In fact, there are 237 reasons why we do the deed as this Globe and Mail explains, some of them are pretty imaginative.

Some highlights from the article:

The reasons range from the obvious (”it feels good”) and the devious (”I wanted to get a raise”) to the romantic (”I was in love”) and the mundane (”I was bored”) to the religious (”I wanted to feel closer to God”) and the counterintuitive (”I wanted to get rid of a headache”).

Others were disturbingly manipulative, including “to give someone a sexually transmitted disease,” and “to gain access to that person’s friend.”

Men were more likely to say they had sex “to change the topic of conversation” and “to get a favour from someone” and “to be popular.” Women were also less likely to have sex as a way of keeping their partner satisfied.

Almost all of the 25 most common reasons each gender gave for having sex were the same, with “I was attracted to the person” being the top for both men and women. Others included, “I wanted to express my love for the person” and “I was horny.

In fact, the study group came up with 715 reasons to have sex, a number that was, because of similarities, reduced to 237.