Dr. Gad Saad

So I can't give you data from 2,000 years ago in ancient Greece.

But over the past 40 years, men's happiness hasn't decreased.

Women's happiness has decreased a lot.

Interesting.

One of the arguments that I make in the happiness book that you kindly mentioned is that that stems from women having been parasitized by a lot of dreadful parasitic ideas.

So let me give you an example.

When second wave feminism came along and said, hey, ladies, anything that a man can do

you can do and you should do, burn your bras, both literally and metaphorically, a lot of women took that call to action seriously and did it.

So here's what they did.

I want to have as accomplished as a career as any man.

I don't want to start having children at all.

I want to have a lot of meaningless one-night stands.

If men can desire doing it, so why shouldn't I?

Well, then they wake up at 48.

By the way, none in what I'm saying implies that women shouldn't have fully accomplished careers.

or that women don't have a desire for sexual variety, but they certainly don't have it to the same extent as men, right?

There's actually very clear evolutionary evidence that suggests that women too have not evolved to be monogamous.

So that's clear, but...

studies around the world conducted in an astoundingly different number of cultures have found the exact same principle when it comes to the desire for short-term mating and sexual variety.

Men desire that a lot more than women for very clear evolutionary reasons.