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This research explored whether women experience a" sexual peak" during their early 30s and, if so, whether such a peak might have an evolved/unction. In Study 1, results from a cross-sectional sample of college students from the United States (N= 803 women. 4Ì5 men) revealed that women between 30 and 34, relative to older and younger women, described themselves as more lustful, seductive, and sexually active. In contrast, men did not experience a sexual peak between 30 and 34. In a second study (N= 611 women, 329 men), findings of an early-30s peak in women were replicated among married and single individuals from Canada. Using new measures of human sexual strategies (Schmitt & Buss, 2000). the authors were able to test 2 hypotheses about the possible functions of an eariy-30s peak in female sexual desire, One hypothesis is that an early-30s peak increases reproduction in monogamous …