A Night Out to Treasure: Is Attending Gigs Truly Favored More Than Sex?

Picture being gifted with a night off. You are rejuvenated, ready for adventure, and looking to change your regular habits of evening scrolling. Your options awaits your choice! Do you choose a) attending a concert or b) being with a partner? The response, as typically the case with such kinds of hypotheticals, is clearly: “It varies.” Reasonable people might logically wonder: what's the concert? With whom is the partner? Is it expected to be satisfying?

Not many would pick a heavy metal lineup if the alternative was one enchanted evening with a favorite star. But adjust any part of the comparison, and it turns more complicated. In the case of the 40,000 people asked this question through a major concert promoter, no additional clarification was provided – and the result emerged decisively and heavily supporting gigs.

Research Findings Reveal Interesting Preferences

A worldwide report, questioning 40,000 people ranging from 18 and 54 in different nations, found that live music have become the number one form of entertainment, ranking above athletic events, cinema and – absolutely – sexual intercourse. If restricted to a single form of activity for the rest of their lives, nearly four in ten picked live music, compared to film attendance (17%) and sports events (14%). The group was significantly more as likely to prefer attending their preferred performer on stage (70%) instead of sex (30%).

You appear expecting to be pleasantly surprised – and frequently you’ll end up with someone else’s hair in your mouth

Context and Considerations

Certainly it makes sense that a promotional study conducted for a gig organizer should come out so heavily preferring concerts – and, in the freewheeling spirit of a either-or question, if your preferred musician is, say Paul McCartney, it's understandable why watching him could prevail rather than a routine encounter. However this either-or decision between concerts or sex, clearly absurd even if it seems, is noteworthy to consider amid the peculiar juncture we experience with each.

The Change of Live Music Experience

In recent years, gig-going has grown beyond a communal experience but a intense competition. Live organizations duly point out that stadium attendance has “tripled year-over-year”, and festivals are fully reserved more rapidly than previously. Just obtaining admissions now needs extensive preparation, rapid-fire response times and bottomless pockets (or a substantial budget). Even if you manage, that alone won't do to simply turn up and experience the event. Nowadays exists an anticipation, especially for pop fans, that you might enhance your experience quality by going multiple times (including overseas trips), swotting up on the performance lineup in advance and memorizing the cues to follow and calls-and-responses developed through earlier audiences.

Many attendees admit to shaken by their attendance at major tours: appearing as a choreographed performance of massive crowds, to which particular fans turned up unaware of the routine. That 18-month event, earning massive sums, was proof of the lengths to which people will go to participate in a cultural moment and experience their top musician play, although the live sound appears more and more secondary to the production.

The Situation of Modern Intimacy

Sexual activity, conversely – a relatively cheap and common experience – experiences difficult times. According to modern research, nearly one in four of individuals were intimate in an regular period, while about three in ten were abstaining. In a different nation, modern figures indicated that more than 25% of adults said they had not sex a single time in the past year, increasing from fewer people in earlier years. Across these regions, the change has been associated with reduced intimacy with younger generations. Contrast this with the industry driving growth for major events and the cutthroat competition for tickets. Certainly it’s not as simple as a simple decision between both alternatives – “do you prefer attend a huge concert multiple times, or avoid intimacy?” – but it’s perhaps an indication of what is viewed as the more reliable pleasure.

Interesting Comparisons

Relationships and gigs are closer aligned than one may assume. Both represent the initiation of a connection, a real-world test of impressions or potential that may have developed solely in your imagination. You arrive with a basic expectation of how it’s likely to go, but expecting to be happily shocked – and how it ends up good or bad rests largely on if your enthusiasm and hopes align with others. Regularly you could wind up with another person's locks in your mouth, and later be hanging out for a smoke and personal space alone. Likewise with either, substances and drinks can potentially heighten or reduce the experience (but certainly help the worst experiences simpler to handle).

Seeking Harmony

The magic to both gigs and sex 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 recollection of successful moments, the understanding that success is achievable, that inspires us to give it another shot: to {