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SEX question

  • 19-09-2011 1:19am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭whiteboy


    Are men and women equal when it comes to their preoccupation with sex?

    It's always been understood that men think about sex more than women but is that really true!?
    Maybe it varies from person to person.


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Comments

  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    in before some other prick!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    in before some other prick!

    Denied!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    I don't think about it I just do it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89 ✭✭Randomer.


    Think in varies but on average women, at least from what I have seen are not as preoccupied with sex as men. The gap may be a lot smaller than one would think though, still the world is saturated with imagery and art of the sexulized feminine body.


  • Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    There are studies out there and most agree that men think about sex roughly twice as often as women, or slightly more so.

    The science seemed solid to me.

    DeV.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Id say its the same tbh, men are just more honest about it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Captain_Generic


    ........sorry did you say something?


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Women think about shoes, they just love looking at them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Women think about shoes, they just love looking at them.

    whats the equivilant of shoes for us lads :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Saila wrote: »
    whats the equivilant of shoes for us lads :confused:
    Cars.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    Cars.

    nah most who have a car have one, how many women can say that ab out the amount of pairs they have... no something else..but what?

    edit - oh I know, porn!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,509 ✭✭✭✭randylonghorn


    Saila wrote: »
    nah most who have a car have one
    ... yet are always eyeing up the newer, shinier model, when they see it in the showrooms or with someone else.
    Saila wrote: »
    edit - oh I know, porn!
    I don't know, I think pr0n is nearer the equivalent of soaps or x-factor or that kind of thing ... mindless drivel which we watch for stress relief / to relax. We know it's not real, sometimes if the show is good we wish for a minute or two that it were, but then we turn it off and get on with the clean-up and the rest of our lives.


    More seriously, while the contention that men think about sex twice as much as men seems believable, historically the woman's sex drive has been greatly under-estimated, even socially denied and suppressed, and there are still hang-ups from that era around (the classic one, the man who sows his wild oats is generally applauded by his peers; the woman who harvests for more than one farmer is still designated a slut).

    Plus the level of sex-drive varies from man to man, and from woman to woman.

    I've encountered women with sex drives far higher than mine, and I've always been a horny baxtard!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Saila wrote: »
    Id say its the same tbh, men are just more honest about it

    I don't think its about honesty. Women are just more discreet about it.

    I'd reckon that women think about sex just as much as we do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭astonaidan


    Surely the lads equvilent of shoes would be the likes of Ps3, 360 games stuff like that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    Women think about shoes, they just love looking at them.

    I think you meant penises there when you said "shoes". Easy mistake to make.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    astonaidan wrote: »
    Surely the lads equvilent of shoes would be the likes of Ps3, 360 games stuff like that

    Show me a pair of shoes with the depth and longevity of Fallout 3 and I'll accept that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    super-rush wrote: »
    I'd reckon that women think about sex just as much as we do.

    This thread needs a pole poll!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Hot Lips wrote: »
    This thread needs a pole poll!

    Case rested.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    whiteboy wrote: »
    Maybe it varies from person to person.

    as with everything else, that's a given


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭@rti-shm@rti


    Millicent wrote: »
    I think you meant penises there when you said "shoes". Easy mistake to make.

    You have seen one?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 saverboy


    i dont know why this thread exists?
    you want to know what?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    saverboy wrote: »
    i dont know why this thread exists?
    you want to know what?

    the pixies chizzled it out of rock


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭gargleblaster


    More seriously, while the contention that men think about sex twice as much as men seems believable, historically the woman's sex drive has been greatly under-estimated, even socially denied and suppressed, and there are still hang-ups from that era around (the classic one, the man who sows his wild oats is generally applauded by his peers; the woman who harvests for more than one farmer is still designated a slut).

    Plus the level of sex-drive varies from man to man, and from woman to woman.

    I've encountered women with sex drives far higher than mine, and I've always been a horny baxtard!

    This! ^

    Also as you said, it varies from person to person, and changes over time depending on circumstances.

    I can only speak for myself but as for me personally, I've never identified with the descriptions most use for women's sex drives (e.g. that it needs some kind of story or context to be sparked, that it's not on our minds every couple of hours, etc.)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,859 ✭✭✭✭Sharpshooter


    super-rush wrote: »
    Case rested.

    Flirty bullshit aside, are you putting it up?

    Just asking..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,751 ✭✭✭Saila


    This! ^

    Also as you said, it varies from person to person, and changes over time depending on circumstances.

    I can only speak for myself but as for me personally, I've never identified with the descriptions most use for women's sex drives (e.g. that it needs some kind of story or context to be sparked, that it's not on our minds every couple of hours, etc.)

    if you hear/see a guy you instantly think "would I?" with men its more "I would. would you?"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,456 ✭✭✭astonaidan


    Show me a pair of shoes with the depth and longevity of Fallout 3 and I'll accept that.
    Granted we get more use at ours, But I was taking a shot in the dark, Girls scare me:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Saila wrote: »
    nah most who have a car have one, how many women can say that ab out the amount of pairs they have... no something else..but what?

    edit - oh I know, porn!

    If i could afford to own 50 cars, i would.
    Like look at Jay Leno's garage. He's got atleast 100 cars in there...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Show me a pair of shoes with the depth and longevity of Fallout 3 and I'll accept that.

    Some games you only really play once though. Like portal was only about 6hours long and i dont see myself playing through it again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭Pdfile


    in before some other prick!


    i always thought the more pricks the merrier...


    Ahh ****e.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    I get the impression you're in long before all the other pricks?


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    LH Pathe wrote: »
    I get the impression you're in long before all the other pricks?

