Or does it totally depend on the person, gender aside?

I suspect it does depend on the person, but given personal experience, I have to say that men seem to look at it more as the physical act and have no emotion, while women are more likely to have more feelings behind it.

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Do you think their is a distinct difference between how men and women view sex?

Generally yes.

Alan Smithee wrote:

Generally yes.

For a large part I think that's right but it still does come down to the person.

I think it's the person but I also believe that through the years people have been subjected to conditioning. There have been certain gender "roles" & behaviors that were expected. Women cleaned the house, cared for the kids, baked the cookies & performed her "wifely duties" while men brought home the bacon, hunted & fished, were the kings of their castle & were...well..men. The shift probably started around the '60's but certainly hasn't reached equity yet. It's still a common belief that women make the best parent of the two, that they are the most nurturing & caring & that they don't like sex & certainly not porn. None of that is true but it seems to be hard to shake that off.

uhhh.....what was the question again?

Seriously I think we're probably more alike than different. But stereotypes keep getting in the way.

I agree with Alan, generally yes. I think women associate sex with love almost all the time. Men associate sex with everything; love included, but not exclusively.

I work with a very old wise asian man who is always very respectful. One day I heard him joking with the other men, and he didnt realize i was in earshot and he said something perverted... i was shocked and busted his chops a bit. He looked at me and said, "All men pigs. If u meet man who claims he not a pig, Run. Very Fast. Run--he liar". LOL... love this guy to death.