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Donald Symons


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June 05, 1942

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Donald Symons (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is best known as one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, and for pioneering the study of human sexuality from an evolutionary perspective. He is one of the most cited researchers in contemporary sex research, and his work is referenced by scientists investigating an extremely diverse range of sexual phenomena.

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“First, the notion must be abandoned that women are simply repressed men waiting to be liberated: large numbers of women will not be appealed to by the slavish mimicking of men's magazines. Selection has not only not favored a female propensity to become sexually aroused by the sight of males, but very likely it has disfavored this propensity. Selection has, however, favored female abilities to discriminate visually, and to be sexually interested in, males who evidence fitness. Sexual arousal—primarily via touch—may eventually result from this female interest.”
Donald Symons, The Evolution of Human Sexuality

“Everywhere sex is understood to be something females have that males want.”
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“The ultimate reproductive fact—that males stand to benefit from copulating with any fertile female (if the risk is low enough), whereas females do not stand to benefit from copulating with many males (no matter how low the risk)—is most directly expressed in the proximate psychological fact that the typical male is at least slightly sexually attracted to most females, whereas the typical female is not sexually attracted to most males.”
Donald Symons, The Evolution of Human Sexuality



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