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 The subjects (N=173; young university students) completed an initial questionnaire explaining the study and the concepts of happiness. Afterwards, at random intervals, they received text messages from the researchers querying them on the current activity they were engaged in, how happy they were, and how pleasurable, meaningful and engaging said activity was.
-Sex was clearly rated as the happiest, and most pleasurable, meaningful, and engaging activity.
+Sex was clearly rated as the happiest, and most pleasurable, meaningful, and engaging activity. Also some of the other highly rated activities are associated to sex in the sense of potentially leading up to it (partying, socializing) and the high meaningfulness and joy of sex may "rub off" on these activities.
-Related to this, in a French survey, 68.8% of men (N = 8,948) and 59.5% of women (N = 11,098) said that "sexual intercourse is essential to feeling good about oneself" (Bajos, 2010).
+Related to this, in a French survey, 68.8% of men (N = 8,948) and 59.5% of women (N = 11,098) said that "sexual intercourse is essential to feeling good about oneself" (Bajos, 2010). In all of these kinds of studies it is plausible that people did not answer truthfully and downplay their joy of sex in order to avoid being seen as shallow ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_desirability_bias social desirability bias]).
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