Poll: Is sex an important component of your life?

[Grampy_bone]

Sex is like air: it only matters if you're not getting any.

When women say they are sex addicts they are really hormone addicts. Touching another human being releases feel-good chemicals in their brain (which are good for headaches) and another hormone under their skin (which is why it feels different when another person touches you from when you touch yourself... heh). Sex dumps bonding hormones into a woman's mind that makes them feel loved.

For men, sex, and having a girlfriend/wife in general, is an important source of self-esteem and confidence. It may sound strange, but the psychological benefits to being in a relationship can be enormous. There's nothing that affects a man's earning potential more than a woman. I have known plenty of guys who were real losers, living with their parents, working shit jobs going nowhere. Then they meet a nice girl, start getting laid, and their whole life turns around. Seriously.

 

[Flour]

Considering my complete lack of any sexual desire, I would say no.(If anyone cares, I'm 20)

 

[Faster76]

Its relieves stress and makes any guy on top of the world,makes you feel nothing can stop you,It is Like a Natural High For Me

 

[KungFuMaster]

Are straight men not allowed to be emotional?

They take away your man card for that shit. Call me an asshole if you like, but unfortunately that's still the prevailing sentiment. I, however, am not afraid to have a good cry right in the middle of the bar, if the reason is good enough, ask my buddy Sue, he'll tell you (no, that's not a typo)

Anywho, on topic, I find I'm not as sexually charged as I used to be, say, even five years ago, but I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that I actually found (and married) a girl who could keep up with me and vice-versa. Don't misunderstand me though, we still "bake cookies" two or three times a week, I'm saying that we can also survive a three week dry spell, a-la the birth of our daughter, without feeling the "need", because we both know we're there for each other when the time is right again.

I guess the main bullet point of the thing is that at the wise old age of twenty-nine [/satire] I've found that my attitudes towards sex have changed quite a bit in the intervening years since I lost my virginity, but I still have a healthy sexual appetite.

 

[Aardvark]

Of course it is. If I had no sex, I'd be some kind of amoeba or other single celled organism that reproduces by dividing. Also, it's hard to be manly if you don't have genitals and you need a sex for them.

Oh, the act of reproduction? Of course it is! Nobody likes to say it, but that underlying desire to mate frequently with a wide variety of partners in order to disseminate your genes far and wide colours most of our interpersonal relationships with members of the opposite sex. Even the ugly ones.

Unless you're female. God knows how you lot put up with us seed bearers running around, looking for victims to dump it in.

 

[sirsolo]

Haha.. best question on the internet in a long time. Virgin here.. not that big of a part. (Thats not what I mean)

 

[EgoDeusEst]

Sex is a big part of my life. A big, empty, non-existent part. Pretty much just a void really.

 

[Yassen]

There's no denying that deep down most guys just want to fuck around with as many girls as possible but that's only when the hormones are pumping more frequently through your body than your own blood.

I'm no exception of course, but with a clear head and veins I'd say sex is an important part of a long term relationship but only when the couple have been together for a few months. The whole 3 dates thing seems too hasty for me.

So what I'm saying is I enjoy sex, but only with someone I've been with for a while.... but without a clear head my answer would be very different so I better quickly post this and vote so my answer won't change in a few hours.

 

[The Giggling Pin]

For men, sex, and having a girlfriend/wife in general, is an important source of self-esteem and confidence. It may sound strange, but the psychological benefits to being in a relationship can be enormous. There's nothing that affects a man's earning potential more than a woman. I have known plenty of guys who were real losers, living with their parents, working shit jobs going nowhere. Then they meet a nice girl, start getting laid, and their whole life turns around. Seriously.

You sir are truly a person of great wisdom. I am one of those "meet nice girl start doing well" type of people and it is for that reason that i consider sex to be one of the more important things in my life. Oh, and its good fun as well.

 

[megapenguinx]

I personally think sex is boring....

 

[arcainia]

Well being a virgin, I guess I wouldn't really know. I'm not gonna bother giving a reason as to why either. I doubt anyone cares.

But anyway, I guess it is a generally rather important part of life? (it creats them after all )

 

[cyber_andyy]

Being 15 and in upper school, im surrounded by boys and girls with RAGING hormones, and considering mine are raging as well sex is a important thing to people of my age.

I'm not a virgin but I haven't had intercourse too many times (not going to exact digits but lets say its less than my age) from what I found of it so far it isn't all that great, but the more you do it, the better it seems to get. I'm about to get into a new relationship and she is more experianced than me, but she says that she was exactly the same at first but then it got better.

Of course it doesn't help I have been really nervous most the time. So far my sexual partners I couldn't really be confortable with, and I think thats a big factor in sexual enjoyment. For instance the girl I'm new with now, we have been seriously close and really confortable discussing these things so I think it will be all good with her.

I personally think sex is boring....

I'm kinda in this opinion as well, although I have found that, since my first experiance and most recent, it has gotten better, it seems that you just need to get used to it.

I have a few really close female friends and they say the exact same thing.

 

[Caimekaze]

I voted virgin, but I'll probably stay that way for a long time. It just doesn't interest me, to the point where I turned it down when my ex offered it to me (we broke up rather quickly after it)
It's a healthy thing, but it just has no appeal for me.

 

[Redlac]

When I was in secondary school, sex was the most important thing in the universe. Raging hormones and the fact I went to school with 1,500 other young men with raging hormones didn't help. I've since learned that 99.9% of the wild claims made by my fellow students were false. Also, the media's portrayal of it is wrong too.

Being a big geek and being put off going down clubs and pubs to pull after working behind bars for ten or so years, sex was not really that big a deal. Being a card carrying Christian I also didn't want chuck my virginity at the first hot chick that would let me. (Although my hormones were certainly not happy with that decision)

Since then, I met a wonderful woman, fell in love and got married. Sex is a fun part of our marriage, but it's not the be all and end all. There's much fun to be had with clothes on. As you can probably guess, I voted 'Nice from time to time'

Edit: By the way, at first it's a bit naff, not anything like the media may have told you. But like with a lot of things, practice makes perfect.

 

[walker.au]

sex is the cure-all medicine...
can't sleep... hide the sausage
feeling down.. hide the sausage
bored... hide the sausage
want to celebrate... hide the sauage

 

[Lupie]

I'm practically MADE of sex. So.. that's a yes.

 

[Jursa]

Sex is a non-existing component of my current life and I have to say that's a good thing because currently I've barely got the time to study and sleep