How often do Americans have sex?
September 26, 2007
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Given the amount of time that American culture spends talking about sex, writing about sex, singing about sex, publishing magazines and filming movies soaked in sex, etc., wouldn’t you expect America to be the sexiest country in the world? If so, you would be wrong:
U.S. adults spend less time having sex
Through a large-scale poll of 26,000 people in 26 countries, it has been discovered that Americans are well behind other nationalities. According to the article: “On average, the Durex Sexual Wellbeing Global Survey found, Americans have sex just 85 times a year — about once every 4.3 days — well below the global pace of 103 times or about once every 3.5 days. They also spend an average of about 57 minutes per week having sex — about 14 minutes below the global average, the survey learned.”
The obvious question: Why? Is it because:
- Americans spend too much time working?
- Americans spend too much time playing video games and watching TV?
- Americans are getting so much vicarious sex that the real thing is less necessary?
- Americans are growing more and more obese?
- Something else?
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