosterone than normal. Although on dating app I have encoutered a good amount of women super horny and wild. I'm passionate myself in a relationship but I don't have that much urges and random thoughts on daily basis.

[–]reluctant_commenter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why should lesbians have higher sex drive than hetero woman?

Because I saw this survey a couple years ago: https://www.autostraddle.com/queer-women-masturbate-a-lot-and-other-self-pleasure-related-findings-from-our-lesbian-sex-survey-285414/

However, now I'm looking at it again, I would probably put like ten asterisks on it, because:

  • it seems to include transwomen, so if many of the survey respondents are male, then of course the results would show "higher libido among 'queer' women"

  • Like I said, sample recruitment bias-- people who have lower libido are probably less likely to stumble onto the site and take the quiz.

Actually, there is some limited evidence that lesbian/bisexual women have higher testosterone on average: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341361051_Sex_Hormone_Levels_in_Lesbian_Bisexual_and_Heterosexual_Women_Systematic_Review_and_Exploratory_Meta-Analysis

But the authors suggested that there is not enough evidence to conclude either way whether there are major hormone differences between L, B and straight women.