I came across a post on the blog
Lady Cheeky: Smut For Smarties. The post is titled
88 Strange But True Sex Facts. There was actually some really interesting facts on the list. I am just going to post some of the ones I find most interesting and intriguing, but feel free to follow the link to the original post for the full list.
As always feel free to comment and open discussion on any of these you like. There is some very thought provoking information in many of these facts.
1. A woman is more likely to want to commit adultery during ovulation than at any other time in her cycle.
4. Chocolate contains phenylethylamine, the same
feel-good chemical responsible for the ecstatic high people experience
through sexual attraction and love.
9. The earth could be re-populated to its current level using the number of sperm that could fit into an aspirin capsule.
10. A chicken egg could accommodate the number of female ova necessary to repopulate the earth to its present numbers.
12. White women are the most likely to engage in anal sex, particularly if they also have a college degree.
17. During any given period, women who read romance novels have a tendency to have twice as many lovers as those who don’t.
22. Heterosexual anal sex is something 43% of women have experienced.
23. Women consider penis size the ninth most important feature for a man, while men rate it much more highly, in third place.
24. When a man ejaculates, the initial spurt travels
at 28 miles per hour – faster than the world record for the 100m
sprint, which currently stands at 22.9 miles per hour.
28. There are 20 male masochists for every female masochist.
39. Every time they engage in oral sex with their partner, 30% of women swallow.
43. Women over 40 years of age are more likely to masturbate than any other group.
45. According to experts, sex is about 10 times more effective as a tranquilliser than Valium.
47. 44% of women find it impossible to enjoy sex
with a man who is not their intellectual equal. Just 31% of men share
this problem.
48. There are about 1,000 recognised euphemisms for ‘vagina’ in the English language.
54. During their lifetime, the average driver will have sex in their car six times.
52. 75% of Japanese women own a vibrator. The average worldwide is 47%. And this is probably because...
37. Greek couples have sex an average of 138 times a
year – placing them at the top of the world sex league. Japanese
couples have sex just 45 times a year, which puts them in last place.
57. One in five women living with their boyfriend has more than one sexual partner.
60. The size of the vagina decreases by 30% as orgasm becomes imminent.
62. Inside the female body, sperm cells can survive for up to nine days.
64. Over 30% of men suffer from premature ejaculation. 10% of men are affected by erectile dysfunction.
65. It’s possible to relieve depression through masturbation.
67. The average aroused vagina is 4 inches long – shorter than the average erect penis, which measures in at 6 inches.
68. The average woman can reach orgasm in about 4
minutes through masturbation, while through intercourse, it can take 10 –
20 minutes.
69. Sneezes, along with orgasms, are the only physiological responses that cannot be voluntarily stopped once they have started.
70. Straight men tend to have smaller penises than gay men.
74. The amount of wet dreams a man is likely to have increases in line with the number of years spent in formal education.
76. The majority of women prefer to have sex in the dark.
78. When having sex, black women are 50% more likely to reach orgasm than white women.
79. 60% of non-smoking women have had no sexual
partners in the past year, while 70% of women who smoke have had more
than four lovers over the same timescale.
80. Women who are prone to migraines tend to have a higher sex drive than those who are not.
85. 70% of men and women admit to having fantasised about someone else while having sex.
88. An overwhelming majority of sexual partners have only skimpy knowledge of what truly turns each other on.
