Nothing new here. It's been conventional wisdom since the left-wing Freudians of the Weimar Republic that male aggession is sublimated horniness, and that more boinking therefore means less marching.

But it's nice to see it kind-of validated in a study.

This paradigm was strongly visible in the '60's during the Viet Nam War. The delinquents in my high school were signing up for Army service in droves so they could ship off to "kill gooks", while we draft dodgers volunteered at resistance centers where the walls were papered with posters showing great-looking (fully-dressed) women over the caption, "Women say 'Yes' to men who say 'No'."

Make love not crime/war!

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Always liked that one, though it's probably politically incorrect these days...

I wonder, did those nice girls know what that photo was for?

Outrager:

But it's nice to see it kind-of validated in a study.

This paradigm was strongly visible in the '60's during the Viet Nam War. The delinquents in my high school were signing up for Army service in droves so they could ship off to "kill gooks", while we draft dodgers volunteered at resistance centers where the walls were papered with posters showing great-looking (fully-dressed) women over the caption, "Women say 'Yes' to men who say 'No'."

It was ironic, in that historically women have taken the opposite position. I remember reading memoirs of an Australian during WWI who mentioned that the young ladies down under viewed any young man not in uniform at the time with suspicion and contempt.

Lysistrata aside, I suspect that women throughout history have tended to favor the warrior -- just as Venus (the goddess of Love) had the hots only for Mars (the god of war) while despising Vulcan (the god of Nerds) who always had a crush on her.

Speaking of nerds, what about us? We're not being bad or having sex. Makes you wonder about the validity of this study.

Us nerds sublimate by acquiring absurd amounts of knowledge of baseball statistics, programming languages, rock and roll discographies, the Imperial Japanese Navy &c. &c, which confers a spurious but comforting sense of control over our surroundings.