Thoughts From Guys On Our IM: How Do The Seasons Affect Your Interest In Sex And Relationships?

Chelle
wrote on March 25 2009 @ 10:11 am: [report]

Strange. Now that I think about it, I’ve broken up with boyfriends in the spring and summer many times. I’ve only done it twice in the winter time. I do get a little hornier in the warmer months. I think it’s because heat increases circulation. More blood’s flowing down there and everywhere else too. Maybe that’s another reason why guys get that way.

Naneenya
wrote on March 25 2009 @ 10:48 am: [report]

I thought the obvious answer would have been “Because women start to shave their legs again”.

Nan
wrote on March 25 2009 @ 03:54 pm: [report]

ahaha i love the guys on your IM, amelia. “um, my boner is a professional. it does not wither”—love it.

Yellow
wrote on March 25 2009 @ 03:55 pm: [report]

I’ve almost always started relationships in the fall, and ended them in the spring (not always the first spring after that fall…). This was the first winter I have EVER been single since I started dating, whereas I’ve had plenty of single (and really fun!) summers. That said, it’s nice to have a BF in the spring, because I turn into a dog in heat, and need someone to take it out on.

loveitlala
wrote on March 25 2009 @ 05:58 pm: [report]

I always start relationships in the spring and end them in the summer (years between).

Sofjna
wrote on March 25 2009 @ 07:15 pm: [report]

oohhh, just the other day it was warm and sunny where I live, and it got me all excited to be single this year.  I think the warm weather deffinatly brings out some excitment.

joyy
wrote on March 25 2009 @ 10:02 pm: [report]

So JD thinks people have more sex in the summer?  huh.  I was flipping through the state vital statistics (for work, fun fun) and looking at the births for the state from month to month, late summer births were highest (from sexing in the winter). 

Attitudes towards sex may be related to the change in season for sure though - most people are a little more down over the winter unless they live in super sunny climates.  As you get more sun most people naturally perk up a bit, and combining that with the whole (and I quote many a guy friend here) “girls dress like sluts again” sentiment would totally lend itself to the ideas iterated in the guys’ comments though.

retro chic
wrote on March 25 2009 @ 11:42 pm: [report]

ah-haaa, JDV 2:40, so wouldn’t all that indoor Winter canoodling and rutting lead to other seasonal gifts nine months later? (Summer/Fall; CDC birth rate stats)
Mmm, JDV 1:54: I’m a Fall girl myself, but seasons don’t matter much out here. But do love all those Easterner layers of Fall/Winter romance.

dream316
wrote on March 26 2009 @ 02:40 am: [report]

@retro chic, I’m with you on the jealousy of eastern layers (but not their winters)!  But I wonder how this seasonal business applies to us out here where we can wear dresses and tank tops year round…is the change of attitude that comes with the changing of the seasons enough to affect our sex drives?  And are things like the holidays (how miserable is it to be single on New Years or V-Day?) or times of year when work is particularly stressful for lots of people just as important as the temperature and more flesh on display?  For those of us in school, summer is also a time of location change often, so at least among young people it could either be a time of LDR-fearing break-ups or summer flings based on the idea that they have to end when we return to our real lives.