Bored? Lonely? Cold? Just plain feeling sorry for yourself (or someone else)? No, these aren’t the questions from an antidepressant ad—these are among the 237 scientifically found reasons why we have sex. Although, come to think of it, if you’re feeling depressed, you might want to try a little sex. It does a body (and mind and soul) some good.
Psychologists from the University of Texas at Austin feel like they’ve achieved a huge coup in the study of sex. Despite what the Catholic Church says, people don’t have sex solely for procreation. Darwin wasn’t all on it either—we have sex for more than the betterment of ourselves and our line. Sometimes, the survey found, we have sex to hurt ourselves.
As if you didn’t know that already. Summarized in The New York Times last week, the survey is the most comprehensive sex study to-date, but it’s still lacking. After all, the researchers only found 237 reasons. I’m sure we can each tack on a handful more.
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A study about sex? Gee. I’m all into improving my sexual relationship, but sometimes, studies remove the fun from the experience itself. I read in this ebook that sex was something to enrich a relationship with, and I think that’s true. If the reason isn’t to build up your intimacy with your partner, then that kinda nulls sex as an intimate act, and brings it to the basest level of why animals have sex.
Comment by Jerome — September 14, 2007 @ 5:17 am