Added: Jua Bakken - Date: 11.08.2021 23:06 - Views: 43909 - Clicks: 1170
Access thebmj. Everybody knows that men think about sex every seven seconds. The selfish gene may demand that we reproduce, but thoughts a day on sex is surely excessive.
But then again the average ejaculate contains around million sperm, which seems even more excessive. So can it be true that men think about sex times a day?
One of the best shows on radio, More or Less, considered the question last week, and I heard most of the broadcast and found a newspaper report of the study the programme featured. Her first unsurprising point was that she could find no research that backed up the claim that men thought about sex every seven seconds. It is, she suggested, an urban myth, a popular one.
She conducted a study with her students— women and men aged 18 to They were randomly divided into three groups, given a golf tally counter, and asked to record how often they thought about sex, food, or sleep over a week. Professor Fisher accepted that this is an imperfect method but better, she argued, than asking somebody how often they had thought about sex in the past hour, day, or week.
The men thought about sex between one and times a day with a median of 18, well short of I perhaps give myself away when I marvel at the young man who had only one sexual thought in a day: did he not look around?
But times, roughly once every two minutes, is good going. Perhaps he was on his way to somewhere interesting, or perhaps he spent most of the day having sex, not unknown among students: in which case times might be considered inattentive. The women did, as society expects, think about sex less with a range of one to times and a median of The men also thought more than the women about food 18 to 15 and sleep 11 to 8. So men think about food as much as sex, something my wife found unsurprising. I was equally unsurprised that women think more about food than sex.
As most of us eat three meals a day seven days a week it would be very hard to avoid thinking about food unless you could prepare and eat it without thinking about it. In contrast, very few of us have sex three times a day seven days a week. Then the thought of food is not as satisfying as the actuality, whereas it may be the other way round for sex.
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