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Envision being gifted with a night off. You're feeling rejuvenated, open to experience, and wanting to shake up your regular habits of evening scrolling. Your options offers possibilities! Could you opt for a) attending a concert or b) engaging in intimacy? The outcome, as typically true with these types of questions, is clearly: “It varies.” Mature individuals could understandably ask: what's the concert? Who is the other person? Is it expected to be good?

Few would pick a Limp Bizkit/Slipknot/Korn triple bill if the choice was a magical night with a favorite star. Yet change any part of the equation, and it becomes less obvious. For the thousands surveyed presented with this choice from a live event company, no such clarification was offered – and the result was revealed unambiguously and strongly preferring gigs.

Survey Results Indicate Unexpected Trends

A worldwide survey, interviewing thousands of participants ranging from 18 and 54 from multiple countries, showed that live music have become the number one leisure activity, beating out sports, movies and – yes – sexual intercourse. If restricted to only one option of enjoyment for the rest of their lives, a significant portion chose gigs, compared to film attendance (17%) and sports events (14%). They were also over two times as prone to choose seeing their favourite artist in concert (70%) over sexual activity (30%).

You appear anticipating pleasantly surprised – and frequently you might find with someone else’s hair in your mouth

Factors and Reflections

Naturally it makes sense that a promotional study carried out for a gig organizer should come out so strongly supporting concerts – and, in the freewheeling tone of a either-or question, if your preferred musician is, such as an iconic star, it's understandable why attending his concert may be chosen rather than a ordinary situation. However this either-or decision between gigs or sexual activity, plainly ridiculous though it may be, is interesting to reflect on amid the peculiar juncture we face with both.

The Evolution of Live Music Experience

In recent years, gig-going has become not just a communal experience but a competitive sport. Live organizations duly point out that arena crowds has “increased threefold year-over-year”, and live events sell out quicker than before. Just obtaining passes now requires extensive preparation, instant reactions and bottomless pockets (or a high spending capacity). Though you manage, that alone won't do to simply turn up and watch the performance. There’s now an assumption, at least among music enthusiasts, that you could increase your return on investment by seeing several shows (potentially going abroad), swotting up on the song selection in advance and understanding the rituals to perform and calls-and-responses created by earlier audiences.

Many concertgoers report feeling affected by their experience at popular events: what seemed like a scripted production of massive crowds, where some individuals turned up unaware of the protocol. That 18-month concert series, producing huge revenue, showed of the lengths to which fans will travel to participate in a significant event and experience their top musician play, though the real performance appears more and more secondary to the spectacle.

The State of Modern Intimacy

Intimacy, on the other hand – a relatively cheap and common experience – experiences dire straits. Per recent surveys, approximately 25% of people were intimate in an regular period, while nearly 30% were sexually inactive. In a different nation, current statistics showed that a significant portion of individuals said they had not sex even once in the previous year, up from lower numbers in earlier years. Across these regions, the trend has been linked to less sexual activity among younger people. Compare this with the sector booming for stadium extravaganzas and the intense rivalry for tickets. Naturally it’s not as simple as a simple decision between both alternatives – “could you choose attend a huge concert multiple times, or avoid intimacy?” – but it’s perhaps an indication of how people see the more consistent pleasure.

Surprising Parallels

Sex and live music are more comparable than one may assume. Each symbolizes the commencement of a connection, a actual experience of impressions or promise that could have built solely in your imagination. You come with a basic expectation of how it’s likely to go, but hopeful of being pleasantly surprised – and whether it proves satisfying or frustrating depends very much on whether your energy and expectations align with others. Frequently you could wind up with someone else’s hair in your mouth, and afterwards be lingering for a cigarette and personal space by yourself. And, in both cases, stimulants and beverages can either enhance or detract from the situation (but certainly help the worst experiences simpler to handle).

Finding the Balance

The wonder to concerts and intimacy relies on discovering that elusive sweet spot between the known and the new, sameness and variation, work and relaxation. Naturally it's uncommon – but it's the remembrance of when they did, the knowledge that it can happen, that drives us to give it another shot: to {