{"id":275,"date":"2007-01-30T18:22:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T08:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/statistics-i-love-you-means-i-want-sex\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T18:22:48","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T08:22:48","slug":"statistics-i-love-you-means-i-want-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/statistics-i-love-you-means-i-want-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Statistics: &#8216;I Love You&#8217; Means &#8216;I Want Sex&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogpics\/romanticflowers.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Giving flowers in the hope of sex\" \/>Harlequin Romance Novels have conducted a survey of 3000 men and women in the US and Canada for their annual <a href=\"http:\/\/press.eharlequin.com\/index.php?option=com_docman&#038;Itemid=32&#038;task=view_category&#038;catid=13&#038;order=dmdate_published&#038;ascdesc=DESC\" target=\"blank\">Romance Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The survey contained a section on the motivations behind romantic gestures and found that, often, saying &#8216;I love you&#8217; was inspired by the hope it would lead to sex.<\/p>\n<p>A few statistics:<\/p>\n<p>* 55% of men had told their date they loved them in the hope of sex. 41% of women had done the same.<br \/>\n* 52% of men had bought an expensive gift because they thought it would lead to sex, compared to only 23% of women<br \/>\n* Men were more likely than women to attend an event they weren&#8217;t interested in, hoping for some rumpy-pumpy afterwards.<br \/>\n* Women were more likely than men to prepare a special meal in the hope of sex.<\/p>\n<p>The survey also had these interesting stats regarding women and sex:<\/p>\n<p>* 71% of women had bought lingerie or sex toy in anticipation of sex.<br \/>\n* 47% of women had sent a sexually explicit email, text message or instant message<br \/>\n* 33% of women had had cybersex, defined as a sexually explicit conversation or photo\/video exchange<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of horny people out there!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harlequin Romance Novels have conducted a survey of 3000 men and women in the US and Canada for their annual Romance Report. The survey contained a section on the motivations behind romantic gestures and found that, often, saying &#8216;I love you&#8217; was inspired by the hope it would lead to sex. A few statistics: * 55% of men had told their date they loved them in the hope of sex. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/30\/statistics-i-love-you-means-i-want-sex\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-and-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/msnaughty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}