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Picture having a night off. You feel energized, open to experience, and looking to shake up your typical schedule of relaxing at home. The world is your oyster! Do you choose a) attending a concert or b) engaging in intimacy? The answer, as typically the case with these sorts of queries, is clearly: “That depends.” Mature individuals might logically wonder: what's the concert? Who is the other person? Could it be going to be good?

Not many would select a Limp Bizkit/Slipknot/Korn triple bill if the other option was a magical night with a beloved celebrity. But adjust one side of the equation, and it grows more complicated. For the 40,000 people presented with this choice by a gig organization, no further clarification was offered – and the response emerged decisively and heavily in favour of concerts.

Survey Results Indicate Interesting Choices

A global survey, polling 40,000 people ranging from 18 and 54 across multiple countries, found that gigs have become the number one pastime, beating out games, films and – yes – sex. Given the choice to only one option of enjoyment permanently, nearly four in ten picked gigs, versus watching movies (17%) and sports events (14%). They were also significantly more as likely to choose seeing their favourite artist in concert (70%) instead of intimacy (30%).

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

Factors and Reflections

Of course it's expected that a promotional study conducted for a gig organizer should come out so heavily preferring live shows – and, with the speculative mood of a hypothetical choice, if your preferred musician is, such as an iconic star, you can see why attending his concert may be chosen over a routine experience. Yet this two-option scenario between gigs or intimacy, obviously silly even if it seems, is interesting to think about given the odd moment we’re at with each.

The Transformation of Live Music Experience

Lately, concert attendance has grown beyond a shared activity but a intense competition. Live organizations duly point out that arena crowds has “grown significantly each year”, and festivals are fully reserved quicker than before. Just obtaining passes now demands military-level planning, instant reactions and bottomless pockets (or a generous credit card limit). Though you succeed, it isn't sufficient to simply turn up and enjoy the show. Currently there is an assumption, particularly with music enthusiasts, that you could increase your enjoyment value by going multiple times (even travelling internationally), studying the performance lineup in advance and knowing your marks to hit and audience interactions established by past attendees.

Many concertgoers report feeling scarred by their experience at large concerts: what felt like a scripted production of massive crowds, to which certain attendees turned up unfamiliar with the routine. Those lengthy tour, producing huge revenue, demonstrated of the extents that people will go to experience a significant event and experience their top musician perform, even if the actual music appears more and more secondary to the spectacle.

The Situation of Current Relationships

Intimacy, by contrast – an affordable and common experience – faces dire straits. Per modern research, approximately 25% of individuals had sex in an average week, while nearly 30% were sexually inactive. Elsewhere, recent data indicated that more than 25% of individuals admitted to avoiding intimacy even once in the past year, increasing from lower numbers in earlier years. Across these regions, the shift has been linked to decreased encounters in youth demographics. Juxtapose this with the sector expanding rapidly for large concerts and the intense rivalry for admissions. Naturally it’s not as simple as a basic option between both alternatives – “would you rather attend a huge concert multiple times, or avoid intimacy?” – but it might be an sign of which is perceived as the more reliable enjoyment.

Interesting Comparisons

Sex and live music are more similar than people often believe. Each symbolizes the initiation of a connection, a practical trial of expectations or potential that might have amassed solely in your imagination. You come with a basic expectation of what might happen, but expecting to be happily shocked – and if it turns out good or bad relies heavily on if your enthusiasm and hopes align with others. Quite often you’ll end up with another person's locks in your mouth, and afterwards be lingering for a cigarette and a moment alone alone. And, in both cases, drugs and alcohol can sometimes improve or lessen the situation (but certainly help the worst occasions simpler to handle).

Finding the Balance

The magic to live events and relationships depends on locating that hard-to-find balance between the known and the new, similarity and difference, work and relaxation. Certainly it happens only rarely – but it’s the memory of successful moments, the awareness that it can happen, that inspires us to give it another shot: to {