This article makes some pretty dubious, narrow & likely sexist causality connections in my book. Artists and poets often tend to have boundary issues which can lead to more partners. It looks at figures in history without a feminist analysis which might explain why Picasso, Byron & Thomas treated women as sexual objects with little regard to their feelings. Women in their times were more likely to be taught & to believe that boys will be boys and that they have little recourse or support, but to put up with it.
Point taken, though when women were not available (during his school and university days and while fighting with the Greek army) Byron treated men as sex objects too.
The current study, however, includes both genders: Nettle and team questioned 425 men and women,...They found that professional artists and poets had between four and 10 sexual partners, while less creative people had an average of three."We found it in both the men and women, which was quite a surprise to us," says Nettle.
It is possible that artistically creative people of both genders have higher libidos, perhaps less defined boundaries, and having a high libido/low boundary peer group provides more opportunities.
I was surprised that the participants had no more than 10 partners; those of us who were single and sexually active young adults in the 1970s tend to have had at least that many partners and often many more.
yes well as my father pointed out times change, especially with the onset of diseases like HIV/AIDS that are more lethal than anything else that was spread sexually before. that and the skyrocketing rates of paternity suits in this country have probably cut down on the number of sexual partners and the increased popularity of safer sex practices. personally Im a fan of condoms ribbed for her pleasure. but I think the bulk of the resistance these days comes from women. so I may get more than 10 sexual partners over a lifetime but unlike the seventies I am unlikely to get them all at once without them trying to kill me for it.
oh I have. I havent hit 2 digits yet. but every one of them was certainly very different. Even the ones that were of lesser quality still provided plenty of lessons. and lesser quality is still good. a friend of mine once said that sex is like pizza...even when its bad its good.
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Date: 2009-01-01 08:19 am (UTC)This article makes some pretty dubious, narrow & likely sexist causality connections in my book. Artists and poets often tend to have boundary issues which can lead to more partners. It looks at figures in history without a feminist analysis which might explain why Picasso, Byron & Thomas treated women as sexual objects with little regard to their feelings. Women in their times were more likely to be taught & to believe that boys will be boys and that they have little recourse or support, but to put up with it.
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Date: 2009-01-02 01:01 am (UTC)The current study, however, includes both genders: Nettle and team questioned 425 men and women,...They found that professional artists and poets had between four and 10 sexual partners, while less creative people had an average of three."We found it in both the men and women, which was quite a surprise to us," says Nettle.
It is possible that artistically creative people of both genders have higher libidos, perhaps less defined boundaries, and having a high libido/low boundary peer group
provides more opportunities.
I was surprised that the participants had no more than 10 partners; those of us who were single and sexually active young adults in the 1970s tend to have had at least that many partners and often many more.
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