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However, the authors of the study say that, surprisingly, the characteristics that predict male sexual coerciveness don't hold true for women.

"To tell mom and dad that their 20-year-old daughter really likes to have sex and is even willing to use subtle forms of pressure in order to convince a reluctant partner to have sex might be pretty devastating to many middle-class parents. (But) that's essentially what we're showing," says lead author Guelph University psychology professor Serge Desmarais.

The research explored the self-reported use of mild forms of what the authors called overt and covert pressure tactics by 209 second- and third-year heterosexual, female Guelph University psychology students.

Raised in an era of "third-wave sexual feminism" -- reflected in TV shows like Sex and the City and videos like Girls Gone Wild -- the communication differences between Mars and Venus seems to be shrinking, at least in bed.

More than half of the women said that, faced with a reluctant partner, usually in the context of a relationship, they'd begun to undress him. Three-quarters had told their partner straight-out they wanted to have sex, and most had tried to excite him with oral sex.