‘Creativity’ is your Sex Barometer

Now if this research finding is to be believed then it could very well mean that M. F. Hussain is a sex-a-holic loony bin….eeeeekkkkssss!!!

The list of promiscuous poets and artists is long, as is the list of poets’ and artists’ children who suffer from mental illnesses such as schizophrenia. Now new research links creative ability and sexual success–and explains why something as seemingly maladaptive as schizophrenia would persist among humans.

Results of that survey showed that people who displayed strong evidence of “unusual experiences” and “impulsive non-conformity”–two broad types of schizophrenic behavior–had more sexual partners than their peers and were more likely to be involved in artistic pursuits, either professionally or as a hobby. Those who professionally pursued the arts had the highest average number of partners–5.5–compared to just over four for the less creativestudy participants. [Link]

However nothing comes too easy in life….

Psychologists at the University of Newcastle and the Open University found that professional artists and poets have about twice as many partners as other people. Their creativity seems to act like a sexual magnet.

Dr Daniel Nettle, a psychologist at Newcastle University’s School of Biology, said it is a double-edge sword.

“Poets and artists have more sexual partners but they also have high rates of depression,” he told Reuters. [Link]