… why people engage in sexual intercourse. We identified 237 distinct reasons why people have
sex… The current research made several contributions to knowledge about human sexuality…

… Understanding the reasons humans have sex can provide … sexual desire and arousal,
interpersonal drivers of sexual … potentially highly diverse reasons for why humans have sex. …

… our other distinctively human features. Those features … human sexuality that I discuss are
female menopause, the role of men in human societies, having sex in private, often having sex …

… of why humans have sex. Most important, they gave real women an opportunity to explain
in their own words their motivations for having sex, providing a depth of insight into sexual …

… Selection acts so that what enhances our survivorship or reproduction—forming friendships,
having sex—tends to be perceived as pleasurable; and acts that typically detract from our …

… Various arguments have been put forward as to why this project is dangerous, is likely to be
self-defeating, and/or is profoundly immoral. Pursuit of the best may be dangerous if it leads …

… do relate to having sex to manage affect but that this reason for sex is not conscious and …
them in relation to sex events may provide a better indicator of whether sex is occurring for affect …

… version of Why Have Sex [YSEX… sexual contact (intercourse). In the second study (n = 1161)
the participants had to rate the frequency with that these reasons have led them to have sex. …

… In fact, the past 5–10 years have witnessed a surge of findings from animals and humans
concerning sex influences on many areas of brain and behaviour, including emotion, memory, …

… We first discuss several reasons why one ought to expect human sex differences in sexual
… a wish to have sex with anyone they chose, and to be able to have sex without commitment. …