Altruistic People Have More Sex

(Photo: Ryan J Lane) By Drake Baer There's more good news for warmhearted hornballs. A study I covered last month found that in relationships, the more attentive people are to their partners, the more they have sex. And according to new research, that logic carries over to a lifetime's worth of sexual adventures: The more altruistic people are, the more sex they have, whether it's hooking up or settling down. For a new paper published in the British Journal of Psychology, a research team lead by Nipissing University psychologist Steven Arnocky got the lowdown on people's sweetness and sexual history. In one study, the researchers recruited 192 unmarried women and 105 unmarried men from northern Ontario and threw a bunch of autobiographical and psychological examinations their way. The first was an assessment measuring altruism (with items like "I have helped push a stranger's car out of the snow," "I have given directions to a stranger," and the like). Then came several measures of mating success. One was a self-reported desirability scale, with items like "Members of the opposite sex that I like tend to like me back" and "I can have as many sexual partners as I choose." Then they shared data points like their number of lifetime sex partners, their lifetime number of casual sex partners, and if they were in a relationship, how many times they had sex in the last 30 days. They also took a personality assessment. Related: So There's an Easy Way to Have More Sex With Your Pa...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news