A new study reveals that when it comes to sex, men and women bend the truth to suit conventional gender norms.
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Researchers at Ohio State University enrolled nearly 300 university students completed a questionnaire that asked how often they engaged in 124 different behaviors. Some of the students were connected to a polygraph, but while the subjects were not aware of it, the machine was not working.
For non sexual behaviors, the subjects didn’t feel pressured to alter their answers to comply with gender roles. Women joined the polygraph false were equally likely to admit that, for example, made obscene jokes or lifting weights, as well as women who were not connected to a lie detector. The men alike admitted they wrote poetry and sang in the shower, or some other stereotypical female behavior, the researchers said.
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But this changed when questions about sex came up.
"There is something unique about sexuality that led people to care more about matching the stereotypes for their gender," researcher and psychology professor Terri Fisher said in a statement.
When connected to a lie detector, fake men reported having fewer sexual partners, while women reported more, the team found.
Fisher's research follows his previous work, 2003, which found that when study participants were connected to a lie detector, both men and women reported the same number of sexual partners.
"Men and women had different answers about their sexual behavior when they thought they had to be truthful," Fisher added. "Sexuality seemed to be the one area where people felt some concern if they didn't meet the stereotypes of a typical man or a typical woman."
The study, announced May 28, appears in a recent issue of the journal Sex Roles.
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