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Title: List the six motives that people give for having sex. Describe gender differenc
Post by: colleen on May 8, 2012
List the six motives that people give for having sex.  Describe gender differences and age differences in
   sexual motivation.


Title: Re: List the six motives that people give for having sex. Describe gender differenc
Post by: ThePsychic on May 9, 2012
Six motives for having sex are:
Pleasure—the emotional satisfaction or physical pleasure of sex;
Intimacy—emotional closeness with your partner;
Insecurity—reassurance that you are attractive or desirable;
Partner approval—the desire to please or appease your partner; and
Peer approval—the wish to impress your friends, be part of the group, and conform to what “everyone else” seems to be doing.
Attaining a Goal—to get status, money, revenge, or "even the score."
Men and women are similar in their motive for intimacy.
Men more strongly endorse all the other motives, especially peer approval.