What makes a man happy?" is a question I came across in a happiness and fitness forum.

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About 30 responded. Their answers were sorted out and arranged according to commonality. Here are the first four:

1. Sex;
2. Women they love, respect and get along with;
3. Beer;
4. Feelings of machismo.

It's difficult to argue about "Sex" in the top of the list on what makes a Man happy. In fact it supports an article written by Dr. David Delvin, GP and family planning specialist, which asserts that men are sexually driven.

What makes their answers very interesting is the sexual connation of the next best three.

Consider these:

- Women they love, respect and get along with:

This can drive a man's desire for sex or be felt only after having a good one.

- Beer:

When men sit down together for beer, they don't play cards. They talk of a lot of things. Whatever they are, however, talk will ultimately zero in on women and sex.

If they do play cards, they will be fixated on the Queen.

- Feelings of machismo:

Is there a better way of expressing this than by having sex with women? Lots and lots of women! The more women, the more macho Man feels.

Am I reading between the lines? Hardly! Experience tells me that I am not way off the mark.

So why are men so preoccupied with sex?

You ask a panda why it loves to eat bamboo shoots or a koala bear, young leaves of eucalyptus trees.

Their answers will be the same - to survive.

To survive, Man has to have sex, not eat bamboo shoots or eucalypts leaves. Nature programmed Him for sex so he can produce children; to expand the tribe. 'There is strength in numbers' is a truism that came to him early on.

It does make a perfectly sound reason for the primitive Man. Life was hard. He needed help to farm, to hunt, to carve out a home from caves. He has to have a large tribe to protect himself from other tribes or other predators.

It is an alibi for the modern Man.

Modern man doesn't sow and reap, doesn't hunt, doesn't live in caves, has no natural predators and prefers to keep a space from other men. Life now has never been easier. Everything we find in the markets or grocery stalls are meant to make Man's life easy and safe.

Yet he is still sexually-driven. In fact he is more so than his primitive cousins. He was been this way since he first realized that there was a reason and purpose for his erection.

Why? I can venture the following thoughts:

First - Natural progression:

Just like the progression in Marlowe's hierarchy of needs, Man has progressed from the need to survive to the need to "make a statement."

You can see it by his need to have a successful career, new car, signature clothing, fat paychecks, annual vacation, club memberships, beautiful women on top of a beautiful wife and family, etc.

And each statement is punctuated with "SEX."

Second - Paradigm shift among women:

From a lowly and insignificant part of society tasked to take care of the house and bear children, they, too, have progressed into something entirely different from their primitive counterparts.

Now they are career-driven. They want to have a say in the house and to carve out their own destinies. They want to be able to support themselves rather than be dependent on their husbands.

They are making a statement, too, in an entirely different way.

They gorge on dieting programs and frequent health clubs to develop libido-inciting bodies, wear clothes that can make a man's jaws drop as if hit by a wild haymaker, underwear to showcase a cleavage so deep it can drown a man with desire, scents that can make a man drool, cosmetics than can transform her to a woman, man will gladly lose and arm or a leg for, or a family for that matter.

Third - Attitude change towards sex:

What was taboo then, is generally accepted, albeit, with discretion, now.

Both man and woman these days take consensual and casual sex as an "add-on" to any social or professional interaction. Just like an app to a mobile - nice to have though not very necessary.

Man's sexual appetite, once driven by the need to survive is now driven by the need to satisfy the senses, if not the ego. And there are no signs of its waning.

Fortunately for man, "sex" is a need the supply of which will always far exceed the demand. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a long step before we revert to being primitive again.

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