237 Reasons to "Do It"

The New York Times is just full of S-E-X these days. 

John Tierney reports on the new study from The Archives of Sexual Behavior "The Whys of Mating: 237 Reasons and Counting":

Scholars in antiquity began counting the ways that humans have sex, but they weren’t so diligent in cataloging the reasons humans wanted to get into all those positions. Darwin and his successors offered a few explanations of mating strategies — to find better genes, to gain status and resources — but they neglected to produce a Kama Sutra of sexual motivations.

Perhaps you didn’t lament this omission. Perhaps you thought that the motivations for sex were pretty obvious. Or maybe you never really wanted to know what was going on inside other people’s minds, in which case you should stop reading immediately.

For now, thanks to psychologists at the University of Texas at Austin, we can at last count the whys. After asking nearly 2,000 people why they’d had sex, the researchers have assembled and categorized a total of 237 reasons — everything from “I wanted to feel closer to God” to “I was drunk.” They even found a few people who claimed to have been motivated by the desire to have a child.


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What was that blinding flash?

From the University's press release: Researcher David Buss said: "Surprisingly, many scientists assume the answer is obvious, but people have different reasons for having sex, some of which are rather complex."
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RC McCloud also writes at The Safe Word

Now if only we knew about "people"...

I've read the NYT piece and downloaded the study and I have to say that I think claiming you've outlined the reasons "Why humans have sex" (the title of the article) by studying a group of people that is overwhelmingly between 18-22, and enrolled in college, is a bit of a stretch. I've got more to say about this, but probably tomorrow.
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Elizabeth

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