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Monday, January 5, 2009

Hard News / He said/She said Why do we have sex?

Posted By on Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:45 AM

I was surfing the Internet this weekend and came across an old study that identifies 237 reasons why people have sex.

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."

What was the most interesting and possibly most disturbing part of all of this are the bottom 10 reasons why men and women have sex with each other.

BOTTOM 10 REASONS TO HAVE SEX FOR MEN

1. The person offered to give me drugs for doing it.

2. I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease.

3. I wanted to punish myself.

4. I wanted to break up my relationship.

5. I wanted to get a job.

6. It was an initiation rite

7. Someone offered me money

8. I was afraid to say "no" due to possibility of physical harm

9. To make money

10. To feel closer to God

BOTTOM 10 REASONS TO HAVE SEX FOR WOMEN

1. I wanted to give someone else a sexually transmitted disease.

2. Someone offered me money to do it.

3. I wanted to get a raise.

4. It was an initiation rite to a club or organization.

5. I wanted to get a job.

6. To get a promotion

7. The person offered me drugs for it

8. To punish myself

9. To hurt/humiliate the person

10. To feel closer to God

There are some sick people out there, so it is important to make sure the person you're having sex with isn't a total nut job. Who wants to spread an STD? Not only is it morally wrong, in some cases it's illegal.

After reading this report, I remembered the case of the "Trashman." Last year he punked the world by going on YouTube and claiming to have infected 1,500 women with HIV.

His videos have been removed, but even though his videos were a hoax, there are people out there who would spread STDs as if they were planting seeds.

So, why do we have sex? Just for the pleasure? To spread some pain? To show someone we care?

No matter why we have sex, we should seriously be concerned about who we're having sex with.

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