Live Science is reporting on a study that concludes that aggressive, warm, cold, antagonistic and/or dominant people tend to have more sex partners.

So Patrick Markey, a psychologist at Villanova University, and his wife Charlotte Markey, a psychologist at Rutgers University, asked 210 adults to take a test to measure their interpersonal characteristics. They also asked the subjects to indicate with how many people they had engaged in certain sexual activities.

When they compared the subjects’ responses, they were able to confirm that dominance is a key trait of people who have a lot of sexual partners. They also found that people who are either extremely warm or extremely cold toward others tend to be promiscuous — and that people who are just moderately warm have the fewest sexual partners.

Antagonistic people might prefer to have multiple sex partners in order to avoid being in a monogamous relationship, out of fear of being poorly treated or being later rejected by a committed partner, the authors noted in their study, which is to be published in the Journal of Research in Personality.

Lets see. That’s people who are afraid of commitment or people who are overly needy. It’s also people who are very warm or very cold or people who are very aggressive or dominant.

Maybe it’s just me, but that seems to cover just about every Jack and Jill. Is it just me?

More from Live Science here and here.

Hiya Hazel - I started to comment that HORNY people sleep around, but I’ve known lonely and angry people who sleep around. For them, sex isn’t the reason. Do you think it might sometimes have anything to do with wanting variety? curiosity? Uhhh - in other words - what you said. TTFN, Adeline