[dan1123]

I mean, how often do you hear of a poor young boy being pressured into sex by his girlfriend, versus the other way around?

It's happening a lot more often than you think.

How many men do you know of who felt disappointment or shame after their first sexual encounter?

Again, it happens a lot more often than you think. The whole point is that societal pressure for girls not to be sluts and guys to be studs and macho repress stories about those two instances.

[timm22]

Again, it happens a lot more often than you think. The whole point is that societal pressure for girls not to be sluts and guys to be studs and macho repress stories about those two instances.

Perhaps. I guess there's really no way to know for sure how much "underreporting" there is.

Even still, I am confident that many more girls than boys are pressured into sex, and likewise many more girls are deeply affected by their first sexual encounter than are boys. That's not to say boys are no better than animals, nor that they are completely unaffected by sex. It's just that they are not as sexually vulnerable and are affected by sex differently than girls.

Or do you believe that all sexual differences are merely social constructions, and that when you get down to it men and women only differ in their plumbing?