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It’s not just a myth: Creative types really do get more action. But are they any good?
By Em & Lo
Pity the poor suits-bedroom stereotypes have never credited them with much skill in the sack. Whoever heard of a stockbroker with screaming groupies? And you can forget about asking someone up to see your spreadsheets. As if that wasn’t bad enough, a recent British study found that professional creative types (whether male or female) have, on average, twice as many sexual partners as their nonartist peers. Bring on the paint-splattered overalls!
“Art is so sexy,” says Katie, a 24-year-old graphic designer-“music, painting, writing, whatever. Artists have passion and dedication for their craft, which leads me to believe that they’ll be the same in bed.” Star, 24, a business student who also works in the music industry, agrees. “A suit wouldn’t be able to give me a real hot sex adventure-a guy in Carhartts usually does.” It’s no wonder that more than half the people we polled described themselves as artists trapped in the business world-and not one claimed to be a suit trapped in an atelier.
But where does this reputation come from? Is it really possible that every creative type in this city-from the well-reviewed Park Slope author to the artist whose medium is her own menstrual blood-is preternaturally gifted in bed?
“Artists are more in touch with their emotions-and that makes for more interesting fucking,” says Chris, 31, who runs a film-and-music production company. He mentions an artsy date who embraced her double-jointedness. “She was willing to introduce her contortionist moves into the bedroom. A more conservative girl might have been afraid of looking like a circus freak.”
Tales of phenomenal art booty notwithstanding, the British survey assessed quantity, not quality. And here, the flexible schedules of artists are an advantage. “My mid-morning start time allows me to stay out late during the week with relative ease,” says Kay, a 37-year-old graphic designer in Manhattan. “And if I stay over at a man’s apartment, I can still make it home to shower after a full night’s sleep.”
But still: Even if they do get more, are artists actually better in bed? We found a few trend-buckers who argue that the buttoned-down are more fun. Maude, 49, who works with the homeless by day and on her art by night, is far more likely to woo the suit these days: “The sheer novelty, the unlikelihood of connubial bliss, the naughtiness of slumming-it’s endless!”
And she’s not the only one who’s into the reverse stereotype of getting hot and heavy with an Ann Taylor or a Brooks Brother. “I’m much more turned on now by finding a hidden hedonist beneath a suit than bringing out the same ‘one-trick pony’ that every arty girl has brought out from Mr. Overalls,” says Sarah, 31, a former starving artist who now makes her living as a social scientist. Bi-coastal commercial photographer Mark, 40, agrees. “The women who seem ordinary are the ones most likely to have handcuffs in their handbags. And the girls who play up their sexuality-often artist types-are far less experimental and often more inhibited.”
Mark may be on to something. Personal experience tells us that more than a few creative types in this city are coasting on the well-worn myth that artists are better lays. Perhaps they’re creating art because they’re uncreative in bed, or perhaps they aren’t creative in bed because they create art. A painter who spends all day working on nude sketches has less of a need to make something beautiful at night; by contrast, someone whose life is spent hunched over Excel files might have a greater need to let go.
Add to that the British study’s finding that artists are more likely to be depressed, and it’s a wonder they get laid at all.
“I used to be drawn to the creative type,” says Maude. “But I got tired of all the substance abuse and sullen behavior.” Sarah agrees: “All that experimentation and the open definitions of sexuality were very freeing, but at the same time, there were a lot of high expectations and low performance.” She argues there’s a practical side to dating the suit, too. “He can probably afford a swank hotel, and I won’t have to worry about saying hi to his roommates on the next-morning walk of shame.”
http://newyorkmetro.com/relationships/mating/16034/
It’s not just a myth: Creative types really do get more action. But are they any good?
By Em & Lo
Pity the poor suits-bedroom stereotypes have never credited them with much skill in the sack. Whoever heard of a stockbroker with screaming groupies? And you can forget about asking someone up to see your spreadsheets. As if that wasn’t bad enough, a recent British study found that professional creative types (whether male or female) have, on average, twice as many sexual partners as their nonartist peers. Bring on the paint-splattered overalls!
“Art is so sexy,” says Katie, a 24-year-old graphic designer-“music, painting, writing, whatever. Artists have passion and dedication for their craft, which leads me to believe that they’ll be the same in bed.” Star, 24, a business student who also works in the music industry, agrees. “A suit wouldn’t be able to give me a real hot sex adventure-a guy in Carhartts usually does.” It’s no wonder that more than half the people we polled described themselves as artists trapped in the business world-and not one claimed to be a suit trapped in an atelier.
But where does this reputation come from? Is it really possible that every creative type in this city-from the well-reviewed Park Slope author to the artist whose medium is her own menstrual blood-is preternaturally gifted in bed?
“Artists are more in touch with their emotions-and that makes for more interesting fucking,” says Chris, 31, who runs a film-and-music production company. He mentions an artsy date who embraced her double-jointedness. “She was willing to introduce her contortionist moves into the bedroom. A more conservative girl might have been afraid of looking like a circus freak.”
Tales of phenomenal art booty notwithstanding, the British survey assessed quantity, not quality. And here, the flexible schedules of artists are an advantage. “My mid-morning start time allows me to stay out late during the week with relative ease,” says Kay, a 37-year-old graphic designer in Manhattan. “And if I stay over at a man’s apartment, I can still make it home to shower after a full night’s sleep.”
But still: Even if they do get more, are artists actually better in bed? We found a few trend-buckers who argue that the buttoned-down are more fun. Maude, 49, who works with the homeless by day and on her art by night, is far more likely to woo the suit these days: “The sheer novelty, the unlikelihood of connubial bliss, the naughtiness of slumming-it’s endless!”
And she’s not the only one who’s into the reverse stereotype of getting hot and heavy with an Ann Taylor or a Brooks Brother. “I’m much more turned on now by finding a hidden hedonist beneath a suit than bringing out the same ‘one-trick pony’ that every arty girl has brought out from Mr. Overalls,” says Sarah, 31, a former starving artist who now makes her living as a social scientist. Bi-coastal commercial photographer Mark, 40, agrees. “The women who seem ordinary are the ones most likely to have handcuffs in their handbags. And the girls who play up their sexuality-often artist types-are far less experimental and often more inhibited.”
Mark may be on to something. Personal experience tells us that more than a few creative types in this city are coasting on the well-worn myth that artists are better lays. Perhaps they’re creating art because they’re uncreative in bed, or perhaps they aren’t creative in bed because they create art. A painter who spends all day working on nude sketches has less of a need to make something beautiful at night; by contrast, someone whose life is spent hunched over Excel files might have a greater need to let go.
Add to that the British study’s finding that artists are more likely to be depressed, and it’s a wonder they get laid at all.
“I used to be drawn to the creative type,” says Maude. “But I got tired of all the substance abuse and sullen behavior.” Sarah agrees: “All that experimentation and the open definitions of sexuality were very freeing, but at the same time, there were a lot of high expectations and low performance.” She argues there’s a practical side to dating the suit, too. “He can probably afford a swank hotel, and I won’t have to worry about saying hi to his roommates on the next-morning walk of shame.”
http://newyorkmetro.com/relationships/mating/16034/