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You were doing so well until you made a sweeping generalisation about why men are different to women ("testosterone filled to constantly chase women"). The differences between men's and womens sexuality can be put down to a number of things:

1. Women being pressured to follow old ideals how they should behave. (i.e. fear of being a 'slut')

2. Women also feeling pressured to make themselves sexually available and attractive by the media.

3. The perception pepetuated in the media to men and especially geeks that everybody is having more sex than them . This results in a kind of angry justification for bad behaviour that the world is stacked against them and in favour of that douchebag jock from high school.

You will notice that none of these reasons are set in stone, we can change them. Sexual politics does not have to stay this way.

One more thing: Your statement that 50% of the population has done the behaviour in question seems a bit over the top and you seem to be almost implying that it's inevitable. If that were the case then it would be a horrendous statistic. Although I do think that a very high proportion of men have done something resembling harassment of a woman at some point in their life.

I dont think it was meant as one specific behavior, but the collection of behaviors that one may classify as creepy.

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