I can’t stop laughing at this story.
Researchers at the University of Texas spent five years and their own money studying the reasons that college students engage in sexual activity. (source) Neat idea. I mean, I suppose that I always thought the answer was pretty simple. However, there were some pretty complex reasons given.
Some were “pretty shocking,” [one of the researchers] said, such as “I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease.” She said she also was surprised that some people said they had sex because “I wanted to get closer to God.” (source)
And the top ten reasons that men and women have sex? Here they are (source)
WOMEN’S TOP TEN
1. I was attracted to the person
2. I wanted to experience physical pleasure
3. It feels good
4. I wanted to show my affection to the person
5. I wanted to express my love for the person
6. I was sexually aroused and wanted the release
7. I was “horny”
8. It’s fun
9. I realized I was in love
10. I was “in the heat of the moment”
I guess that knocks the theory that women only have sex as victims. (Oops! I originally attributed that theory to Catherine MacKinnon and/or Andrea Dworkin, but it looks like I was dead wrong – a victim of an urban legend. Source).
MEN’S TOP TEN
1. I was attracted to the person
2. It feels good
3. I wanted to experience physical pleasure.
4. It’s fun
5. I wanted to show my affection to the person
6. I was sexually aroused and wanted the release
7. I was “horny”
8. I wanted to express my love for the person
9. I wanted to achieve an orgasm
10. I wanted to please my partner
Why did they put “horny” in “quotes”? (c.f. a fun blog, The “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks).
