Poll: Do men actually think about sex every other minute?

[WaderiAAA]

No, it is just a myth. I've heard "every 20 seconds" as the lowest, but truly it is just bull. The biggest study on the subject says that most guys think about sex "at least once a day". Personally I'd say maybe every two hours or so.

 

[Doclector]

Not all the time, but sometimes my male instincts flare up. It's actually really annoying. My primal mind dies not seem to get it.

*doing work*
primal mind: ME WANT SEX.
conscious mind: you know damn well that even if losing my virginity wasn't impossible, this would be a very inappropriate time, so fuck off back to your cave.
Primal mind: SEX SEX SEX
conscious mind: shut up!
Primal mind:...me still want sex...

I'm not some sex maniac, but really, any impulse that can't possibly be fulfilled is a useless distraction. Where is the gorram off button.

 

[Pain Is Inevitable]

No, it's a sexist myth.

 

[thylasos]

Speaking as a man, I think about sex... perhaps every few hours, really.

I tend not to talk about it either. Pretty much ever. It doesn't really come up in conversation, to be honest.

 

[moretwocents]

1: Hormonally, sex is a LOT more important to men than it is to women. The chemicals in our body simply do not allow for any other thought than just sex, really,ESPECIALLY in the teenage years of puberty.
2: I'm assuming that you heard or read about this in a sort of census or test that took an average of all the times guys think about sex and divided it by the amount of minutes in a year. Startlingly enough, in that respect, guys SHOULD on average think about sex at least once every other minute. However, its an average, and therefore, totally biased. Think about it; I read once somewhere that a baby is born in the world every minute. Highly believable,considering the population of people in the world, the population of women, the population of pregnant women, and all the babies born everyday, it seems plausible, no? Well, not entirely. You don't think that every now and then a baby ISN'T born every minute? Same thing in this case. Men don't think about sex frequently, but we don't think about sex infrequently, if you get me.
3: There's a big difference between thinking of sex and just thinking about... um... sex... (Hear me out, please.) If a guy ogles a women he passes in the street, he's not necessary thinking about having sex with her. He could be thinking about one specific part of her body (probably the part he's staring at) without thinking about sex as a whole.
Oh, god. In writing this, I realize how disgusting this all sounds. That's the male mind, for you. I apologize if I offended anyone. Just throwing out more two cents.

 

[supermariner]

We do think about sex a lot
well a lot of us do anyway, its not my place to speak for everyone
but every other minute is going too far
a bunch of times a day is a bit more accurate
and (for me anyway) it only tends to be when i'm not engaged in conversation and my mind wanders

 

[Deathlisk]

How about:
http://www.nooooooooooooooo.com/

 

[Liudeius]

It's not uncommon for me to think about sex, but normally only when something catalyzes it (considering what 90% of girls wear, I guess that's quite often).
It is however not important to me. It never influences my choices and I have zero desire to be in a (purely) sexual relationship.

But seriously, if guys walked around in g-strings, girls would act just as repulsively.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Statistically, we think about sex every 5 minutes or so. But statistics lie. I'd say that I think about sex every few hours. Some think about it every few minutes. That doesn't mean that every guy does it, but most do. Thinking about sex doesn't involve only thoughts about having sex, it involves every sexual thought no matter how minor it seems. For example a guy sees a girl and a quick thought runs through his mind "would I hit that" or "small boobs" "nice ass" etc. In this regard, most guys do think about sex almost all the time. It's natural, and there's nothing you can do about it. All of these guys who voted no are probably liars, or impotent. Of course it also depends on age, hormone level etc. 13 year old boys for example, think about sex ALL THE TIME. It's all they can think of. If you know any 13 year old boys, and you're hot, you can be damn sure they're stroking their banana thinking about you at least twice a day.
As for do we talk about it. That's got nothing to do with being a man or a woman. That's a personality trait. I don't talk about anything personal except on the internet where I'm anonymous and I don't give a shit.

 

[Gralian]

"Thinking about sex" is a very broad term. The problem people have with this statement is that they often fixate on a very particular aspect. For example, to some people it means men think about having sex. To others it means men think of everyday object as sexual things. The truth is that statement encompases both and more. The idea is that, for example, a man will look at a banana and see it as phallic or see a melon and instantly think of breasts, or that if a man looks at a woman he's considering her sexual attractiveness even if he's not planning on talking to her or even if she's just on the TV or in the paper. You know how they say you generally judge a person within 30 seconds of seeing them? It's the same for men, only they're judging the sexual attractiveness of a woman (or man if they're gay - i'm not sure how homosexuality factors into this argument) within those same 30 seconds of seeing her regardless of whether or not they are consciously doing it.

 

[bobfish92]

Do women think about shoes every other minute? No.

 

[Shydrow]

I don't think it was every minute last time i checked it was men think about sex a lot within an hour even if they don't realize it.

 

[Mordwyl]

We have to eat sometime.

 

[ChaoticKraus]

Personally, no. 5-6 times a day sounds more reasonable.

But then again i'm not of the horny kind. I would guess that some people think about it far more than me.

 

[Littaly]

I've heard once every seven seconds, which regardless of which way you slice it is bullsh*t.

Every other minute seems a little more plausible though. If you think about sex for a concentrated amount of time (you might be having a conversation about it, or posting on the escapist about it or... other stuff) and then spread it out across your entire day, it is fully possible that it could add up to once every 2 minutes.

But if it's intended as "every other minute of our lives is dedicated to thinking about sex", then no, not even for the most pubertal of teenagers.

 

[Outright Villainy]

snip

He edited it immediately, since by the time you quoted him first it had already changed, so it was clearly a typo anyway. I quoted you because, whilst his post wasn't really that great, yours took it to much greater level of asshole.

And wow, sending me a pm demanding an apology. Get over yourself dude.

 

[FamoFunk]

I wouldn't say every other minuite. But often through out the day, same with Women, as a Female I thinking about sex... a lot.

 

[Sovvolf]

As a girl I originally just rolled my eyes when I heard this, but then i recalled back when I still rode the schoolbus and it really did seem that every conversation always looped back to sex or rape. The way I think of it, a person would have to be concentrating really hard on sex to actually think of it that often in a day but then again, I'm not a guy. What do you think about this?

Not really. I think if we averaged it out we think about sex about as often as women do. However as for me personally. Not really, I do every now and again but not even close to once every couple of minutes. Though that being said, in my teen years, specially at school with the hormones running and a girl around just about every corner I did think about it frequently.

However I think adulthood and loss of virginity might have calmed that down quite a lot. I do often think about it when it comes to telling very crass and amazingly immature jokes but the act it self? not really.

The frequency of which I think about sex varies depending on the situation, mood, day or what I'm doing at the time all factor into it. Though given that I've read just about every post in this thread (meaning I've been reading it for a while) I guess I've been thinking about sex for at least an half hour straight.

It's natural, and there's nothing you can do about it. All of these guys who voted no are probably liars, or impotent.

or... you know... telling the truth and don't think about sex every other minute?