An Evening to Treasure: Is Attending Gigs Honestly Preferred Over Sex?

Envision finding yourself with a open night. You're feeling refreshed, eager for new things, and hoping to break from your usual routine of relaxing at home. Your options offers possibilities! Would you opt for a) seeing live music or b) engaging in intimacy? The response, as is often seen with these types of hypotheticals, is obviously: “It depends.” Mature individuals could understandably wonder: what is the concert? With whom is the partner? Is it likely to be satisfying?

Few would select a heavy metal lineup if the alternative was a dream date with a favorite star. But adjust any part of the scenario, and it turns more complicated. For the 40,000 people posed this query from a gig organization, no additional context was offered – and the result came out decisively and heavily preferring concerts.

Study Data Show Unexpected Choices

A worldwide study, polling thousands of participants aged between 18 and 54 across multiple countries, found that concerts are now the number one form of entertainment, beating out games, cinema and – indeed – sexual intercourse. If restricted to a single form of enjoyment for the rest of their lives, a significant portion chose live music, compared to going to the cinema (17%) and athletic competitions (14%). Participants were over two times as prone to select attending their preferred performer on stage (70%) instead of sex (30%).

You show up expecting to be happily shocked – and quite often you could wind up with a stranger's hair in your mouth

Factors and Reflections

Certainly it makes sense that a PR survey carried out for a live event company should come out so overwhelmingly preferring concerts – and, in the freewheeling mood of a would-you-rather, if your favourite artist is, such as an iconic star, it's understandable why attending his concert might win out instead of a ordinary situation. Yet this two-option scenario between live music or sex, obviously silly as it is, is fascinating to think about amid the peculiar moment we face with each.

The Transformation of Live Music Experience

In recent years, gig-going has grown beyond a communal experience but a intense competition. Major promoters duly point out that stadium attendance has “increased threefold year-over-year”, and music festivals are fully reserved quicker than before. Merely acquiring passes now demands extensive preparation, instant reactions and bottomless pockets (or a generous credit card limit). Although you manage, it isn't sufficient to just show up and experience the event. Currently there is an expectation, especially for pop fans, that you can boost your enjoyment value by seeing several shows (including overseas trips), swotting up on the performance lineup ahead of time and memorizing the cues to follow and calls-and-responses developed through past attendees.

Several concertgoers report feeling shaken by their experience at popular events: appearing as a choreographed performance of massive crowds, in which some individuals came not knowing the routine. The extended concert series, producing huge revenue, demonstrated of the degree to which fans will travel to participate in a historic occasion and experience their top musician play, though the actual music grows somewhat less important than the show.

The State of Modern Intimacy

Sex, conversely – an affordable and common experience – experiences dire straits. Per contemporary studies, nearly one in four of adults were intimate in an average week, while just under a third were abstaining. In another major country, current statistics revealed that more than 25% of people admitted to avoiding sexual activity even once in the past year, rising from smaller percentages in the past. In both territories, the trend has been attributed to decreased encounters in youth demographics. Contrast this with the industry driving growth for stadium extravaganzas and the fierce battle for passes. Naturally it’s not as simple as a basic option between either option – “do you prefer attend a huge concert multiple times, or remain abstinent?” – but it’s perhaps an signal of which is perceived as the more reliable satisfaction.

Interesting Comparisons

Intimacy and concerts are more comparable than people often believe. They both embody the commencement of a bond, a real-world test of ideas or potential that may have developed solely in your imagination. You arrive with a basic expectation of what might happen, but hopeful of being pleasantly surprised – and if it turns out satisfying or frustrating depends very much on whether your energy and anticipations align with others. Quite often you could wind up with another person's locks in your mouth, and afterwards be hanging out for a smoke and personal space alone. And, in both cases, drugs and alcohol can either enhance or reduce the event (but absolutely assist the most dire situations more bearable).

Achieving Equilibrium

The appeal to concerts and intimacy depends on finding that hard-to-find balance between the known and the new, sameness and variation, work and relaxation. Naturally it's uncommon – but it's the recollection of when it worked, the understanding that success is achievable, that inspires us to try again: to {