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Study Finds Out Why People Have Sex
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have discovered that these are the four main factors why people want to have sex.
Physical reasons such as to reduce stress ("It seemed like good exercise"), feel pleasure ("It's exciting"), improve or expand experiences ("I was curious about sex"), and the physical desirability of their partner ("The person was a good dancer").
Goal-based reasons, including utilitarian or practical considerations ("I wanted to have a baby"), social status ("I wanted to be popular") and revenge ("I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease").
Emotional reasons such as love and commitment ("I wanted to feel connected") and expression ("I wanted to say 'thank you'").
Insecurity-based reasons, including self-esteem ("I wanted the attention"), a feeling of duty or pressure ("My partner kept insisting") and to guard a mate ("I wanted to keep my partner from straying").
Some of those reasons like "I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease" are quite frightening. The study found that there are "hundreds of varied and complex motivations" for wanting to engage in sexual activitiy that range from the "spiritual to the vengeful." People are complex and so their reasons for wanting sex are also complex. That really shouldn't surprise anyone but it is interesting that these researchers are trying to organize and understand it.
Posted on July 31, 2007
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Survey Finds Over Half of British Have Engaged in Car Sex
A survey of 1,000 British drivers has found that over 58% have had sex in their car.
In a survey of 1,000 British adults by car hire firm Holiday Autos 58 per cent of Brits admitted getting it on in their motors, with the flipped passenger seat position the most popular.
Cars are also a frequent location for finding new dates or breaking up with a current partner. The study found that 18% have exchanged phone numbers with another drive while waiting at a traffic light. That seems high but it is what the survey reported. 16% of those surveyed said an argument in the car had resulted in a break-up. People also admitted to other car activities according to the survey like mooning people, driving nude and dressing up like a bloodied demon?
Posted on July 3, 2007
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Study: 4% of U.S. Adults Have Never Had Sex
The AFP is reporting that a new CDC study has found that 4% of U.S. adults have never had sex. The study also found that 16% of adults had sex before the age of 15.
Four percent of US adults have never had sex in their lives, and the figure climbs to 12 percent in the case of Mexican-Americans, according to an official survey out on Friday.
"Approximately 96 percent of adults age 20-59 years have had sex, with the age group 20-29 having the lowest percent (91 percent)," the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a report.
Eighty-eight percent of Mexican-American adults have had sex, a lower percentage than any other ethnic group.
The report also said 16 percent of adults first had sex before the age of 15, while 15 percent abstained from sex until age 21 or older.
Another article the CDC's recent study of sexual activity found unsurprisingly that men have more sexual partners than women. 29% of U.S. men said they have had more than 15 sex partners.
Posted on June 23, 2007
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Author Argues Hookups Can Harm Young Women
 Author Laura Sessions Stepp argues that casual sex "hookups" can be damaging to young women. Stepp, who is also a writer for the Washington Post, has a new book out about hooking up called Unhooked. According to an MSNBC article Stepp's critics have labeled her a throwback and an anti-feminist.
For that, Laura Sessions Stepp, author of "Unhooked," and a writer for The Washington Post, has been criticized as a throwback to an earlier, restrictive moral climate, an anti-feminist and a tut-tutting mother telling girls not to give the milk away when nobody's bought the cow.
The author "imagines the female body as a thing that can be tarnished by too much use," wrote reviewer Kathy Dobie in Stepp's own paper, the Post, and suggested that Stepp was, in one part, trying to "instill sexual shame." For Meghan O'Rourke, literary editor at Slate.com, Stepp is "buying into alarmism about women," and making sex "a bigger, scarier, and more dangerous thing than it already is."
Stepp argues these critics have misconstrued her ideas.
True, she regrets that "dating has gone completely by the boards." replaced by group outings that lead to casual encounters. True, she regrets that oral sex "isn't even considered sex anymore." But she isn't saying girls should not have sex; just that they should have it in the context of a meaningful connection: "I am saying that girls should have choices."
Too often, Stepp argues, girls and young women say proudly that they like the control "hookups" give them - control over their emotions, their schedules, and freedom to focus on things like schoolwork and career (the students she profiles in her book are high achievers).
It's a complex issue because we want young women to have meaningful relationships but at the same time we don't want women to feel pressured into early marriages or to avoid the possibility of a long and successful career. You can read a few other articles discussing Stepp's book here, here and here.
Posted on April 21, 2007
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