Gender breakdown in seekers

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Would be careful about making conclusions based on merely one's observation of representation within socially oriented venues such as forums and whatnot. i could say, men need this type of venue to overly intellectualize spirituality lol and I'd probably be over-generalizing.

Aha, good point! And no conclusions made here, only questions (if that was directed at me). It has been my experience that women are extremely social creatures (usually more so than men) so why would this not extend to their spirituality if this was the cause?

Women have been wired biologically and socialized for bonding but we can do that outside of online forums or in many other venues like yoga class or whatnot. I am assuming you are man here? Perhaps you have not had invitation to goddess gatherings (lol)

Let's begin w/ asking questions:

What is spirituality and spiritual seeking? Is there a clear gender difference in how spirituality seeking is approached?

Ken Wilber talks about agape and eros - the 2 ways in which spiritual seeking may occur. The feminine way being 'love until it hurts' and the masculine way being sitting-in-front-of-a-wall-and-meditating. If a woman is seeking by loving until it hurts - spiritual seeking may come in a form of personal relationships or child rearing or relationship w/ herself - whatever it is. It's more personal perhaps. The masculine way then is more about techniques and technical form. Some specific practice.

So there may be different ways to seek but I am not sure whether women seek more or less. If Ken Wilber's theory is correct, women's seeking occurs in more everyday, personal ways.

Added: I'm assuming females are apt to follow the feminine way of seeking which is 'love-until-it-hurts' approach