A recent study came up with this blockbuster finding: Young men think about sex. A lot.
Actually, here's the real revelation: They think about food almost as often, and about sleep pretty frequently, as well.
Researchers at Ohio State University asked 283 male and female college students, ages 18 to 25, to use a golf tally counter to click whenever a thought about sex, sleep or food entered their heads. The results:
Sex: Men 18.6 times a day, women 9.9.
Sleep: Men 11, women 8.5.
Food: Men 18, women 15.
The findings didn't surprise Eli Coleman, director of the University of Minnesota's Program in Human Sexuality. "I think I would have realized that [sex] is something men think about frequently," he said.
It also makes sense that all three urges occur fairly frequently in both genders, Coleman added, since they are "fundamental drives toward sustaining life. They're all basic appetitive drives. "You need to sleep, eat and drink and have sex."
