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  • 41 adult men aged 18 to 26 (M = 20.17, s.d. = 2.16) recruited from a subject pool at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

    So not representative of adults / the overall population, but still interesting.

    Sexual desire was assessed as a composite score from three questions: (i) ‘Yesterday, how much did you have sexual thoughts?’ (ii) ‘Yesterday, how much did you have sexual fantasies?’ (iii) ‘Yesterday, how much sexual desire did you experience?’

    First, a single item inquired about overall mate attraction efforts on each day: ‘How much effort did you put into attracting a possible romantic and/or sexual partner yesterday?’ (same 1–7 scale as above). Second, because such efforts may be highly dependent on social exposure to potential partners, we also targeted a binary measure of such exposure: ‘Yesterday, did you have a direct social interaction with anyone you found attractive as a potential romantic and/or sexual partner, but who was not your romantic or sexual partner at the time?’ (Yes/No).

    Not a lot that’s quantitative. But I guess I would expect to answer those questions differently over the course of a month.