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Smarts sex12/28/2023 ![]() ![]() Sex addiction is not defined by the amount or type of sexual activity involved, but by the particular relationship the person has to compulsive sexual experiences.Īnyone who has ever experienced an orgasm knows the tremendous power of sex. The New York Center for Sex and Love Addiction Treatment How much sex is too much sex? 22 Coping Statements for Dealing With Anxiety.10 Confidence Building and Anxiety-Reducing Rational Beliefs.SMART Recovery Handbook, 3rd Edition Online Bookstore.Helpful Things to Say to Myself to Overcome Perfectionism.Rational Beliefs to Increase Frustration Tolerance.Ingredients of Happy and Healthy Living.Another paper suggests that a gene responsible for androgen sensitivity and higher sperm counts may also create a tradeoff for intelligence.Self-Management And Recovery Training is a global community of people & families working together to overcome the suffering caused by addiction and thrive. ![]() (the same two groups most likely to be virgins in adolescence). “One team found that salivary testosterone levels were lower for preadolescent boys with IQs above 130 and below 70.A more masculine physique correlates with (PDF) an increased number of sex partners.” Athletic activity gives men more masculine bodies, which are more attractive to women. Athletic men, with more willing sexual partners are also less likely to visit a prostitute. For instance HS found that smart men were less likely to be athletic, and this paper shows, unathletic men and women have fewer sex partners. Are smart men less attractive to women? Perhaps in some ways. (Hardly indicative of cautiousness) This may suggest intelligent men are less able to find willing sex partners. IQ >120) were also more likely to visit a prostitute. “ Half Sigma also showed that the smartest men in the GSS (approx.In fact the GSS also shows (PDF) that smarter people spend more time socializing with their friends, indicating their hours aren’t spent as uniquely isolated and narrowly channeled as the theory would require.” “Also the idea that more intelligent people are too busy for the opposite sex not just in 7th grade to college, but throughout adulthood and for their own spouse, seems unrealistic.In fact another revealing finding from the Counterpoint survey was that while 95% of US men and 70% of women masturbate, this number is only 68% of men and 20% of women at MIT!” (Editor’s Note: I know people from MIT, and I don’t believe this stat for a second.) While still consistent with pregnancy fears and competing interests, lower sex drive seems like a better fit. “Perhaps more revealing, HS, also showed that intelligence correlates with less sex within marriage for the same age range.(Leaving those who did think it was immoral to participate in the bulk of it!)” Religiousness correlates with lower IQ, and as HS shows in the same post, intelligent people were also more likely to say that premarital sex was not immoral. While this is consistent with the above theory that high IQ people are more religious and conservative, this is, of course, not true. “Not only do intelligent people have a delayed onset of sexual behavior, Half Sigma found that they also have a lower number of premarital sex partners throughout adulthood (18-39).The author even cites the famous Wellesley study, and notes, “ This paper provides me with GRE scores by academic discipline, and, in fact, the correlation between the percentage of virgins in each Wellesley major and the average ‘Analytical’ GRE score associated with the discipline is 0.60.”.Further, only 65% of MIT graduate students have had sex.” At Harvard 59% of the undergraduates are non-virgins, and at MIT, only a slight majority, 51%, have had intercourse. According to the article, only 56% of Princeton undergraduates have had intercourse. But this number appears to be much lower at elite (i.e. “By the age of 19, 80% of US males and 75% of women have lost their virginity, and 87% of college students have had sex.Each additional point of IQ increased the odds of virginity by 2.7% for males and 1.7% for females.” “Depending on the specific age and gender, an adolescent with an IQ of 100 was 1.5 to 5 times more likely to have had intercourse than a teen with a score of 120 or 130.Not that I’m going to try out that theory. Either that, or castration would make me much smarter. I guess my raw intelligence must be enough to overcome my overwhelming sex drive. The cause may be testosterone, which appears to suppress intelligence and increase sex drive. Bottom line: The very intelligent are more likely to be virgins, and to have less sex when they are married. Absolutely fascinating piece on sex and intelligence on Gene Expression.
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