Sex In The Cities: The 10 U.S. Locales Where Women Value Sex Most (SURVEY)

How much do single women value sex? According to a new survey, it depends where you live.

Online dating site, Chemistry.com, asked over 10 million singles across the country whether they strongly believed that sex was an essential part of a relationship. The question was part of a larger personality test, overseen by the website’s chief scientific adviser, biological anthropologist Dr. Helen Fisher and addressed both men and women. After breaking down the data, Chemistry.com looked at the 10 cities that held the largest concentration of women who "strongly agreed" that sex was essential.

While not new, the idea that women are into sex has received particular attention from researchers and the media in the last year. A July 2011 study found that sexual satisfaction was more important to women in long-term relationships than frequent kissing or cuddling. And contrary to popular myth, women rated sexual satisfaction as more key to a lasting relationship than their male counterparts did. When it comes to singles, Match.com's survey of 6,000 men and women from February indicated the single women were significantly less likely to settle for a partner that they didn't find sexually attractive than men were. And in her new book "The Richer Sex," journalist Liza Mundy predicts that in the near future, women will want sex more than men.

Scroll down to see Chemistry.com's top 10 cities where women value sex. While California women overwhelmingly said that sex was very important in a relationship, Southern cities are glaringly absent from the top 10.

Did your hometown make it into the top 10? Do you agree with the survey's findings?

LOOK: The 10 U.S. Cities Where Women Value Sex Most

Comments

[James Domingo]

10:56 AM on 08/02/2012

i love flesh to flesh w men

[Ant Juan Dewandae Oden]

11:29 PM on 07/05/2012

WOMAN! XOXOXOX!!

[RealistBC]

09:45 AM on 04/14/2012

Now it's clear why those who don't get any hate California.

[Ben Wilson]

11:47 AM on 04/05/2012

Am I right in thinking most of those places are predominantly Democrat?

[oliver clothesov]

09:57 AM on 04/03/2012

what do I win?

[DonnaM777]

03:23 AM on 04/03/2012

Puh-leeze... o_O

[fireart]

11:36 PM on 04/02/2012

If you are really interested in women that appreciate sex go to small rural town america where they have banging their cousins since the 8th grade , they love fresh sausage.

[Lindeen]

07:41 PM on 04/02/2012

The survey is hilarious - I would definitely put CA and NY at the top!!!

What I would like to know is how the Cali and NY guys feel about the results. Do they agree?

[Andrew McDade]

12:48 PM on 04/03/2012

Yes.

[RTIII]

02:16 PM on 04/01/2012

Not much of a surprise here!

Now, it would do us men a real service to cite the ten places where they value it LEAST!

[greyheron544]

03:10 PM on 04/01/2012

Go west, young men, go west !

[RTIII]

03:43 PM on 04/01/2012

I'm already west, in one of the cities cited; my comment still stands however - want to help men, tell us where they want it LEAST.

[GaryNMaine]

08:25 PM on 04/04/2012

http://blog.chemistry.com/2012/03/27/top-10-cities-that-value-sex-the-most-and-least-in-america/

[RTIII]

10:44 PM on 04/04/2012

Thank you Gary - I'd fan you for this, but I can't': already a fan.

[Olivio]

06:48 PM on 03/31/2012

Practically all those cities are in blue states. Go figure... LOL. Santa Monica totally deserves its 1st place.
I'd have a problem with a woman who tells me that good sex is not an essential part of a relationship.

[GDWhiteman]

01:59 PM on 04/03/2012

Any woman who says that sex is not an essential part of a relationship is speaking from ignorance - she's simply never known a man who paid proper attention to her needs. Sadly, from what I hear, that's altogether too common.

[Modern and Proud]

06:24 PM on 04/23/2012

Yes, men are always to blame.

[joefargo]

12:46 AM on 03/31/2012

I was sure Fargo would be in there....

[greenToBlue]

10:18 PM on 03/30/2012

CA, couple other western cities & NYC are understandable. How in the world Portland ME is in the list? Boston must be mad for falling behind in NE for this seemingly very important statistics!

[Oonagh]

09:24 PM on 03/30/2012

Looks like women should live in California...

[SolarPowerGuy]

07:22 PM on 03/30/2012

Feather after feather in California's cap. I love my state.

[shaboopus]

04:56 PM on 03/30/2012

"Go west young man, GO West! " lol