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Index
Activity, sexual: biological bases of,
168, 169, 253 ; female frequency,
13 ; highly sexually active, 47 ;
male frequency, 13, 214, 238
Adolescence: cross-cultural studies of
sexual behavior, 210, 211 ;
United States studies of sexual
behavior, 238
Age: as an impediment to marriage in
China, 219 -20
AIDS, 31, 33
Androgyny, 152
Arousal, sexual: female patterns of, 16,
18 ; male first arousal compared
to female, 16 ; male patterns of,
13, 14, 18, 19 22 ; visual as male
criteria of partner selection,
104 -5, 107, 244, 263
Attitudes toward sex: China, 226
Attractiveness: effect of peer opinion
on female perception of male
attractiveness, 63 ; effect of posi-
tion in hierarchy on female per-
ception of male attractiveness;
female awareness of standards of
male attractiveness, 77, 80 ;
female emphasis on status, earn-
ing power, and costume, 6, 62, 8 ;
female perception of attractive-
ness in traditional societies, 6 ;
female perception of male attrac-
tivenss in Western societies, 6,
17 ; male emphasis on physical
attributes on perception of
female, 7, 117, 118, 219 ; similar-
ity of male perception of female,
6, 74, 75, 221, 263
Bardwick, Judith: The Psychology of
Women, 59
Beauty, standards of: 7, 110, 111 ; in a
historical context, 111, 112 ; uni-
versality of perception of, facial
features, 118 ; universality of per-
ception of, weight, 115, 116 ;
universality of perception of, 71
110, 116, 263 ; variation in per-
ception of, 111, 112 ; weight, as a
sign of fertility, 116 ; weight,
association of high stutus with
thinness, 113 ; weight, female
preferences for female, 112, 113 ;
weight, male preferences for
female, 112, 113

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Publication Information: Book Title: What Women Want-What Men Want: Why the Sexes Still See Love and Commitment So Differently. Contributors: John Marshall Townsend - author. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1998. Page Number: 283.
    
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