I found that good nutrition was tough for these young women to get on campus, and that they had difficulty finding time in their schedules for adequate exercise.
But I also learned about something I was not expecting: the negative toll of hookup culture. I could readily see that the young college women I was teaching were being damaged far more by this culture of casual sex than by the environment of bad food and inadequate exercise.
The sheer amount of heartache and heartbreak I witnessed was heartrending. How could young men treat these young women so badly? I learned much about what is behind this sexual conflict between men and women, and I want to share some of it with you today and in more articles to come.
First of all, there are significant biologically-based sex differences between men and women. This is especially true in what I call the seat of human sexuality, the hypothalamus. This area in male brains is stuffed with two times more cells , and is very sensitive to testosterone stimulation, because it has far more receptors than the same area in the female brain does.
In contrast, women have much higher levels of Sex Hormone Binding Globulin SHBG than men do, which acts to bind much of their testosterone, making it less usable in the body and meaning it has less of an effect on women than it does on men. Not only are there profound differences in male vs.
