We’ve had reasons for sex, how about IQ?

I recently posted about how they found 237 reasons to have sex.  And I still think that’s an arbitrary number.  So today when I read this, I thought that it was interesting…

Tyler Cowen quotes from a new study testing the relationship between grades and delayed sexual activity. Last December I passed a paper along to Razib showing that high-school age adolescents with higher IQs and extremely low IQs were less likely to have had first intercourse than those with average to below average intelligence. (i.e. for males with IQs under 70, 63.3% were still virgins, for those with IQs between 70-90 only 50.2% were virgin, 58.6% were virgins with IQs between 90-110, and 70.3% with IQs over 110 were virgins) In fact, a more detailed study from 2000 is devoted strictly to this topic, and finds the same thing: Smart Teens Don’t Have Sex (or Kiss Much Either).”

So the thought is, a person’s IQ figures into how much sex they have.  I can see it happening.  They have often noted that school dropouts, drug users and other signs of people of sometimes not the highest IQ tend to have more sex, more kids.  Before it was “related to education,” but as they also start stating that IQ is also related to higher education.

So what, Geniuses don’t have as much sex, is that why its considered rare?

Tags: Interesting, Irony, Knowledge, Psychology, Sex