There Is No One Reason For Having Sex. There are 237.

Reading the article, it is amazing that having kids is not even one of the top reasons for having sex. The study was done in the U of Texas on a ‘fairly homogenous sample’. 400 students gave reasons and another 1500 rated their importance. Researchers divided the responses into 4 categories: Physical, Goal Attainment, Emotional, Insecurity. The top 10 reasons were the same for both genders, ranging from, ‘I was attracted to them’ and ‘I was sexually aroused and I needed the release’. Lame ones include ‘I needed the exercise’ and ‘I was on a dare’. Heh.

Here is the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/science/31tier.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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I was just thinking  that if there wasn’t the consequence of getting pregnant, the taboo of abortion and the cost of bringing up a child single-handedly, more women would be promiscuous. If women didn’t have the ‘burdened end’ of the casual sexual relationship…