Sex has been discovered to trigger the human imagination and actions in different ways. Such questions as how to choose a partner and why people engage in sex have been asked and several divergent answers have been provided.

The present society encourages young people especially the adventurous ones to explore and try different things with their sexuality very early in their lives even before they near maturity. Most young folk associate being sexually active and experiencing the several forms of sexuality to being cool and meeting up with the standard.

Science has been able to trace a connection between sexuality and the brains and sex has been discovered to affect the brains. Every human long for sex and the phenomenon has become very pervasive in our society today.

Sex transcends the physical experience and it actually engages the mind in powerful ways. Not until recently, researchers have found it difficult to discover what happens in the brain when lust, love, sex, or passion is experienced by a person.

Dopamine is the messenger chemical that makes person feel when something exciting is done. It is therefore a chemical with great influence on the human behaviours and this relates to having casual sex and even the increase as the continuous receipt of this reward signal produced by dopamine drives the individual to do more of the act. And if having sex is the act, increased casual sex can only be the result of such a signal.

There is also a feeling that comes from two people touching each other. This feeling results from the release of the hormone oxytocin. This release increases the lady’s desire for more touch and also helps to develop a bond with the man especially if she spends more time and has many physical contacts with the man.

Science or not, the drivers of casual sex in young people are the urge to be cool and feel cool among peers, the satisfaction and excitement that comes from successfully engaging in the act, and of course, being with someone found to be attractive especially when both parties spend a lot of time together.

It is only natural for humans to desire attention and attachment and these can be easily gotten through casual sex. There are other several reasons that drive young people to have casual sex. The act should however be done with caution as the increase in STDs and other related diseases is on the rise.