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  • noun sociology The sociological aspects of sexuality

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  • * The test will take less than a minute, and will measure what psychologists call your "sociosexuality" - or, what I call, promiscuity.

    GoodShit 2010

  • * The test will take less than a minute, and will measure what psychologists call your "sociosexuality" - or, what I call, promiscuity.

    GoodShit 2010

  • To the cheers of social scientists, Britain has been named the most promiscuous major industrial nation based on the "international sociosexuality index," which measures attitudes toward one-night stands, casual sex and numbers of partners.

    Anglican Mainstream 2009

  • The results were combined into a "sociosexuality index," a term used by evolutionary psychologists for measuring sexual perceptions and behavior.

    AVN News 2009

  • Bradley University study looks at sexuality across cultures, including national averages and sex differences in sociosexuality, regional averages and sex differences in short-term mating interests and regional averages and sex differences in "mate poaching."

    AVN News 2009

  • Women who have many sex partners, or high sociosexuality, tend to have higher testosterone levels.

    WordPress.com Top Blogs 2009

  • We hypothesized that hormones and psychosexual factors (sociosexuality, sexual inhibition / excitation) mediate the perception and evaluation of male faces thereby influencing women's preferences.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

  • "Women's preference for masculine faces varies with hormonal state, sociosexuality, and relationship status, but the underlying mechanisms are poorly understood.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2009

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