The piece, as many such pieces do, refers to a study conducted at Florida State University between 1978 and 1982 that found women propositioned by handsome male strangers are less likely to say yes than are men propositioned by attractive female strangers. But as critics of this study have already pointed out, women are more likely to get murdered by strangers with whom they have sex than men are. If they aren’t killed, they are more likely to become pregnant, get an STI, not have an orgasm, and be called names and looked at askance by neighbors and even friends who find out they’ve had casual
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