Study Links Feminism to Healthier, More Romantic Relationships ---

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Feminists Have More Fun Jeanna Bryner
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com
Thu Oct 18, 8:30 AM ET

Feminism boosts sexual satisfaction for both men and women, a new study suggests.

Busting stereotypes that peg feminists as ugly lesbians, a new study shows that having a feminist partner is linked with healthier, more romantic heterosexual relationships.


The study, published online this week in the journal Sex Roles, relied on surveys of both college students and older adults, finding that women with egalitarian attitudes do find mates and men do find them attractive. In fact, results reveal they are having a good time, maybe a better time than the non-feminists.


Both men and women are prone to holding negative views of feminists, the authors say. Along with the sexually unattractive stereotype, some women also view feminism as a movement for victims, or for women who aren't competent enough to achieve success on their own merit, according to the Rutgers University researchers.


Psychologists Laurie Rudman and Julie Phelan carried out a laboratory survey of 242 Rutgers undergraduates and conducted an online survey of 289 older adults who had an average age of 26 and typically had been in their current relationship about four years.


Older adults have more life experience "and thus may be more likely to show an incompatibility between feminism and romantic relationships," Rudman and Phelan write. While younger females likely grew up with the attitude that "women can have it all," the researchers note older women may have come of age in the era following U.S. women's suffrage (1919) or during the women's movement that emerged in the 1960s.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071018/sc_livescience/feministshavemorefun

[BlueIris]

1. Well, duh.

In other "news," Bush is a war criminal.

[Swamp Rat]

2. You damn right we have a good time!

:loveya:

[YOY]

3. Sorry if it miffs anyone, but independant strong women simply tend to make damn good lovers

Something I figured out from the start. They had to do a study on that?

[hughee99]

4. Maybe fish and bicycles do go together... n/t

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. Certainly is true in my marriage.

Though I don't think my wife would identify herself as a "feminist". Rather as an independent person with her own ideas, needs, desires, and identity.

For 27 years we've been discovering how much in love we are.

[kestrel91316]

6. I could have told them this and saved them all the money they

spent on the study......

[GETPLANING]

7. I married one of them fem-nists

What a pain in the a**.
But after 20 years, she's still the best.

[BlueIris]

9. Cute.

Not.

[BlueIris]

8. Kick.