ABSTRACT
For evolutionary psychologists, it goes almost without saying that male and female sexual psychologies are different in a variety of ways. While social psychologists, feminists, and other popular writers (e.g., Hyde, 2005; Mackinnon, 1989; Wood & Eagly, 2002) have suggested that either psychological differences between the sexes do not exist or, if they do, they are socially constructed, evolutionarily minded folk have pointed out that the adaptive problems that faced ancestral men and women were different (for a very different evolutionary psychology friendly feminist perspective on sex differences, see Paglia, 1990, 1994). If men and women faced different problems, it would be logical to assume that the solutions (their adaptations) to those problems were different as well-designed to solve their somewhat different agendas.
