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There is a famous argument between Greek god Zeus and his wife Hera about who enjoys sex more: man or woman? They both insist it is the other.
Unable to settle the dispute, they call Tiresias, a prophet who has experienced sex both as a man and woman, to arbitrate. Tiresias readily agrees with Zeus saying it’s the woman. This angers Hera who curses him to become blind.
There is a similar story in Mahabharata, the great Indian epic, about an ancient king named Bhangashvana who was cursed to be a woman by Lord Indira. Having experienced sex as both the sexes, Bhangashvana, according to the story, goes on to decline a reoffer from Indira to turn him back to a man on grounds that he enjoyed sexual pleasure more as woman than as a man.
(It’s another matter that there are conservative scholars who interpret Bhangashvana’s decision as a testimony to his maternal love, since he also had kids as a woman.)
Yet despite mythological insights that seem to suggest that its women who enjoy sex more than men, studies conducted from around the world, continues to show that men have almost twice the number of sex partners than women.
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