# Mens thinking **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 10, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747 "2002-09-10T01:15:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![insider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@insider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/insider)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/1 "2002-09-10T01:15:50Z")
Why is it that men seem to think about sex so much more than women? What thoughts come in second and third in terms of frequency for men? What thoughts go through the female mind most frequently on a daily basis? ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/2 "2002-09-10T01:26:09Z")
We mostly think about ways to torment men, didn’t you know? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/3 "2002-09-10T01:48:05Z")
> [@](#): > > What thoughts come in second and third in terms of frequency for men? Second: More sex Third: Still more Sex After that comes Sports (except for weird cases like me), drinking, cars, violent explosion-filled movies, sex, and math (in my case, at least) ---
**Author:** ![glarGH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/76d3ee/32.png) [@glarGH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glarGH)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/4 "2002-09-10T01:48:52Z")
hahahaha… I do believe we think about the same things: food, fun, procreation. I may be different because I spend a good deal of my time making plans for crushing the not so fair sex under the heel of my boot. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/5 "2002-09-10T01:54:17Z")
glarGH-That would be what is known as the sacred “3 F’s”. As long as the jimmy is alive, the jimmy will be trying to throw in its two cents. ---
**Author:** ![Thinktank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Thinktank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinktank)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/6 "2002-09-10T01:59:07Z")
It’s quite laughable (the topic) and yet if I were to take this all seriously I couldn’t give you an accurate enough answer. Sex, then what looks good to us, what tastes good to us what feels good to us… sex… repeat… umm, all I know is women love when you pretend that you have no intention of F\*\*\*\*\* them and talk about intellectual things . As if there is a man alive that would rather focus on thinking as opposed to sex-ing yes… a new word… lol ---
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/7 "2002-09-10T02:48:55Z")
if women really knew what men were thinking, they would never stop slapping us. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/8 "2002-09-10T06:39:27Z")
I would never had thought it possible when I was in my 20s, but when you pass 40 you don’t think about sex as much. In fact, you start thinking about how great it would be if you could get into bed . . . and take a nap. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/9 "2002-09-10T06:48:07Z")
Joke: **Why do men name their penises?** Becuase they don’t feel comfortable having a complete stranger make up 98% of their decisions for them. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/10 "2002-09-10T11:49:57Z")
> [@](#): > > if women really knew what men were thinking, they would never stop slapping us. From Larry Miller’s standup act, right? ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/11 "2002-09-10T15:18:52Z")
Men think about the task at hand, and how to achieve a goal. Men think of how to achieve status and rank, and accordingly jockey for position. Men think of how others are to be dependent on them, yet to remain independent themselves. Men want to provide, to fix what’s broke, and to WIN. ---
**Author:** ![Mimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@Mimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mimi)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/12 "2002-09-10T16:40:03Z")
Geez, I wish my boyfriend thought that often about sex! ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/13 "2002-09-10T17:22:27Z")
**Enola Straight** , I never read a more succinct outline of male psychology. ---
**Author:** ![ElJeffe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@ElJeffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElJeffe)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/14 "2002-09-10T17:41:20Z")
Yeah, I gotta ditto what Enola said. Well put, and very accurate. Incidentally, while I love sex as much as the next guy, I really don’t think about it that much when I’m not actually in a position to get laid _right now_. Maybe it’s a side effect of getting married, and knowing that I don’t need to actively plot ways to get in the sack, I can just go home and proposition my wife. Jeff ---
**Author:** ![muppeteer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@muppeteer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muppeteer)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/15 "2002-09-11T11:15:25Z")
**Enola Straight:** Perhaps you are confusing the terms “Western White Collar Worker” and “male”. Personally I think everyones thinking is naturally different although we are conditioned to think about certain things. Anyway who “thinks” sex? Surely its something you _feel_ the need for? ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/16 "2002-09-11T12:43:56Z")
I sometimes go Days without thinking about sex. I think it is just one of those sterotypes that some men propogate because they think that is what is expected of them as men. A societal (sp?) brainwashing. Gotta look good in front of your friends right? (weak bastards) ---
**Author:** ![celestina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/258eb7/32.png) [@celestina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/celestina)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/17 "2002-09-11T13:50:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Enola Straight \* > \*\*Men think about the task at hand, and how to achieve a goal. > > Men think of how to achieve status and rank, and accordingly jockey for position. > > Men think of how others are to be dependent on them, yet to remain independent themselves. > > Men want to provide, to fix what’s broke, and to WIN. \*\* **Enola Straight** , interesting. I’ve heard other fellas say things along these lines too. But you know what? All that stuff you mentioned, I’ve seen and heard women do and say they think about as well. It’s so difficult to figure out you fellas. Y’all sure are fascinatin’, though. Keep the answers comin’. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/18 "2002-09-11T14:02:56Z")
I thought breasts it was that men breasts have evolved to have children breasts by as many women as possible, and breasts women to have children by the best and/or best-child-looker-after breasts she can. Thinking breasts about sex is nature’s way of telling us breasts to breasts have breasts sex. Of course, we are now rising above all that. breasts Honest. breasts ---
**Author:** ![PosterChild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e274bd/32.png) [@PosterChild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PosterChild)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/19 "2002-09-11T14:13:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Epimetheus \* > \*\*I sometimes go Days without thinking about sex. I think it is just one of those sterotypes that some men propogate because they think that is what is expected of them as men. A societal (sp?) brainwashing. Gotta look good in front of your friends right? (weak bastards) \*\* I totally agree, only **sometimes** is it sex. Sometimes it’s how to get it, or who to have it with, or how enjoyable it is, and sometimes it’s food (which we all know is a Freudian substitute for sex). PC 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747/20 "2002-09-11T14:18:26Z")
Heh. Anybody besides me see the irony in a thread like this being started by somebody with the name ‘Insider’? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mens-thinking/127747.md?page=2)