237 reasons to have sex!


It's a common bedroom story: He wants it but she doesn't. Or, she is ready, but he's got that proverbial headache. Yes there are reasons galore to stay away from sex. But now a study shows that there are also hundreds of reasons to have it. Read on to find out yourself…

'Not tonight, I got a headache' - thus goes the first of the many excuses that one presents to stay away from sex. Well, there maybe hundred others in the long list of reasons. But what do you know, the list of reasons that one CAN use in favour of wanting sex is not in any way shorter. Yes, believe it or not, there are actually 237 reasons to have sex!

And we are not making an assumption. These are facts, found by medical researchers in the US. After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found that young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivations. It's more about lust in the body than a love connection in the heart.

College-aged men and women agree on their top reasons for having sex - they were attracted to the person, they wanted to experience physical pleasure and "it feels good," according to a peer-reviewed study in the August edition of Archives of Sexual Behavior. Twenty of the top 25 reasons given for having sex were the same for men and women.

Expressing love and showing affection were in the top 10 for both men and women, but they did take a back seat to the clear No. 1: "I was attracted to the person."

Researchers at the University of Texas spent five years and their own money to study the overlooked why behind sex while others were spending their time on the how.

"It's refuted a lot of gender stereotypes ... that men only want sex for the physical pleasure and women want love," said University of Texas clinical psychology professor Cindy Meston, the study's co-author. "That's not what I came up with in my findings."

Forget thinking that men are from Mars and women from Venus, "the more we look, the more we find similarity," said Dr. Irwin ****stein, director of sexual medicine at Alvarado Hospital in San Diego. ****stein, who wasn't part of Meston's study, said the Texas research made a lot of sense and adds to growing evidence that the vaunted differences in the genders may only be among people with sexual problems.

Meston and colleague David Buss first questioned 444 men and women - ranging in age from 17 to 52 - to come up with a list of 237 distinct reasons people have sex. They ranged from "It's fun" which men ranked fourth and women ranked eighth to "I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease" which ranked on the bottom by women.

Once they came up with that long list, Meston and Buss asked 1,549 college students taking psychology classes to rank the reasons on a one-to-five scale on how they applied to their experiences.

"None of the gender differences are all that great," Meston said. "Men were more likely to be opportunistic towards having sex, so if sex were there and available they would jump on it, somewhat more so than women. Women were more likely to have sex because they felt they needed to please their partner."

But this is among college students, when Meston conceded "hormones run rampant." She predicted huge differences when older groups of people are studied.

Since her study came out, people are coming up with new reasons to have sex.

At this rate, one would not be surprised to see the list getting longer!


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For Sexual Performance
In the final stage of orgasm, even the scent of some aphrodisiacs may be enough to add to sexual arousal and improve performance.

"Depending on where you are in your relationship you may want to use different food odors and tastes, since 90% of taste is smell, to get the different responses you're looking for," says Alan R. Hirsch, MD, neurological director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago.

In a study that looked at what scents stimulated sexual arousal, Hirsch found every food aroma they tested triggered a sexual response in men, and some foods had more dramatic effects than others.

"For example, cheese pizza increased penile blood flow by 5%, buttered popcorn by 9%, and lavender and pumpkin pie by 40%," Hirsch tells WebMD. "So you may want to start with something like cheese pizza to begin with."

In comparison, floral perfume only prompted a 3% increase in blood flow to the penis among men. Among women, the smell of men's cologne actually lowered blood flow to the vagina.

The study also found that the scent of lavender and pumpkin pie was a powerful sexual stimulant for women, but the combination of licorice-flavored candy and cucumber was the most potent sexual scent in increasing blood flow to the vaginal area.

However, the study found that unlike with men, some food smells actually inhibited sexual desire in women, such as cherries and the odor of barbeque or roasting meat.

Source: SantaBanta.com

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