237 Reasons to Have Sex
Today I’ve read an article regarding the study on the reasons to have sex. The interesting thing according to this the study found men and women have sex for the same reasons, those reasons are lust, not love.
After asking nearly 2000 people why they’d had sex, the researchers in the University of Texas have assembled and categorized a total of 237 reasons.
“I was attracted to the person” was the number one reason for both sexes.
To make sense of the 237 reasons, researchers David Buss and Cindy Meston prioritized the responses in four general categories:
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“The person had beautiful eyes,” or “a desirable body,” or “was a good kisser,” or “too physically attractive to resist.” Or “I wanted to achieve an orgasm.”
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“I wanted to even the score with a cheating partner,” or “break up a rival’s relationship,” or “make money,” or “be popular.” Or “because of a bet.”
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“I wanted to communicate at a deeper level,” or “lift my partner’s spirits,” or “say `Thank you.’.” Or just because “the person was intelligent.”
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“I felt like it was my duty,” or “I wanted to boost my self-esteem,” or “It was the only way my partner would spend time with me.
The answer “I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease” ranked last for women and second last for men.
The rest of the top 10 were also almost the same for each gender, including “I wanted to express my love for the person,”
I was sexually aroused and wanted the release,” and “It’s fun.
Women were more likely to say they had sex because, “I wanted to express my love for the person” and “I realized I was in love.”
“A person offered to give me drugs for doing it” was the worst reason for having sex.
It’s refuted a lot of gender stereotypes … that men only want sex for the physical pleasure and women want love,” said University of Texas clinical psychology professor Cindy Meston, the study’s co-author.