Why people have sex.

A survey conducted by the University of Texas found 237 reasons. According to this article in the NYT, “They even found a few people who claimed to have been motivated by the desire to have a child.”

The number one reason was “I was attracted to the person.”  On the other hand, defensive sex is also popular:

[B]oth sexes seem to practice a strategy that he calls mate-guarding, as illustrated in one of the reasons given by survey respondents: “I was afraid my partner would have an affair if I didn’t.”  That fear seems especially reasonable after you finish reading Dr. Buss’s paper and realize just how many reasons there are for infidelity.

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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