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Published online 30 November 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/051128-5

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Write poems, get lucky

They may be badly paid, but artists have more sexual success.

Creative people have more sexual partners than the rest of us, say a pair of psychologists. They surveyed a hundred or so artists and poets, and claim that traits similar to those of schizophrenics explain these people's success with members of the opposite sex.

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