Men Think About Sex Once Every Seven Seconds… or Do They?
So, they say men think of sex every seven seconds. But did you ever think how much thinking that might involve? And about what, exactly? Read on for a full and frank confession.
Men can multi-task. Honest.
They – whoever they are – say that men think about sex every seven seconds. If every thought lasts a single second, that adds up to 2 hours and 48 minutes every day, and totally undermines the prejudice about men and multi-tasking.
All right, we can’t simultaneously iron a shirt, cook chicken nuggets, answer the ‘phone, feed the cat, clean the fridge, hold down a career, raise four children, and feel terrorised about our body shape, fitness and fashion sense because we caught sight of a gormless feature about cellulite written by an air-headed stick woman in a glossy magazine. But so what? We can talk about football, get drunk, develop sweaty odours, and do other stereotypically manly things, and think about sex as well.
I could be deluding myself over this male multi-tasking skill. Maybe our minds are celibate for 21 hours and 12 minutes each day, and then we blow it all in a single 2 hours 48 minutes binge that might include “research” on the internet at work (purely business), or hanging around the photocopier on the off chance that Nicki from accounts with the short skirt, suspenders and seven inch stilettos will bend over to pick up a tenner. (Who left that there, for God’s sake?).
Save all those one-in-seven seconds for Sunday?
Some of us may hold back, and save it all for Sundays, to think about Nicki from accounts bending over to pick up a tenner, for 16 hours and 48 minutes non-stop. As an excuse for never building another shelf, it’s perfect (sorry I had to spend the time thinking about sex, because I didn’t put in enough hours earlier in the week).
The whole business is a can of worms. However, there’s one thing that can be said for certain: if all the documented failings of the modern male are to be believed, one time we’re definitely not thinking about sex is when we’re actually having it.
What’s thinking about sex anyway? I don’t want to descend into the personal, but I suppose the real meat of the matter would be to reveal how much I might think about sex during the course of the average day. I couldn’t possibly do that, but I do have a very good, very close friend who was happy to tell me in incredible detail. What a great guy.
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Post Commentdexter augustus
On November 11, 2008 at 4:47 am
Was that on Friday on the central line, at about 9.00 o’clock? I remember it distinctly. (I’m Mike’s friend, incidentally. He told me he wouldn’t write about this …).
banond
On November 12, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Enough of the self-congratulatory tone of the correspondence. Why doesn’t Mike Ritchie settle down and get himself a proper job in the real world instead of concocting this puerile rubbish. I would suggest that he is obviously in the grip of a mid life crisis brought on by the impending half century that he will have been on this planet in the year 2009.
CJS Algrin
On November 23, 2008 at 6:58 am
I also wrote an article on the matter, which you can see if you follow the link below
http://www.socyberty.com/Sexuality/Men-Think-About-Sex-Every-Three-Seconds-Seven-Thoughts.355111
I like this article, I don’t know either of the people involved, nor am I familiar with some of the thoughts there, but it did make me reflect on a pair of important things in my life, if you catch my drift. Good writing
Jackson
On December 7, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Too bad these statistics are impossible to prove and are completely wrong.
Why don’t you write about something you can prove otherwise you subject yourself to ridicule.
You know that feeling when you’re informed of something and you decide to write about it, assuming it is 100% correct, when you later find out that it isn’t? Then you look like a complete fool to those who obviously know much better than you do. Stop posting trash.