The Top 25 of 237 reasons that motivate people to have sex
1. I was "in the heat of the moment."2. It just happened.3. I was bored. 4. It just seemed like "the thing to do."5. Someone dared me.6. I desired emotional closeness (i.e., intimacy).7. I wanted to feel closer to God.8. I wanted to gain acceptance from friends.9. It's exciting, adventurous.10. I wanted to make up after a fight.11. I wanted to get rid of aggression.12. I was under the influence of drugs.13. I wanted to try to get a better mate than my current mate.14. I wanted to express my love for the person.15. I wanted to experience the physical pleasure.16. I wanted to show my affection to the person.17. I felt like I owed it to the person.18. I was attracted to the person.19. I was sexually aroused and wanted the release.20. My friends were having sex and I wanted to fit in.21. It feels good.22. My partner kept insisting.23. The person was famous and I wanted to be able to say I had sex with him/her.24. I was physically forced to.25. I was verbally coerced into it.
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uh, you mean I need a "reason"?
The 237 reasons to have sexFrom piety to pity, love to lust,
researchers find wide range of
motivationsBy Judy Peres, Chicago Tribune,
August 1, 2007If you think people have sex for
pleasure and for procreation,
you're right. They also have sex
to get rid of a headache, to
celebrate a special occasion,
to get a promotion and to feel
closer to God.New research published in the
August issue of Archives of
Sexual Behavior has come up
with a list of 237 reasons that
motivate people to have sex.Who knew?Cindy Meston, a professor of
psychology at the University of Texas at Austin and the lead author of the paper, said most people assume there are a few simple reasons for having sex: "It feels good, you're in love, or you want to have a child. We found that people are having sex for lots of other reasons." . . . research in two stages. First, they asked a group of more than 400 students and volunteers to simply list "all the reasons you can think of why you, or someone you have known, has engaged in sexual intercourse in the past." That produced 715 reasons. After deleting identical or very similar entries, the researchers were left with 237.Some were "pretty shocking," Meston 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.""Most of the literature shows that religious people have more sexual problems," she said. "But several people endorsed the idea that religion and sexuality were actually closely linked."In the second stage of the research, they asked 1,500 other students to rate how important each of the 237 reasons was in their own sexual behavior. . . .// Full story here // Copyright 2007 Chicago Tribune
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