{"id":10561,"date":"2009-09-09T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T16:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2009-09-09T08:00:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T16:00:59","slug":"why-women-really-have-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10561","title":{"rendered":"Why Women Really Have Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story rings true to me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,27574,26041735-36398,00.html\">From the Daily Telegraph in Australia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>FOR every woman expecting the earth to move, there are two with more practical motives.<\/p>\n<p>From relieving boredom, to keeping the peace or curing a headache, women have sex for many reasons but romance and passion come rather low on the list, a new book has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>One woman even admitted to having sex just so her husband would put the rubbish out.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Research has shown most men find most women at least somewhat sexually attractive, whereas most women do not find most men sexually attractive at all,&quot; <em>Why Women Have Sex<\/em> authors <a href=\"http:\/\/search.news.com.au\/search\/\/0\/?us=ndmnews&amp;sid=36398&amp;as=news&amp;ac=ninews2&amp;q=Cindy%20Meston\" class=\"media-search-keyword\" title=\"Search for more about Cindy Meston  across the News Network\">Cindy Meston <\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/search.news.com.au\/search\/\/0\/?us=ndmnews&amp;sid=36398&amp;as=news&amp;ac=ninews2&amp;q=David%20Buss\" class=\"media-search-keyword\" title=\"Search for more about David Buss  across the News Network\">David Buss <\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Having apparently discounted physical attraction, the 1000 women interviewed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.news.com.au\/search\/\/0\/?us=ndmnews&amp;sid=36398&amp;as=news&amp;ac=ninews2&amp;q=Texas%20University\" class=\"media-search-keyword\" title=\"Search for more about Texas University  across the News Network\">Texas University <\/a> professors gave a huge range of reasons for sleeping with a man.<\/p>\n<p>One said she did it for a spiritual experience, proclaiming: &quot;It&#8217;s the closest thing to God.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>But mostly the explanations were far more mundane, with 84 per cent admitting to having sex just to ensure a quiet life or to bargain for household chores. One woman said: &quot;I have sex to relieve the boredom because it&#8217;s easier than fighting. Plus it gives me something to do.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story rings true to me. From the Daily Telegraph in Australia: FOR every woman expecting the earth to move, there are two with more practical motives. From relieving boredom, to keeping the peace or curing a headache, women have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10561\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[18833,11881,18829,18830,18832,18831],"class_list":["post-10561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex","tag-cindy-meston","tag-daily-telegraph","tag-david-buss","tag-household-chores","tag-keeping-the-peace","tag-university-professors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10562,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions\/10562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}