Bangalore,December 01 :CONTRARY to popular notion, men don’t think of sex all the time.
They do think of sex more often than women do, but there are other stimuli that engage a man’s brain. Besides sex, they think of eating and sleeping, a new study published in the Journal of Sex Research states.
The study discredits the notion that men think about sex every seven seconds, which would amount to more than 8,000 thoughts about sex in 16 waking hours.
On an average, the number of sexrelated thoughts among college students, who were surveyed, stood at almost 19 times per day, while young women reported to have nearly 10 thoughts about sex per day, says the study done by Terri Fisher, a professor of psychology at Ohio State University.
Of 163 female and 120 male college students studied, male participants recorded between one and 388 daily thoughts about sex, compared to the range of female thoughts about sex of between one and 140 times per day.
“ For women, that’s a broader range than many people would have expected. And there were no women who reported zero thoughts per day.
So women are also thinking about sexuality,” Fisher said.
The participants were between the ages of 18 and 25 who were enrolled in a psychology research participation programme. Of them, 59 were randomly assigned to track thoughts about food, 61 about sleep and 163 about sex.
Some Indians seem to agree with the findings. “ Most certainly men talk of sex more than women. But, at times, sex becomes secondary compared to the biological needs like sleeping, eating,” Jose Martin, 41, a Bangalorean, said.
As a group, men who participated in the study also thought about food almost 18 times per day and sleep almost 11 times per day, compared to women’s median number of thoughts about eating and sleep, at nearly 15 times and about 8.5 times respectively.