Boosting self-esteem was one of 237 reasons people have sex, sex therapist and marriage and family therapist in Cambridge, Mass., although she finds that those who already have self-esteem say they sometimes have sex to feel even better. "One of the reasons people say they have sex is to feel good about themselves
"Great sex begins with self-esteem, and it raises it. If the sex is loving, connected, and what you want, it raises it."