Scientists find there are four types of lovers including one that cant stop having sex

Lovers are a lot like hot sauce — they range from “mild” to “intense.”Australian scientists have boiled romantic lovers down into four categories — with the most extreme said to make whoopee up to 20 times per week, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences.“The bottom line is that we don’t all love the same,” said Adam Bode, head researcher and PHD student at the Australian National University in Canberra, Phys.org reported.Bode, who specializes in romantic love and human mating, felt that this field was woefully “under-researched given its importance in family and romantic relationship formation, its influence on culture and its proposed universality.”As such, he wanted to blaze a trail in the realm of boudoir scholarship.“While there is evidence of variation in the psychological expression of romantic love, to our knowledge, no one has attempted to directly empirically investigate this phenomenon,” he wrote.To shed light on the seemingly taboo topic, Bode and his team pulled stats from the Romantic Love Survey 2022, a dataset using data from over 1,500 people spanning 33 different countries.They then categorized 809 young adults who were in love based on commitment, obsessive thinking, emotional intensity, and sex frequency.

Participants were also asked about various habits, such as how often they drink alcohol, whether they’re on antidepressants or if they drive dangerously.From these results, researchers were able to group the respondents into four very hot sauce-esque categories: mild, moderate, intense, and libidinous.Mild lovers, who made up 20% of all lovers, displayed the lowest levels of all the romantic love categories, from commitment to sexual activity.Only 25% reported that their partner was in love with them, and they reportedly had sex twice a week on average.“They have fallen in love the greatest number of times, have been in love for the shortest length of ...