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[Poll #1032141]

Comments

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

I ticked them all. They all seemed to fit.

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

That survey can't tell a rationalization from a reason.

[kaet.livejournal.com]

Can you? :)

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

Maybe not, but on the other hand I don't write scientific papers pretending that I can.

(I haven't read the original research so maybe it's not as stupid as the newspaper coverage makes it out to be.)

[ex-lark-asc.livejournal.com]

That's exactly what I thought.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

I'm somewhat concerned that pjc50 and I picked the same answers until he ticked 'make my partner feel powerful' and I didn't. I'm sure there's something to be read into that... ;)

Returning a favour seems a bit icky...I wonder why people ticked that. Last time I checked, I don't pay for chores to be done in House! via the gift of sexual favours...

[arnhem.livejournal.com]

The favour returned might itself have been sex? Couples' libidos are not always precisely in sync.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's true. I guess I'm lucky that on the whole our libidos are in sync and we can keep up with each other! :)

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Sounds like someone's topping from the bottom, if you ask me l-)

[(Anonymous)]

[X] Insufficient data, you insensitive clod!

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Who're you then?

[(Anonymous)]

I'd'a thunked you'd have worked it out from the IP address. :o) (As in, I'm happy to let you know my IP address, but this is not something I want to be associated with my name by idle googling...)

[james-r.livejournal.com]

The most interesting thing I find about the survey and responses are the answers to the 'make up after a fight' question.

Ignoring the responses which were purely 'no-one wants to have sex with me, insensitive clod', 69% of respondents said they would have sex to make up after a fight (24 'yes' answers and 11 'no' answers).

I'd always considered sex to make up after a fight to be not the most healthy thing in the world (cue pondering about reinforcing bad habits (fight leads to sex)). (But then I think I've tended to mope after fights (which probably isn't terribly useful either)).

Thoughts?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Starting a row seems like a rather risky way to get sex...

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Sadly, some couple dynamics incorporate regular rows as foreplay. Dysfunction city, but if that's what it takes for people to get along...

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

The talmud even says couples should not have sex with each other when they are angry with each other. That is only a moral reason not a health reason.

[ceb.livejournal.com]

'Course, it depends who with.