Summary: <p>Why do women have sex? We find out, using the <a href="http://www.midss.org/sites/default/files/why_have_sex_reasons.pdf">YSEX? questionnaire</a>. Also, how to stop the ‘thin ideal’ messing with our minds. And forget Star Wars - it’s time for Sperm Wars: are men turned on by pornography that depicts ‘sperm competition’?</p><p><audio><br> </audio><br> </p><p><a href="http://archive.org/download/PAP201501/PAP-2015-01.mp3">Download the MP3</a></p><p><b>Rate me!</b><br> Rate, review, or listen <a href="http://www.robertburriss.com/itunes">in iTunes</a> or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=63199&refid=stpr">in Stitcher.</a><br> </p><p><b>Read the transcripts!</b><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@RobertBurriss/why-do-women-have-sex-f5c03653b482">Why Do Women Have Sex?</a><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@RobertBurriss/how-to-kill-the-thin-ideal-8ec69c733dbd">How to Kill the Thin Ideal</a><br> <a href="https://medium.com/@RobertBurriss/what-kind-of-porn-do-men-prefer-cb9b97dae346">What Kind of Porn do Men Prefer?</a><br> </p><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E5fsP89W-pc/VMgDm8mvcrI/AAAAAAAABew/oilZP_008sg/s2048-Ic42/skinny.jpg"><br> <p><i>Most women in the media are skinny, and consumers are taking this 'thin ideal' to heart. But what happens if we tell them that men prefer larger women?</i></p><p><b>The articles covered in the show:</b></p><p>Armstrong, H. L., & Reissing, E. D. (in press). Women’s motivations to have sex in casual and committed relationships with male and female partners. <span style="font-style: italic;">Archives of Sexual Behavior</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0462-4">Read summary</a></p><p>Meltzer, A. L., & McNulty, J. K. (in press). Telling women that men desire women with bodies larger than the thin-ideal improves women’s body satisfaction. <span style="font-style: italic;">Social Psychological and Personality Science</span>. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550614561126">Read summary</a></p><p>Prokop, P. (2015). Perception of intensity of sperm competition on the part of males. <span style="font-style: italic;">Personality and Individual Differences, 76</span>, 99-103. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2014.12.006">Read summary</a></p>
