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Add to FavoritesStudents with higher IQ's are less likely to be sexually active for several reasons. Those reasons are cognitive capacity, education, susceptibility to illogical reasoning and lifestyle. Essentially, because IQ is linked to cognitive ability that intellectual prowess allows would be sex fiends with intelligence to think more deeply about thoroughly engaging in the activity.
1- Discretion/Thoughtfu lness: Those students with higher IQ's are more likely to consider negative implications of sex such as STD's, pregnancy, angry parents, emotional ramifications and moral factors.
2-Education: IQ has been linked to educational environment. Given this premise it can be stated higher IQ implies some kind of education which includes sexual education. Since sexual education generally doesn't promote frivolous, undiscerning sexual rampages a sexually educated student is less likely to be as sexually active as a non sexually educated student. What's more, with or without a sexual education, a student with a high IQ is more likely to be self educated on the matter by virtue of intelligence.
3-Lifes tyle: Some students with high IQ are engaged in academic activities from an early age. This affects their world view and lifestyle. Since they may be more active in academics and pursuits of the mind, they may spend less time pursuing girls and therefore also have less time to have sex.
4-Influence: Students with higher IQ are less likely to succumb to negative social influences, social environment, peer pressure and the negative effects of inherent character flaws because they are more likely to think around these influences. For example, a mentally able student may think twice about his/her own hormones and addictive personality if s(he) has one. In other words a highly intelligent student has the potential to think about an issue more.
Those who argue intelligence plays no role in the decision to have sex are wrong. Many people think about sex before having it, the smarter one is, the better informed said decision is inclined to be. What's more, while upbringing may influence a students belief about sex, and intelligent student is more likely to question that upbringing thereby nullifying it's influence via the method demonstrated by point 4 above.
While many students have sex, including intelligent ones. The level of sexual activity is also worth considering as an intelligent student may realize that the more partners one have the greater the chance of a problem emerging. Thus, although an intelligent student may indeed have sex, he or she may choose to refrain and have only one partner instead of 5.
The study stating students with higher IQ's are less likely to be sexually active is well founded and is supported by this article. What's more the study itself presents 'proof' that higher IQ's influence sexual activity. It is for these reasons that one can logically conclude higher IQ in students affects sexual activity toward the more prudent end of the sexual spectrum.
Disclaimer: The above article is for debate purposes only and consequently may not represent the true opinion or belief(s) of the author.
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The study is very discriminatory...it' s like saying people with higher IQ's are superior, people with lower IQ's are inferior. This sounds like the same type of studies that said blacks had inferior IQ's to whites and Asians. It's like saying so-called 'lower'-IQ people are more feral, more primal, more into lust because sex and sexuality is supposedly associated with the 'reptilian' part of the human brain: 'fight or flight'-and somehow because their less smarter, their more 'reptilian' in their thinking. Lust came come from the reptilian brain, yes, but the associated emotions of love, caring, tenderness, concern come from the more evolved centers of the human brain that all humans have, irregardless of IQ.
Intelligence does not decide degree of sexual activity; individuals do. It's who we are as individuals, our personality, our mindset. Some of the most heinous sex crimes were committed by people with well above average intelligence. True, they could be sociopathic and psychotic, but many were not and enjoyed committing sex crimes because it was an act of control and an anti-women bias. This can go back to minset and personality. Rape is rarely associated with just sex; it's considered an act of control, dominance, depravity asnd humiliation of a woman through the non-consenting sex. But sex is still the means.
A lot of these studies are flawed because it may not be an accurate representation of subjects for study. There could be bias on behalf of the researchers, like during racial studies that wrongfully showed African-Americans being inferior to whites. There were many misrepresentations of blacks because society was very segregated, coupled with terrible stereotypes of blacks. The study saying students are less sexually active if they have a higher IQ has to be dissected backwards and forwards. More than likely it is very discriminatory in favor of what is perceived as higher-IQ individuals, per se. The demographic parameters for the group is flawed and the such.
Even the IQ tests themselves may be flawed to the subject-groups taking them, not taking into consideration learning disabilities and the such that even the great Einstein had. Albert Einstein was one of the greatest thinkers of the 20th century, coming up with scientific theories that are still at the core of modern scientific thought and processes. He had a very sexual side to himself, exposing himself naked to prospective women he wanted to have sex with. All of this while married. Even the whole concept of IQ tests are flawed in the first place and may not even be a fair evaluation of IQ.
The whole study is just part of an elitist type of thinking that started with the racial and eugenci studies that led to so much misery and suffering in the 20th century. Things like racial genocide and forced sterilizations came as the result of these studies. Studies like this don't just represent the student population-they are aimed at the population at large. This time we are more enlightened and more historically informed to the tragedies of the past...with an eye towards preventing future ones.
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