Sex makes you smarter

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I like the taste of crayons, maybe i should date more?

Silliness aside, of course those with mild cognitive impairments have less sex. Not gonna make a joke about it or anything but that seems a bit obvious to me.
 
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well, i have heard studies done on this kind of thing before, and every time it seems a different result is given.

stories in publications claiming that "sex makes you smart," run in tandem with stories that claim "people who have large sex drives have lower IQ than people who have low sex drives." personally, this seems like soft science at one of it's worsts.

first of all... IQ, high or low, and it isn't what i am refuting here. at the moment, there is no better metric of human intellectual capabilities, and there is a lot of IQ that factors into success in life. that said, it isn't everything... as most celebrities can demonstrate, clearly.

what bothers me about a good deal of these studies is the flawed sociosexual "science" methodology used to gain the results they want, and that the media is so ready and able to throw junk headlines out into the public. media misrepresentation is why general people irrationally thought that all cholesterol was bad for you for years, without thinking back to high-school chemistry classes, where they learned that cholesterol was an essential lipid that our bodies need to produce sex hormones and such. Recently, HDL cholesterol has been noted, and has taken some of the flack away from cholesterol in it's entirety, but that still doesn't stop some people from thinking that all cholesterol is bad for you.

and the sex science behind the bulk of these studies is lacking greatly, at best. ridiculously small sample sizes, skewed view points, and self-reporting are no way to conduct sexual studies. it is not sexy to be shunted into an fMRI, and told to do it, so i see why they use the methods they do. but there are quite the amount of problems beyond practicality of measuring brain activity during sex, and i'm not going to get into that completely, so let's leave that there for now.

i will be honest and tell you that i did not read the article yet, but i will. i am wondering how they found this out. sounds like self-reporting. i am very dubious of things like this, because there is so much left out of the studies that it hurts to think about how they get past peer review with such shoddy specifications. but, i think that Alan Sokal proved that you don't need to even write a coherent paper to get published in a post-modernist journal of whatever, as long as you say "quantum" every so often. :/