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Mental illness link to art and sex

“A survey comparing mental health and the number of sexual partners among the general population, artists and schizophrenics found that artists are more likely to share key behavioural traits with schizophrenics, and that they have on average twice as many sexual partners as the rest of the population.”

Via Duck Duck Book.

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  • the_misha
    December 15, 2005 at 9:26 am

    Um, yes, well.

    I think I’ll join you at the “without comment” table, come to think of it.

  • jactitation
    December 15, 2005 at 10:22 am

    And the correllation is not causation award does not go to…

  • blackberrytart
    December 16, 2005 at 5:40 am

    this sounds so strangely pointed it’s almost funny! are they saying that an artist is an essential state of being? or are they defining that as a career? similarly, how do they define general population?