Women's sexual fantasies emphasize touching, feelings, and partner response than do men's. Women are more likely than men to fantasize about someone with whom they wanted to become romantically involved. Men's sexual fantasies move more quickly to explicit sexual activity than do women's. Women's fantasies involve a slower buildup to sexual culmination than do men's. Women have a clearer image than men of their imagined partners' facial features.
Men have a clearer image than women of their genital features of their imagined partners.
I dislike the word. It is so harsh and impersonal and animalistic. There is a cliche that women make love when things are right and men make love to make things right. The problems bred by that small difference are immeasurable. I recall the many nights I would go to bed, exhausted from a sixteen-hour day of physical work, resentful that I had gotten little or no help, dehumanized by a day or many days with no adult interaction, or conversation and as we crawled into bed, I would think, if he tries to make love, I'll scream.