As if you needed every excuse in the book to have sex, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin are here to help. According to their latest study of 1,549 undergraduate students (at that age don’t you just have sex for the experience sometimes?) the top reasons for doing it involved attraction and pleasure. What I’m more interested in is the less attractive reasons for doing it, and yes, there were many.

Giving someone else an STI (sexually transmitted infection) ranked high on my list of absolutely, positively heinous reasons for having sex with anyone, but so did “I wanted to break up a rivals relationship by having sex with his/her partner.” Of course these two are on the list of infrequently used reasons, but still the fact that they’re being used at all makes me want to shake some people silly.

I love the shallow but honest reasons like he/she was too physically attractive to resist, or she/he had a nice body. Or the other motivational ones like I wanted to get a raise/job/promotion and the person had a lot of money.

You can read the rest of the excuses people have for having sex here (it’s a PDF so it will download).

Me? I’m going to watch the IFC’s Indie Sex mini-series. It starts tomorrow at midnight, but I have a preview copy, and no cable, and therefore I’ll report and you decide. I promise. I’ll at least watch the first show “Censorship” and let you know what I think.