Heterosexuelle Männer leiden stärker unter sexuellem Verrat und Frauen unter emotionalem Verrat. Unter den Männern zeigten diejenigen, die sich ausschließlich zu Frauen hingezogen fühlten, das höchste Maß an sexueller Eifersucht.

I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-025-03225-z

From the linked article:

A new study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior suggests that how people react to sexual versus emotional infidelity is shaped by more than just biological sex. While **heterosexual men were more distressed by sexual betrayal and women by emotional betrayal**, the findings indicate that traits like masculinity, femininity, and sexual attraction also influence these responses in flexible ways.

The results supported some long-standing findings. Heterosexual men were much more likely than heterosexual women to be disturbed by sexual infidelity. In fact, nearly 59 percent of heterosexual men said sexual betrayal was more upsetting, compared to only 31 percent of heterosexual women. This pattern was consistent with past research.

The researchers then examined sexual attraction as a continuous variable. Rather than looking only at how people labeled themselves, they measured how strongly participants were attracted to men and to women. **Among men, those who were exclusively attracted to women showed the highest levels of sexual jealousy**. Men who had even a small degree of attraction to other men reported less distress about sexual infidelity.

In men, higher levels of psychological masculinity were linked to both a stronger attraction to women and a greater tendency to be disturbed by sexual infidelity. But the connection between masculinity and jealousy seemed to depend on whether the man was attracted to women. Masculinity influenced jealousy only when it was also linked to strong gynephilic attraction—that is, attraction to women.

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I’d be more interested in knowing who exactly is bothered by what, rather than averages across broadly sketched cohorts ordinally ranking which is more or less bothersome. This is all particularly meaningless considering Kinsey scale sexuality and cultural pressures to self-report/identify one way or another.

I want to know who doesn’t care and who does. Not whether so-and-so says X is a 6/10 on the heartbreak-o-meter, but Y is only a 5.2/10

Since the ‚rate of heterosexuality‘ (or ‚gynephilia for men‘, as the researchers call it) is self-reported, it seems to me that the researchers have mainly measured conservativeness. Conservative men will both report themselves as more heterosexual and have stricter views on monogamy, for the same cultural reason.

For the rest I noticed that the researchers have gathered data on an awful lot of different variables, which immediately gives me the idea that they threw a lot at the wall to see what sticks.

What an awfully worded title

Women will get angry with their partners because they cheat on her… in her dreams. So yeah.