# Do men really love women?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [May 9, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837 "2010-05-09T21:49:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Hanako](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanako)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/1 "2010-05-09T21:49:38Z")
**Do men really love women or do they just want to have sex with them?**
1.Do men marry women for pure joy of sex or love?
2.Do men rather marry the pretty well mannered girl or the angry beast that swears and curses?
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/2 "2010-05-09T22:11:17Z")
> [@Hanako](#):
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> **Do men really love women or do they just want to have sex with them?**
Um, “yes”? Some men just want sex, some love women and want sex.
> [@Hanako](#):
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> 1.Do men marry women for pure joy of sex or love?
Again, both. Some men want just sex, some men want love too, some men want other things like children.
> [@Hanako](#):
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> 2.Do men rather marry the pretty well mannered girl or the angry beast that swears and curses?
Typically the former, obviously. Not that marriage or gender has a great deal to do with it; an “angry beast that swears and curses” isn’t likely to be popular with much of anyone.
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### Author:  [@Hanako](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanako)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/3 "2010-05-09T22:17:42Z")
Then I said it’s always the “Tee hee hee’s and I love pink dresses”
God Bless.
Salam.
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### Author:  [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/4 "2010-05-09T22:19:42Z")
“Love” is by definition the attraction that a person has to another person. So, by definition, men love women.
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/5 "2010-05-09T22:20:34Z")
> [@Hanako](#):
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> Then I said it’s always the “Tee hee hee’s and I love pink dresses”
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> God Bless.
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> Salam.
:dubious: Huh?
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### Author:  [@Hanako](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanako)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/6 "2010-05-09T22:22:23Z")
Men really don’t love mentally ill women they just have sex with them because they allure them not because they love them.
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### Author:  [@Rex\_Goliath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rex_Goliath)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/7 "2010-05-09T22:22:38Z")
> [@Hanako](#):
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> Do men marry women for pure joy of sex or love?
No man gets married for sex.
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### Author:  [@Hanako](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanako)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/8 "2010-05-09T22:26:56Z")
> [@Rex\_Goliath](#):
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> No man gets married for sex.
Then why do men get married?
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/9 "2010-05-09T22:28:41Z")
> [@Rex\_Goliath](#):
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> No man gets married for sex.
If they do, they’re in for a rude awakening! 😉
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### Author:  [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/10 "2010-05-09T22:28:56Z")
> [@Hanako](#):
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> Then why do men get married?
Not sure, but it’s a well known fact that frequency of sexual activity between a couple goes way down after marriage while sexual activity with secretaries goes through the roof.
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### Author:  [@Hanako](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanako)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/11 "2010-05-09T22:32:13Z")
Let me just say eww.
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/12 "2010-05-09T23:15:58Z")
> [@Hanako](#):
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> Then why do men get married?
Sometimes they actually like the woman they are marrying.
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### Author:  [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/13 "2010-05-09T23:19:50Z")
> [@Voyager](#):
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> Sometimes they actually like the woman they are marrying.
Cite? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/14 "2010-05-09T23:24:36Z")
> [@Hanako](#):
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> 2.Do men rather marry the pretty well mannered girl or the angry beast that swears and curses?
Who says ‘pretty’ is incompatible with ‘angry beast that swears and curses’?
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/15 "2010-05-09T23:27:39Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#):
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> Who says ‘pretty’ is incompatible with ‘angry beast that swears and curses’?
But “angry beast that swears and curses” IS incompatible with “well mannered girl”. Unless you are marrying a Klingon I guess.
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### Author:  [@Hanako](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanako)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/16 "2010-05-09T23:30:02Z")
All I meant to say is men are fools who easily fall in love with pretty pretty princesses and then say “YES I AM IN LOVE”
and the girl with the problems ends up crying and screaming and then says men just want the girl with big boobs so they can have all the sex they imagined as a 12 year old.
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/17 "2010-05-09T23:59:26Z")
> [@Rex\_Goliath](#):
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> No man gets married for sex.
But great sex. Hell yeah.
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/18 "2010-05-10T00:04:50Z")
> [@Hanako](#):
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> All I meant to say is men are fools who easily fall in love with pretty pretty princesses and then say “YES I AM IN LOVE”
Then you should have said that to start.
What evidence do you have? Actually, could you maybe put together some sort of coherent argument? This is Great Debates, after all.
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### Author:  [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/19 "2010-05-10T00:06:31Z")
> [@Hanako](#):
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> and the girl with the problems ends up crying and screaming and then says men just want the girl with big boobs so they can have all the sex they imagined as a 12 year old.
This is why only philosophers should date hot chicks.
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### Author:  [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-men-really-love-women/538837/20 "2010-05-10T00:06:36Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> If they do, they’re in for a rude awakening! 😉
I was actually surprised to learn a while back that married men have sex more often than singles. I haven’t searched out a cite for that, basically because I’m lazy.
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