    It's good to get into a virgin (thread) ;)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    @pdfile, you numpty. yours was witty. washin me hands of this..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,115 ✭✭✭Pdfile


    LH Pathe wrote: »
    @pdfile, you numpty. yours was witty. washin me hands of this..

    i tell one good joke in over 1k posts and dont even get a thumbs up...

    you shower of w*nkers lol j/k dont ban me please I have children!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,762 ✭✭✭✭stupidusername


    I'm curious to read these studies DeV,can't imagine how we've managed to tap into what people are thinking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭leggo


    Yeah, I reckon it's a lot closer than a lot of people think but women are more shrewd about it for fear they'll be seen as a slut. When you get to know them well enough, I know some absolutely FILTHY minded women who basically turn just about anything you say into an in-your-endo.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭joey mich


    I think women think about sex more than men.Why?because it is a woman who eat the apple of temptation first ..not a man :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Men have to release their... eh, "sex drive" once every few days whereas women have an automated system that does it once a month.

    Guys think about sex more because we have to. We don't have a limited amount of seed that disposes of itself on a monthly basis, it's more-or-less constantly in production meaning we must get rid of it "manually" causing a larger sex drive.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Seachmall wrote: »
    We don't have a limited amount of seed that disposes of itself on a monthly basis, it's more-or-less constantly in production meaning we must get rid of it "manually" causing a larger sex drive.

    Go back to biology class, your body does dispose of it.

    And there's no such thing as an "automated system" to dispose a sex drive. In fact, women are actually quite horny during their period.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Pataman


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Men have to release their... eh, "sex drive" once every few days whereas women have an automated system that does it once a month.

    Guys think about sex more because we have to. We don't have a limited amount of seed that disposes of itself on a monthly basis, it's more-or-less constantly in production meaning we must get rid of it "manually" causing a larger sex drive.

    Complete rubbish, however it sounds excellent


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,645 ✭✭✭k.p.h


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Men have to release their... eh, "sex drive" once every few days once every 6hrs whereas women have an automated system that does it once a month.

    Guys think about sex more because we have to. We don't have a limited amount of seed that disposes of itself on a monthly basis, it's more-or-less constantly in production meaning we must get rid of it "manually" causing a larger sex drive.
    ;)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,570 ✭✭✭Elmidena


    I think hormones and lifestyles come into it quite a bit. My sex drive is through the roof and I get very frustrated very easily (most of the time) and I find I have a mind geared towards sex/nudity/activity etc more than most. I'm female but not "average" as in I see myself as one of the lads mostly. Having said that, I've looked very brazen with some men who were quite shy and unfamiliar with anything sexual, and it also has to deal with the levels of exposure they've had to stuff like that growing up, if it's been seen as ok or seedy or whatever. I think the myth that women don't think about sex too often was busted a long time ago anyway.

    But am quite happy being an almost constantly horny b!tch :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    smash wrote: »
    Go back to biology class, your body does dispose of it.
    Through wetdreams and masturbation? You didn't evolve to dump your seed on bed sheets.
    And there's no such thing as an "automated system" to dispose a sex drive. In fact, women are actually quite horny during their period.
    As they would be, all that ovulation and what not.

    Guys evolved to ride everything left, right and center.
    Women didn't.

    Men's "obsession" with sex isn't a social factor, it's an evolutionary one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,559 ✭✭✭Millicent


    You have seen one?

    Yes, but only from a distance. Mother, the society ladies and I observed it from a respectable distance, but none of us touched it as we were simply undone by the sight of it. People said it was the worst swingers' party they'd ever been to.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    Seachmall wrote: »
    Through wetdreams and masturbation? You didn't evolve to dump your seed on bed sheets.

    Well there's also the fact that your body will break it down and reabsorb it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    smash wrote: »
    Well there's also the fact that your body will break it down and reabsorb it!

    Fair enough, but your body doesn't produce large amounts of sperm just to reabsorb it. It's looking to use that sperm.

    The idea that the rate of seed production and libido are related is hardly new, and the thinking that men's "promiscuity" is predominantly a result of society is ridiculous.

    You can't blame men for being men.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    Seachmall wrote: »
    The idea that the rate of seed production and libido are related is hardly new, and the thinking that men's "promiscuity" is predominantly a result of society is ridiculous.

    You believe men are more promiscuous than women? I'd disagree.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭4leto


    I wouldn't say the sex drive in women is underestimated just not fully understood.

    "Women need a reason to have sex men a place"; Billy Crystal, which probably holds true.

    Biologically and evolutionary it really is all about babies. Us men can fkuc and go away while a woman maybe left with a 9 month package, then she will risk her life by giving birth, then she is landed with a needy child.

    So a woman has to be more selective in her choosing. Although times have moved on and with modern medicine, women biologically are largely in control of their birthing process, also a child born out of a pair bond may no longer mean poverty for the woman and that child.

    But the sex part of her brain still is the same as it was in ancient times. And so is ours.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,899 ✭✭✭✭BBDBB


    men like sex - no surprises there

    women like sex too - as a younger man I was surprised and then delighted by this "discovery"

    women like good sex even better btw

    follow that logic and you soon work out what you need to do guys;):D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,041 ✭✭✭Seachmall


    Eve_Dublin wrote: »
    You believe men are more promiscuous than women? I'd disagree.

    And you'd be right. The quotes signified a euphemism because I couldn't think of a better word.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    BBDBB wrote: »
    women like good sex even better btw

    follow that logic and you soon work out what you need to do guys;):D

    Check out dr. love over here... Always funny when people talk like this as if they're a sex god. :D:D


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