Many people believe that an average man thinks about sex every seven seconds in a given day. However, if you were to do the math, that translates to having 514 sexual thoughts and hours and 7,200 sexual thoughts over the course of a week,
These numbers don’t tell us if there is any truth to the myth. In fact, we don’t even know if men have a net total of 7,200 thoughts altogether in a week, So, how is it then, can we find an answer to how many times men think about sex in a day.
Well, we’ll refer to two studies in particular that come closest to finding the right answer to this pertinent question. So, let’s try and find out if guys think a lot about sex and how often do they think about it. Take a look:
Terri Fischer and her team conducted a survey by the means of ‘experience sampling.’ Experience sampling is the scientific measure of thoughts used by psychologists. In Fischer’s experiment, they gathered a group of 283 people and they were all asked to record the number of times they had thoughts of sex, food, or sleep. After the data came in, the numbers told a unique story. Men thought about sex only about 19 times a day, while women thought about it about 10 times a day. In fact, one person recorded to think of sex only once a day.
While there are several glitches in this experimental setup, we can clearly conclude from this experiment that men don’t think of sex that often. Now, let’s take a look at a German scientist’s work and see what he concluded from his experiment.
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Hoffman and his colleagues issued smartphones to certain German people. These smartphones were to notify them once a day, at a random time and then they had to record what they were thinking at the time the notification came to them. The idea behind this experiment was that participants could freely go about their lives and had to be a part of the experiment only once a day. While the model of this experiment was largely different from Fischer’s, the results were astoundingly similar.
According to Hoffman’s results, men thought about sex on an average of only seven times a day! In fact, the most recorded thoughts among men were of sleeping and eating. One big thing that we can take away from this particular study is how unimportant sex was for the participants of this experiment. Yes, this experiment is not water-tight as it involves relying on the participant’s input, which might or might not be true. However, we don’t think the results would vary much.
Conclusion
The thing here is that there is no physical quantity that we can attribute to thoughts. They are an immeasurable commodity. However, if we go by these studies, then we can start believing in the fact that they don’t think about sex that often- certainly not once every seven seconds. How many times did you think of sex while reading this article? Let us know in the comments below.
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