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The average college male thinks about sex 19 times a day, while their female counterparts log an average of 10.
If you are the average college-aged male, a new study debunks the myth that sexual thoughts creep into consciousness thousands of times per day. In actuality, it is more like 19. Their female counterparts, however, only averaged 10 thoughts per day, less than the average male thinks about food!
Researchers out of Ohio State University had 283 students track their thoughts over the course of a day for 7 days. The 72 men and 91 women were randomly assigned a topic to track; either food, sleep or sex.
Logs reported that men averaged 19 thoughts about sex per day, while women had 10. Food was a close second, where men had 18 thoughts per day and women 15. Sleep, not a high priority for studying, partying college students, averaged 11 thoughts per day for males and 8 for females.
“Males did think more about sex but they also thought more about food and sleep,” said Terri Fisher, professor of psychology at Ohio State University’s Mansfield campus and lead author of the study. “It’s not clear whether they’re just more focused on need-related states than females or whether they simply recall thoughts more often or are more willing to report them.”
There was a high degree of variability when it came to sexual thoughts and/or reporting them. Students reporting ranged from one per day to 388 per day. Those students who were more comfortable with their sexuality tended to report more frequency, based on a companion sexual opinion survey.
"People who always give socially desirable responses to questions are perhaps holding back and trying to manage the impression they make on others," Fisher explains. "In this case, we're seeing that women who are more concerned with the impression they're making tend to report fewer sexual thoughts, and that's because thinking about sexuality is not consistent with typical expectations for women."
College-aged males are considered in their prime sexual years, while women do no achieve the same level until their early thirties. Fisher intends to do further research into the topic, gauging sexual thoughts on women during their prime as well.
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