“The only thing men want is sex.” “All women think about is sex.”
Everyone seems to have an opinion these days. Opinions to the side for a second, is there any actual factual evidence to back this up?
Go ahead, hit up the quick Google search and what do you stumble upon? Most likely an unofficial survey or some personal testimony stories. Stories contradicting each other, going back and forth. It’s men. It’s women. The type of articles that draw conclusions from a certain sample size of people.
In today’s popular culture, people are becoming more open and sharing of their sexuality. From friends with benefits to random hookups, pre-marital sex is becoming more of a social norm. A lot of people are consenting to wanting nothing more than just sex.
There are people that enjoy the feeling of having sex with no strings attached. There are people who stick by their personal and religious beliefs and choose not to act on their sexual feelings.
There are also clinical reasons why people can have an increased sex drive. These people are both men and women. If there is one thing we can take from human history, it is that we enjoy having sex.
As long as human beings continue to have sexual feelings towards each other, people are going to continue to have sex whether they are husband and wife or on an anonymous basis.
People seek others for sex whether it’s for a lifelong commitment or just a few hours. There are women who find themselves in these sex-only relationships and start developing deeper feelings for their partner just as there are men that do the same.
It is normal for people to have sex without discussing what type of relationship it is, which can end up with people hurt. Some people get caught up and sprung after what their partner thought to be a one night stand.
Maybe the feeling of having a deeper relationship is mutual between two sexually explicit partners. The key to any type of these relationships working out smoothly is communication. If each partner lets the other know what they want from the get-go, it prevents confusion. Both parties know what the others want and the decision to whether or not having sex becomes an easy one. Trying to figure out which one is more likely to be down with a sex-only relationship is a realm that has too many variables to it.
Maybe one day the myth will be answered. If there is one thing people love almost as much as sex it is definitely an argument over opinions.
