It’s common for men to say to their significant others, “You don’t want to know what’s going on in my mind!” Basically, because there are no real consequences, men love to reinforce their sexual liberation and perversions. But a study of over 350 college-age students revealed that men weren’t as consumed with sexual thoughts as many people or they would want others to often think.
According to the report, which will appear in the January issue of the Journal of Sex Research, men actually think about food and sleep as much as they think about sex. As a group, the men also thought about food almost 18 times per day and sleep almost 11 times per day, with sex settling in there minds around 18 times per day. This debunks the research that suggested men think about sex every seven seconds, which WAS NOT HEALTHY!
The newly branded adult participants carried a golf tally counter to track their thoughts about either eating, sleep or sex every day for a week. Each student was assigned to just one type of thought to record. Before receiving the tally counter, they had completed a number of questionnaires and were asked to estimate how often they had daily thoughts about eating, sleeping and sex.
The most revealing part of the study, by far, is the tally for women. Young women in the study reported a median of nearly 10 thoughts about sex per day. Women’s median number of thoughts about eating and sleep, at nearly 15 times and about 8 1/2 times, respectively.
Since it is a not fact that women hit their peak sometime around the early thirties, the fact that these young women think about sex over 10 times a day might suggest that these numbers possibly stay stable over their lifetime.
Moreover, women’s sexual thoughts were socially influenced. Women who felt it was necessary to maintain a certain outward socially acceptable perception actually placed checks on their sexual thought processes. Crazy, right? Or is it?
“People who always give socially desirable responses to questions are perhaps holding back and trying to manage the impression they make on others,” said Terri Fisher, professor of psychology at Ohio State University’s Mansfield campus and lead author of the study.
“In this case, we’re seeing that women who are more concerned with the impression they’re making tend to report fewer sexual thoughts, and that’s because thinking about sexuality is not consistent with typical expectations for women.”
Sound Off!
Men are you happy to have your caveman status debunked?
Women, do you check your own sexuality and sexual thoughts? Is this healthy?
First of all, men drive this patriarchal society, so let’s not pretend that we are so startled when the researchers claim that women censure themselves, sexually. It’s completely absurd to be that naive.
Either way, I know that it took me a while to get over the chastity dogma from my parents, pastor, and media. I really believed at one point that my gender (and our feminine qualities, including my reproductive parts) brought down civilization. LOL! But I guess what I’m saying is that it takes self esteem and love to conquer one’s fear of flesh, or fleshly things, and to understand that we are made in perfection, regardless of whatever some man says.
I hope the young girls growing up today will shake off the shackles of patriarchy and dominator culture (word to bell hooks) and find comfort in their sexuality.
As a man I think about sex quite often but in the sceme of things I really don’t. I think about sex a lot while watching television which also stimulates my thoughts and cravings for food but not sleep.
Boys lie about everything, so why would I believe that they would tell the truth about this. The story says that they took part in a questionnaire before they received their golf tally. And we are talking about youngsters who are just coming into the adult where there lying skills need to be on point if they want to make it. More than likely these boys are still terrible liars, saying stuff like “I wasn’t in her dorm; I was in the library” Puleez!
On average, I think about sex a lot, like once every other hour, and often times I think about it a few times per hour.