First Person Singular by Wendy Braitman

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Is Sex Better When You’re Single?

December 9, 2009 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

When I get trapped at a party with a married person who wants to know why I’m still single, I have the perfect comeback line. “At least I have the hope of new sex.” Suddenly the conversation gets real quiet. It works every time. Yes, I’m up for adventure, but sometimes a little continuity would be nice. My biggest beef with sex and the single girl is not quantity, but quality. And quality usually requires intimacy. (Except for that one time….)

Why Women Have Sex is the title of a new book by Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss, two pschology professors from the University of Texas at Austin, who interviewed 1006 women and identified 237 different reasons why we engage in sexual activity (e.g. sexual attraction, physical pleasure, expression of love). Do we really need a book to know this? Who, exactly, is the target audience? When the authors were asked in an interview about the next frontier in sexual research, David Buss replied, “the female sexual orgasm.” Now there’s a manual that would come in handy.

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