There are a lot of replies here, so I’m not sure whether someone already mentioned this, but: I have heard anecdotally that homosexual men often have relationships which maintain the level of sex over the long term, while homosexual women often have long-term relationships which very gradually decline in frequency of sex, with barely any sex after many decades have passed (but still happily in a relationship).
This mainly argues against your model here:
This also fits with my general models of mating markets: women usually find the large majority of men sexually unattractive, most women eventually settle on a guy they don’t find all that sexually attractive, so it should not be surprising if that relationship ends up with very little sex after a few years.
It suggests instead that female sex drive naturally falls off in long-term relationships in a way that male sex drive doesn’t, with sexual attraction to a partner being a smaller factor.
Note: You can verify this is the case by filtering for male respondents with male partners and female respondents with female partners in the survey data
There are a lot of replies here, so I’m not sure whether someone already mentioned this, but: I have heard anecdotally that homosexual men often have relationships which maintain the level of sex over the long term, while homosexual women often have long-term relationships which very gradually decline in frequency of sex, with barely any sex after many decades have passed (but still happily in a relationship).
This mainly argues against your model here:
It suggests instead that female sex drive naturally falls off in long-term relationships in a way that male sex drive doesn’t, with sexual attraction to a partner being a smaller factor.
Note: You can verify this is the case by filtering for male respondents with male partners and female respondents with female partners in the survey data