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Secret's out: why women really have sex
news ^ | September 08, 2009

Posted on 09/08/2009 11:27:48 AM PDT by JoeProBono

FOR every woman expecting the earth to move, there are two with more practical motives.

From relieving boredom, to keeping the peace or curing a headache, women have sex for many reasons but romance and passion come rather low on the list, a new book has revealed.

One woman even admitted to having sex just so her husband would put the rubbish out.

"Research has shown most men find most women at least somewhat sexually attractive, whereas most women do not find most men sexually attractive at all," Why Women Have Sex authors Cindy Meston and David Buss said.

Having apparently discounted physical attraction, the 1000 women interviewed by the Texas University professors gave a huge range of reasons for sleeping with a man.

One said she did it for a spiritual experience, proclaiming: "It's the closest thing to God."

But mostly the explanations were far more mundane, with 84 per cent admitting to having sex just to ensure a quiet life or to bargain for household chores. One woman said: "I have sex to relieve the boredom because it's easier than fighting. Plus it gives me something to do."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: sex
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To: oldsalt
It's been 39 years and I still have my jar of quarters!!

Well, in my case I think the original 50 cents is still in there.

81 posted on 09/08/2009 12:28:27 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Anybody who's been married more than three days knows this.

I have been married 15 years. My wife and I have sex 3 or 4 times a week. (Except for that time of month). ALways interesting. Im 39 she is 43. We have two kids alot of it is "quickies" but we have fun anyways. We both have kept in good shape and it is actually better now than when we first got married. :>)))))))))))))

So who cares if I have to cook dinner.

82 posted on 09/08/2009 12:29:10 PM PDT by GUNGAGALUNGA
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To: JoeProBono
From relieving boredom,

Yep. I've been there. to keeping the peace or curing a headache, women have sex for many reasons but romance and passion come rather low on the list, a new book has revealed.

B.S. I have never had sex for a headache or to keep peace. Passion on the other hand is a regular reason for this gal. Idiots. Think women don't have it going on with desire like men do.

One woman even admitted to having sex just so her husband would put the rubbish out.

"Research has shown most men find most women at least somewhat sexually attractive, whereas most women do not find most men sexually attractive at all," Why Women Have Sex authors Cindy Meston and David Buss said.

B.S. again on the part where women do not find most men sexually attractive. My husband is hotness personified and I want him regularly for that reason alone :-D. Women look as much as men and when they likey. They wantey. Plain and simple.

This article is rubbish.

83 posted on 09/08/2009 12:30:10 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: American Constitutionalist

I dunno, I had a crazy-look-in-her-eyes woman as a roommate and the fact that she was beautiful made that all right with every guy she wanted, and she wanted them all.
Ok the man I was dating at the time was the only hold out and give him a break, I was standing right there.
The first time she met him she exclaimed his name with joy, rushed to him, threw her arms around him and said she had heard me talk about him in such a way that she just couldn’t WAIT to meet him. On the one hand, he was flattered and having a beautiful woman throw her arms around him like that was nice for change. On the other hand he said the extreme familiarity and intensity from someone he just met made him want to ‘run’ and that he had seen ‘that type before.’ Her type based on my observations? Try Wide Eyed Innocent Southern Belle/adulterous sexual predator.


84 posted on 09/08/2009 12:30:57 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: r9etb
" According to my wife, some women apparently really are indifferent to sex. She's puzzled by them. "

You Sir are a bless bless man.

Tell your wife, that either they are radical liberal feminist who hate men, or from another planet, or both.
85 posted on 09/08/2009 12:31:19 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: ransomnote
Your post was quite poignant.

Could it be that the advent of contraception, coupled with the leftist/feminist movement touting mythical 'liberation for women' to be adulterous if they want to be, as if 'free sex' was ever realy going to be free of emotional weights and measures ... could it be that the essence of what makes women so interesting has been 'uglied', cheapened?

Has the greater availability of objects for sexual play erased from young men's psyche the dream of the goddess they first encountered in Mother, so they cannot grow into adulthood transforming that dream into the reality of their own parenting practices?

Has this cheapening of sex made it impossible for many men to grow up and have a normal heterosexual life with a good woman?

86 posted on 09/08/2009 12:32:09 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Virile, ok, and I was joking.


87 posted on 09/08/2009 12:32:16 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Freedom's Precious Metals: Gold, Silver and Lead))
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To: Dianna

Speaking for myself, after 25 years of marriage we may not do it as often as in our 20’s, but still several times per week.


88 posted on 09/08/2009 12:32:50 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: MHGinTN

And here I was thinkng he’s a slacker.


89 posted on 09/08/2009 12:34:21 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: American Constitutionalist
Freeper men will know what I am talking about when they see a woman with that crazy look in their eyes and run far from those kinds of women.

The crazy ones can be fun for a while, but the craziness gets to be too much real fast.

90 posted on 09/08/2009 12:34:38 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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To: irishjuggler
most women do not find most men sexually attractive at all

This is good.

Because I'm not.

91 posted on 09/08/2009 12:35:36 PM PDT by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: ArrogantBustard

You know the protester wants her. LOL. Repression. Ah. So sad. Girlfriend doesn’t know all the fun she is missing. Or does she and she is just angry and jealous? All the above most likely.


92 posted on 09/08/2009 12:36:24 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: JoeProBono

So if we have sex because we enjoy our partner, we are not in the “norm”?


93 posted on 09/08/2009 12:37:58 PM PDT by Neets (Go Yankees!!!)
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To: Global2010

“when the woman says Thank You after a pleasurable encounter”

In my experience it was an unnecessary thing for the woman to say, and it made her appear somewhat starved for attention, like sex didn’t happen for her that often.

Thanking someone for a nice evening out, for flowers or a gift, that’s normal and expected. But for sex....?


94 posted on 09/08/2009 12:39:29 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are lubricated in pig grease!")
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To: GOP Poet
That thought had not occurred to me, which is somewhat surprising: I usually have the foulest mind around.

I suspect that Mizzzzzzz Protester is doomed to disappointment. The nice young ladies most likely prefer the company of actual men to the likes of her.

95 posted on 09/08/2009 12:41:49 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: American Constitutionalist; r9etb
Not necessarily. A couple of years ago I glanced over an article about a number of couples not interested sex and therapists itching to change this.

Not all people like the same things. We have different tastes in food, in art, in clothes, in entertainment. Terrible if we all held the same ideas, lived in identical homes, reacted the same way to situations. Reminds me of utopian novels.

96 posted on 09/08/2009 12:42:46 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: Neoliberalnot

LOL, I think you meant virile.


97 posted on 09/08/2009 12:43:34 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: DaveTesla

Her sign is unintentionally very funny. The humor? It is wasted on her.


98 posted on 09/08/2009 12:44:07 PM PDT by listenhillary (We became community organizers and Obama and the Statists get p*ssed off at us?)
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To: American Constitutionalist
Tell your wife, that either they are radical liberal feminist who hate men, or from another planet, or both.

LOL!!! Actually, they're very nice, very respectable Earth ladies with very nice Earth-born husbands. No telling what's put them off sex.... Maybe it's just too messy.

99 posted on 09/08/2009 12:44:34 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Straight Vermonter

Hey to the Normal Vermonter; yes, I meant virile.


100 posted on 09/08/2009 12:44:37 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot ((Freedom's Precious Metals: Gold, Silver and Lead))
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