Psychology researchers at the University of Texas say they found four major factors for why their subjects had sex: ¢ Physical: ‘It seemed like good exercise’ ‘I was curious about sex’ ‘The person was a good dancer’ ¢ Goal-based: ‘I wanted to have a baby’ ‘I wanted to be popular’ ‘I wanted to give someone a sexually transmitted disease’ ¢ Emotional: ‘I wanted to feel connected’ ‘I wanted to say ‘thank you.” ¢ Insecurity-based: ‘I wanted the attention’ ‘My partner kept insisting’ ‘I wanted to keep my partner from straying’ Some said they thought it would be good exercise. Others cited the relief they thought it would provide from boredom. A few admitted they wanted to be more popular, get a promotion or impress friends. And some confessed they did it for revenge. Six decades after Alfred Kinsey’s findings on sexuality shocked America, two University of Texas at Austin psychologists have found some surprising answers to a question most people don’t bother to ask: why people have sex. ‘I was driven to do this study because of all the different reasons I hear women give for having sex, but I never expected […]