# Do women experience sexual appetite only during certain time of the month (ovulation)? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 9, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-experience-sexual-appetite-only-during-certain-time-of-the-month-ovulation/810282 "2018-03-09T15:16:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 36
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2018, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-experience-sexual-appetite-only-during-certain-time-of-the-month-ovulation/810282/36 "2018-03-09T21:09:06Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Here’s an odd idea to attempt to wrap your head around: women are the same species as men… Same species yes, but women are still different from men in significant ways. If they weren’t, no one would ever get out of bed. Here’s another example from two posts up. Where in deciding whether she’s up for sex, a woman might ask herself: “is the house clean” “have I gotten enough sleep” “do I currently think of myself as attractive” “do I have a stomachache” “do I have financial anxiety” “did I eat too much for dinner”. To the vast majority of men none of this would ever occur…or matter. 😃 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-experience-sexual-appetite-only-during-certain-time-of-the-month-ovulation/810282)._