Just when we got out of high school feeling happy about the fact that we are intelligent and going somewhere, this article makes you feel a little bad about it all over again. In this case, I am talking about the correlation of intelligence to sex.
I read in PsychologyToday about the correlation that I'm sure plenty of eggheads are familiar with: that the most intelligent people or those that seem intelligent are the ones that get the least amount of sex partners. The example they gave is a comparison of men with an education: "the latest National Security of Family Growth shows that, for example, men with college degrees are half as likely to have had four or more partners in the last years as men with high school education alone (or half as likely to admit it)."
Any person here can think of reasons as to why this must be, but they pointed out examples having to do with a current amount of teen virgins at the top of the scale of intelligence. "[Carolyn Halpern] thinks that the smartest kids might hold off on sex because they're thinking through its potential consequences." Or it could be the constant judgment of one's looks and personality. But what do I know? I'm a former college dropout who discovered having an IQ average of 142.
As far as grown-ups are concerned, they only seemed to have answers for the difference between men who get laid and those that don't: money. "Money, not intelligence helps men get more sex. In and of itself, intellect won't do the trick. But intelligence helps them get money." Well, at least the scientists and observers help us bridge the gap. But basically, they are saying that for men, if you have money or aren't academic, then you are least likely to get laid. As for women? I don't know, I guess the whole sexy librarian thing wasn't meant to be taken literally. They also point out the possibility of it being "appearance, personal grooming of affability."
Then again, this
is the same magazine that posted that article about black woman from the perspective of a racist Asian man.
Thoughts?
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"...that the most intelligent people or those that seem intelligent are the ones that get the least amount of sex partners"
could be related to being better at committed relationships, hence less sex partners.
maybe?
"But what do I know? I'm a former college dropout who discovered having an IQ average of 142."
conceiteddd
There was an article I read awhile back that we actually subconsciously measure ourselves and become "attracted" to people we consider to be in our league. Maybe smart people don't get laid because there's so few of them?
You know, people must have been more intelligent thousands of years ago, if it's the stupid people breeding faster than the smart people, LOL.
I have no idea why that would be though. I'm doing my PhD at an Ivy League, and people I meet here are definitely sexually less active than say, my high school friends. Maybe smart people are pickier?
my IQ is 118. my mom's is 202, and she's a whore. My sister's 143 or so, and she is also a whore. I love them all but... whore runs in the family. I'm the weird one.
I'm 24 and have never had sex willingly or all the way, I guess. I've been assaulted on several occasions.
I think there are social reasons.
A lot of my friends growing up were top of their class, and they were holding out for money. Li'l gold diggers in training. That's why they didn't get laid. They were saving it for carrots. They were smarter.
I developed a phobia that I was secretly a giant carrion flower that would lose my immortality if I had sex, thus I didn't. I believe this delusion was because sex was used as a power ploy over me.
Who cares about getting laid? It doesn't matter!!!! haha, ik that's not the mentality of many ppl, but just saying.
@FireMapleSong@xanga - you made me laugh, because it's so true. =]
@wyrdkismet@xanga - whoa whoa whoa. what are you talking about?? this is a serious question.
@TheNotoriousGOD@xanga - well i was just kidding around. but in reality i don't think ppl should waste time worrying about who's getting laid more. that's just so shallow.
I don't even know what the hell my IQ is, nor do I freaking care.
What is the point in an IQ test anyhoot?
I mean... no employer has ever been like.. so.. your IQ... what is it?
And I never recall it coming up during grade school either.
@wyrdkismet@xanga -
Agreed, why should anyone give a rat's ass lol.. it's just another stupid statistic and apparently 94 percent of those are made up on the spot!
@Chibi_Son_Gokou@xanga - Makes perfect sense to me.
@annamariuhh@xanga - I got a reason.
@FireMapleSong@xanga - (shrugs) But that does indeed make sense, too.
@Cosmar@xanga - exactly! yay, someone sees things my way :D
IDIOCRACY
i guess but then again, that's just someone's opinion.
iq test are stupid
I agree with this reason as one possibility, "appearance, personal grooming of affability." the guy in the example pic's hair looks greasy and just gives me a peeping tom/serial rapist impression, so his appearance is intimidating in the scary stalk her and lock her in the basement if she rejects him way!
this makes no sense to me, seeing as the greatest promiscuity occurs at college frat parties.
perhaps because accepting sex at every opportunity is not intelligent...
Intelligent people think and analyze too much...that ALWAYS kills attraction
alcohol turns down all that thinking and then they can hook up properly
@annamariuhh@xanga - agreed. 142 is conceited. why is it that you feel a need to announce to xanga your iq level? to make up that your a college drop out? somebody needs to get laid
@ask_ashleyyy@xanga - I agree.
I think as another person also said, that intelligent people are probably pickier. They find more things comparably stimulating to their intellect as sex than less-intelligent people. I am also curious as to how intelligence was measured. IQ by no means includes all valid forms of intelligence, such as social intelligence. I also have a gut-feeling that people with higher intelligences tend to be more introverted, though I've never seen any conclusive data showing so. It may just be that more introverted people seem smarter as well. :P
But yeah, I think the higher your intelligence, the more deeper meaning you'll feel in life than a transient sexual release. At least I hope.
Where's my smart, ambitious, country boy at! I wanna ride ur horse!!
@FireMapleSong@xanga - completely agree, once we reach certain points we want to meet others on the same page so we can keep going.
the more developed we are. the less mainstream it is.
I'd rather be smart than laid. :) That's my two cents on the whole thing.
Maybe because intelligent people know that there's more to life than sex?