Although to be fair, the study doesn't mention comic artists and I'm not exactly in the same league as Picasso or Dylan...
Creativity Linked to Sexual Promiscuity
Researchers Find Artists Have More Sexual Partners
LONDON (Nov. 29) - Pablo Picasso, Lord Byron and Dylan Thomas had more in common than simple creativity. They also had active sex lives, which researchers said on Wednesday was no coincidence.
Psychologists at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Open University in Britain found that professional artists and poets have about twice as many partners as other people.
Their creativity seems to act like a sexual magnet.
But Dr. Daniel Nettle, a psychologist at Newcastle University's School of Biology, said it is a double-edge sword.
"Poets and artists have more sexual partners but they also have high rates of depression," he told Reuters.
Nettle and his colleague Helen Clegg questioned 425 British men and women, including professional artists, poets and schizophrenic patients, about their creative activity, sexual encounters and mental health characteristics.
Although creative people have long been associated with active sex lives, the researchers believe their study is the first to back it up with research.
They found that professional artists and poets had between 4 and 10 sexual partners, while less creative people had an average of three.
...eeeek. I'm not even AVERAGE?! Read the whole thing here:
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20051129190809990013&ncid=NWS00010000000001
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