Why do people brag about sex partners and the quality of it?

[Ambivalent1]

To brag or even talk about past experiences highly is to talk about the past. The past is gone. If you're at a time in your life where it's recurring and the quality of the partners remains the same then it makes sense to bring it up because it's almost constant for you. But a lot of people aren't getting it regularly with the people they desire. They're either getting none or settling. The further you get from those good times the more it's like it never even happened.

 

[theslasher]

I see 2 reasons as to why anyone would do this:

1) It's a way of compensating for their previous lack of it altogether. They need validation from others (because for most of their life they've never had that validation) so they brag about these things, making it seem like they've got it better than they do.. but under the surface they usually have a lot of problems.

2) It's a form of escapism from the stressful lives that they live today. They day dream about their best moments. But the bad thing about that is, when we romanticize about our past we tend to leave out the bad memories because we don't want to relive those moments. Those who romanticize their past often dream of a reality that's been altered in their mind.

 

[MrDarkness]

It's their personality lmao, nothing else

 

[CrazyDiamond04]

Because sex is a symbol of success. To have many sexual encounters is to describe one's own success, akin to how one would describe their high paying job. For those who have lots of sex, it symbolizes the desirability they hold in the world's eyes, that the world views them as worthy in that desire. This isn't unique to humans, sexual success is seen as key in just about any animal species on earth. In this regard, humans are very much like the other animals we say we are separate from. It is something fundamental within us, a revulsion towards those sexually/physically less fortunate birthed within the universe since the first singe-celled amoeba came to be, and for billions of years it has not changed, nor will I think it ever will. Humanity came to be by beating down on those less fortunate, and humanity will die continuing to do the same. Nothing shall change.