Richard Smith: How often do men think about sex?
10 Jun, 13 | by BMJ Group
Everybody knows that men think about sex every seven seconds. What people haven’t perhaps considered is that means more than 8000 times a day or 56 000 times a week. Despite the joke that if men only think about sex every seven seconds what on earth do they think about the rest of the time, that’s a lot of mental energy devoted to sex. The selfish gene may demand that we reproduce, but 8000 thoughts a day on sex is surely excessive. (But then again the average ejaculate contains around 300 million sperm, which seems even more excessive.) So can it be true that men think about sex 8000 times a day? more…
