Hello you beautiful people, welcome back to the show. My guest today is David Busch, he's one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology professor of psychology at the University of Texas and an author.

We are talking about the hidden psychology of sexual conflict.

The topic of sexual deception, harassment and assault are an emotive, highly charged conversation.

Men are accused and women are afraid, but why do these conflicts even arise? Why is it that men and women's sexual desires diverge?

David's new book opens Pandora's Box to this complete hell of a murky world and we're going to try and navigate through it today without getting cancelled or upsetting too many people.

Expect to learn the key differences to men and women's sexual desires, how the over perception bias explains much of why we are confused,

why women are attracted to bad boys, how men are mentally hardwired to objectify women, how mate value discrepancy can cause all manner of catastrophes, whether all men are rapists and much more.

God I adore this conversation. If you liked the 15 harsh psychology truths with Adam Lane Smith a couple of weeks ago, you will love this one.

Evolutionary psychology to me is endlessly fascinating. It allows us to peer under the hood and work out why we are the way we are and David is one of the Godfathers of that field.

Again, you have the opportunity today as you're listening to this conversation unfold to notice any emotional reactions that arise inside of yourself.

And question why are they there? What is it about this insight that's causing you to feel that way?

For men, there are lots of uncomfortable truths that come up in this around some of the reprehensible things that men have done to women over the ages.

And to women as well, there are some things that make it sound like perhaps David's giving men a pass or perhaps the hashtag not all men actually might be true.

All of these things should give you pause. They should give you reason to think, okay, how can I assess my assumptions around this?

How can I have a more balanced viewpoint on what is perhaps one of the most charged conversations of the last decade?

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