Men Think About Sleep and Food as Much as Sex

[snopes]

Men think about sex every seven seconds, right? Not according to a new study that finds men ponder sleep and food as much as they do sex.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/0...leep-food-sex/

[GenYus234]

Bill Engval told us that years ago.

[kanazawa]

Originally Posted by snopes

Men think about sex every seven seconds, right? Not according to a new study that finds men ponder sleep and food as much as they do sex.

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/0...leep-food-sex/

And Beer

[Wolf333]

If it's made with grains, it's food

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Sounds like a date - eat, have sex, fall asleep.

[MapleLeaf]

This study is ridiculous.

Fisher and her colleagues instead asked 163 college women and 120 college men to carry around small golf-stroke tally counters. So they wouldn't be biased to think about sex, the students were told they'd be asked about health-related thoughts, Fisher said. Next, the researchers told 60 percent of the students to click the counter whenever they thought about sex. Others were instructed to tally their thoughts on food and sleep.

As soon as someone tells me I need to click every time I think about sex, I'm going to think about the study all the time, 'cause I'm carrying a clicker! And then I'm going to think about sex.

[NorthernLite]

Originally Posted by A Turtle Named Mack

Sounds like a date - eat, have sex, fall asleep.

I hate when she does that.

[A Turtle Named Mack]

Originally Posted by MapleLeaf

This study is ridiculous. As soon as someone tells me I need to click every time I think about sex, I'm going to think about the study all the time, 'cause I'm carrying a clicker! And then I'm going to think about sex.

Pretty soon you'll get a woody every time you hear a clicker.

Hey, sign me up for that!

[zman977]

Makes sense, after sex one usually gets tired and sometimes you can work up an apatite

[DesertRat]

As I get older, I find that sex becomes less and less important, and sleep becomes moreso. I really couldn't care less about sex these days, but this massive sleep debt I'm fighting is starting to drive me crazy...

[Avril]

Originally Posted by MapleLeaf

This study is ridiculous. As soon as someone tells me I need to click every time I think about sex, I'm going to think about the study all the time, 'cause I'm carrying a clicker! And then I'm going to think about sex.

This is exactly what I was thinking. It's like tying a string to your finger to help you remember something. I see the scenario like this:

Clicker, why do I have the clicker? I'm supposed to click it when I think about...oh. Click. Let's see, I need paperclips, and a few other things. I'm so absent minded today. I hope I don't forget to click the clicker if I...oh. Click. This is going to give me an obsession. Click. Click. Click.

ETA: It reminds me of that study where children were presented with a white doll and a black doll and asked, "Which doll is the bad doll?" This plants ideas in a person's head. It's like asking, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" Even saying, "Is one doll better than the other" is suggestive, but at least it doesn't demand that you condemn one. I really wish there were ways to measure such things that didn't require one to force the subjects of the study into little boxes.

[SatansHobbit]

[Errata]

Food > Sex + Sleep

[GenYus234]

If you are mixing sex and sleep, at least one of you is doing it wrong.

Also, Sex + Food > Sleep.

Anyone imagining George Costanza trying to snack while mid frolick?

[GenYus234]

The local Red Robin does have a copy of his boudoir photo, but I generally don't think of him when I think of sex and/or food.

Iis Food + Sex > or < The Daily Show + Sex?

[Diabolus Ex Deus]

Well, considering we mammals are programmed for survival and procreation, this really doesn't surprise me one bit. I mean, life functions? Eat, sleep, sex...

[Skeptic]

Originally Posted by MapleLeaf

This study is ridiculous. As soon as someone tells me I need to click every time I think about sex, I'm going to think about the study all the time, 'cause I'm carrying a clicker! And then I'm going to think about sex.

Slightly off topic, but years ago we used those clickers when I worked for a traffic management company counting cars. Try clicking one of those things 17,000 time in one day and, trust me, sex will be the furthest thing from your mind.