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Why Women Have Sex, Part 1
“It’s complicated.”
No, that’s not how Cindy Meston lists her relationship status on her Facebook page.
“We both knew it was a question that had not been asked in the research literature,” Meston said. “People wondered, ‘What do you mean? Of course, it’s because we want to feel good.’ But we found it’s much more complicated than that.”
In fact, in two related surveys, women reported a full range of human responses, citing spirituality, conquest, sympathy, revenge, boredom, loneliness, curiosity, practice, attraction, esteem, reproduction, variety, evaluation, friendship, attention, submission, power, romance, pleasure, punishment, stress, adventure, barter, commitment, duty, infatuation, competition, guilt, coercion, jealousy and stimulation, among other motivations.
“We categorized them into 237 reasons,” said Meston, co-author with Buss of the book “Why Women Have Sex,” which has landed the psychology professors on “Dr. Phil” and “The Rachael Ray Show.”
“Most of what was known before was how to turn on a woman — physical cues, emotional cues, romantic cues, holding hands and so forth. Also the confidence and status of the man. This study told us so much more,” she says.
More to come …
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By Lucas
November 3, 2009 2:54 PM | Link to this
I'm willing to be part of any field studies you wish to perform.