Why People Have Sex: It Feels Good

AP via SFGate ^ | 8/1/7 | SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer

[SmithL]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found that young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivations. It's more about lust in the body than a love connection in the heart.

College-aged men and women agree on their top reasons for having sex — they were attracted to the person, they wanted to experience physical pleasure and "it feels good," according to a peer-reviewed study in the August edition of Archives of Sexual Behavior. Twenty of the top 25 reasons given for having sex were the same for men and women.

Expressing love and showing affection were in the top 10 for both men and women, but they did take a back seat to the clear No. 1: "I was attracted to the person."

Researchers at the University of Texas spent five years and their own money to study the overlooked why behind sex while others were spending their time on the how.

"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. "That's not what I came up with in my findings."

Forget thinking that men are from Mars and women from Venus, "the more we look, the more we find similarity," said Dr. Irwin Goldstein, director of sexual medicine at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego. Goldstein, who wasn't part of Meston's study, said the Texas research made a lot of sense and adds to growing evidence that the vaunted differences in the genders may only be among people with sexual problems.

[SmithL]

You reckon?

[ClearCase_guy]

Goldstein, who wasn't part of Meston's study, said the Texas research made a lot of sense and adds to growing evidence that the vaunted differences in the genders may only be among people with sexual problems.

We should all be androgynous transvestites who swing both ways -- and if you're not ... well, you've got sexual problems.

[Ancient Drive]

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[Mr. K]

How much tax money was spent on discovering the obvious (again)?

[socal_parrot]

I wonder where “I just happened to have an extra 20 bucks” ranked?

[EGPWS]

"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. "That's not what I came up with in my findings."

The obvious just isn't fact until someone with a salary that has spent years using the system to obtain a higher education makes it so.

[Lusis]

Please tell me taxpayer money wasn't spent on this...

Suprised they didn't blame global warming.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Naw...

...it feels great!

[EGPWS]

After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found that young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivations.

One of them isn't because they have exhaustively compiled a list of reasons as to why people have sex.

[ClearCase_guy]

As a taxpayer, I feel royally f***** by this waste of money. But it feels good.

[Shimmer128]

They could have just asked me, I would have told them.

[Shimmer128]

I scored a 95 on the nerd scale. Even I didn’t know I was that high.

[Continental Soldier]

These funded research studies are great! More of us should get on that gravy-train. Individually, they may not be as far reaching as the carbon-offset scam, but they offer better start-up possibilities for the smaller markets and can be presented with an easy veneer of socio-cultural importance. I, for one, with a relatively small grant of $50,000 or so, could conduct a survey that would finally, once and for all, tell us why people drink water!

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Researchers at the University of Texas spent five years and their own money....

"Hi, I'm from the University of Texas and I'm researching why people have sex, so, for science, your place or mine???"

Hmmmmm. Might beat "So, ya' come here often???"...

[SunkenCiv]

LOL! Or, “I just happened to have an extra 20 bucks, and had stumbled across a time machine.” ;’)

[SunkenCiv]

Well, this is really difficult to believe.

But wait... does she have children? Because if so, that would mean...

[#1CTYankee]

#77 I wanted him/her to stop bugging me about sex.

Gee, doesn't work for me.

[#1CTYankee]

#129: Someone offered me money to do it.

[Lucky9teen]

Why People Have Sex: It Feels Good

Or, if you're married...to get him to shut the heck up....

[CougarGA7]

Is that why? And here all this time I thought it was just the latest fad.