Why Do Women Have Sex?

So a book was published a few weeks ago by two researchers who had surveyed more than a thousand women on the UT Austin campus.  It purports to answer the big question of – drumrolllll - why women have sex (that is also the book’s title).  84%, it was claimed, answered that they usually were just looking for a little peace and quiet and/or some help with household chores.  Some of the more depressing answers:

“I have sex to relieve the boredom because it’s easier than fighting. Plus it gives me something to do.”

“I slept with a couple of guys because I felt sorry for them.”

In one survey of students, nearly one in 10 women admitted to “having sex for presents”. Others said: “He bought me a nice dinner”, “he spent a lot of money on me early on”, “he showed me he had an extravagant lifestyle”.

Another “sexologist” recently weighed in on these answers with some of her own, after the jump.  Plus: a poll!  

So those answers made women look kind of bad, huh?  At least 10% gold-diggers and many more either manipulative or easily manipulated.  So Dr. Yvonne Fulbright, professional sex-haver and author of Touch Me There! A Hands-On Guide to Your Orgasmic Hot Spots (who knew that could fill a whole book?), decided to rebut with these reasons:

If you ask me, and lot of other women of all ages and backgrounds out there, the reason women have sex, they’ll tell you… They’re having sex to express affection, to get in tune with their sexual core and feel sexy, to make love, to feel close to another, to maintain a long-term relationship by keeping the passion alive, to relish a shared, special moment… and because they like sex when it feels good.

The impulse is definitely to disagree with the initial findings, isn’t it?  If you’re a woman, you want to believe that sex isn’t a chore or a means to an end, and if you’re a man, you want to believe that women aren’t simply tolerating your love skillz because they want a new iPod (or because they feel sorry for you, bummer).  But maybe that’s all true, I have no idea!  So I turn it over to you, women.  Why do you have sex?

Source: FOXNews via Nerve.