Male sex drive 'to blame for wars

Just came across this and thought i would share

Male sex drive 'to blame for wars'

Male sex drive is at the root of most conflict in the world, from football violence to world wars, scientists have claimed.

A review of psychological evidence concludes that men are shaped by evolution to be aggressive towards "outsiders".

The tendency, at the heart of all inter-tribal violence, emerged through natural selection as a result of competition for mates.

Today it can be seen in large-scale conflicts between nations as well as clashes involving rival gangs, football fans or religious groups, say the researchers.

Women, on the other hand, are said to have evolved to resolve conflicts peacefully. Natural selection has programmed them to "tend and befriend" to protect their offspring.

Professor Mark van Vugt, from the Institute for Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, said: "A solution to conflict, which is an all too common problem in societies today, remains elusive. One reason for this might be the difficulty we have in changing our mindset, which has evolved over thousands of years.

"Our review of the academic literature suggests that the human mind is shaped in a way that tends to perpetuate conflict with 'outsiders'. Our research finds that conflict between rival groups of men has presented opportunities to gain access to mates, territory and increased status.

"We believe this has resulted through natural selection in an evolved psychology amongst men to initiate and display acts of inter-group aggression."

The findings, which support the so-called "male warrior hypothesis", are published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.

In all cultures and throughout history men rather than women have sought to get their way by initiating violence, the psychologists claim. Men were more likely to demonstrate prejudice and discrimination against other men viewed as outsiders, according to the research.

Whoever believes that has not been married.

Really?
Even if its true, it reeks of feminist bs.
You trying to start a fight or somethin?
Cause women never fight. lol

when i think sex drive i think tryin to get poon tang.

not defending my territory.

There must have been a lot of "unattractive men" throughout history
www.warlib.ir...
" from 3421 years of documented history, there are only 268 years without war. War itself is a miserable and devastating event, but its historical, geographical and cultural effects are important basis for human civilization and its cultural structure."

Male sex drive?

Then we could blame women for wars...more sex less talk lol

A satisfied man doesn't want to start a war.

Well I was headed to the Gym to work off some of my animal "Male aggression" but was distracted. What about all the wars that were initiated, declared and fought by Queens?


ETA: In response to some funny U2U's: [Female-Royalty] Queens not "the other type" of Queens

Women, on the other hand, are said to have evolved to resolve conflicts peacefully. Natural selection has programmed them to "tend and befriend" to protect their offspring.

In all cultures and throughout history men rather than women have sought to get their way by initiating violence, the psychologists claim. Men were more likely to demonstrate prejudice and discrimination against other men viewed as outsiders, according to the research.

Amazing display of sexism!
Men might be faster to resort to physical violence but women attack psychologically and show way more hypocrisy.

So what you are implying here is that all of the high uppity bankers just dont get no sexy? When it comes right down to it, most wars are indeed started by the banking cartells. GREED seems to be the catalyst over and over again. War over oil, what is oil, big proffits.

thay

Men and their sex drive and war, eh? Makes me wonder if Hilary Clinton must be taking lots of Testosterone then. That 'lady' seems to have a heavy appetite and drive for war.

Someone get her to arm-wrestle Bill. We'll get to the bottom of this one...

Margret Thatcher (The Falkland Islands)
Hillary Clinton (you name it she wants in)
Madeleine Albright (as above)

so....blame women for all the worlds wars and conflicts?



OK!

The "male sex drive" is driven by women, so who's really to blame here?
Spread the love ladies and help bring about world peace.
Girls can be just as hostile and unfriendly to outsiders, so it's all relative. We are all still human.

Originally posted by ooYODAoo
so....blame women for all the worlds wars and conflicts?



OK!

Dont think anyone is suggesting that. More like blame the IDIOTS of BOTH sexes.

IDIOTS are idiots, male or female.

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its not a sex thing , its a population culling .
mankind is at the top of the food chain , we have no preditors other than ourselves
but its not the shortage of food anymore , its raw materials and resources .
its a sad thing that humanity has not realised that we could all live in peace and comfort if we just shared .

but this will never happen whilst the big corporations control our governments

so being a 40 year old virgin is good for the war economy?

No, greed of the 1% and their ability to manipulate the 99%.

The majority of people are soooooooooooooo easily led to back the 1% by fear, hate and not really researching WTF is really going on.

Originally posted by ofhumandescent
No, greed of the 1% and their ability to manipulate the 99%.

The majority of people are soooooooooooooo easily led to back the 1% by fear, hate and not really researching WTF is really going on.

Now, now. let's not be hasty and ignore this proposal without trying it. I propose all women increase their "puttin out rate" by 100%. One thing I know for sure is that while a man is in "afterglow" he is not thinking about war at all.

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3 isolated female leaders compared to the millions of men who are involved in some kind of conflict every day from the smallest to the biggest.

Come now fellow men, we as a sex do not have a leg to stand upon.

War is caused by greed, jealousy, and ego, not sex drive. What a stupid article.