# Make Art, Get Nookie!

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 1, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-art-get-nookie/333524 "2005-12-01T05:43:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-art-get-nookie/333524/1 "2005-12-01T05:43:06Z")

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[That’s what the latest scientific study says.](http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051128/full/051128-5.html)

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> Creative people have more sexual partners than the rest of us, say a pair of psychologists. They surveyed a hundred or so artists and poets, and claim that traits similar to those of schizophrenics explain these people’s success with members of the opposite sex

Hmm. Think I’d better get started on that novel I’ve always said that I was going to write!

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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-art-get-nookie/333524/2 "2005-12-01T13:14:05Z")

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Anecdotal evidence supports this: Modigliani was so unsuccessful that he died of malnutrition, but but he still attracted women who would’ve thought him a loser if he were making ten times as much sweeping the streets.

Robert Longo (famous for painting narcoleptic yuppies in the '80s) said that he became an artist because in college he’d seen how visiting artists came to his school, put up their works in the gallery, and got laid.

Maybe it’s because artists start out painting still lifes with fruit, then eat the fruit. later, when they work up to nudes…

(The unsettling thing about your link was that artists had 5-6 partners, non-artists 4. Um, was that just for one year? Is there a “oops - I’m a slut” smiley?)

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-art-get-nookie/333524/3 "2005-12-01T21:01:58Z")

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> They surveyed a hundred or so artists and poets, and claim that traits similar to those of schizophrenics explain these people’s success with members of the opposite sex

Waitaminnit, dammit! I’m a schizophrenic and therefore have ‘traits similar to those of schizophrenics’, how come it doesn’t work for me?

:mad:

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-art-get-nookie/333524/4 "2005-12-01T23:04:03Z")

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Wait a minute! According to the story, the artistic types _reported_ they had more sexual partners than the average person.

Maybe all it means is that artistic types lie about how much sex they’re getting better than the rest of us.

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/make-art-get-nookie/333524/5 "2005-12-01T23:21:45Z")

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My anecotal observations, from having associated with a group of youngish artists in Paris in the '90s, is that the study is correct. Went at it like rabbits, most of them did.