How Often Do Men Really Think About Sex?
The real answer may surprise you
Men have sex on the brain constantly, right? At least that’s what conventional wisdom tells us. In fact, men have the reputation for thinking about sex every seven seconds, which would amount to 8,000 sex thoughts a day — assuming the men are awake 16 hours a day. But is this notion accurate?
“It’s amazing the way people will spout off these fake statistics that men think about sex nearly constantly….”
According to a study in the Journal of Sex Research, our beliefs about the frequency of men’s sex thoughts are completely off base. In fact, researcher Terri Fisher says this perception is not only inaccurate, it’s damaging.
“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,” said Fisher. “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.”
So what’s the truth about how often men think of sex?
