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During the past decade, the binary has been all but declared dead, with differences in females and males being dismissed as artifacts of social conditioning and perhaps a bit of estrogen or testosterone here and there. Yet there is a growing body of evidence to the contrary, including renowned geneticist David Page's findings that every cell in the human body is influenced by whether we are male or female.
So it should come as no surprise that twice as many men are dying from COVID-19 as women, and it has nothing to do with handwashing habits or how the sexes apply social distancing. It's because men's and women's bodies are different, which is the subject of the following video that's being used in college sex-ed and intro psych courses:
This video helped start some very interesting discussions in college sex-ed and psych courses before the COVID-19 shutdown.
In fact, every cell and organ in our bodies is affected by whether we are female or male. This isn’t just due to testosterone or estrogen. It's because the cells in our bodies read our DNA differently if we are female or male. Even the bacteria in our intestines and the fluid in our knees are influenced by being male or female.
As a result, women are three times more likely to get rheumatoid arthritis than men and eight times more likely to get an autoimmune disease like lupus. Yet women live up to five or more years longer than men, and not simply because men take more risks or have jobs that are more dangerous.
Men’s urine is more concentrated than women’s, yet women get urinary tract infections more often than men. Men get heart disease, skin cancer, and stomach disease more often than women do, but women who smoke tend to find it harder to quit smoking than men, and female smokers experience more health problems related to smoking than male smokers.
Women take longer to recover from the flu than do men, but men’s skin wounds take longer to heal than women’s. Women tend to see colors better than men, but men are more likely to be color-blind. Women and men can experience pain in different ways, and women’s and men’s bodies can react to drugs differently.
Men and women do not process sound in the same way. Women’s verbal memory is often better than men’s, while men’s visuospatial memory tends to be better than women’s.
Women are more likely to be anxious than men, and they experience depression at a higher rate than men do. Yet men are more likely to have autism than women, and autism tends to present itself differently in women than in men.
We won’t even begin to talk about how women’s bodies are made to undergo extreme changes during pregnancy. This not only includes changes in shape but massive changes in chemistry and hormones that a man’s body is not capable of and never will be.
These are only a few of the ways that male and female bodies are different, and there are two areas where the differences in men’s and women’s bodies especially affect women: One is medicine, and the other is porn.
Far more medical research has been done on men’s bodies than women’s, with the excuse that monthly changes in women’s hormones would confuse the results. So lots of medications and some vaccines have been optimized for men’s bodies and not for women’s.
Also, women get three times the number of debilitating migraine headaches than men do, but very little research money has been spent to study migraine headaches, and most of that has been spent on studying migraines in men, when it appears that migraines are different and even worse for women than they are for men.
And then there is porn, which has become the world’s sex educator. A lot of men and women enjoy watching porn. But porn often presents an overly simplified and cherrypicked version of sex that leaves out the complexity, especially if when it comes to sex in relationships.
Also, women in porn are happy to do anything male porn actors want them to do, without any discussion, warning, or preparation. But in real life, women are not always down to do what they show in porn.
Porn and medicine are just two of the reasons why there’s a lot to be gained when men and women are able to understand, respect, and enjoy the differences in each other’s bodies.
For a wealth of studies on sex differences, see the Biology of Sex Differences Journal.
