Acording to thisthis study, professional artists and poets averaged 4 to 10 sexual partners, while other (British) people averaged only 3.
Aside from both being surprisingly low, this is interesting because it backs up a theory I've always abhored. One Dr. Miller decided that men developed artistic ability in order to woo females. Like bower birds. And females developed the ability to appreciate art so that we could better pick a mate. Booo.
I guess to test the theory, one could see if artists had more babies than others. But still, I think I will automatically hate all theories in which females just evolved things because males were evolving them.
Also interesting, "Volunteers were also assessed for character traits associated with schizophrenia which has previously been linked to creativity. "
Posted by bluprnt at December 16, 2005 09:14 PM