How often do you think about sex?

[Tsweet]

Well this study came out in the United States ...

Men Don't Think About Sex Every Seven Seconds, Study Claims (The Huffington Post 11/29/11) ...
It's more like 19 times a day, according to research out of Ohio State University, which comes to about every 1.26 hours.
The study, which involved 163 female and 120 male college students, all ages 18-25, found that, in confirmation of the old stereotypes, men do think about sex more than women, who have sex on the brain about 10 times a day, but nowhere near as frequently as the oft-quoted, origin-unknown "every seven seconds" has lead people to believe. And men don't think about sex much more than they think about food (18 times a day) and sleep (11 times a day), the research showed.
"It's not uniquely sex that they're spending more time thinking about, but other issues related to their biological needs, as well," said the study's lead author, Ohio State University psychology professor Terri Fisher, in a press release.
Participants were first given questionnaires to gauge whether they felt positively or negatively about sex in general and how much effort they put into appearing socially acceptable, The Daily Mail reports. They were then divided into three groups; one group was asked to record how often they thought about sex, another about food and the third about sleep.
The results, which are available online now and will be published in the January, 2012 issue of the Journal of Sex Research, showed that the difference between how often men and women think about sex isn't any larger than the difference between how often they think about eating or sleeping.

The study also found that women think about sex at least once every day, and that women who were more concerned about being socially accepted reported fewer sexual thoughts. Unsurprisingly, women who had more positive attitudes about sex reported more.
Fisher said the findings are significant because they contradict long-held stereotypes that often cause men and women to feel bad about their sexual thoughts:
"It's amazing the way people will spout off these fake statistics that men think about sex nearly constantly and so much more often than women do ... When a man hears a statement like that, he might think there's something wrong with him because he's not spending that much time thinking about sexuality, and when women hear about this, if they spend significant time thinking about sex they might think there's something wrong with them."
Stephanie Pappas at LiveScience noted in May that Fisher's research didn't take into account how long a thought lasts -- if you think about sex for ten minutes every time it comes to mind, you're thinking about it much more than someone who focuses on it for a second each time. Also, since the study included only college students, the findings don't necessarily hold true for older adults.

[Aust1n]

Literally every second.

[testbed]

Once a day, everyday, all day long!!!!

[thepriceisright]

Probably all the time, I like to fantasizes a lot

[sweet4chubbies]

only when Im having sex, do I not think about it.

Men's drive comes in one block from testosterone. Women's hard libido is also tirbutary of it, as their adrenal glands (a little tubercle over each kidney) produces about 10% of what men's body metabolizes, although for them, it's quite a bit more complicated, according to biologists, having the two different types of desire, active and passive, in three different aspects (attractivity, proceptivity and receptivity completed by the fourth aspect of oestrus) linked to three different hormones. That, in my opinion, Tsweet(OP, post #1), should explain the spread between men and women: we might think about it as much, but we just think about it very differently. It is indeed a human basic need, but outside sexuality, hunger, thirst, sleep, etc., the rest is pretty much the same for both genders. Besides, those studies are not exact science, they are sociological and statistical studies, they are based on people's answers and opinions about themselves and therefore on their feeble capacity to observe themselves. That is why they are so often the subject of so much debate and controversy. I guess the reason why we men always seem more suspiscious of being perverts (sic) is the simple nature of our sexuality and the easyness with which we can apprehend it in our behavior.
Yet, as simple as it is, how much stranger it appears as we examine the effects of testosterone: you eventually loose the hair on your head yet at some point, it starts growing out of your ears and on them, abundantly, ridiculously out of your nose, your prostate starts swelling like a tennis ball sometimes after your forties (it is considered that 100% of men would die from prostate problems would we live to be a 100), you are utterly, desperatly obsessed with an irresistible sex drive for your entire life, and you eventualy reach a state at which your desire so incredibly irritatingly surpasses your capacities.
At a certain age, you start asking yourself a question you can't answer: is it a good thing or a bad one ? And no matter how mad you can get at yourself, you just forget about it the moment a woman comes along...

How often do we think about sex each day ? We shouldn't feel guilty about it, as desire is essentialy biological. For us men, it's just a massive, square pulsion that carries us to ridiculous demeanor in many cases. You should find ample exemples immidiatly here on this site. Therefore, despite the interresting views you're presenting (and with the hope you won't get mad at me), i feel compelled to answer with everybody else: ALL the time !

[max232]

Originally Posted by sweet4chubbies

only when Im having sex, do I not think about it.

Vell said!!!

[Tsweet]

Originally Posted by danthepoetman

Men's drive comes in one block from testosterone. Women's hard libido is also tirbutary of it, as their adrenal glands (a little tubercle over each kidney) produces about 10% of what men's body metabolizes, although for them, it's quite a bit more complicated, according to biologists, having the two different types of desire, active and passive, in three different aspects (attractivity, proceptivity and receptivity completed by the fourth aspect of oestrus) linked to three different hormones. That, in my opinion, Tsweet(OP, post #1), should explain the spread between men and women: we might think about it as much, but we just think about it very differently. It is indeed a human basic need, but outside sexuality, hunger, thirst, sleep, etc., the rest is pretty much the same for both genders. Besides, those studies are not exact science, they are sociological and statistical studies, they are based on people's answers and opinions about themselves and therefore on their feeble capacity to observe themselves. That is why they are so often the subject of so much debate and controversy. I guess the reason why we men always seem more suspiscious of being perverts (sic) is the simple nature of our sexuality and the easyness with which we can apprehend it in our behavior.
Yet, as simple as it is, how much stranger it appears as we examine the effects of testosterone: you eventually loose the hair on your head yet at some point, it starts growing out of your ears and on them, abundantly, ridiculously out of your nose, your prostate starts swelling like a tennis ball sometimes after your forties (it is considered that 100% of men would die from prostate problems would we live to be a 100), you are utterly, desperatly obsessed with an irresistible sex drive for your entire life, and you eventualy reach a state at which your desire so incredibly irritatingly surpasses your capacities.
At a certain age, you start asking yourself a question you can't answer: is it a good thing or a bad one ? And no matter how mad you can get at yourself, you just forget about it the moment a woman comes along...

How often do we think about sex each day ? We shouldn't feel guilty about it, as desire is essentialy biological. For us men, it's just a massive, square pulsion that carries us to ridiculous demeanor in many cases. You should find ample exemples immidiatly here on this site. Therefore, despite the interresting views you're presenting (and with the hope you won't get mad at me), i feel compelled to answer with everybody else: ALL the time !

Dan, You present a lot of good points as to the VARIABLES that could affect how often one thinks about sex... biological and sociological. That study was done with college students age 18 to 25 ... which is an age where you would think the libido drive would be very HIGH. So it was somewhat contradictory to the common belief.
However I posed the question on here because - this being a sexual sight - I kind of thought that a good majority of people might say : ALL THE TIME!
The very sad point that you bring up is the often inability to act on one's sexual desires as one ages. So while you can ... enjoy your SEX life to the fullest (with the proper protection of course)... or as the saying goes:
"USE IT OR LOSE IT"!!!

[lickdick]

Every work should be done at the right time to get the good result out of it.

As they say play while you play, study while you study, "Have sex when you think in a cautious way"